The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games Many people consider their daily lives to be “normal.” To someone with privilege, being picked up from school in a Lexus and going home to a 6,000 square foot house is typical. To someone less fortunate, this is outrageous when buses and apartments are the norm. The world is divided up into social classes, from rich to poor, and those found in between. In fact, many novels revolve around this. Suzanne Collins accurately depicts social stratification in her novel The Hunger…

In The Hunger Games, is a novel about a dystopian United States in which readers are exposed to a totalitarian government that cares little for any of its people besides the rich. In Divergent, you learn about a government that divides its people in order to control them. The government of the United States is much different than these governments. Or is it? By reading The Hunger Games and then learning about the US government, it is easier to understand government and the different types of…

the high and low economic classes. This liaison is explored in The Hunger Games trilogy, which includes The Hunger Games (1), Catching Fire (2), and MockingJay (3). These fictional novels tell the tale of a young girl’s progression in a dystopian society in which the Capitol, a city of richer-than-rich followers and an evil dictator, makes twelve smaller districts participate in a cruel event known as The Hunger Games. These “games” are televised all throughout Panem, the country in which the…

as they were then. Today’s society is more uniform in treatment towards individuals. This treatment can be seen in today’s literature such as The Hunger Games. While being fictional, the main character is a woman. She leads the fight against the dystopian government, in a straight comparison to the women of ancient times, who weren’t…

and submissive beautiful females are often present in young adult fiction…with boys typically presented as active main characters and girls as passive peripheral ones,” (Taber et al. 1025). Going against this tradition is Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games that features a strong female protagonist who ends up saving her male counterpart. Katniss Everdeen breaks out of the passive female role and becomes an ambiguous mesh of masculine and feminine traits depending on her behavior and desires. In…

This shares a theme of man vs man, this being related towards how people are psychologically attracted to one word: survival. People enjoy reading books about survival because they are engaging compared to our lives and suspenseful to read. The Hunger Games and A Child Called “It” perpetuate courage through survival, providing us with inspiration to better face challenges…

gender stereotypes. Thus, inspiring the teenage audience and providing this young generation with strong female role models. TWTWB, by John Marsden, and The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, are two examples of such literatures. Both of these texts portray strong female heroines- Ellie Linton (from TWTWB) and Katniss Everdeen (from The Hunger Games) – who are faced by adverse circumstances which they overcome in bold, and diverse ways. Although these novels contain differing plots, characters,…

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one" - George R.R Martin, A Dance with Dragons. Humans are such sensitive beings and it is very difficult to understand how people have become impassive to experiences nowadays. It is almost as if they believe that being unsusceptible is a quality that one should possess in today’s world. I speak this because nowadays importance is being given to things like technology and partying etcetera which is…

Hunger Games Essay What exactly is love? Love can leave you feeling powerless, and is almost impossible to stop. While in the Hunger Games the tributes should be concentrating on surviving. It was important for Katniss to stay focused on her goal and her love for Peeta got in the way of that. Katniss isn’t fully aware of her feelings for Peeta and she doesn’t necessarily like what she does feel. In a way love is confusing, but in the end is sometimes worth it. Love isn’t always based off of…

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a modern piece of literature that could be categorised as a science-fiction trilogy set in a futuristic dystopian society. The protagonist of the series is Katniss Everdeen; a controversial female character that we can link…