Suzanne Collins

The conflict of the text Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins is the struggle for Katniss and the people being hurt by President Snow to keep themselves and the people they care about safe. The author uses this to lead to the theme that you need to be courageous even when it is hard. She leads the conflict into the theme by having Katniss be courageous when her loved ones are in danger. She could also be putting them in more danger. These situations are what the author uses to have the conflict lead…

Most commonly when a book is turned into a film such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, there are many significant changes. Some fail to depict the writer’s thoughts when filming the movie; the alterations of the book to film are to add up to a thrill that the movie makers want to create for the audience to keep them tied into the film. The book is a better choice as it shows and tells more about Katniss’s strengths and some of her weaknesses. Katniss Everdeen reveals herself as being…

Hero’s Journey doesn’t only apply to classic literature such as The Odyssey by Homer. Even modern-day stories are structured around the theory of The Hero’s Journey, such as the popular Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan or The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Hero’s Journey follows seven archetypes: a hero, mentor, threshold guardian, herald, shadow, trickster, and shapeshifter. Each archetype has a designated role in the motion of a story, the hero being the main protagonist. A character…

The protagonist and I are more different than similar. We both view the world differently. The world views us differently. Also, we don't really handle certain situations the same way. Katniss, the protagonist of “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and I are not truly similar. We could be friends still, even though we're not really the same. Katniss views the world as a horrible place to be. She thinks that it's a sick and twisted place as well. She has said that “I would never have kids…

Heroines In Literature A heroine is a women noted for courageous acts, she has special achievements, or personal qualities. Two well-known authors, Madeleine L’Engle, and Suzanne Collins, each use a heroine figure as the main characters for their two stories, “A Wrinkle in time” by L’Engle, and “The Hunger Games” by Collins. Madeleine L’Engle’s novel, “A Wrinkle in Time,” tells the story of Meg Murry, a young girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space. Meg is an awkward,…

how Collins uses the conventions of a dystopian society to critique the power of the media in our world today Media is one of the most influential tools for communication in modern society. Throughout history, it has assisted in the transmission of information, whether it be regarding highly provocative topics, or lesser, more modest topics. However, media has the power to regulate and alter the truth behind information, by modifying evidence to manipulate how consumers perceive it. In Suzanne…

throughout the story, major or minor. Though there are differences throughout the book and the movie they are both made to be the same plot and story. There are different parts, but most of it Is the same. For example, the movie was NOT made by Suzanne Collins, though they tried to interpret her ideas they changed the movie so the viewers could understand it though they did keep many of the main ideas such as the quote “May the odds be in your favor!”(which they are not). Another way that it…

usually fearful for their life. In a utopian book everything is perfect and happy. Dystopian books have many similarities but also some differences. My two book titles are The Giver and it is written by Lois Lowry and Catching Fire written by Suzanne Collins. A similarity in each of the books is that the main characters in both books are rebels against the people in charge. In the Giver Jonas leaves the community so that he can save Gabriel from getting released. (Lowry 198) Jonas also stopped…

fortunate, this is outrageous when buses and apartments are the norm. The world is divided up into social classes, from rich to poor, and those found in between. In fact, many novels revolve around this. Suzanne Collins accurately depicts social stratification in her novel The Hunger Games. Collins accurately portrays different social classes. Her examples of the different divisions of class and social stratification are present in societies all around the world. How such class divisions…

Compare and contrast: The Hunger games There are many books that then make movies based on it, but sometimes they don’t make a good movie, but sometimes they do a good movie, an example of it is The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins and the movie by director Gary Ross. The hunger games is about 12 districts that every year each district have two tributes and fight for their life, Whoever is the final one alive receives fame, fortune, and their district gets privileges rained…