Suzanne Collins

Introduction In marking period 2, I read the novel Iron Thunder by Avi and the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. They are similar because they both are in different time periods, with kids who are in life-threatening situations for their family. Iron Thunder is about a little boy named Tom who is living during the civil war and has to support his family by going to work in that shipyard to build ships, when Tom gets there he finds out that he will be working on an iron ship that…

In Suzanne Collins novel Mockingjay a young woman named Katniss Everdeen, who has recently came out of the Quarter Quell, or the 75th Hunger Games, is debating whether or not she should be with between Gale and Peeta. As the book goes by, the relationship between her and Gale changes drastically and so does the relationship between Peeta and Katniss. In Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins uses metaphors, dialogue, and 1st person narrator for a bunch of different reasons, such as to create a setting, to…

Imagine you had a sister that you wanted to protect desperately. Because she had no one else, it was just you and her. That's what Katniss wanted to do in Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games. Since Katniss wanted to protect her sister primrose from the hunger games because their mother had completely abandoned them when their father died, and she breaks the rules of the district. Katniss wanted to protect her sister prim from the hunger games because their mother had completely abandoned them when…

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Science Fiction writer, Suzanne Collins Comment should still be Free - an opinion piece by Hannah Duffey, 11 November, 2025. Few read this paper, since we keep it off The Cloud. Dog-eared copies pass furtively, ink-stained echoes of The Guardian that died to protect our freedom. That chronicle was killed in a previous decade, after daring to show us what “The People’s Government” can see us do on the Web. So we maintain an underground future by…

Mockingjay-Suzanne Collins In this essay I will be talking about the book Mockingjay from the Hunger Games trilogy, written by Suzanne Collins. There are three specific things I will be talking about. One is what the author’s purpose is, another is what the intended audience for the book is, and the third is how well I thought the ending was. I thought this book was a nine on a scale of one to ten. Warning!! There will be spoilers!! (Something you might want to know if you don’t already is…

“Catching Fire”, the sequel to the popular dystopian book, “The Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins, might just be better than it’s predecessor. The story takes place in Panem, a country that was formed from the ashes after the United States faced calamities and is divided into twelve districts including the capitol. The main characters in this story are both Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, star-crossed lovers and survivors of the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Both Katniss and Peeta live in the…

Suzanne Collins employs several literary devices to further clarify the themes in Catching Fire. Collins depends on motifs such as food , media and surveillance ,secrets and traps as well as symbolism, foreshadowing and allegory to further link the events together . In a literary work, a motif is" an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme" ("Motif"). Suzanne Collins uses several motifs to assist in the…

removing his handicaps on live television. The broadcast was interrupted by him and he was killed shortly after, on live television. This story is about freedom, equality, and family. Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.: Suzanne Collins, 2008. Print. The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol selects one girl and one boy between the ages 12 and 18 from each of the twelve districts. These participants are put…

Short Essay #1 Gender Roles in The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen, the main protagonist in Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, became an idol to all readers. The novel centers around Katniss in the futuristic society of Panem, which is ruled by the Capitol. After a rebellion against the Capitol, the Hunger Games was formed as a reminder to the people of Panem of the rule the Capitol has over their lives (Collins 18). One boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts of Panem must enter as…

source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to inform the society that humanity is slowly becoming desensitized to violence. In the book, Collins uses an allegory to strictly criticize: society, human…