A Critical Analysis Of The Hunger Games By Katniss

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To get the ball rolling, great authors use their own personal concerns and sympathy for people who are hurt or struggling in tough situations in society to make impacts on readers. In very debateable situations that occur in America, authors usually give their viewpoints on the situation at hand. Especially in today's world, an author has to be on one side or another. If he or she is neutral, or does not favor any side,the reader will consider the author defending the enemy or the bad side of things. As the online website Forbes puts it “People don’t necessarily want to know how smart you are, but rather who you are, what you stand for, and what you believe is most important. People are looking for stories of change, stories about social entrepreneurs, and things that inspire them to make changes in their own lives.” (Schwartz 1) A good example of this is Suzzane Collins and the Hunger games series. …show more content…
With this thought in mind, authors use their reasoning to depict messages to the reader. In the Hunger Games, the message the author is sending to the reader about social inequity or persecution is that no matter what you can accomplish anything. Success doesn't choose people by their looks, or their homes, or anything physical. You as an individual person have to keep striving for success and grinding away until you reach your goal, which in the book was to win and survive till the very end, even though being born and raised District 12, the poorest district out of all districts, Katniss and Peeta do the unthinkable, and both come out of the games

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