The Hunger Games begins on the day of the reaping in District 12. Katniss Everdeen, the 16 year old main character, meets up with her best friend Gale so they can do some hunting before the reaping that afternoon. Little does she know, her life is about to change forever… The Hunger Games has multiple setting throughout the book.…
The book also relates to the book The Hunger Games. Although both books' plot lines are different, they both have one aspect…
Through human history, fear was used on several occasions to have domination over a group of people. Indeed, according to psychologists, it can be defined as vital response to physical and emotional danger. It is an emotion encountered by every human being. However, people’s reactions to fear may vary. Indeed, they range from the loss of rationality to an increase ability to adapt in extreme conditions.…
Katniss and Peeta, Everlark, are polar opposites but better together. Katniss and Peeta are the main stars of the Hunger Games books and movies. The two are the victors of the hunger games who pretended to be in love to save their lives. Then, ended up actually ended up falling in love.…
In the novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the movie Divergent both interpret many similarities, in conjunction with many differences. The novel is about a nation of Panem which is divided into 12 districts along with the Capitol. The protagonist is a girl named Katniss Everdeen who is forced to engage in a fight-to-the-death tournament after volunteering as tribute, in replacement of her sister. Divergent well demonstrates very similar concepts as it took place in a dystopian society leading to dehumanized and often fearful lives. Both signify that sacrifice is chosen from oneself whereas courage comes from the…
Most commonly when a book is turned into a film such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, there are many significant changes. Some fail to depict the writer’s thoughts when filming the movie; the alterations of the book to film are to add up to a thrill that the movie makers want to create for the audience to keep them tied into the film. The book is a better choice as it shows and tells more about Katniss’s strengths and some of her weaknesses. Katniss Everdeen reveals herself as being a character of a great heart and compassion in both the book and film for the ones that she loves. Collins shows this in both the book and movie as Katniss’s younger sibling Prim is selected in the reaping to compete in the games and she screams out,…
It just jumped into The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with Peeta ignoring Katniss. The first difference in the second movie and book, is the opening scene of Katniss looking over the water, getting spooked by Gale. Who happens to mention that he can only go hunting for game one day of the week due to his job in the mine. Although in the book written by Suzanne Collins, Gale wouldn’t be in the woods, “By this time Gale will have clocked in at the mines, taken the stomach-churning elevator ride into the depths of the earth, and be pounding away at a coal seam.” (4).…
‘The Hunger Games’, written by Suzanne Collins, is set in a dystopian future where teenagers are picked from a bowl full of names to fight for survival in the annual ‘Hunger Games’. Katniss Everdeen, the main protagonist, is a strong, brave, and fierce character. She shows us, in many ways, that family is important and they are worth sacrifice. “I volunteer! I volunteer!…
Keep Your Freedom Most people assume, since they live in the United States, that they are free, and have the freedom to do as they please as long as what they are doing abides by federal and/or state law. But how free are we, really? If you look deep enough, Suzanne Collins illustrates how restricted our freedom in the United States are. Throughout the novel, The Hunger Games, Collins is telling her readers that the government will destroy most means of personal freedom of the citizens.…
In “The Landlady”, Billy Weaver is lured into a seemingly normal bed and breakfast by an old lady who, despite her gentle and unthreatening appearance, wants to kill him. It is a story about how those with cruel intent may take advantage of those who are innocent and naive. Although the book and the movie can be arguably similar if generalized, there are many differences that may change the way a reader/viewer may grasp the concept of the story. Since a movie and book cannot be exactly the same, the film version is bound to have things that differ from the text. One example of how the book develops the development of the story is with the setting.…
Imagine yourself trapped beneath a glass bowl placed upside down on the kitchen table. Now, imagine that there are other people in there with you trying to kill you while all of your close family and friends are forced to sit around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in March 2012, it dominated the box office. Although I thought that the movie was absolutely FANTASTIC, as a reader of the Hunger Games Saga, I was disappointed in what was left out.…
Conflict (connecting to perspective) The conflicts that Katniss and Peeta face are against society, themselves and nature. The society being one of their conflicts, Katniss and Peeta are forced to attend the Panem Games according to the Capitol. They both cannot forfeit from the game or else they will become executed, leaving them no choice but to fight for survival instead. They also face conflicts with themselves respectively because they must adapt to their surroundings and overcome the fear of death once they are in the arena.…
Many individuals believe that the storylines in movies and books such as Divergent or The Purge where things are very twisted in the world could never actually happen, but thinking more deeply about The Hunger Games, the idea does not seem so far-fetched. Although the morphed idea of society in this movie seems beyond unrealistic, some things tend to be more related to our world than people may think. Every day, people talk about the struggles of our country and the way we function as a whole. People worry about our future after looking at our countries issues, especially about our power and control laws. Through The Hunger Games movie directed by Gary Ross and written by Suzanne Collins, we see how this series of events foreshadows…
“Welcome, welcome, to the reaping of the 73rd annual Hunger Games. We will pick two victors, one man and won woman to play in the Hunger Games. Like always, ladies first.” Effie walked over to a glass bowl, that had hundreds of names in it. She put her hand in it, pulled out an envelope, opened it, and read out the name.…
Mentally and physically exhausted, the tributes of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games fight to survive fierce and brutal attacks that test their will to survive. We follow the lives of two contenders Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark who show their strengths and abilities, along with a building relationship. Katniss and Peeta portray a love connection in an effort to gain support from spectators, however develop real emotions for each other as the games continue. Collins uses this idea of mental and physical to describe thoughts and events as they fight to survive. Suzanne Collins began the hunger games by implementing the idea that Katniss was forced to survive from an early age.…