Lyn Collins

How would your emotions be if you were a sixteen year old girl, and you were forced to fight to death in a harsh environment? This is what Katniss Everdeen faces in Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. She is a typical teenage girl helping her family and she ends up winning her life in a violent game. She has to starve and overcome many obstacles in the hunger games. This story is a fantasy, science fiction, and a thriller. In the Hunger Games they live in a colony with…

The Moonstone is a mystery that is set in England in the mid-1800s. The author of this novel is Wilkie Collins. He had written quite a few novels yet The Moonstone is his first detective novel, written in 1868. Wilkie Collins can create very complex storylines that are intriguing but they are longer than they need be. The Moonstone uses its elements to create suspense, creating an interesting, yet slow, read. The plot of The Moonstone consists of suicide, murder, theft, romance, and…

There are many similarities between the film and novel of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The characters, setting, and plot are the same. The characters are well portrayed in the movie. Both the movie and book focus on the main character, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta, the winners of the 74th hunger games, start off by going on a winner’s tour. The tour shows beginnings of the rebellion. President Snow orders Katniss to try and stop the rebelling but she fails at doing it. President Snow…

Sweetness Beats Strength History would lead you to believe that someone more built, older, and more experienced with weapons is likely to win the 2017 Hunger Games. Although I might not be as athletically build, tall, and mentally smart with the wild, a 13-year-old female will come out victorious as the 2017 Hunger Games winner. So you should sponsor me. If you are wondering what the Hunger Games is and why you need sponsors then let me explain it to you. Each year 12 boys and 12 girls are…

In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, the main character, is characterized in many ways. Katniss is a strongly developed character. The reader learns so much about Katniss due to the book being in first person. Some of Katniss’ major characteristics are brave, independent, and protective. Being brave is a difficult task to accomplish, but Katniss Everdeen nails it. One example of Katniss showing her bravery is when Katniss volunteers as tribute for her sister (page 25).…

In the book ‘The Hunger Game Catching Fire’ i've learned many new and interesting things that got my attention, like when Gale was beat and almost got killed, and when the poison fog almost killed finnick, Peeta, and Katniss. In the book the most intense part was at then end when Katniss shot the arrow at the barrier right when after the lightning strikes and everything falls apart and it looks like Katniss dies. One of the major things that are solved is when Beetee finds out that when the…

Initially, the “Tinkerer” was positively accepted from the New Belgium Brewery team, all with the exception of the tag line Follow Your Folly” as many thought this tagline to be too negative in tone and meaning and undermined their quality (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The use of the word folly was essentially a word that won over its use despite the negative connotation that many stated it gave off. I guess many felt the use of the word would tarnish their brand and image that they have held…

Suzanne Collins has attracted millions with her novel The Hunger Games. Full of twists and turns, loss and love, self-discovery, compassion, bravery and the extremely controlling and vile Capital, this novel is one that keeps you entertained and at the edge of your seat until the very last page. When you really analyze this book in depth, it becomes more and more apparent that it is actually a mirror image of our society today. Valerie Frankel, a scholarly writer, agrees by stating, “Panem with…

As I sit alone surrounded by silence my imagination grows like a wildfire, my face is buried in the pages, vivid images fill my head, with each turned page a new detail is revealed. A tragic story of bravery and survival in a Utopian society has struck my interest and has lured me in, with every exciting twist and turn. As the last words roll off of my tongue and linger in the air, I stare blankly at the pages in front of me. The last images are being pieced together in the back of my mind, and…

The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adaptations was just released in March 2012, readers and audiences have been pleasantly surprised at this fresh, dynamic, young female protagonist. The Hunger Games are an "entertainment" tool for the Capitol (the fictional country of Panem 's government), and a device used as a punishment to the work-force population mainly inhabiting the 12 Districts of Panem,…