‘The Hunger Games’ is a written/extended text (novel) written by Suzanne Collins, which is a dystopian novel written in the voice of a 16 year-old, Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. The Capitol is a highly advanced metropolis, which has full authority and control of the entire nation that consists of 12 surrounding Districts. The Hunger Games itself, is an annual event where one by and one girl is selected as tributes from each of the 12 Districts to participate and compete in a televised battle till the death, where only the last one standing will be victorious. One of the key idea in the text reveals the inequalities between the rich and poor.…
Did you ever realize that the Hunger Games and Julius Caesar have a lot of similarities? Not just Julius Caesar, but also the whole Ancient Roman Empire itself. The Latin word “Panem”, the country the Hunger Games is located, means bread in English. To me, the Hunger Games is more of an advanced version with all of the same concepts of the former Ancient Roman Empire. There is an old Greek myth that exists where fourteen Athenian boys and girls are sent to Crete to fight for their lives to keep their city, like Katniss does to keep district twelve.…
Teen Dystopia by Sophie Boyer is an opinionated piece that explains the reason we are so attracted to novels such as The Hunger Games. A reason such a novel is so appealing is because of the action packed plot and powerful symbolism weaved throughout. A story set in future North America, where climate change has destroyed society is where teenagers participate in a gruesome fight to the death called the Hunger Games. That heady combination results to complex yet relatable characters and most of all, a meaningful story. Hence, that is the reason why Boyer regards The Hunger Games as a “well-constructed allegory that also reflects a more realistic portrayal of our world .” Personally, I also admire authors who can create an abstract world so flawlessly that they still remain relatable. Even though The Hunger Games takes place in a different time period; where the world is overly violent, it leads to a new social awareness. As Boyer pointed out, “this awareness leads to a more tragic understanding of the world, but never without the hope of a better future.” When I read The Hunger Games it felt like it was situated in a world so seemingly different from ours, that I didn’t realise until the end, that it is based on a bit of reality. The Hunger Games highlights social issues of poverty, devaluing human life, and classism to make us aware that it still exists in the world, our world. Overall, The Hunger Games is a book that reveals the depressing reality of some places in the world, yet Boyer and I believe that The Hunger Games sends a good message to us readers: to live life to the fullest and never take life for granted.…
Summary: President Snow finds out that Katniss never really loved peeta, and her stunt with the berries was just an act of rebellian, not because she loved Peeta. Snow tells Katniss that she needs to convince him as well as the city of Panem, that her and Peeta are really in love, or else Gale, her best friend, and his family will pay for it. Peeta proposes to her while they are on a victory tour and Snow says it still isn't enough. Katniss is relieved by this becuase she no longer has to pretend like she loves Peeta. She comes up with a plan to take all her close family and friends and run away into the woods. Gale and Katniss meet up in the woods to talk about her plan, and while they are out there, they kiss. Some how president Snow gets video footage of it and now he not only knows that she does't really love Peeta, but that she also goes in the woods illegally. Gale decides he doesn't want to run away with her and he would rather stay and fight the capitol along with all the other districs.…
Albania. America. The names sound so similar, yet the differences between these two countries could hardly get any larger! Hanke Cakoni, the Albanian stay-at-home mom and caregiver, is incredibly different from Tina Lorance, the American teacher who tells you to shut up, grin, and bear it.…
The Hunger Games is a novel about the "haves" and the "have nots -that is, the people who have money and the people who have money and the people who dont. The capitol has many of it. while the capitol is weathier than other districts, some of the districts have advantages than others. For example they can train there own people to get read and do well int he Hunger Games- a competiton they see as a ay to gain glory and fame. How about the poor districts? Well, they dont have much of an advantage there. District 12, Katniss's District, is an coal minning region that never stands a chance in the games. They view the games as a punishment that must be edured- Something that robs them of their children and family.…
There are many similarities and differences between the book and the film version of The Hunger Games.…
Topic1: From the very beginning katniss is viewed as a controversial character by the Gamemakers. What made her such a controversial character?…
Katniss Everdeen volunteering in Prim’s place as tribute and deciding to fight against the injustice of the Games…
While the circumstances of The Hunger Games novel are viewed as extreme, many have noted that the novels are more similar to “the real world” than we would like to think. While today’s generation is not forced to fight to the death, many can relate to the theme of survival. “The hunger and starvation experienced by the districts can relate to issues in the United States by comparing the Capitol’s wastefulness to that of the U.S. population” (Simmons). Despite being a work of dystopian fiction, the issues of class inequality and the struggle to survive are extremely relevant to today’s society, and the parallels between such a harsh world of fiction and the one that we live in today has contributed to the mass popularity of the…
The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins, which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. Some over arching themes in the book is politics and an overbearing government. This can be seen through the social hierarchy that the…
In The Hunger Games, the rich individuals are part of the Capitol along with the president, while the poor live within the twelve districts. The dictatorship of the Capitol holds total political and economic dominance over Panem and enforces power and rule through The Hunger Games to remind citizens living in the districts, who is in charge. The main conflict within this utopian society is the way the government known as the Capitol has total control over everyone living in the district. The rich do not work for anything, but the poor work everyday in order to provide natural resources for the Capitol. The Capitol is completely unconcerned with the districts desperation. In order for the population to remain in control, punishment and of course the famous Hunger Games is used to remind the districts who has the power of life and death for some. Control over the districts is important for the Capitol because they do not wish to have another rebellion by any of the districts. The authoritarian government does not allow citizens of the Capitol to become tributes for the Hunger Games because the intention of the games is to punish the remaining twelve districts for the rebellion. This brings up another conflict because in order for the Capitol to be happy, people must fight for their lives as a form of punishment. The Hunger Games are not only used for punishment but also for entertainment. The Capitol uses the districts as a source of entertainment like a sporting event where there must be a winner. The districts mostly loose there identities as people and become object for Capitol enlightenment. This demonstrates the true colors of the dystopian society because it is nothing but flawed and unfair. Also, interaction between districts is illegal. The Hunger games between each of the districts does not really encourage people to interact because they must fight against each other for their…
A Dystopian society is depicted as a vision of society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution, and the abridgement of human rights – which all result in widespread unhappiness and suffering. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Michael Radford 's film 1984 of George Orwell both incorporate such dystopian societies expressed through themes of power, versions of reality, oppression and rebellion.…
The Hunger Games and The Lottery have many similarities and differences in terms of the dystopian society that is portrayed in each selection. The main event that happens in each story portrays the dystopian societies that they both contain in a few different ways, as well as a similar one. The purpose of the event in The Hunger Games and The Lottery is extremely different from each other. The hierarchy within each dystopian society also has some similarities and contrasts. Each of these stories has many characteristics that are alike and not alike in terms of the dystopian society that is portrayed in each.…
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) focuses on the main character Katniss and her journey to revolt against the corrupt power system of her government the capitol. The ‘Hunger Games’ is a way of controlling those in the capitols power. Comparison “All I can think is how unjust the whole thing is, the Hunger Games. Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?” communicates how Katniss feels the Capitol is corrupt and there ‘hunger games’ is a way to exert there power over those they control. Like Katnisse’s viewpoint “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy” reveals how those oppressed by the capitols power realise that their lives are controlled by the capitol and they have no option…