Dystopian Themes In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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The Hunger Games is one of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian genres featuring a protagonist Katniss Everdeen who narrates her history and experiences in the events of the novel. In the plot, Katniss manages to stand in for her sister in the hunger games after compulsorily undergoing many fatal tribulations, traverse difficult private relations as well as acquiring skills on how to manipulate how people identify her in the novel. She therefore has to cultivate ways to subsist in the pitch. It reaches a climax point when she and Peeta outlived all tributes leaving Peeta and her to fight but instead they chose to commit suicide. Despite their winning, Katniss is obliged to attempt to appease the Capitol because of her actions in wanting to commit suicide as well as making decisions against them. In the events of the novel, Suzanne therefore majors on; survival, government control and oppression, rebellion, relationships, reality TV and the spectacles as the themes of Hunger games.

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