The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner are two best-selling novels that both embrace the latest craze of young adult dystopian literature. Both novels encompass the genre of science fiction and accentuate the main theme of sacrifice, although the authors portray the themes in different ways. In addition, the main character in the Hunger Games, Katniss and the main character in The Maze Runner, Thomas are both impelled to fight for their lives in artificial worlds which serves as the main conflict…

youngest sister taking her own life by jumping out of the second story window and impaling herself on the edge of a fence post. The guys on the block share their memories of the Lisbon sisters and their suicide attempts after they became adults. “The Hunger Games,” is a movie series that has four films currently. This science fiction trilogy talks about the twelve districts that are forced to fight to the death. Reason behind this punishment is because of a past rebellion.…

plot, character 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…

The series of the Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a new world not like ours. It's a country called Panem with a bunch of Districts surrounding the Capital were the president lives. The Capital is the government which is in control of all, almost like a communist country. In Panem the Hunger games are way to entertain the citizens who live in the capital. The capital uses the hunger games to strike fear in the districts to restore order. Each District has limited resources, which has…

The Hunger Games What does it mean to be a hero in an exciting fantasy Adventure? The most important question who wouldn’t want to be the hero of any story? And that’s what happens with Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games. She’s a girl that was in a situation where she didn’t want to be the hero and was forced or I should say chose to force her self to be the hero. This is a story of a higher power force to destroy civilians and make them live under fear and turn them into weak creatures. The…

After reading and watching the movie of hunger games,The movie and book had many similarities and differences that changes the story.Here are some differences and similarites. Here are some similaris first off Peeta likes Katniss and Katniss like Peeta too.This is a quote in both the book and movie When Katniss told prim to ‘Tuck that tail in little duck’.Some more things from the story and movie is that Peeta and Katniss scores from the district and get very happy because they scored.Then…

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is the story of a young Katniss Everdeen and her quest to save her sister and herself in their post-apocalyptic country of Panem. The apocalypse that creates Panem is described through a list of natural disasters: drought, storms, fires, and seas that engulfed the lands. Through the destruction, Panem was formed and a new country was brought to life . This apocalypse took place on, “what was once called North America” (Collins 20). The familiarity of the…

It is never an easy thing to do, especially when death is staring you straight in the face. The two stories, “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins and “Knifepoint,” by Alex Van Tol, both dedicate themselves to being about surviving some treacherous events in a young female’s life. Katniss, the young lead female role in the story “The Hunger Games,” is entered into the games, which is a battle to death among oneself and 23 other tributes, including one other tribute from their own…

The scoring for The Hunger Games is the time where the participants show off what they can do, in order to try to impress the judges, or the sponsors. One participant, Katniss Everdeen, shows up for the scoring. She uses the bow and arrow to impress the judges, but on her first shot, she misses the target completely. She is very mad, and the judges are all laughing at her and they stop paying attention to her. She then shoots again and hits the target directly in the middle, but no one is…

our own” (Condie). The post-apocalyptic, totalitarian nation of Panem in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is one such future world. This novel follows the story of a girl named Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is a female tribute for the Hunger Games, which is an annual death-match between twenty-four tributes. This brutal fight is televised as a reality show and requires viewing from every citizen of Panem. The Hunger Games only end when one final tribute stands and the other twenty-three…