The Hunger

youngest sister taking her own life by jumping out of the second story window and impaling herself on the edge of a fence post. The guys on the block share their memories of the Lisbon sisters and their suicide attempts after they became adults. “The Hunger Games,” is a movie series that has four films currently. This science fiction trilogy talks about the twelve districts that are forced to fight to the death. Reason behind this punishment is because of a past rebellion.…

The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner are two best-selling novels that both embrace the latest craze of young adult dystopian literature. Both novels encompass the genre of science fiction and accentuate the main theme of sacrifice, although the authors portray the themes in different ways. In addition, the main character in the Hunger Games, Katniss and the main character in The Maze Runner, Thomas are both impelled to fight for their lives in artificial worlds which serves as the main conflict…

Day 27: I am reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. We are introduced to the main character Katniss Everdeen, she is a part of District 12 who lives with her mother and little sister, Primrose Everdeen. She goes outside to meet her friend Gale, they both go to the reaping, which is the ceremony where they take your name out to participate in the Games. When it was time to pick the names out of the bowl to see one girl and guy from District 12 gets to participate in the Games, Prim’s name…

as plot, character portrayal, setting, symbolism, motifs, and tone. The theme dictates the overall moral of a story, and rely upon the reader’s ability to extract information about the characters, action, and setting presented by it’s author.“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien are two fitting examples of this. Both of these stories share a similar theme. This theme centers around survival, as well as the suffering caused by both physical and…

Katniss Everdeen is a character in the book of, “The Hunger Games.” The role she plays throughout the book has made me admire her. She is a humble girl. If anything everyone should value her and show respect. Katniss is a girl of strength who comes from a poor family. On her free time she huts to provide for the family and others as well. Miss Everdeen’s father died years ago leaving her in charge. Prim is Katniss’s younger sister who was elected for the games but Katniss volunteers as tribute…

change our own” (Condie). The post-apocalyptic, totalitarian nation of Panem in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is one such future world. This novel follows the story of a girl named Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is a female tribute for the Hunger Games, which is an annual death-match between twenty-four tributes. This brutal fight is televised as a reality show and requires viewing from every citizen of Panem. The Hunger Games only end when one final tribute stands and the other twenty-three…

thing to assure. It is never an easy thing to do, especially when death is staring you straight in the face. The two stories, “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins and “Knifepoint,” by Alex Van Tol, both dedicate themselves to being about surviving some treacherous events in a young female’s life. Katniss, the young lead female role in the story “The Hunger Games,” is entered into the games, which is a battle to death among oneself and 23 other tributes, including one other tribute…

After reading and watching the movie of hunger games,The movie and book had many similarities and differences that changes the story.Here are some differences and similarites. Here are some similaris first off Peeta likes Katniss and Katniss like Peeta too.This is a quote in both the book and movie When Katniss told prim to ‘Tuck that tail in little duck’.Some more things from the story and movie is that Peeta and Katniss scores from the district and get very happy because they scored.Then…

concepts are portrayed throughout many films of the American culture today, as they may be analyzed to view social theories that are included in them as the societies in the movie comes to a common goal. Many theories can be seen in the movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire exceptionally clear in many ways as the whole society lives with scarce supplies as the government lives in supreme wealth and comfort. Specifically the sociological theory of conflict can be viewed as the plot line of the…

The scoring for The Hunger Games is the time where the participants show off what they can do, in order to try to impress the judges, or the sponsors. One participant, Katniss Everdeen, shows up for the scoring. She uses the bow and arrow to impress the judges, but on her first shot, she misses the target completely. She is very mad, and the judges are all laughing at her and they stop paying attention to her. She then shoots again and hits the target directly in the middle, but no one is…