The Odds are Not Ever in Your Favor if You Read The Hunger Games One of the most influential‚ albeit controversial‚ book series of 2008 is written by Suzanne Collins‚ an author who previously had been a children’s television writer. Collins‚ in her new series The Hunger Games‚ delves into the dark‚ questionable subject of child versus child combat. The heroine of the book‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ is someone to be admired and looked up to. Time and time again she makes the tough choices required of her
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My two books for this comparison essay are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. “The Lottery” is about the towns people drawing out slips of paper and seeing who gets the slip of paper with the black pencil dot; whereas The Hunger Games is about Katniss taking her sister’s place when she she’s called into the Hunger Games and trying to survive in the arena with Peeta in the Hunger Games. This book ends with Katniss and Peeta winning the Hunger Games and the two
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Amy Poehler once said; "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them‚ and it will change your life". Being friends with people who are challenging and inspiring can inevitably affect a person’s life. In Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games and Catching Fire‚ the main character Katniss Everdeen enlisted to fight in the Hunger Games‚ where children from twelve to eighteen have to survive and battle each other to death. The beginning of the dystopian novels is set in
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In the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ book‚ The Hunger Games‚ the viewer in placed into a dystopian world with main characters‚ Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Their story is set in the country of Panem‚ leading up the the 74th annual Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an event in which one male and one female “tribute” are chosen from each of the twelve districts and put into an arena where they will fight to the death until the last fighter can be crowned victor. Katniss and Peeta both
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Ay’Zaa Hanyard Eng. 111 – 70A K. Schlene September 27‚ 2014 Evaluation of the Hunger Games The movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ is based on the book by Suzanne Collins and was made into a movie in 2012. It is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District Twelve. After bombings and wars‚ North America turned into a country called Panem. Panem was split up into thirteen districts‚ but when district thirteen rebelled‚ the Capitol created something called the Hunger Games. The Games
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and contrasting the similarities and difference of group and individual survival between the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collin‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and the 1990 film of Lord of the Flies directed by Harry Hook. BY: Becky Coutlee April‚ 23‚ 2012 D.Smith Comparing and contrasting the similarities and difference of group and individual survival between the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collin‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and the 1990 film of Lord of the Flies directed by Harry Hook
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rebellion to show what happens when a government takes citizens’ freedom away. Suzanne Collins became a popular writer with her series The Underlander Chronicles. Her fame has grown enormously from her newest series The Hunger Games. This series has made her quite famous. A movie has been made for the first book and one is also planned for the second book. Collins says her inspiration for writing is to entertain the youth (“Suzanne Collins”). In Catching Fire‚ Katniss Everdeen is beginning a different
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competitors‚ but what they represent and what the story behind them is. Roland Barthes’ ideas have shown up in many different things in social media in today’s pop culture. A great example would be the popular novel “The Hunger Games” written by Suzanne Collins. This well-known book takes place in a new country Panem in place of North America and is inhabited by 12 districts run by the Capitol. Every year there is the annual Hunger Games where a male and female tribute are chosen from each district
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Kristen Smith ENC 1102 19 September 2013 Mini-Essay 1 The Thin Line Between Hope and Hopelessness Suzanne Collins ’ novel‚ The Hunger Games and George Orwell ’s 1984 both illustrate the theme that hope can remain alive even amid the most hopeless of circumstances. The main characters of these stories‚ Hunger Games ’ Katniss Everdeen and 1984 ’s Winston Smith live in similar totalitarian societies where every move they make or thought they have is controlled by an all-powerful government. Although
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this quote is still relevant to the problems that our society faces today. A major problem in our society today is people are afraid to take action on issues because they do not want to be judged on what they believe. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins illustrates a problem in society is people do not speak up when they believe something is wrong. This problem is shown through the use of a dystopian setting. The protagonist offers a solution to this problem through
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