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    The novel, "The Hunger games" composed by Susanna Collins entertains the reader by displaying powerful and confronting themes throughout the futuristic and barbaric setting, the narrative text of, the main character, Katniss Everdeen 's inner thoughts and feelings. Collins presents significant themes throughout about the challenges tributes face and the struggle to survive, the courage the tributes gain outside and inside the arena as well as the control The Capitol has over Panem and the…

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    Why Hunger Games? This Dystopian story starts where the Capitol which has complete control over its citizens. Every year, children from 12 districts have to fight until only one remains. There are 12 districts. 24 Children. And one winner. This is the Hunger Games. The Protagonist of this story is Katniss Everdeen. She is a girl from district 12, one of the poorest districts. In this response, I will focus on the theme of perseverance through the Hunger Games by the Protagonist, Katniss Everdeen…

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    The novel, The Hunger Games, is set in a dystopian country named Panem that has been ravaged by war and separated into twelve districts who have little to no rights. In order to prevent another rebellion, the corrupt government hosts the hunger games: a yearly spectacle where a boy and a girl, known as tributes, are randomly selected from each district to fight to the death in an arena that changes every year. Katniss’ story begins at the reaping, or the selection of tributes from each district,…

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    influence of capitalism in the South and the North during the Great Migration. What first catches the readers’ eyes is the poverty of the Mosses’ family being acutely expressed in terms of hunger. Perceivably, the novel opens to Melody playing “the hungry blues” on his guitar in an attempt to suppress his hunger cravings. In the family, Big Mat is the only one who has to work hard as a sharecropper on Mr. Johnston 's farm in Kentucky to provide for his family. However, it’s burdensome that…

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    The first one is The Hunger Games. The book follows Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger games so that her sister does not have to participate. The hunger games is a death match between the children chosen from each district to participate. The Hunger Games is a great example of breaking common gender stereotypes as the main character is a strong and independent female character. Katniss does not rely on the usual stereotypical male character…

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    The Hunger Games is a movie and also a novel written by Suzanne Collins and had already publish in 2008. There are three trilogy of this novel and this is the first trilogy of the Hunger games, followed with The Catching Fire and The Mockingjay. This novel written with Katniss as the main character and she narrates the whole story. In this essay, I will talk about the theme colonization in all districts. This theme is needed because it is a part of the novel that tells us how the district people…

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    Katniss Tribute

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    which she is forced to learn how to survive not only for herself but for her family as well. With the help of her friend Gale and the hunting skills she learned from her father, Katniss is able to keep her family fed and safe. An annual event, The Hunger Games, was created by the government to prevent any uprisings in the districts. Each year two tributes from each district are chosen to participate in a fight to the death. When her sister Prim is chosen as a tribute for the games, Katniss feels…

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    One of the most grossing movies of 2012 featuring Jennifer Lawrence. Yes, I am talking about the Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games the main character Katniss Everdeen lives in Panem, a fictional country made up of 12 districts. Every year, two tributes from each district forcibly have to participate in a entertainment based event called the Hunger Games, where all 24 tributes have to fight each other to death and the last one standing wins. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to…

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    Catching Fire Archetypes

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    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…

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    As individuals, we are enabled to discover ourselves and the world around us. With this concept, it is essential that we face difficulties, which enable us to learn from previous experiences and transition toward success. Good morning/afternoon fellow students of year 12, teacher and attendees of today 's HSC Study Day. Today I will be discussing the concept of discovery and how individuals can interpret it. The statement “regardless of varied challenges and difficulties, the discovery process…

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