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    characters. In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ Collins creates an alternate society which is completely controlled by their government‚ the Capitol. The Hunger Games is reminiscent of the Greek myth‚ Theseus and the Minotaur. They both share the idea of a society supervised thoroughly by the government‚ and the idea of a method of rebelling against higher powers. Collins uses the literary device of allusion to reference her literary work of The Hunger Games to characters and themes found

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    RUNNING HEAD: CENSORING OF THE HUNGER GAMES 1 Complications among The Hunger Games Verses Censorship Jacob Millerleile Jackson-Milton High School CENSORING OF THE HUNGER GAMES 2 Abstract The issue of this paper is going to discuss the censorship of the novel and movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins. The novel was declared too graphic for the young

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    The Hunger Games By Landon Courtney The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games generates suspense‚ action‚ and science fiction‚ and a form of dictatorship. The setting is in Panem‚ formerly North America. Part of the book is in District 12‚ near the Appalachian Mountains. It is set in the future. Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the Hunger Games. She is sixteen years old; she is determined‚ loving‚ and caring. She has straight black hair that is usually braided

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    The Hunger Games Vs Ancient Rome Gladiators The Hunger games one of the most sold books in the past century It’s a book everybody wants to read or has probably read. Becoming so Famous this book had a movie based on it. The tricky part about it and Something all readers don’t notice is how The Hunger Games is highly Influenced by Ancient Rome and ancient Rome Gladiators (Dunn‚ George P.56). The author used ancient Rome in her book quiet a lot‚ From names to the style they lived in

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    131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make her own choice

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    Imagine being a teenager that has been forced to have the responsibility of protecting their whole family‚ but one day‚ their entire life gets altered into having to murder other children for survival; this is the fate of tributes of the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins illustrates a desolate world where survivors of the post-apocalyptic continent of Panem segregate into twelve separate districts and tasked with specific responsibilities of harvesting the Earth’s remaining natural resources

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    In the Hunger Games‚ there are many class distinctions between the tributes‚ their districts‚ and‚ of course‚ the oppressive Capitol. In multiple places we can see the class distinctions made clear by Suzanne Collins. You may be wondering what “classes” there might be in the Hunger Games‚ or what even a “class” is. The “classes” that I am talking about are the groups or types of people there are in Panem and how this affects the plot events of the story. In the following paragraphs there will be

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    Author’s craft is used alot in books and novels but in the book Hunger Games by ‘Suzanne Collins‚’ she uses a lot of different author’s craft. There is a lot of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚and cliffhangers just to name a couple. There were a few that stood out among the others when reading Hunger Games. The reader may notice point of view‚ mood‚ dialogue‚and flashback they are all used quite frequently in the book likely the main ones in the book. The first one that will be discussed is point

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     Power  in  The  Hunger  Games     Professor  Kenneth  Wong   G15       Dorothy  SIOK  Li  Phing   LIU  Zhe   LIN  Feng  Ian   Nicolette  CHEN  Lixin   TAN  Yan  Zhen   1   1   Introduction   2   The  Ethics  of  Power   2.1   How  Power  is  Obtained  and  Maintained     The   Hunger   Games  is  a  dystopian

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    The setting in the Hunger Games by Gary Ross is a very interesting one. There is massive contrast between the capitol and District 12 is very vast and different. The whole setting gives me a WWII vibe. District 12 being very dreary and poor‚ there are woman doing laundry in big tubs and old men eating chicken bones. They have to hunt for their own food and sell it and also crops are sold. They are the poorest district‚ their reputation is for mining and coal. The bland colours and dirt roads with

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