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The 2012 film The Hunger Games , directed by Gary Ross, provides a complex and relevant commentary on contemporary social issues. The film is based on the 2008 novel of the same name written by Suzanne Collins and centres around a young girl trying to survive in a dystopian society. This is complicated by the annual event of “the hunger games”, where children must fight to the death in order to return home. The film examines ways in which the upper class are oblivious or at least choose to…

battle in the capitol? Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games writes about a girl that has hunting skills trying to survive the strongest and the weakest. The Hunger Games battle is the harshest thing to go through in life. In the novel, Haymitch gives them advice by staying alive. Cinna tells Katniss to get the audience to like her to win The Hunger Games. Throughout the novel, Collins always makes sure to write something about to strive through in The Hunger Games. First, Suzanne Collins…

adult, fiction book on how the country of Panem honors the dark days, while to the inner-districts it seems to be a punishment. All the Districts sacrifice one man and one woman to fight to the death for entertainment. The author of the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, shows the theme of inequality…

Capitol and the twelve districts were created to place the people where they belong. The Hunger Games were created to let the districts know that The Capitol is in charge, and forever will be. This is a big influence from the roman times and author Suzanne Collins has said, “The Greek Myth of Theseus and The Minotaur, also alluded to in The Hunger Games” (3), where there had to be sacrifices every year to be sent into the labyrinth of the Minotaur to be killed. With the society being divided,…

The Hunger Games (Chapter 1) is a novel excerpt by Suzanne Collins. Katniss wakes up and goes out hunting, in the woods she meets with gale. Gale and Katniss then go back home and get ready for the reaping, at the reaping she isn’t chosen but her little sister was. Suzanne Collins uses indirect characterization to give insight into her protagonist Katniss. The way the author characterizes Katniss Everdeen most effectively would be through the thoughts she has. The way the author characterizes…

The adventure novel The Hunger Games has become a famous movie and chapter book. They are beloved by many people, but there is a debate on which is better. The movie or the book. I am going to tell my point of view on which version is superior. The movie and the book are very important because they both show two different points of view and have many differences and both show many different things. The hunger games series has made about three books. The first book is called the hunger games, the…

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.…

Minecraft Stroymode is a Telltale game inspired by Mojang's very own Minecraft. As of now, there are currently three of five episodes out of the game. The game is based on a story driven by the choices of the character. No game anyone plays we be exactly the same because there are so many choices to be made while playing. In the first episode of Minecraft Storymode, Jesse the main character is with his friends Axel, Olivia, and Ruben the pig. They head off to try to finally beat the…

The Hunger Games franchise has shaped the evolution of Young Adult movies specifically in dystopian themes. The movie starts with Katniss Everdeen played by the beautiful Jennifer Lawrence on a hospital bed recovering from being attacked by her friend Peeta Mellark (Played by Josh ) who has been brainwashed to kill her by the Capitol. Within the movie there are 13 districts within the country who are awfully poor compared to the capital where all the “educated and rich” live. Katniss is…

The hunger games is set in the future of North America known as “Panem”, where the capital rules over the twelve districts. The capital is rich in comparison to the twelve districts, where each experience some sort of poverty. During the reaping the capital selects two individuals from each district, one boy and one girl, to participate in the annual hunger games. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl from district twelve, which happens to be one of the poorer districts. During the 74th…