The Hunger Games

districts that all work to feed the enormously wealthy and technologically advanced capital,” (Suzanne, 2016). The biography of Suzanne Collins provides the background of author’s previous works and how her life experiences take her to write The Hunger Games. Additionally, this biography shows the base of the author’s ideas such as the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Greek gladiator Spartacus. “"I was a huge fan of Greek and Roman mythology. As punishment for displeasing Crete, Athens…

of rhetoric being manipulated to allow the designated audience to change their opinion of social media through computers, smartphones, and tablets. Turk relies on audio techniques to improve sound and visual examples to support his argument. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a novel about the political struggles after war in a country known as Panem. The author illustrates her opinions on war, income inequality, and government control through her story of a twisted…

The Hunger Games and catching fire by Suzanne Collins. The theme of the hunger games was sacrifice it was full of sacrifices starting with Katniss taking her sister’s place at the reaping both her and peeta sacrifice themselves. The main themes of catching fire was survival,and sacrifice also struggling In Between independence and interdependence peeta takes haymitch’s spot in the new hunger games and troops occupy district 12 and gale gets whipped Katniss steps in and gets hit and Haymitch…

The Hunger Games series is broken up between four films: The Hunger Games (year), Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, Mockingjay Part 2. In the first movie, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, is introduced. At this time, she was an avid hunter, and was the one who fed the family. She lived in District 12 in the country of Panem, along with her mother and her sister Prim. Each year, the Capitol of the country of Panem throws an event called The Hunger Games, that requires two…

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…

Katniss Everdeen is the central protagonist in The Hunger Games trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic America with a totalitarian government similar to The Obsolete Man and Brave New World. Each district (similar concept to states - each has its own boundaries and is overall controlled by the government, in this case “The Capital”) holds an annual reaping to determine a male and female competitor in their “Hunger Games.” Katniss is picked and inevitably turns her fear of the government…

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…

supportive but it can come off the wrong way, or it can be ignored altogether. In The Hunger Games, Cinna can first be seen as an outcast in the Capitol because he is a free thinker and doesn’t fit into the confinements of what is expected in the Capitol, but what is more important to notice is that he is a loyal retainer and mentor archetype for Katniss as he quietly roots for her in her journey to fight in the Hunger Games. When Katniss first meets Cinna she describes him as unlike most of…

this as well" (Simmons 387). In her article Responsible Grammar Rebels: Using the Hunger Games Trilogy to Teach the Intentional Sentence Fragment, Simmons uses the Hunger Games Trilogy by Collins to teach her students how sentence fragments can be used intentionally as a…

The exegesis is a discussion of female agency in three novels: The Hunger Games, The Circle and Bumped. The strongest parts of the exegesis are the sections on the actual novels. These sections give an outline of the novels and the roles of the female protagonists. However, the aims of the exegesis are unclear. In the first paragraph Tania writes: ‘this exegesis specifically engages with the interplay between media and female agency in recent dystopian novels.’ And then later, she writes that…