In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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Every great author has a source of inspiration. Suzanne Collins‚ the author of The Hunger Games‚ was heavily inspired by ancient Greek and Roman culture. Her characters‚ setting‚ and even parts of her storyline all have similar aspects to the Greek and Romans. Roman history and Greek stories helped shaped The Hunger Games into what it is today. Suzanne was heavily inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur as well as the famous Roman Gladiator Games. Elements from both can be seen throughout
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Have you ever had something that you felt is or represents a special part of you? Maybe a lucky charm‚ idem‚ or animal that gives you strength? In the book “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins and the Hunger Games book series Katniss’s spirit animal/mascot that she was known for was the mockingjay. After her second hunger games Katniss rebelled against the capital and was well known as the mockingjay. the mocking jay symbolizes the strength and rebellion in Katniss. One reason mockingjays symbolize
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The hunger games is a great book by Suzanne Collins‚ about a city where each year 2 children from each district- a boy and a girl-were picked to fight to the death. This practice originated as a punishment to the districts for the rebellion against the capital seventy five years ago. But today it goes on only because of the cruelty of the privileged capital people‚ with the advantage of their children never having to fight. Ever since Katniss Everdeen’s father has died she took the responsibility
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like our society is having a new disease called “socially endurance deficiency”. There is no surprise why the world becomes completely dystopia (a bad society). To give the best example of the dystopian society‚ I would choose “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. It is about the annual Hunger Games event which takes place in the advanced technological city called Capitol‚where everything
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not it also involves the mechanization of the labor in order to streamline it. At a glance agribusiness may be seen and even portrayed as the solution to the global food issues‚ but that is far from the truth as we have seen in the documentary film Hungry for Profit agribusiness’ main purpose is profit as in the end agribusiness is in fact a business. With this in mid it should not come as a surprise that agribusiness‚ despite all the propaganda‚ isn’t a solution to the world food issues‚ in fact one
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“Fire is catching! And if we burn you burn with us!”. A quote from Mockingjay written by Suzanne Collins. That quote shows how the main character Katniss is fearless and how she wants to destroy Snow and take down the capitol. She goes through many changes. Katniss ends up being a person who goes kind of crazy and wants to die. But that’s at the end of the book at the beginning she was fearless‚ strong‚ and caring. Katniss Everdeen is a fearless girl‚ and doesn’t really fear anything. She
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each one. Although the main characters of Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ are both depicted as violent and power-hungry‚ they are distinguished because while Macbeth is often more cautious and easily persuaded by his wife‚ Lady Macbeth is shown to be more resolute and influential than her husband. Shakespeare depicts both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as violent and power-hungry through the
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Keira Cass and Suzanne Weyn are two authors who ask questions that others are afraid to ask or don’t even think of. What could the future look like? What if’s? These are only some questions that they have asked themselves when starting to write The Crown: by Kiera Cass published May 2016‚ and Empty: by Suzanne Weyn published in 2010. Kiera Cass is a young woman who has written an archetype based on Cinderella and Esther. She imagines “what if” for both stories. Suzanne Wayne; however‚ found inspiration
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One of my favorite narrative is a movie called The Hungry Games. In this narrative movie there is a lot of problems all build up onto one big problem‚ but there is only one solution to it all. There is a lot of action and adventure that happens in order to solve the characters problem. The main problem is in order to save the village that each character lives in they have to fight against each other‚ and win the fight. The way they are chosen is each child in the village name is put into a jar however
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