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    Midterm The Hunger Games movie is a very exciting movie that was adapted in order to explain several thoughts that cannot be presented as they were written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games movie was changed so the viewers could understand many ideas that Suzanne Collins wrote, but could not be combined into the movie in the same way. For example, the idea that the things and the obstacles in the arena were created and controlled by the Game makers as portrayed in the movie, when the Game…

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is the first book in a series set in the nation of Panem. Panem has a capital that is surrounded by twelve districts. It is a dystopian society ruled by a totalitarian dictator, President Snow. The story is told through the point of view of Katniss, who lives in district 12 which is arguably the worst district. Katniss is a deviant, which is expressed throughout the entire book. The fence that surrounds district 12 is supposed to keep wild animals out and…

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    the dangerous running of the bulls and in China there has been the very painful foot binding, but these traditions are child's play compared to some. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Is about a post war society divided into 12 districts who each send two teenagers to fight to the death once a year in The Capital. The Capital runs the games and reap the fruits of the 12 district's labor. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is about a small American town in the 1800s, that keeps order and sanity…

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    The Hunger Games begins on the day of the reaping in District 12. Katniss Everdeen, the 16 year old main character, meets up with her best friend Gale so they can do some hunting before the reaping that afternoon. Little does she know, her life is about to change forever… The Hunger Games has multiple setting throughout the book. It begins in Panem. Which is the country that contains 12 districts, each providing for the capitol. District 12, that is where Katniss and her family lives. There are…

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    The Hunger Games is set in a post-apocalyptic future of North America. A country called Penem is made up of the Capitol and twelve surrounding districts. Although we do not know the why’s, how’s or when’s of this regime, we can find out that it is a communist-type regime that exercises strict control over its citizen and exploits its poorer surrounding states for the prosperity of the Capitol. Reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, The Hunger Games describes a regime that uses all kinds of…

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    The Hunger Games is a great film to tie this course all together at the end. Throughout this course we have learned many key terms and concepts that help us better understand the world and help people realize they are always part of something bigger than themselves. The Hunger Games puts everything we learned in this semester in to a perspective that we can all relate to and understand. The terms I will be using to relate sociology to The Hunger Games are the One Thing, fear-mongering,…

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    The reaping is an annual activity or sport help by the Capitol called The Hunger Games. The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. On eligibility and the number of times your name is in the pool to be drawn from: You become eligible for the reaping the day you turn twelve. Let’s say you're poor and starving, you can opt for tessera. Each child, age 12 to 18, is…

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    (#16). Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games is the household member that has to be there to protect her sister and her mom after her dad dies. She knows that she has to put food on the table and keep her family safe. After she volunteers to take the place of her sister in the 74th annual Hunger Games, she knows this may be more difficult than it may seem. In The Hunger Games, the main character Katniss Everdeen overcomes the life obstacle of surviving the hunger games in the capitol and in…

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    a passion interviewing from my friend, Dreamteam. He has the passion for The Hunger Games, a series of adventure novels. The main story is two protagonists, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, lived in a dystopia called Panem. Panem was a country consisting Capitol and 12 districts which each district had to send two volunteers, a boy and a girl, in the reaping day to participate in annual match called The Hunger Games. When the day came Katniss’s sister named Primrose Everdeen…

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    Paragraph 1 - Derrick & Gobind Introduce your Novel / Plot synopsis Briefly recapitulate the important details of the economic model of your story as identified in subtask 2. The “Hunger Games” is a story about a government body (the Capitol) that forces two people who live in each of the twelve districts to fight to the death against each other. They do this for entertainment purposes and to keep the people who live in the districts under control of the government. The people who live in the…

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