Edward Treacher Collins

The book starts with Katniss visiting district 12, her former home. Katniss had just woken up from her long sleep that was started when she fired an electric arrow at the force field on the 75 annual Hunger Games. She was rescued from this by a district that was said to by dead a long time ago. This district did this because they wanted Katniss to be the face of their rebellion. While Katniss is at her home town she quickly finds out that president snow is watching her. After returning to…

The static nature of sibling relationship is strongly influenced by who is born first. Collins portrays Katniss’s relationship with Prim in the Hunger Games as staying static in terms of Katniss continuing to be the same parental figure. This is encountered when Prim is chosen for the Hunger Games and Katniss is in a state of shock: There must have been some mistake. This can’t be happening. Prim was one slip of paper in thousands! Her chances of being chosen so remote…

I’m sitting at the top of the tower, gazing down on the rest of the city. It seems to be about midnight, but I can see for miles with the light of the full moon. I lean over and let my legs dangle off the railing a little. The wind makes noises like thunder when it whips past my ears, but the sound of the heartbeat in my chest is too loud for me to really hear it. I take a few deep breaths in an attempt to calm myself, even though I know it won’t work. We had just left our house, when it…

The Hunger Games is set in a post-apocalyptic future of North America. A country called Penem is made up of the Capitol and twelve surrounding districts. Although we do not know the why’s, how’s or when’s of this regime, we can find out that it is a communist-type regime that exercises strict control over its citizen and exploits its poorer surrounding states for the prosperity of the Capitol. Reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, The Hunger Games describes a regime that uses all kinds of…

President Coriolanus Snow plays a larger role than in the book.In the book, when the tributes' scores are revealed, it is merely a picture of the tribute, and their score beneath it. In the film, Caesar Flickerman reads out their name, district, and score.In the film, more of the Cornucopia bloodbath is shown than is told in the book.In the book Peeta drew an X on Cato hand for Katniss to have a target, but in the film he didn't draw a X on Cato hand.In the film Katniss shot the boy in the chest…

The amazing series of the world of the hunger games is an amazing series full of theories and what ifs? In the series you follow Katniss Everdeen on her journey to save her family and herself from poverty by playing in the hunger games. This amazing series was fortunate enough to have a novel and films serious to keep the fans hungry for more information entertained. But as we all know in every series that has a novel and a film like the famous series of Harry Potter we all know there's a little…

There are multiple differences between the book and the movie of the Hunger Games. These differences can be found throughout the story. One major difference can be found in the introductions. The introduction to the movie and book are very different in the aspect that the book shows the world through Katniss’s perspective only so you get the idea of her waking up and comforting her sister, Prim, on the morning of the reaping before going into the woods to hunt. In the movie, the introduction…

The Hunger Games and catching fire by Suzanne Collins. The theme of the hunger games was sacrifice it was full of sacrifices starting with Katniss taking her sister’s place at the reaping both her and peeta sacrifice themselves. The main themes of catching fire was survival,and sacrifice also struggling In Between independence and interdependence peeta takes haymitch’s spot in the new hunger games and troops occupy district 12 and gale gets whipped Katniss steps in and gets hit and Haymitch…

Panem is the fictional world in which the action/adventure book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is set in. In Panem, The Hunger Games are a very big deal. the Hunger Games represent the war that the Panem districts had. Now as a symbol to never go to war again, when a child needed extra rations of food, their name would be added once more into the jar where at the end each year every district will pull out two names to go into the Hunger Games. This particular year, Katniss’ little sister…

The Hunger Games is a great film to tie this course all together at the end. Throughout this course we have learned many key terms and concepts that help us better understand the world and help people realize they are always part of something bigger than themselves. The Hunger Games puts everything we learned in this semester in to a perspective that we can all relate to and understand. The terms I will be using to relate sociology to The Hunger Games are the One Thing, fear-mongering,…