Michael Collins

Throughout the span of this course we have read a wide variety of stories, many of them containing the theme of love. Love is feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Everybody knows what it is like to love someone if it being a family member, a significant other, yourself, or even a pet. With most of the stories there were more than one instance where love was presented. There are so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain…

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. Written by Suzanne Collins, this book follows Katniss through the near death experiences. The hunger games gives you a small snapshot of a large dystopian world. The perseverance that Katniss has during the games is like our daily lives. It is like…

My book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a world that is divided into 12 districts, each for a specific export for example District 12’s main export is coal. Anyways the rich in the story live at the capital, where everything that the districts made are used. The story is about Katniss and Peeta who are tributes from District 12 who are competing in the Hunger Games which is a competition that has tributes from all of the districts compete and slaughter each other until there is one…

“The Hunger Games” started as a book trilogy written by Suzanne Collins and caught fire in 2012 when the first movie adaptation was released and quickly became a box office smash. “The Hunger Games” film franchise has grossed over one billion dollars throughout four films and has just recently concluded with the final entry. Although the films have clearly been wildly successful in terms of revenue, one of the major conflicts that first had to be resolved when producing “The Hunger Games” movie…

In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins brings a reader into an utterly different realm than that to which most are accustomed. The setting is the post-apocalyptic dystopian nation of Panem, where the Capitol rules without leniency. Throughout her story, Collins introduces many characters, and each character demonstrates a link to a different theme in her book. For example, the author portrayed Foxface, a girl from the fifth district of Panem, using the theme of survival. “Anyone that wishes to…

One of the major differences in between the book and the movie was the ending. In the book, Haymitch tells Katniss and Peeta good acting, “ ‘Just keep it up in the district until the cameras are gone. We should be okay.’ ”(Collins, 371-372). In the movie, the whole part that showed that Peeta discovered it was an act, and became angry with Katniss, was never mentioned. It just jumped into The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with Peeta ignoring Katniss. The first difference in the…

The Dependence upon Characters in The Hunger Games Being able to survive the Hunger Games independently is almost impossible. In Suzanne Collins novel, survival is shown by the advice of a mentor and the help and dependence of the competitors during the games. The main character Katniss Everdeen is competing with twelve girls including her and twelve other boys for the game of death. Although Rue is the youngest in the games, she is still worthy of being an ally with Katniss. Haymicth…

change and the wars that followed. Now North America is the nation of Panem, a country with twelve fenced-in districts that all work to feed the enormously wealthy and technologically advanced capital,” (Suzanne, 2016). The biography of Suzanne Collins provides the background of author’s previous works and how her life experiences take her to write The Hunger Games. Additionally, this biography shows the base of the author’s ideas such as the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Greek…

espouse on work of literature that has given me a great deal of significants is difficult, but extraordinary. Out of all the books I’ve read there was one in particular that stood out to me in the past five years and it is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book spoke to me as no other book has ever; I 'm the type of person that doesn 't interested in reading novels, but this one called me in. The Hunger Games series is a trilogy that tells a story of 13 communities (called…

let’s face it, you can use all the help you can get in that department. You were about as romantic as dirt until he said he wanted you. Now they all do. You’re all they’re talking about. The star-crossed lovers from District Twelve!” Says Haymitch,” (Collins, 134). Although Katniss and Peeta’s love becomes real later on, they first use it to their advantage to gain support, despite its lack of truth. While they are in the arena, Katniss and Peeta form a union and create emotional moments while…