Violence And Violence In Catching Fire By Suzanna Collins

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Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins begins a year after winning the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen and her partner, Peeta Mellark must go on what is known as the Victor's Tour to visit all twelve districts. Before leaving, Katniss is visited by President Snow who fears that Katniss defied him a year ago during the first time Katniss was in the games when she chose to die with Peeta. Because of this defiance and bravery that Katniss displaced, it began fueling uprising and many riots throughout several of the districts. Snow decides to introduce a Quarter Quell, the right to make a change to the Hunger Games, which he is allowed to do every 25 years. Katniss takes on the responsibility of being the symbol of hope to the districts but with this hope comes vengeance and vengeance leads to violent acts. The author of Catching Fire, Suzanna Collins, illustrates her book with an increase of violence and women heroes, which are all postmodern ideas.
Throughout Catching Fire, the reader sees many examples of an increase in violence. Collins doesn’t tell her reader she’s indicating violence; instead she invites the reader to feel the pain and emotion of the violent acts through hate, betrayal, fear, and despair that may be seen throughout the book. The reader’s blood will boil as Collins unreels the idea of Dominant Violence. The setting of Catching Fire is during the future of a postmodern city of America called Panem. Panem is the Capitol city which has absolute control over twelve Districts they violently subdue. Panem demands the yearly sacrifice from each of the twelve district of two innocent tributes that must fight to the death in a survival of the fittest like game called “The Hunger Games.” These teenage scapegoats keep the d...

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...en, many women would not be in a good paying job that they are in today (Ford 2).
Suzanna Collins, author of Catching Fire, portrays an increase in violence and women as heroes in her book, all of which are postmodern trends. Katniss represented many women in American society today; strong, independent, and educated. She is also a symbol of hope to the women on American society today. America is still growing to the idea of women being empowered and taking the place of men, but it is definitely something that is being practiced. In Catching Fire there was also an increase in violence shown throughout the book. An increase in violence is proved as a postmodern trend from the facts and watching the news daily. Violence in the real world is definitely not something that is praised, but still continues to rise till it reaches its climax like in the book Catching Fire.

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