The Hunger Games

the story. Joseph Campbell was the one that created the Hero’s Journey as an archetype for events in a story. The Hero’s Journey is the outlines or steps a certain character will likely take on his or her path to become a hero. In the movie The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen played an important role as she went through the steps of the Hero’s…

Fahrenheit 451 and Hunger Games as Dystopian Fiction Fahrenheit 451 and Hunger Games are both dystopian fiction books. Dystopian fiction is based on dystopia. Dystopia is a fictional, futuristic universe where there is a sense of control and perfect society. Some characteristics of dystopian society are propaganda, people under constant surveillance, people under total control or in a dehumanized state, the society being an illusion of a perfect utopian society, etc. First, Fahrenheit…

While The Hunger Games is from the dystopian future and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is present time, both stories have one thing in common, and that is the recurring theme of blindly following old customs and traditions and the problems attached to them, whether it is the “capitol” in The Hunger Games or the villagers in The Lottery. In both cases traditions are respected and strictly followed by the people, but it is at the cost of sacrificing innocent lives in the attempts to preserve…

In the Hunger Games movie and in the book there are many similarities and differences things happening in both of them.I am going to compare and contrast the movie and the book. There are many similarities in the book and movie,for example.Gale picked up Prim at the reaping when Katniss volunteered for her .The district 1 boy shot an arrow at Rue and killed her.Katniss song to Rue she was dying and Katniss put flowers over her body.Peeta,was down by the river when Katniss found him.…

The inspiration for Suzanne Collin’s novel, The Hunger Games, came from channel surfing between reality shows where young kids were competing against each other to young kids fighting each other in a real war. The shows began to blur together in Collin’s mind and soon the story of Katniss began to develop (Interview). Katniss is a sixteen-year-old girl living in district 12, a coal-mining district, who winds up fighting in the Hunger Games after volunteering to take her twelve year old sister’s…

amphitheatre is centuries old, but is still influencing modern writings. The author of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, has always talked about the Colosseum and the famous gladiator fights that took place inside as inspiration for her three novels. Through the history, the cultural practices during this time period, and the political meanings behind the Roman Colosseum, it is made clear how The Hunger Games mirrors this important structure in world history. The history behind the Roman…

Dystopian In the books, The Hunger Games and Divergent, both demonstrate a dystopian society. Both of these books are described as an unpleasant place that is filled with misery and dehumanization. After reading both of these books, one would probably hope that they would never have to go trough anything described in the stories. However, these books relate a lot to our society today and do not differ much from how our government runs. Even though we do not have the “hunger games” or five…

the society that Collins created versus today’s society. Harmon describes “popular culture” as “The phenomenon of what people really but unofficially do and say,” (Harmon 372). The idea presented by Suzanne Collins in, The Hunger Games feeds the idea of popular culture. The game makers would control many of the elements. People from the Capitol would take excitement from it. And the people from the districts would mourn those they were losing from their own communities. In today’s society,…

hunger Games Vs. Theseus Theseus and the hunger games are very similar. Both the hunger games and in the myth of theseus tributes are sacrificed to a higher power. It was based on saving a society that was struggling to deal with a higher power. King Minos sent his only son to fight a very dangerous bull, but he ended up dying. King Minos was very upset and now every nine years the people of athens had to send in seven girls and seven boys to confront the minotaur.Their reasoning was more…

After Katniss gets selected to compete in the Hunger Games, she was taken to the capital where she was trained to survive. While in training she worked on her fighting, archery, and survival skills, which are all necessary to win the hunger games. Coming out of district twelve she was considered the underdog because that district is very poor. She uses that motivation to prove that she is the true hero in The Hunger Games. After she won The Hunger Games she was considered, “a heroic figure…