Archetypes In The Hunger Games

Interlude (One Story) There is only one type of story, but there are many ways to tell the one story. All writers know that being entirely original is impossible, it is almost like trying to use a word that has never been used. Writers know at the character that are created most likely resembles somebody else. They use basic patterns and tendencies to draws the reader in which is more comforting, but if the text is unfamiliar to the readers, it will make the reader quite uncomfortable in some ways. There is no way to avoid the story that will remind the reader of something else. An archetype is a pattern, but there is not a way to find them. “Those stories—myths, archetypes, religious narrative, the great body of literature—are always with us” (Foster 192). The book Divergent and The Hunger Games has an archetype. In both the novels, the people are trying to fight for what they believe in. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the main character is trying …show more content…
Irony occurs when something happens when something other than what is expected to occur. There are different levels of irony. The first mode is the ironic mode, is where the character that possess a lower degree of free will than ourselves. The specific situations of the road is the second level of irony. The thing is, irony does not work for everyone, and not everyone understand irony. “Irony trumps everything” (Foster 244). In a short story called The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs contains irony. Before Mr. White makes wishes, he states everything he wants. Instead of the wishes bring good luck, the wishes has devastating endings. His first wish was for more money, and the way they obtain the money was when their son died at work. The second wish is Mrs. White wished her son to come back alive, but her son comes back as a monster. The last wish was for her loved son that came back as a monster dead. The story has unexpected twists and full of