History of The Hunger Games & Panem What we now know as North America wasn’t always known as North America. North America during post-apocalyptic times was known as Panem. Panem comes from a Latin phrase which means bread and circuses. The phrase was used to describe people or a person using entertainment to distract others from more important issues‚ which in this case would be problems in the districts. The leader of Panem used entertainment and the providing of food to get the residents
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Movie Review: The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a film produced based off of a novel written by Suzanne Collins. The main character of the movie is Jennifer Lawrence who is Katniss Everdeen in the movie. Katniss is starring as a 16-year-old girl from District 12‚ which is a poor community in the movie. District 12 is the very last district and I believe they have the least amount of money. There is a game every year played by the capitol where they choose one woman and one man from every district
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The Lord of the Hunger Games It may come as a surprise that a novel taught in a tenth grade english class is strikingly similar to a currently popular book of the teenage population. A common theme relates William Golding’s classic novel‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ and the very popular teen heart-throb‚ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The unifying motif is the underlying savagery and desperation to live that stands out within each person when survival mode is activated. Peeta‚ the love interest
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After reading the novel and watching the film of “The Hunger Games‚” several similarities and differences are obvious. The film and the novel mostly have several similarities. The similarities between the novel and the film tells the same storyline‚ which takes place at the same time. Another similarities between the novel and the film is the part where it shows or tell that Katniss volunteered as a tribute at the reaping to save Prim. Between the film and novel‚ they both mostly have similarities
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please the crowd of their competitors. Like the Romans‚ the Hunger Games introduce the tributes with a parade of chariots‚ each with their own representation. The spectators were able to determine who they would cheer on to win. In The Hunger Games‚ this was a way to appease them for their support. Sponsors were then able to contribute to the tributes indirectly through contribution towards victory. Every little thing counts‚ from the Games to the supporters to the district tributes. Gladiators were
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March 29th‚ 2090 4am The reaping I can’t sleep. I’ve got to be up in an hour anyway to start work downstairs in the bakery mixing and kneading the dough for the bread before baking it. I could have tried to lie in bed for another hour but my head is swimming with thoughts and I think the only way to make sense of them is to just write them down. Yesterday was an exceptionally terrible day. Reaping days are always terrible; it is the one day of the year that makes you live the
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In the novel‚ “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ there are many memorable symbols used. One of these symbols is the Flowers. The reason this symbol is important is that it helps the reader to understand some of the main ideas of the novel. Suzanne Collins wants the reader to think about how there is always hope in dark times when in need. Flowers play a significant role in the Hunger Games. The use of Flowers are used in a few important ways‚ such
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Levi Wortley Logan Denney Discussion Group 9-22-12 Our Society VS. The Hunger Games Now in the film The Hunger Games there are a lot of themes that mirrored in our society today. First and foremost there is the politics of Panem. The government‚ or “The Capitol‚” is corrupted. Their control over the country “Panem” is very iron like in the fact that they control everything from resources to where you can go and what you can do. After awhile of this the districts get fed up and rebel
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manipulate the individual into a spectacle as a recurring thematic trend. Specifically‚ while Katniss does not explicitly love Peeta‚ she is forced by the Capitol into the persona of the “star-crossed lover” in-order to entertain the audiences of the Hunger games and “give them something more to care about.” In this way‚ there exists a tension between real and false appearances. For instance‚ in-order to properly put on this performance or façade of love‚ Katniss attempts to rely on the real love felt by
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Forbidden Rebellion How is it possible that one force can rule over a group more than double its size? In Suzanne Collins’ novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ there are 12 districts of many people ruled by one force known as The Capitol. The country is run is a Marxist manner: The Capitol serves as the bourgeoisie of Panem‚ and the districts serve as the proletariat. The Capitol controls every move the districts make‚ punishes every act of rebellion‚ and kills off innocent people just to show their power
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