Imagine if innocent children were sent to a death fight yearly and their their villages had to watch, well that is what happens in the Hunger Games. In Suzanne Collins novel, The Hunger Games, the main character, Katniss Everdeen goes on a Journey to stay alive and humanity back. The Hunger Games is a result of a fight that happened decades before which the outcome is that the victors formed the capital along with yearly massacre. Though the brutal slaughter continues Katniss Everdeen manages to bring humanity back to the games. Katniss Everdeen’s voyage of adapting to her new world follows along with Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey describing the stages of growth she endures. The departure occurs when Katniss is forced to leave all she knows behind by traveling to the capital. While she …show more content…
Peeta Mellark is the boy sacrifice with Katniss at the Games and he says “‘... I’ve had a crush on her since I can remember.” … she came here with me.”’ (130) which makes Katniss confused about him, causing inner turmoil. This causes Katniss to not want to kill him and instead want to save him if he’s in need which can be dangerous to her life. She is running away from a wall of fire and gets burned by a fireball; “I almost faint at the sight of my calf. The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters.” (179) The wall of fire meant she was too far from other tributes and gets pushed towards them. Receiving this injury isn’t life threatening, but is a major handicap and could lose her the game. Rue is in trouble and Katniss witness’ her attack “ … the spear enters her body … My arrow dives deeply into the center of his neck.” (233) Rue is a twelve year old in the games who for the time being allies with Katniss. It was also the first time she killed a person flat out, but she had no hesitation. After the many obstacles faced Katniss must face her confusion and return
Katniss then goes through an interview with the host Caesar Flickerman. Where with help from her stylist and escort, appears gorgeous and stunning. However, Katniss owes the success to a plan organised by her mentor and Peeta, Katniss’ ordinary person type companion. Peeta admits to Caesar that he loves Katniss, who is unaware the plot and stands surprised, to make the two seem more desirable. Katniss then pretends to be in love with Peeta to earn favours from the sponsors. As a result, the star-crossed lovers receive many sponsorships. Thus, this scene represents a part of the “Road of
When her and her ally and love interest Peeta reach the center of the Arena in which they are fighting for their lives, they not only run into their biggest rival – another boy named Cato who had been set up throughout as a villain – but also the murderous creations of the those who put them there. It is a gruesome fight that results in Cato’s horrifying death, and the survival of Peeta and Katniss, but only one of them can live. This ultimatum drives Katniss to take a calculated risk: if both of them die, the Capitol has no winner, and the games must always provide a glimmer of hope for effective control, thus if they threaten suicide, they can both get out alive. It works, and they are delivered from the belly of the
Summary: The Mockingjay is the third book in the Hunger Games series and is the final book to the series. In this book, Katniss Everdeen and her family and friends start to live in a strict new world now as District Thirteen. There were thirteen districts at first and then a war between District Thirteen and the Capitol began. The Capitol lost and they came to an agreement that District Thirteen would act as if they had lost but in exchange got their own land. After District Thirteen stole Katniss from the 75th Hunger Games arena the Capitol bombed Katniss’s district and they had to move to District Thirteen and begin a new life under tight lockdown of the district in fear of attack. Katniss is asked to pose as the Mockingjay which is the face of the rebellion. In exchange for her work she asked for some of her friends in the Capitol to be granted immunity from the war crimes that all people in the Capitol will face. After Katniss poses as the Mockingjay she then leads all of the twelve districts into rebellion. The only city left is the Capitol, in the center of the country. She is led into urban warfare in the Capitol and Finnick (one of the previous Hunger Games members) is killed. After she reaches the president’s mansion she sees a hovercraft approach and drop care packages to kids that are actually bombs and Katniss’s sister, Prim dies in the explosion while helping the children. Once they captured the president they begin to film Katniss killing the president, but instead kills the president District Thirteen because she dropped the bombs on the children while killing her sister. After she kills President Coin the late leader of District Thirteen she is relocated to the ruins of District twelve and Peeta (her husband) is th...
In the novel Hunger Game, author Suzanne Collins narrates a girl name Katniss Everdeen who voluntarily replaces her younger sister, Prime, to be one of the tribute to participate in the hunger game. She is the family’s backbone after her father died in the mine accident and then the district only gives them a little compensation which it’s not enough for her family’s living. Soon, they run out of money and suffer from hunger. They live in the District 12 where it’s a poor and food shortage region. People often suffer from hunger and Katniss is of no exception. In one section of the story, Katniss could not trade old baby clothes for food or find food from trash bins. She is extremely hungry, until she passes by a bakery:
Suzanne Collins has, through her writings, used great imagery to expose the meaningful side of ‘The Hunger Games’, the side that is not all about what takes place in the arena. The Capitol’s rule over the districts, the reality-show part of the Hunger Games and the Mockingjay pin are all fragments of deeper meanings that create the basis of all that the story is. Suzanne Collins has depicted the country of Panem as a place overruled by a large city, known as the Capitol. The Hunger Games is apparently a means to keep peace and a fair punishment for the rebellion of the districts, where district 13 was obliterated in the mess. However, Collins has spun this interpretation around and unveiled a different perspective – that The Hunger Games is
Entertainment can come and be enjoyed in many different forms. Television shows and movies are some of the different forms of entertainment can be in. The lives of famous actors from shows or movies are constantly scrutinized on and off screen. Within the world of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins a version of reality entertainment is the televised murder of innocent children. Those who are chosen to be within the Hunger Games become a scrutinized celebrity. Katniss and other tributes that are forced to fight and kill show how human identity can become lost as they become objectified for the people of Panem. The Hunger Games helps represent the harm that reality television can have by using the glorification of death with the objectification
The Hunger Games was a good movie when it came out. This movie refers to a dystopia world in which there are 12 districts and a capitol who rules with an iron fist, in which the districts must provide a tribute to fight in an annual Hunger Game as a punishment for a past rebellion. Katniss Everdeen is a hunter from the 12th district, which Gale, her friend gives her tips on hunting. One day her sister, Primrose Everdeen, is chosen for the Hunger Games, and in order to save her, she volunteers instead to serve in the Games along with Peeta Mellark. During a TV interview, Peeta confesses her love for Katniss Everdeen, which causes the enragement of the latter; however, she later forgives him as he explains to her that it was only to gain sponsors. During the Hunger Games, she did not receive a lot of supplies except some medicine to cure a wound, but Districts 1 and 2 almost won the Game due to their training, and amount of supplies which Katniss destroys but cannot recover any of them. The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I ever watched because it has a little bit of everything and it captures the real-life survival game that we live on a daily basis.
In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins a new country is created. Panem is born in place of North America, were the Hunger Games began. In the Hunger Games, there are 24 tributes. Tributes are people who live in the districts. The tributes in the Hunger Games are all the same. They kill one another and become the Capitols puppets. The tributes become violent, emotionless puppets. Then there is Katniss. Katniss is an excellent hunter and becomes lethal during the games. However, she has not lost her compassion. Katniss does not think of herself as a good person. When in reality she is a good person with a large heart, who puts others before herself.
Katniss and her fellow member of District 12, Peeta, make it to the final two tributes remaining. They are encouraged to kill each other, but refuse to do so out of love. Katniss and Peeta agreed to commit suicide together to disobey the rules of the Capitol. This is the nadir, or low point, of Katniss Everdeen. She has been left no option but to kill herself along with her partner. This is where her powerful resurrection takes place. Just before ending their lives, they are stopped by one of the creators of the Hunger Games arena. It is then announced that under the circumstances, they would allow both Peeta and Katniss to be victors of the Hunger Games. This gives a very large sense of relief, and both Peeta and Katniss emerge
In a not-too-distant, some 74 years, into the future the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 13 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; these children are referred to as tributes (Collins, 2008). The Games are meant to be viewed as entertainment, but every citizen knows their purpose, as brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts. The televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eradicate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. The main character throughout the series is a 16-year-old girl from District 12 named Katniss Everdeen.
In the book The Hunger Games, The main character Katniss, who was from the poor district of district 12, is forced to go into an arena and battle 2 tributes from each of the districts to the death. Throughout the book she constantly has to overcome obstacles. She grew up in a single parent household with her mom and her sister. She is the one who has to put food on the table for the family, so there is a lot of pressure on her even when she was at home. However, Katniss is a born fighter and will do anything in order to keep herself and her family alive.
The Hunger Games- “a futuristic dystopian society [Panem] where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts” (The Hunger Games). The overpowering government lives in the Capitol of Panem and from there controls the citizens of the twelve districts through propaganda and other means. The Capitol has all of the economic and political power in Panem; they have complete control. The leader of the capitol is the harsh, dictator-like figure, President Snow. President Snow’s methods for keeping order in the districts are through Peacekeepers and the annual Hunger Games. The Peacekeepers are an army that monitors each district. Any sign of rebellion, and the Peacekeepers take care of it, usually by killing the rebel in some way. The annual Hunger Games are used to remind all of the citizens of Panem about the uprising in the now obliterated District 13. The Hunger Games, in a way, brainwashes all of the citizens, but a select few such as Katniss Everdeen, to believe that an uprising would be horrible and is not necessary and that the Capitol does what is best for all of the citizens. In
Traits Katniss Everdeen is very determined. If she wants to do something, she tries until she achieves it. This is proved when Katniss wins the Hunger Games after she is told that she should try to win, by Prim, her sister and throughout the games she remembers these words and kind of uses them as her guide. She is also very strong in both mental and physical ways. Her worst character trait is that she lets kind people root into her, so if someone pretends to be kind she will let them root in which means she lets them know about her and becomes easygoing with them.
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor” (Collins 19). Those were some of the last words Katniss heard before her sister’s name was called out for the seventy-fourth Hunger Games. Without thinking about anyone else, Katniss bravely accepted her sister’s spot in the games, a basic suicide mission. Katniss Everdeen had a vibrant personality, she was bold, intelligent, and a loving person. Her country, Panem, was controlled by President Snow, who let his country suffer in poverty. The capital was harsh and forces every district to send one boy and one girl to take part in the yearly Hunger Games. While a Disney Princess would yell for her
The main character, Katniss, volunteers as tribute for her district to save her sister from having to be tribute. Upon arriving in the Capitol for the games, she sees just how vast the gap between the Capitol and districts are. To fight against this class struggle, she begins to revolt. At first this comes in the form of small things, like shooting an arrow at a pig feast of Capitol higher-ups and refusing to kill her friend in the games, resulting in the first ever co-victors of the Hunger Games. Katniss’ actions soon lead to full blown rebellion in the districts, starting a revolutionary war between them and the Capitol. At one point Katniss remarks: “My ongoing struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side.” (Catching Fire 90). In true Marxist fashion the working class needed to use a violent revolution to confront the class struggle against the ruling