Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil

Gale Hawthorne is an ethical type of a person. He is the type of guy who has transformed from a person who had feelings for other human beings, to a person who wants revenge on the Capitol and leave no prisoners behind, due to the traumas he faced. Gales hatred for the capitol came after they bombed district 12, but he managed to saved 800 people. Getting revenge for something doesn’t mean necessarily killing them all or trying to bomb the capitol, but that’s the mindset that Gale has. He is…

What is grit? No, not the small pieces of sand and stone, but the trait that many of us are oblivious to. Grit isn’t something you can purchase at your local grocery store, but a quality that is acquired through determination and perseverance. In the Ted Talk, “The Keys to Success? Grit”, Angela Lee Duckworth goes on to explain in depth the meaning of this complex characteristic. She states, “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking…

Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins. Before the book Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen volunteers as a tribute for her sister Primrose, so that Prim will not have to go into “The Hunger Games”, a deadly war of innocent people. Soon, Katniss knows she has a job to do, once she realizes that their world is being taken over by President Snow. In Suzanne Collins’s book Mockingjay, it is common for the reader to sense Collins explaining that tenderness and love can overcome any obstacle. Suzanne…

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 Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that distractions led by cowardice and fear keep people from involving themselves in more important matters. Especially when people are fearful for something in the future. In society people have things that they’d rather delay for as long as possible. They will be too distracted by the fact that they don’t want something to happen, that they don’t even realize that something is going on below the surface. For example in The Hunger…

The first one is The Hunger Games. The book follows Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger games so that her sister does not have to participate. The hunger games is a death match between the children chosen from each district to participate. The Hunger Games is a great example of breaking common gender stereotypes as the main character is a strong and independent female character. Katniss does not rely on the usual stereotypical male character…

How is Pippa Buckingham going to survive the bush fire that is burning only a mile away? It is going to take team work and love for her family. Pippa Buckingham, the sister of Julie and Stevie Buckingham, lives in Australia on Ash Road. As she tries to save her brother and sister from the fire, Pippa demonstrates that she gets annoyed quickly, has compassion towards her family, and is very responsible. Throughout the story Pippa is frequently easily frustrated and distressed. When she is…

The book “The Lottery” wrote by Shirley Jackson is about a rural farming community that is forced to have a drawing every year to choose who is stoned to death as a sacrifice to bay for the other villagers sins. The book “The Hunger Games” wrote by Suzanne Collins is about twelve different districts have an annual reaping every year. One boy and one girl are chosen from each district and all twenty-four people go head to head in a battle to the death. At the end of the reaping there is only one…

Diamond, Coal, Anthracite Plot: The queens fight Kass Setting: Hogwarts college- magic known universe- year 4712 ACT 1 Scene 1 Setting: Principal's Office Time: 10:23 Monday morning. Characters In Scene (CIS): Kass Keets, Venus Salazar, Honey Lao, Jem Knight KASS: Those three creatures are trying to ruin my life! I demand that they be expelled from this school immediately! Midna rubs her temples. - MIDNA: You want me to expel these three brilliant students because you don’t like them? That’s…

Everybody faces challenges, but not everybody can handle what life throws their way. In the dystopian worlds of “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, both authors explore the lives of young and naïve teenagers, experiencing dangerous worlds that they have never imagined before. In “Lord of the Flies”, a plane crashes into an island with a group of boys that become isolated. Young, ordinary schoolboys must fend for themselves on a desert with no external…