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    Katniss Mockingjay Thesis

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    The book The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is the third instalment in The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. This book is told through the eyes of the main character Katniss Everdeen, which is first person point of view. In the first book in the trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen had volunteered as tribute to be put into what the Capitol called The Hunger Games. Katniss and her partner Peeta had won The Hunger Games, but the Capitol decided they weren't done with them. So in the second book there was a quarter quell, where the Capitol picked other people that had also won the games to compete. This all sets up for the third book where Katniss Everdeen and the lost district’s fight against the Capital to stop these Hunger Games. Through…

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    In the science fiction novel Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins takes place in the rebuilt district 13. The story also takes place throughout all of Panem and the Capitol. Katniss is the leader of the revolution that she feels guilty for starting. She is essentially the most vital character of them all. Everyone looks up to her as the Mockingjay to support in leading them to get full freedom. She blames President Snow for all of her suffering and her fundamental goal is to kill snow. Gale is of…

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    Sacrifice comes from selflessness, compassion, and extraordinary love. This matter is demonstrated in the book Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins. Before the book Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen volunteers as a tribute for her sister Primrose, so that Prim will not have to go into “The Hunger Games”, a deadly war of innocent people. Soon, Katniss knows she has a job to do, once she realizes that their world is being taken over by President Snow. In Suzanne Collins’s book Mockingjay, it is…

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    Mockingjay Extra Credit Essay In Suzanne Collin’s book Mockingjay, Collins explores the deprivation of morality through the totalitarian regime of the society of Panem. Following the Quarter Quell, the heroic protagonist Katniss Everdeen becomes the symbol of hope for the rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol. The whole novel establishes the theme of manipulative gameplay similar to the Hunger Games, in which high officials exploit their weak subjects for personal gain and fear. Thus, the…

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    Katniss Mockingjay

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    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 Heavensbee, the Head Game Maker for the Quarter Quell, wanted Katniss to be the Mockingjay…

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    Katniss Everdeen

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    She talks to her mother and sister who are terrified for her. She speaks with Gale who promises to take care of her family. Katniss’s friend from school visits her. Madge, her friend, gives her a gold pin for good luck. The pin is a mockingjay. Soon Katniss is hurried away to the capitol, where capitol workers begin to give her a new look. She is introduced to her stylist Cinna, with whom she starts to build a friendship. Cinna begins to prepare her for the opening ceremony that evening. The…

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    giving her these iconic dresses and gets everyone talking. To the premiere of the Quarter Quell Hunger Games, he makes her a wedding dress that represents her engagement to Peeta, but when she spinned in the dress she turned into a mockingjay, a notorious bird in the Hunger Games trilogies. ‘ Caesar gestures for Cinna to rise. He does, and makes a small, gracious bow. And suddenly I am so afraid for him. What had he done? Something terribly dangerous. An act of rebellion in itself. And he’s done…

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    Mockingjay Quotes

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    The book Mockingjay came from the Hunger Games Series . The entire series was written by Suzanne Collins in which she won an award for. Out of four children, Suzanne was the youngest. Suzanne was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford Connecticut. As a child Collins moved a lot and the topic of History was very important to the family. Collins father was an air force pilot and a history teacher. He was really big on history and telling stories of his experience in the air force. “So throughout our…

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    victory tour they see the district citizens using the three finger salute as a symbol of respect and admiration towards Katniss. This gesture is now seen as treason since Katniss is developing more and more into a symbol of the revolution to come. As the three finger salute becomes banned so does the symbol of the mockingjay which Katniss wore on a pin into the arena. The Mockingjay is seen as a symbol of The Capitols failure. Mockingjays are a cross breed between mockingbirds and jabberjays the…

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    fiction genre. This is where I feel like my perspective in literacy changed. The librarian introduced me to the books series “Hunger Games.” When I got this book, at first I thought it wasn’t going to be very interesting for me but when I actually read some pages in the book it kind of sucked me into it’s world. The world the author, Suzanne Collins, put me in was amazing. I mean just the story behind it, the details, and the amount of detail she put in the books was stunning. Just the idea of…

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