Suzanne Collins

portrayal, setting, symbolism, motifs, and tone. The theme dictates the overall moral of a story, and rely upon the reader’s ability to extract information about the characters, action, and setting presented by it’s author.“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien are two fitting examples of this. Both of these stories share a similar theme. This theme centers around survival, as well as the suffering caused by both physical and emotional burdens which…

What do you believe the best genre is for literacy? Well, I believe that fiction is the one that interest me the most. Three reasons why I think fiction has changed my perspective in literacy is the creativity, my brother, and the Hunger Games series. People might not like fiction because people don’t like stories that are just too crazy such as like Star Wars (which everyone does like even though it’s fiction). Fiction is something that can just be really fun to read/write because of the…

sit around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in March 2012, it dominated the box office. Although I thought that the movie was absolutely FANTASTIC, as a reader of the Hunger Games Saga, I was disappointed in what was left out. We all know that rewriting a book into a…

The Dependence upon Characters in The Hunger Games Being able to survive the Hunger Games independently is almost impossible. In Suzanne Collins novel, survival is shown by the advice of a mentor and the help and dependence of the competitors during the games. The main character Katniss Everdeen is competing with twelve girls including her and twelve other boys for the game of death. Although Rue is the youngest in the games, she is still worthy of being an ally with Katniss. Haymicth…

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a futuristic work of fiction that takes place in a nation called Panem that consists of a wealthy Capitol and 12 destitute districts. The novel centers around Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old and also the female protagonist who volunteers to fight in the 74th games. The story begins on the day of reaping where two young adults between the ages of 12 to 18 are chosen and sent to fight in a dangerous life or death match. The purpose of the games is to…

Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay takes place in a futuristic place after there has been disaster in North America. Katniss has started a rebellion since after the first Hunger Games. Katniss has to face the struggles of maintaining her friendships and relationships. Katniss has the tough choice of believing who she truly loves and the cause of hurt she can cause the other. The big theme of friendship runs throughout the whole story. One complex lesson the story gives is while some friendships may be…

Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, what used to be North America is now the country of Panem which consists of a rich Capitol and twelve other districts. As a punishment for past rebellion by the districts, the Capitol forces each district to give a male and female teenager to fight to the death in what is called the Hunger Games, while all of Panem is forced to watch on television.…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

In the novel, The Hunger Games, so far, Katniss has volunteered as a tribute to take her sister, Prim’s, place in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an annual, deadly competition where tributes from all the districts travel to an arena to battle to the death. The winner receives riches while the losers obtain death. Katniss is very anxious, but so far in this story, she manages to survive the event applying the skills and knowledge she collected in her destitute environment. She is a very…

down. In comparison to other books in the dystopian genre, this novel is a competitor amongst them. The only issue that I have with it, is that in popular dystopian novels, such as The Hunger Games, the social commentary is much more apparent. Suzanne Collins makes many allusions in her book to the problems with modern day poverty, child warfare, oppressive/corrupt governments, and propaganda. Aveyard’s highlights the division between the people and the dangerous superiority complex that most…