Reading Response to The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ is the wildly popular first book in The Hunger Games trilogy. I think that one of the reasons the book is so popular‚ is because of the main character‚ Katniss Everdeen. In the book‚ Katniss is 16 years old and is very strong willed‚ but often feels incredibly alienated. I think that Katniss is a very relatable character (which is one of the reasons the book is so popular!) in this way‚ and in the way
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She ultimately shows that deep down‚ she is a caring and empathetic person who disdains causing suffering (even to the antagonistic Career tributes)‚ as opposed to being only a stoic hunter. This theme is reflected in a running conflict of passion vs. reason. The sustaining power of love Love proves to be integral towards keeping Katniss alive. She survived the difficult times following her father’s death because she had Prim to look after. Her love for her sister (and her mother‚ though less
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While calls for banning the Hunger Game are continuously sent to school boards and associations‚ many articles have been written and posted online to oppose banning the book. They do agree with the violence inside Hunger Game is not negligent as other factors like sexual explicit.Yet they argue against banning the book. Professor Mhaire Fraser‚ among others‚ suggests that the story is situation specific‚ and many people underestimate teenagers. She insisted that the only possible reason to ban the
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and 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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Hunger versus Morals An estimated 1.02 billion people in the world go hungry. Ireland during the mid 1900s had tremendous amounts of poverty across the country. This poverty level increases hunger as well. When put into the hands of life and death one may be torn between what they believe is right and what is necessary to survive. In Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt‚ Frank displays how poverty and hunger caused him to go against his morals to avoid starvation. Mr. and Mrs. McCourt
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The Hungers Games is another good example of Action/Adventure. The story begins with a girl named Katniss Everdeen lives in a place called Capitol of Panem‚ which once used to be North America and she is zoned in District 12 and every year the Capitol holds its Hunger Games and the Hunger Games is a game where they select a boy and a girl from each District to compete against each other until death
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Dystopian literature is when the world is focused on making the perfect world. They often have a small percent of people making the perfect race or often known as the “favorites”‚ and the rest of the population‚ often a majority of people‚ are left to survive by themselves‚ on the bottom of the barrel. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the movie Gattaca are both dystopian media. In tough times both the rich and poor come together to fight through what the government set out to say wouldn’t
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in books and movies. One book that has a similar event to the Gladiatorial games is The Hunger Games. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization‚ characterized by large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. At its height‚ the Roman Empire controlled approximately 6.5 million km of land. The Roman Empire had a lasting impact on Europe and the world. The first Roman gladiatorial games were held in 246 BCE by Marcus and Decimus Brutus
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question I think about people trying to strive for utopia within their world. Their world doesn’t need to be a dystopia but in striving they make their current situation even worse. But it’s not possible to reach utopia‚ so in trying to reach that impossible thing you reach dystopia. According to www.questia.com‚ “Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in ’a dark‚ nightmare world.’ The term dystopia is defined as a society characterized by poverty
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” is more than just a best seller. It is a vortex into a futuristic United States that offers morals and themes that can relate to today’s society. Collins contrasts the poverty-stricken‚ subservient world of main character‚ Katniss‚ with the affluence and power of the people of the governing Capitol. Collins descends into the abuses of government control‚ and explores the importance and hope of individuality in a totalitarian society. Katniss
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