Edward Treacher Collins

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Analyzing the Gender Role Surrounding Katniss Everdeen In most fictional writing, whether it be a novel or a film or any form of writing, a typical archetypal hero usually will abandon or be forced to leave his/her friends, family or simply loved ones because of some kind of tragic/significant event or occurrence. This will almost always lead him/her on a journey of sorts where he/she has the potential to deal with many tasks along the way, all the while…

In the Hunger Games Katniss goes on a hero’s journey that changes Panem forever. In the book the Hunger Games the hero is Katniss Everdeen. She lives in District 12 of a country named Panem. Every year in Panem an event called the Hunger Games is held. In this event two kids 12 to 18 are chosen from every district to fight to the death. This year Katniss’ sister Prim has been chosen. Rather than send her sister to her death she chooses to volunteer. This means Katniss will be going to the games…

The Hunger Games series is broken up between four films: The Hunger Games (year), Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, Mockingjay Part 2. In the first movie, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, is introduced. At this time, she was an avid hunter, and was the one who fed the family. She lived in District 12 in the country of Panem, along with her mother and her sister Prim. Each year, the Capitol of the country of Panem throws an event called The Hunger Games, that requires two…

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the subsequent provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) both existed based on British policies and involvement related to Irish Independence. The IRA of the early 1900s “fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland” (Gregory, 2010), this challenge resulted in an agreement granting Irish Independence in 1921. Independence was agreed upon with a caveat that the 6 northern counties be retained by the British. This…

In Suzanne Collins awards winning novel The Hunger Games, she writes out the experience of main character, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is only one of the twenty-four children who are forced to take part in a fight to death race to survival known as The Hunger Games. It is a yearly event where a boy and a girl are chosen from each district to be placed in an enclosed wooded area and pressured to fight each other all while being televised. The novel takes place in Panem, a post-apocalyptic…

Chapter Fourteen Myth or a Man? To here with spell check At the Dublin airport Lane and Blair were able to spot the waving hand of Frederick at the waiting area. With him was a dapper, cagey thirty-three-yearold six foot tall, medium-size man with eyes that remained mysteriously hidden behind shades. Both of his hands were anchored on his hips‒ the man was Sean McGinty. Also with Linzyc were Hanna and Gellman. Giving the good…

How has social media influenced our children to the fact that killing is okay? Why is PTSD more dangerous for the person after the battle than during? (1) In the simplest terms, The Hunger Game trilogy flows along the mindset of a survivalist who has gotten in deep over their head. The story is about two young kids who are drafted into fighting in a coliseum, to the death. Their story there is a morbid, traumatic, climax for survival. The tributes (who are the children) Peeta and Katniss have…

The Hunger Games trilogy is a story about media manipulation and the effects it can have on the people who are subject to the images and voices they hear through the media. The story revolves around a young girl named Katniss Everdeen and the dystopian society she lives in. This society is in the country of Panem which is North America in the future. Which has now been taken over by a tyrannical dictatorship that has a tight control over its people, who have been divided up into 12 districts…

even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”. Adolf Hitler was the famous leader of the infamous Nazi party and was a beloved dictator in his people 's eyes much like President Snow in the novel trilogy The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Adolf Hitler believed that there was a certain type of people superior to others. President Snow demonstrates a similar attitude seeing his residents of the Capitol as being superior to the lesser individuals dwelling in the Districts. In…

Gale Hawthorne is an ethical type of a person. He is the type of guy who has transformed from a person who had feelings for other human beings, to a person who wants revenge on the Capitol and leave no prisoners behind, due to the traumas he faced. Gales hatred for the capitol came after they bombed district 12, but he managed to saved 800 people. Getting revenge for something doesn’t mean necessarily killing them all or trying to bomb the capitol, but that’s the mindset that Gale has. He is…