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“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them” is a quote that Albert Einstein once said. As I was reading the three books of, 1984 by George Orwell, Looking for Alaska by John Green, and The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins I noticed that they all had the common theme, acceptance. The authors of these books had different ways of dealing with this theme of acceptance. Some went the happy way of life and some went to the dark. Although each had a different ending they all related in a way. In…

How Katniss changes. “Change is the law of life. And those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (John F. Kennedy). I have recently read the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. So any how I am going to write an essay to explain to you little bit about how the main character “Katniss Everdeen” changes. The way she changes is in two different ways, which I will explain to you as we advance through this essay. You will find that she changes in trust worthiness…

Review The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins and is set in the future in Panem, the future North America, where a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen has to compete in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an annual competition in which each 12 districts have to force a boy and a girl tribute to fight to the death with other boys and girls from the other districts. Katniss Everdeen, the main character, is a sixteen-year-old girl whose younger sister, Prim Everdeen, was…

In chapters 1-5 of, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, the reader is told of a 16 year old girl named Katniss Everdeen. When Katniss was 11 her father died in a mine explosion, so she was then left with her mother and her younger sister, Prim. Katniss’s mother became ill and completely ignored her family, and since Katniss’s father was the one that did all the work, Katniss had to learn to follow in her dad's footsteps, since her mother couldn’t. She struggled at first but she soon figured…

In the dystopian novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen lives in a dystopian society that is separated into 12 Districts where they have annual “Hunger Games.” A boy and a girl from each district are placed into an arena to fight to the death but there can only be one victor, that is rained with glory, riches, and has the privilege to live in the “Victor’s Village” of their respective Districts. Katniss’ sister, Prim, was drawn and was sentenced to fight in The Hunger Games.…

Summary: After the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen leaves on a Victory Tour around the Districts and Capitol with her pretend lover, Peeta Mellark. President Snow tells her to convince the entire country of Panem of her undying love for Peeta in order to halt uprisings in the Districts, but she fails. After the Tour, the government announces a change for the 75th Hunger Games requiring the Districts to send victors as tributes, and Katniss must enter the arena again. Her allies encounter numerous…

Summary The story takes place in the future in a country called Panem. The country has twelve districts, they used to have 13 but the people of district 13 revolted against the Capitol. The Capitol is the place where all the rich people live. Because district 13 revolted, the capitol broke the district and now it doesn’t exist any longer. The Captiol wanted to make sure that something like that never happens again so they came up with a game called The Hunger Games. Each year a boy and a girl of…

The Hunger games through different sociological perspectives and ideas In the first movie of the Hunger games series, there are just two types of social classes which is the rich (Capitol) and the poor (the 12 districts). The differences of social classes in this movie are strongly pointed out. Especially, since the capital holds an annual event called the “Hunger games” in which they (The capitol) pick one girl and boy from each district and have them fight to the death till there is only one…

“‘I volunteer!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as tribute!’” (Collins 22) That is Katniss’ most famous line from the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The book is in Katniss’ point of view or 1st person. Even though it is a science fiction it seem pretty real to the reader. There is about 370 pages in the book. The main conflict in the Hunger Games is that they live in a world where there are 24 kids from the ages 12-18 who are sent into an arena to fight to the death. The underlying conflict is that…

Suzanne Collins is a renowned American television writer and novelist. She is best known for creating The Hunger Games trilogy. Mockingjay is one of the novels from The Hunger Games trilogy. It is the most interesting and captivating book of the trilogy. The beginning of the book started off with Katniss standing in the ashes of her house in District 12. The Capitol’s firebombs obliterated the entire place after Katniss escaped the Hunger Games arena at the end of Catching Fire. Plutarch…