The Hunger Games

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 written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who lives in District 12 of Panem, which is post-apocalyptic North America, struggles to put food on the table for her family. A country where the Capitol oppresses its citizens by keeping them fenced off from the outer world. The Capitol also forces one teenage boy and girl from each district to fight in a blood sport the Capitol views as entertainment known as, The Hunger Games. During the reaping of the 74th Hunger…

Before the Hunger Games begin, each pair of tributes are assigned to a floor in the training center. The training center is where their bedrooms and dining halls are located. Katniss’ room was like a dream come true for her; she loved it. Throughout the whole day, Effie was very excited to work with them, and finding sponsors for Peeta and Katniss. The entire team consisting of Haymitch, Peeta, Katniss, Cinna, Portia, and Effie all gathered to eat and talk about the days to come. During dinner…

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 gladiator battle and only serves the purpose of displaying the Capitol’s dominance. Throughout the text Katniss verbally displays her discontent for the Games, “‘I want to do something, right…

1. The reaping is an opportunity to keep the population well. Twelve through eighteen-year olds gather together to begin a Hunger Game. There is one girl and boy chosen to fight to the death and the last one standing wins. In paragraph 7 it states, “The reaping is a good opportunity for the Capitol to keep tabs on the population as well. Twelve- through eighteen-year-olds are herded into roped areas marked off by ages…” Katniss thinks that Prim is safe from the reaping because she is one out of…

live in a country in which the government took children and televised them while they were fighting to their death. The author of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, writes about living in this future dystopian country, called Panem, which consists of twelve districts and the capital. To maintain order and for cruel entertainment, the capital hosts the Hunger Games each year by placing two tributes, boy and girl, from each district into an arena to fight for their lives until just one is left…

pattern, but there is not a way to find them. “Those stories—myths, archetypes, religious narrative, the great body of literature—are always with us” (Foster 192). The book Divergent and The Hunger Games has an archetype. In both the novels, the people are trying to fight for what they believe in. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the main character is trying…

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 The book The Hunger Games was written by a woman named Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins is most known for writing this book and the following books of the Hunger Games Trilogy. The Hunger Games is the first book of the series. It introduces the story of how the hunger games got started and why. This first book develops the characters in an amazing fashion, I enjoyed the detail; I felt as though I knew the characters personally. This story is based in a post apocalyptic future…

Our country is quite similar to Panem, the dystopian society in which Hunger Games takes place. There are those with wealth and those with poverty. This distinction is the fundamental aspect of The Hunger Games and employs the main conception of the novel. Collins achieves a remarkable piece of literature with The Hunger Games through the themes, characterization and plot, and the setting. To start off, Hunger Games is a pure example of the theme of the inequalities between the rich and poor.…