The Hunger Games is a story of a post-apocalyptic America divided into 12 districts. As punishment for a past revolution, two teenagers are chosen from each district to participate in a fight to the death. The main character, Katniss Everdeen, chooses to take her sister’s place in the games and embarks on an experience she could have never prepared for. However, under all the fighting and bloodshed, The Hunger Games has a deeper meaning of a people’s struggle living under an oppressor. By comparing scene portrayal, and the demise of characters, it is clear to see that the book, The Hunger Games, surpasses the movie.
There are many examples of how the Capitol controls the people of Panem such as the Hunger Games, Reality TV, and control of food. The Hunger Game is where children are forced to fight to death in the arena for entertainment. One girl and one boy aged 12-18 are chosen from each of the 12 districts. Katniss the protagonist of the novel sacrifices herself and volunteers for her sister who was picked as tribute at only the age of 12. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do.
It's easy for a parent to blame little Johny's behavior on that violent television show, but is that really the issue? You have to observe the issues he is surrounded by and how he grew up. If he is growing up in a bad neighborhood with violence all around him, and say his brother is in a gang. Though it could be a contributing factor, is it really television's fault? Mother Jones says that since children will see, on average, 200,000 acts of violence on televsion before they are 18 it must be television's fault.
In The Hunger Games it tells a story about a girl Katniss and she has to goes through, in which a way she just has to discover herself, also to show that the government has control, they hold a competition in which children compete against each other, and only one victor comes out. The reason the government does all of this is because they want to show the people that they have control over them, and they can’t do anything about it. Collins has created an outstanding novel, which also received an award for one of the best books of the year. Her purpose for writing this book was to diffuse
Charles Dickens Research Essay Charles Dickens, the well known author was born in Portsmouth England on February 7th 1812. He was a part of a middle class family and the second of eight siblings. To cut expenses his family moved to a smaller home in Chanthan at around the time he was four months because his family got too large. Mary Weller was an early influence on Charles since she was hired to care for all the Dickens children. At the age of twelve Charles’s mother took him out of school so he could work while his father was in jail for failure to pay debt.
Rash Paper We started off the new quarter reading a book called Rash by Pete Hautman. This book is about a boy named Bo in the future United Safer States of America. The book goes through the events of how Bo gets in trouble with the very controlling government and how he is sent to labor prison for doing crimes that are considered being just plain mean today. Rash is similar to the book The Hunger Games by Suzaane Collins, though they have their differences too. Rash is very similar to The Hunger Games.
Mackay Dunn 5th Period Hunger Games Activity #1 Q: What information did you need to know before reading the novel? A: This novel is set in a futuristic time period but still in the continent of North America. There was a revolution against the Capitol, which the capitol won, that ended up in the creation of districts. There are twelve districts in the country of Panem and they all specialize in different areas of expertise, for example district twelve specializes in coal mining while district eleven specializes in agriculture. The Capitol has substantial power over the districts and each year to remind the country of that they have a lottery, every boy and girl from the ages of 12-18 must enter this lottery and the winner of the lottery
The book “The Hunger Games” is about a society in which the citizens are sectioned off into 12 districts. The capitol does all they can to control them and one of the primary methods is the hunger games. In the hunger games the capitol annually enters all the children’s names ages 12-18 into a lottery, where one girl and one boy will be randomly selected to compete. The ones that are chosen will have to battle against each other till the death in treacherous conditions while the whole country of Panem watches on television. In the book the characters were revolutionary and took risk, they didn’t let the capitol (no matter how much they attempted to) control their every thought and action and sometimes stood up for what they believed was the
In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008), although the totalitarian government is initially successful at controlling the heroin’s life, as Katniss’s perilous journey of survival and self-discovery progresses, her actions become deliberately rebellious and damaging to the Capitol, as she seeks to resist its power. Thus hope transpires from seemingly indomitable circumstances, in true to form Young Adult Dystopian fashion. As the book starts, Katniss introduces us to her life in District 12, an existence heavily regulated by the Capitol. The storyline instantly immerses the reader in Katniss’s world and perspective through its use of the first-person voice and present tense. We discover a protagonist who, although deeply aware of injustices, is too conscious of her family’s safety to openly speak her mind: “Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble.”(p. 7).
For example, in Guy’s society, if a person is caught owning a book, that person’s book and house will be burned. Another example is that people must drive a certain speed in a car or they will be arrested. In The Hunger Games, citizens are not allowed to leave the boundaries of District 12. Also, each year, one boy and one girl are chosen to participate in the Hunger Games, which is a competition where children fight to the death. While there are many similarities between the two novels, there are also many differences.