Conflicts In Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games And Catching Fire

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Name: Kathlene Flebbe
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Title of your two books: The Hunger Games/Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins is the writer of The Hunger Games series which is an international best seller. Suzanne Collins worked writing children's TV shows and has been nominated for a WGA award in animation. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are about the terrible future society that takes place on a piece of land once known as North America.The Capitol tries to keep its people from rebelling by sending them into the hunger games to fight to death for when there is one person left they are crowned the victor of that years games. After Katniss wins the games in the first book, the second book introduces the Quarter Quell, an even more intensified version of the games that Katniss has to fight in. In Collins’ books the Hunger Games and Catching Fire, she presents Katniss like a brand new character, she also has the same setting in each books with a little bit of differences, the themes in the books are very similar, and the conflicts in the books are different.

Katniss was so carefree about everything in The Hunger Games but once she came back in Catching Fire, she was so aware and careful of what she said. “In fact enclosing all of district 12,is a high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.” “it’s usually safe to touch.” (pg.4,5)
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In the Hunger Games, the theme is family is the key to success and when you have family everything might just be alright. The theme in Catching Fire is love is what keeps you alive and trying to fight. “I volunteer!”(Pg.22) Without Prim getting picked to enter the arena of the Hunger Games Katniss would have never have volunteered and won the games. “If gale could see him.” (pg.218) This shows that katniss is still thinking of him and how he feels. The themes of the books are the same t because people love their family and the people they love are basically a part of their

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