Lyn Collins

It’s six months after the events of The Hunger Games and Katniss is dreading the Victory Tour. Even though she has all the money, and therefore food, she and her family need and more, she still goes to the woods. She enjoys the solitude and spends time hunting for Gale’s family, who is pulling long hours in the mines. The Capitol has spread the lie that Gale is her cousin to keep any hints of a romance at bay. This, along with her open show of affection for Peeta in the arena in the last Games,…

The Hunger Games is on fire! The Hunger Games is an adaptation of the best selling book of the same name, written by Suzanne Collins. The movie premiered on march 22nd 2012, and quickly became a major success followed by two sequels and a third (and last) one premiering this fall. The movie is set in a future, dystopian America after a major civil war. America, now Panem, is divided into 12 poor districts and a wealthy Capital. As punishment for the past war, each district must provide two…

Female Leadership Traits in Young Adult Literature: Literature Review The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, a young adult novel published in 2008 and closely followed by its sequels, Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2009), swept a generation of adolescent girls off their feet. Raised on the Hermione Granger’s (almost a protagonist of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling in 1997-2007) example, millions of girls were longing to have a true hero of their own. As children, the gen-X…

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”-Anton Chekhov. In the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who lives in District 12 of Panem, which is post-apocalyptic North America, struggles to put food on the table for her family. A country where the Capitol oppresses its citizens by keeping them fenced off from the outer world. The Capitol also forces one teenage boy and girl from each district to fight in a blood sport the…

the Mines of Moria, the wizard Gandalf gave a simple yet powerful saying,”All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” In other words, priorities will define what we achieve in our lives. This is a major part of what Suzanne Collins was trying to emphasize in her book, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games novel takes place in a future civilization called Panem. The corrupt government of this society forces each of its state like districts to give a male and female tribute…

the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2009), Katniss Everdeen, a simple young girl from district 12 is forced to fight for her life in the Hunger Games. To survive not only the games, but also the totalitarian establishment in which she lives, she develops a strong understanding of herself to transform from someone who suppresses her feelings of the injustice in her society to someone who is unforgettable, “Katniss. The girl who was on fire”. (Collins, 2009: 85). However, as she…

In the novel, The Hunger Games, so far, Katniss has volunteered as a tribute to take her sister, Prim’s, place in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an annual, deadly competition where tributes from all the districts travel to an arena to battle to the death. The winner receives riches while the losers obtain death. Katniss is very anxious, but so far in this story, she manages to survive the event applying the skills and knowledge she collected in her destitute environment. She is a very…

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…

In the novel, “The Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins, the theme is that in the Hunger Games, one must be fit, survival ready, skillful and intelligent to survive. Katniss is intensely skillful at hunting, and she uses it to her advantage. On page 241 it says, ““... I discover a flock of grooslings perched in the trees and take out three before they know what hit them.” This shows that Katniss is an extremely skillful hunter. In addition, this displays that Katniss is skillful with a bow and…