Suzanne Collins

When I read the description for the thematic unit assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to use The Hunger Games. Since reading the trilogy a few years ago I have, on multiple occasions, thought about how great it would be to use in the classroom. It is an exciting, engaging story that students enjoy but also addresses numerous important aspects of today’s society. This allows students to ease into talking about sensitive or overwhelming topics – like various forms of government, the corruption…

The Rise and Soar of Dystopian In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, their central government, the Capitol, holds a game where a leader picks names- one boy and one girl- from each district to “keep the peace.” In the game, the contestants each have weapons and supplies they assemble from the Cornucopia and utilize them to protect themselves as well as use them on the others as they all fight to be the last one standing, but the game-makers offer challenges for them as well. One obstacle…

Rights: Dystopic Society in the Hunger Games In the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins develops the idea that dystopic societies/government usually take over the citizens in a negative way. As such, the Capitol always had eyes and ears in all the districts and people. "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." (Collins, 18). These words of Suzanne Collins perfectly describes how the Capitol/government always control…

fighting for freedom and justice in a broken world. Commonly, the protagonists are teenagers and therefore appeal to young adult readers across the world. Several of the more recognized novels include The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Divergent…

Is the safety of others or the safety of oneself more important? The Hunger games by Suzanne Collins is set in the Capitol of Panem, which has a cruel government and it’s divided into twelve districts. As a punishment for a revolution in the past, the Capitol created the Hunger Games. One boy and one girl are chosen from each district to fight on live television until only one child remains. Katniss Everdeen the main character, changes from a selfish, self-independent girl to a sacrificing…

physically exhausted, the tributes of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games fight to survive fierce and brutal attacks that test their will to survive. We follow the lives of two contenders Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark who show their strengths and abilities, along with a building relationship. Katniss and Peeta portray a love connection in an effort to gain support from spectators, however develop real emotions for each other as the games continue. Collins uses this idea of mental and…

celebrating the destruction of Native-American culture. The literature that high school students read should challenge their opinions, “Good books unsettle us, make us ask questions about what we thought was certain,” (Glascow). The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins provides students with a clash between morality and tradition. The story follows Katniss Everdeen, a girl who volunteers to compete in the yearly “Hunger Games” set up by the ruling Capitol. This annual tradition acts as a glorified…

In the dystopian novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the country of Panem is ruled by the futuristic city called the Capitol and they rule the Districts 1-12. Every year in Panem two people, tributes, are picked to compete in a battle to the death called The Hunger Games which was created as a punishment for the Districts rebelling against the Capitol. We follow the tributes for District 12, Katniss and Peeta, and their lives before and throughout the Games. The Hunger Games has come a…

The Hunger Games is an adventure novel written in 2008 by Suzanne Collins. The book is the first of a trilogy and tells of a post-apocalyptic country where a sophisticated metropolis has gained political and military power over the rest of the nation. This metropolis divides the country into twelve districts and designates that every year each district must produce a boy and a girl for the annual televised reality show. These boys and girls must fight to the death for the amusement of the upper…

The Hunger Games (Chapter One ) is a novel excerpt compiled by Suzanne Collins, in which a Katniss lives in dreary town in which the different social classes are separated into according Districts. In the piece, Katniss and the rest of the people are put into a drawing in which names are drawn from each District in order to battle for their lives in hopes for a bounty of food and thanks for what they are given. In the duration of the excerpt, Katniss and her family prepares for The Reaping,…