The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

In the movie and/or book The Hunger Games, the main character is Katniss Everdeen. In the movie, she is hunting in the woods right outside of district 12, the place where she was born and raised. When Effie Trinket comes to select a tribute for district 12, her little sister is chosen but she has the courage to volunteer for her instead. When it is time for them to go into the arena, she has to show physical strength because she has to be quick and run as fast as she can to get to the weapons and get away from the middle of the arena. She shows a-lot more physical strength when she kills people so they will not kill her. Then she shows some mental strength when she kills people or sees people get killed because it is hard to un-see things

It all starts when Katniss’s father dies in a mine explosion leaving Katniss alone with her mother who becomes depressed and young sister, Prim, by themselves. The death of her father force Katniss to become the family provider and her little sisters’ guardian. Thanks to the skills of hunting and foraging that her father had taught her before passing away, Katniss was able to provide food for her family and stay alive during the games. Some of the things she did to provide for her family were “stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet.” (19) In today’s

Economics is the study of scarcity within a systems of rules. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’ can be translated into such, with hunger being scarcity and games being a system of rules. In the Hunger Games, we are introduced to a country called Panem. The country of Panem is divided into twelve different districts and the Capitol, where the government resides. Each district has their own different specializations and they have distinctive economies. The government regulates the trade and each district rely on trade from each other district and the Capitol for the goods they don 't produce. All of the districts and the Capitol is interdependent.

In the book “The Hunger Games” and “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins Katniss Everdeen desperately fights for her life in the arena. She has been chosen as a tribute in the reaping day and promises her sister Primrose Everdeen and later on in part II Rue a district 11 girl who she was allies with. Katniss learns that she must be dependent on others to have a chance to win. The books give a great description with her relationship with Peeta, Rue, Haymitch, the tribute victors, and family and friends she loves. Katniss had to depend on other people for survival an example would be when she was trapped on a tree by the careers. This is where Rue points out the tracker jack nest. Katniss saws through the branch where it drops and she manages to

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo demonstrates the way in which people are affected by war, and a brutal dictatorship. The authors illustrates the main purpose for writing their novel through the use of imagery, characterization, foreshadowing, flashback, similes, and symbolism.

Katniss Everdeen is a teenage girl that lives in a district of basically coal mines. Her father died in a mining accident, so she has to provide for her mother and sister. Every year there is a Hunger Game where one boy and one girl from each district (state) are drawn to fight to the death. It is very brutal and only one tribute comes out alive. In this drawing, Katniss's sister gets drawn but Katniss volunteers instead because she knows her sister can’t win. This is proof of her mission, to protect her family. This is supported by “With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me”(Collins 25). In that situation, Katniss was putting her sister behind her to protect her. Katniss fought in The Hunger Games came out as “[...] the victors of the 74th Hunger Games[...]”(Collins 403) but with a few repercussions.

A place where anything can happen, waiting for you, ready to attack without making a sound and kill you. This will be the stomping grounds of the twenty-four tributes, which will battle to the end, until one tribute is alone standing to become the victor. In the novel The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins. Panem is described as having a cruel government. The Capital uses children from the ages of twelve through eighteen to battle to death. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old. She took the place of her sister Primrose as tribute to fight the bloody battle in hopes of winning and becoming the victor so she may return home to protect Prim from unseen mishaps. Katniss will have many challenges in her way, if she wants to win and come home to protect her family from starvation. She will have to work through her impulsive, mistrust, and self-doubt to stay alive and make victor.

Imagine living in an insufficient world controlled by the capitol, never knowing which breath will be your last. You are stuck fighting for your life, fighting for your family. Suzanne Collins’ dystopian story, The Hunger Games, takes place in Panem, a country with twelve districts. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, Katniss Everdeen, who lives in District 12 with her mother and younger sister Prim. Their family is very poor. They are going through extremely tough times. They are struggling to survive. To select the two tributes for each district who will participate in the games; a boy and a girl are selected at random. During the reaping of the 74th Hunger Games, Prim is selected to represent District 12 in the games, as the female tribute. However, Katniss volunteers to go in her place, saving her life. Katniss and Peeta, the District 12 tributes, travel to begin the start of a new life, or the end of their life all together. The Hunger Games have begun. Katniss reveals her true colors multiple times throughout the book. She is known as a reserved, well-mannered girl, however there are more sides to her than meets the eye. In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins uses multiple symbols to show Katniss’ multi-faceted personality.

People sometimes do something for someone out of culpability. Katniss pretends to be in love with Peeta, another person participating in the Hunger Games, so they can both stay alive, based on the law that there can be two victors if they are from the same district. She doesn't want him to stay in the arena, because she knows she would feel guilty for the rest of her life if she left him to die. “ ‘ You’re not going to die’ I tell him firmly.”(Suzanne Collins page 253). Katniss takes care of Peeta when he is sick and feels guilty that she can’t do more for him. She goes and gets him medicine risking herself of exposure to all the people in the arena who are trying to kill her. She also knows she owes him for when he took a beating for her so

Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel The Hunger Games, published in 2008, portrayed a post-apocalyptic Northern America, in the hedonistic nation of Panem. The Hunger Games were an annually televised event in which the governing body, “The Capitol”, appointed two tributes from each impoverished district. Twenty-four children were in opposition of each other and were forced to compete for their survival. The novel concentrated on the link between the contemporary society to an enhanced adapted dystopian nation. This was achieved by using allegory and opinionated descriptions of the identifiable problems of systems and ideas gone astray. Collins raised many questions in the concerning themes of The Hunger Games on the negative future development of Panem. This included capitalism resulting in income equality, questioning the humanity of the games and merging entertainment with sacrifice on reality TV. The Hunger Games, presented a variety of issues that were interpreted in various ways.

In the “Hunger Games”, citizens in thirteen districts are subordinates to the citizens of the capital. These subordinates were forced to work for the capital and were given no mercy — there were public beatings for crimes and even their kids were killed on a comical television show for the capital citizens. These ideas, which Suzanne Collins used in her book, can be traced to our own past. Similar to the forced labor and abuse the Capital imposed on the district members in the “Hunger Games”, blacks in early United States were treated very poorly. Ironically, many people living in the United States after the Revolutionary War were still oppressed, slavery still existed, and discrimination was prevalent. Slavery did get banned in the

In this book, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, both Gale and Peeta are a big part of Katniss’s life, but does not coexist well together in her thoughts. These two boys that grew up in the Seam of district 12 each have their own differences, but as the book draws to an end, they push their cons aside and ends up having many similarities to helping out Katniss to survive in the game. In addition, Gale and Peeta did have a signify for Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in a classic example of a dystopian Text as it is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through a bureaucratic, technological, or totalitarian control. Throughout the book their are many forms of powers from wealth, gender, the Capitol, and Peeta Mellark.

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, the main character Katniss is place to compete against twenty three other kids both boys and girls in order to survive. Katniss is a strong sixteen year old girl, who is far more mature than her age. Katniss is the provider in her family, which consist of herself, her mother and her little sister Prim. She is very protective over her sister and volunteers to take her place in the hunger games. Katniss is the person her family depends on for everything, but in a game like the hunger games, where life is at stake, and someone has to compete against others in order to survive, it is hard to survive without the help of others in some way. Katniss is able to survive the Hunger Games because of a

Suzanne Collins is an American author she is a television scriptwriter and a novelist. She was born in Hartford Connecticut, August 10, 1962. Her book genres are Fantasy Science fiction childrens literature and young adult fiction. Her greatest novel was The Hunger Games Mocking Jay.