Hunger Games Archetypes

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Archetypes such as the martyr give a clear depiction of which characters in a story have good values that the reader can agree with. In Arabian Nights and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Scheherazade and Katniss can both be displayed as a martyr due to their self sacrifice to save those they deem more important than themselves. In Arabian Nights, Scheherazade was preventing other women in her kingdom from being killed by their ruthless king, Sultan Schahriar. Schahriar would marry a different woman every evening and have them killed the next morning because he was so convinced all women were evil after discovering his first wife had cheated on him. Scheherazade volunteered to marry Schahriar and strategized on how to stay alive past one

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