Suzanne Collins

There is a difference between copying and remixing someone’s work. Now copying is taking someone’s work exactly and saying it is theirs. Kirby Ferguson once said, “Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves is not an embrace of mediocrity, or derivativeness. It is liberation from our misconceptions. And it is an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves, and to simply begin." While copying is an…

Propaganda is used to influence our beliefs and concepts. This is why I have chosen the link; “Propaganda is used to distort morality.” This idea can be found in texts such as The Wave, written by Morton Rhue, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, V for Vendetta, directed by James Mcteigue, and Equilibrium, directed by Kurt Wimmer. In the short novel The Wave, written by Morton Rhue, Propaganda is used to instil concepts of herd instinct (in addition to conformity to a singular idea) to…

Books are an ancient form of entertainment that have lived on for a boundless amount of generations. Inherently, a book has more than just words, it gives every reader a different experience because there is always an abundance of ways to analyze the words. Furthermore, Karl Marx, an influential nineteenth century economist utilizes books to explain his socioeconomic method of analysis called, Marxism. One part of Marxism states the imbalance between the proletariats (lower class) and the…

A Dystopian Mother A reoccurring theme presented in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is how the setting takes place in a dystopian society. Dystopias have many characteristic that display how it is an undesirable world. Even though an insignificant character, Mrs. Everdeen, Katniss’s mother, plays an important role in the development of this theme. She advances many of our primary character’s relationship to a dystopia. Also, she connects too many of the characteristics of a dystopia, such…

begging of the story to the end, same could be said about real life from the beginning to the end you are looking at two different characters. Looking at books and movies we can see this development of characters as the story develops in books like Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Catching Fire we can see the development of the main character Katniss Everdeen as she struggles to survive the annual Hunger games and how…

Have you ever noticed how some books have the same implications? How some of the novel may be the same? Like The Lottery and The Hunger Games, these two have entirely different circumstances but one makes you ponder the other. The Hunger Games and The Lottery are very alike in themes, but are very different in their storylines. The author of The Lottery, Shirley Jackson, got her idea from the town she lived in when writing the story. She admits that the town gave her the idea, “It is in North…

“Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire burns on (p.105 ).” In the Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne learn that love is more complicated that simple friendship. Katniss was lost in between who to choose to help her keep going. Gale on the other side was always thinking that he did not stand a chance with Katniss. But towards the end, Katniss figures out that she needs Peeta to help her move forward in life. Those are some of the ways Katniss and Gale learned…

confusion (Oxford). A society in chaos is a society in a state of mutiny and anarchy which is why chaos will always overthrow order. However, order will always return. In the books The Maze Runner by James Dashner and The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, order and chaos battle it out through the behaviors and decisions of the characters.…

Dystopian fiction is a genre that rises in popularity during the mid 19th century. The term dystopian comes from its counterpart, utopia, which refers to an ‘ideal world.’ Authors of this particular genre expose the faults in what seems to be a utopian society, often written to serve as a political warning in the real world. Settings, themes and authorial purpose are elements that contribute greatly to the allegorical warnings of the novels. Dystopian novels are often set in a futuristic world,…

from the text, “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion.” (Collins, 16) Propaganda in the Hunger Games is presented different than that of Gathering Blue but produces similar results. The intention of the games is to remind the districts to fear the capital, but also to demonstrate the generosity of the capital.…