Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth both took up the challenge of writing some pretty heavy stuff for young readers and still managed to get their messages across. With both stories being set in post-apocalyptic dystopian societies, the Hunger Games and Divergent book series’ seem to agree that there are major issues with the world that are leading to its destruction, but they see two different roots of the problem. On one hand, the Hunger Games attacks the more wealthy population and large government and on the other, while Divergent does put some blame on the government, it mostly blames human error and flawed personalities. Although the people these books were intended for may not understand all of the hidden meanings, the general ideas will still stick in their heads and they will eventually understand it and what these stories are accusing the human race of doing wrong. In the Hunger Games, Collins is clearly pointing out that the main problems of society is government, specifically big government.
The tributes had to fight to the death in an outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one of them remained. The Hunger Games’ role in Panem was part of a bigger initiative conducted by the Capitol. The Capitol had surveillance in all of the Districts, controlled the media in order to deliver their own message, kept technology out of the hands of most in the Districts, used an overwhelming military presence in nearly all the Districts, and, of course, masterminded the Hunger Games every year. The Capitol used these tactics and others in order “win the hearts and minds” of the citizens throughout Panem. The Hunger Games was a very big part of the strategy that the Capitol used to maintain control, but was also where it used its technology and the media to demonstrate its power.
Throughout A Lesson Before Dying, Grant learns about judging of others when he is faced with the problem of helping Jefferson die like a man. In the beginning of the novel, Jefferson’s attorney dehumanizes him in hopes to prove his innocence. “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair at this” (Gaines, 8).
Later in the film Andy takes a young prisoner named Tommy under his wing and finds that Tommy’s old inmate was the real murderer. Andy explains it all to the Warden and he finds it to be a very thrilling fictional story that Tommy cultivated to entertain Andy. Andy had a secretive plan up his sleeve to save him from all those years of misery and gets revenge on the Warden for being such a hypocrite and “obtuse”. As we watch this
She needs to keep her family alive; so she begins to hunt in the woods nearby. “Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties...” (Collins 5) Katniss knows she has to get food for her family to survive. Another way the Capitol keeps them in poverty is the mistrust of one to another. In the Seam the citizens distrust the merchants. They dislike that they have fewer entries into the reaping.
When Doña Josefa became sick because of malnutrition, Paulita decided to share her food with her and the governor, who wanted to know where she had gotten it from. She told the governor that the clay figure, whom she called Ekheko, had the power to make food appear when needed, she did not want to put Isidro at risk of being caught and tortured. The whole house survived
A. Protagonist (main character) 1. Personality & Attitude: Katniss is hardworking and determined to keep food on the table for her family by hunting in the woods. 2. Values & Beliefs: Katniss just wants to be herself. Katniss hates the Capitol because they control the kids and adults of all the Districts.
There are two narratives in this novel, one of them from Links perspective and the other from shelters point of view, which are both told in the first person. The two narratives come together at the end of this novel. Were there is a gripping moment when shelter tries to kill Link and will anyone come in on time before Shelter kills again. ‘Stone cold’ by Robert Swindells is a book about a young boy from Bradford called Link who runs away from home because his step farther, Vince is a drunk and tried it on with links sister Carol. So Link leaves for London to live on the street.
In this scene, Jess makes an important goal making her team win and she is the big star. However, during the interview her mother appears and is scolding her for “showing her bare legs” and says that she should be at home learning how to cook, not around a bunch of boys playing soccer. It then cuts back into reality and her mother scolds her for watching the “skin-headed boy” instead of helping with her sister’s wedding. This shows that Jess's hobby is not the usual hobby, the usual hobby being,
The courage to suffer during difficulty that brings James up is from the exemplar of his mother. They walk a long way trying to find a right café to sit in and to get some food during the dentist’s break time. Little James does not say any complains at all; instead, he behaves himself to be as strong as his mother. “We walk and walk, and no more time at all I’m cold again…. My stomach growls and I suck it in to keep Mama from hearing it…But Mama don’t say a word.” (paragraph 9).