Books help in teaching about dystopian societies and how to prevent it from happening to our world. The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ is a dystopian themed novel that shows all aspects of a dystopian society and the struggles to survive. “Our part of District 12‚ nicknamed the Seam‚ is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders‚ swollen knuckles‚ many who have long since stopped trying to scrub the coal dust out of their
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Along with its fantasy world‚ Game of Thrones series have consistently depicted real life themes and characters. Ultimately‚ Game of Thrones can be claimed as a series based on real world drama illustrated in a fantasy world. In the present world‚ “we all have knowledge‚ love/hate‚ scheming politics‚ sex‚ isolation.” (Game of Thrones - Interview with George R.R. Martin). Similarly‚ Game of Thrones’ storylines revolves around these themes‚ in order to generate a world similar to ours. For instance
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‘May the odds be ever in your favour”! When Effie Trinket pronounces these critical words‚ she is saying what is the catchphrase of the Hunger Games. The ironic part of this is quite obvious. Can we even talk about favour‚ or luck‚ when we see how people live in these districts and how the Capitol plays around them. So the question is if a rebellion of the people of Panem could be possible or even be necessary. The people of Panem live in deep misery. They suffer of bad conditions like starvation
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Compare/Contrast Essay The Hunger games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield What if violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt‚ what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. That was the life of the protagonists in both Uglies and The Hunger Games. Both trilogies take place in a very futuristic world. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian society‚ while Uglies is based in
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you ever rebelled against the government? Maybe you know someone that did? In the dystopian stories‚ “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr‚ the authors demonstrate the theme‚ rebelling against an oppressive government to stand up for what you believe in. Suzanne Collins creates a government where the character Katniss stands up for the ones she loves and for her beliefs about the Capitol. Furthermore‚ Kurt Vonnegut Jr. also constructs an oppressive government
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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 in
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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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Making several appearances on the American Library Association’s ‘most contested books’ listings for its controversial and confronting content‚ The Hunger Games trilogy has become one of the most discussed Young Adult fictions since its debut in 2008. Through Suzanne Collins’ use of provocative themes of class and extreme poverty‚ confronting depictions of violence amongst children and the challenging of stereotypical gender roles‚ the novel discusses the hardships faced by children living within
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Comparison and Contrast of 1984 and The Hunger Games The two stories 1984 and The Hunger Games both have characters that show briefly‚ but affect the actions of the main character. These characters have many similarities and differences‚ although they are in different stories. An example character that appears briefly in 1984 is Julia. Similarly‚ in The Hunger Games‚ an example would be Prim. In 1984‚ Julia is very important to the action of Winston Smith. She is a rebel of the Party
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Hunger Games theme What would we do if we were chosen at random to fight for our life? Would we just let it happen? Would we fight back and try our best to keep out dignity? Or would we do whatever it takes just to stay alive‚ even if it means losing site of who we really are? These are all decisions that Peeta and Katniss‚ two kids from a city called Panem had to make all by themselves. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many themes‚ but the most important overall‚ is the importance
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