As a 21-year-old college student, I am constantly teetering on the edge between adolescence and adulthood. I live alone in a big city. I know how to cook and clean. I’ve made many difficult phone calls that made me want to hide under a blanket for days on end. However, I am financially dependent on my parents in a huge way and I am ignorant regarding large parts of the world. Though this ignorance is shrinking with each day, it is still there.
When I was first considering potential paper topics, I was immediately drawn to the idea of exploring my interest in young adult fiction while looking at my connection to Suzanne Collins’s hit series The Hunger Games. However, being an aspirational adult and a student at a reputable university for studying …show more content…
The rest of his article cites many dystopian books and authors, including Kousun Takami’s Battle Royale, which features the same idea of children being forced to fight to the death. This fear of adult power and disregard for children’s wellbeing is something that prevalent throughout the genre as well as in current events.
Collins uses Katniss’s character to show something that not many people looking for a mindless show to watch will think of. Katniss is constantly aware of the Capitol while she is in the arena and trying to fight her way back home. She evaluates the timing of gifts sent to her by her mentor. She reads the hidden messages he’s sending and uses them to manipulate the viewers. In “The Games People Play: Information and Media Literacies in the Hunger Games Trilogy,” Don Latham and Jonathon M. Hollister discuss Katniss’s ability to interpret Haymitch’s …show more content…
She knows the importance of having a single victor, of having something to carry on the fear of the Games in the districts while letting the Capitol have a new victor to idolize. As her and Peeta are struggling to figure out who should live between the two of them, her narration states: “WE both know they have to have a victor. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers’ faces. They would have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed slowly and painfully while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country” (Collins
When I was first considering potential paper topics, I was immediately drawn to the idea of exploring my interest in young adult fiction while looking at my connection to Suzanne Collins’s hit series The Hunger Games. However, being an aspirational adult and a student at a reputable university for studying …show more content…
The rest of his article cites many dystopian books and authors, including Kousun Takami’s Battle Royale, which features the same idea of children being forced to fight to the death. This fear of adult power and disregard for children’s wellbeing is something that prevalent throughout the genre as well as in current events.
Collins uses Katniss’s character to show something that not many people looking for a mindless show to watch will think of. Katniss is constantly aware of the Capitol while she is in the arena and trying to fight her way back home. She evaluates the timing of gifts sent to her by her mentor. She reads the hidden messages he’s sending and uses them to manipulate the viewers. In “The Games People Play: Information and Media Literacies in the Hunger Games Trilogy,” Don Latham and Jonathon M. Hollister discuss Katniss’s ability to interpret Haymitch’s …show more content…
She knows the importance of having a single victor, of having something to carry on the fear of the Games in the districts while letting the Capitol have a new victor to idolize. As her and Peeta are struggling to figure out who should live between the two of them, her narration states: “WE both know they have to have a victor. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers’ faces. They would have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed slowly and painfully while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country” (Collins