Josie fights though the movie to be clear of her loser label and make it in with the cool crowd. This is a movie that portrays the all too common battle between the unpopular and popular kids. In this film the popular kids rule the school and contol the geeks that fill the halls. It teaches us the lesson that the main character Josie had to learn by going through school again: move on. In Never Been Kissed produced by 20th Century Fox and Drew Barrymore's production company, Flower Films , director Raja Gosnell attempts to show how to move on from labels and bullying by telling the story of a young girl who is struggled though high school and how those emotions held her back.
For the Hunger Games, the start of violence is when two people, a boy and a girl, gets selected, from each of the 12 districts, out of a box at the reaping to see who would join the Hunger Games that year. The Hunger Games is when 12 girls and 12 boys from all of the districts go into an arena to fight to their death. The two contestants train and try to gain sponsors. After training, they are sent into the Hunger Games to fight the battle between life and death. In this society, we never would have actual reality show where people would really die, but its basically what’s going on, people are acting as if it‘s a game.
My fingers trembled with fear as my stomach lurched from hunger, but that wasn’t a new feeling for us, the people in District twelve. It was the reaping today, which only means one thing, life or death. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts are made to provide one girl and one boy of the ages between twelve and eighteen. The twenty-four tributes are imprisoned in an arena and have to fight and kill each other to stay alive. My sister, Katniss, at the age of sixteen, her name will be in the reaping twenty times.
The games are televised, 24/7, to the public, and the tributes can vie for television sponsors to assist them in the game (by sending things to them such as food, weapons, or medicine). Katniss is a girl from District 12 that volunteers to replace her little sister. The storyline follow Katniss and her fellow district 12 tribute through the trials and tribulations the games bring, making her a heroine. The author, Suzanne Collins, used Greek mythology, the Roman gladiator games, and the current fascination with reality TV to come up with the idea for the book. In “A Conversation with Suzanne Collins”, Collins gives the following as influencing the storyline, in “the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur… Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to
The final step is the return back to the interpreted realm, bringing back the transformation of consciousness. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, An-mei’s mother suffers of rape, immediately causing herself to depart into a cruel world without her daughter, social acceptance, and a place to live. Forced to eventually care for An-mei as a fourth wife, An-mei’s mother realizes the poor conditions An-mei is set to grow up in, and kills herself to rid herself of her own weak spirit to make An-mei’s stronger. This action shocks Wu Tsing, into raising An-mei as if she were from his first wife, thus making An-mei a bold and confident child. Through challenges and trials that An-mei’s mother overcome for her daughter, she is granted with the qualities of a full-fledged hero from Campbell’s perspective.
Marjane grows up to become a "rebel" and, after a confrontation with one of her teachers, she is kicked out of school. Fearing that the country is no longer safe for their daughter, the Satrapis decide to send Marjane to Austria to attend a French school there. Marjane spends one last night in the arms of her grandmother who advises her not to carry resentment or hatred towards anyone. The next day, her parents take her to the airport. In her text, the author’s symbolic treatment of the veil can be examined on the basis of its suppression of woman’s’ freedom, religious control, and a forced adherence to Islamic law.
Competitors are forced to kill each other in order to survive and there may only be one winner. Katniss Everdeen is the tribute competing from District 12 after stepping in for her younger sister who was chosen to compete. She is then forced into the arena and forced to fight for her survival while everyone at home watches on their televisions. My favorite character is Haymitch , Haymitch is Katniss and Peeta's trainer. He competed in The Hunger Games before and barely won.
They do this by forcing each district to send a tribute; one boy and one girl from every district into the annual Hunger Game, in which they will fight until there is only a single winner left standing and it is all televised on live TV. In the Hunger Games, the psychological punishment in the dystopian society allows you as the reader to understand that contemporary issues like poverty, mistrust of one another, hunger, dehumanization, all being used by the government as weapons. The physical punishment is fear, as well as corporal punishment. Psychological Punishment: The first psychological punishment is poverty, in the Seam, Katniss is left to be the provider when her father is killed in the coal mines. She needs to keep her family alive; so she begins to hunt in the woods nearby.
Social Worker Involvement Name Class Professor Date Social Worker Involvement A social-worker requires to know about the history of the family dynamic life course that focuses on both unpredictable and predictable changes that can affect the behavior of the entire family across their life course. The dynamic life course focuses on all major stages of development from conception to adulthood that is late (Hutchison, 2003). For example, Kate had a disease that she got since her early childhood and it is threatening her life and her sister Anna has refused to offer her a kidney. The younger daughter who is known as Anna was a created in the lab. Anna has gone an extra mile to sue her parents for her rights.
The main character Katniss Everdeen lives with her mother and sister, Prim, she hunts everyday to provide food for her family who are very poor. Her father died when she was 11 in a mine explosion, this tore their family apart as he was the one who supplied them with money and food. Gale Hawthorne is Katniss’ best friend and her hunting buddy, everyday they hunt while talking about their families and life. Everything changes when Prim, Katniss’ younger sister is chosen to participate in the hunger games, Katniss, fearing for her younger sibling decides the take Prim’s place in the hunger games, meaning for her almost certain death. To her surprise the boy chosen from district 12 is Peeta Mellark, the baker’s son, he once gave her a loaf of bread when she was in a time of need, for that Katniss feels she owes him, and hates that feeling.