Hunger Games Paper Do you like battles to the death, conflict, and survival abilities well? this story explains the hardships of emotions and how they can affect our perspective of the world, especially in difficult situations. The Hunger Games is just like this, it is a story where the main character lives in a poor, estate-based, dystopian economy, and each of the estates are called districts. The higher the number of districts is, the poorer it will be. The capital controls all of the districts, having President Snow as the leader. In this world, a character named Katniss gets forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, which is a fight to the death. During Katniss’s time in the Hunger Games, she overcame lots of emotions and hardships, …show more content…
Katniss proves that in rough situations, emotional responses are always key to analyzing our surroundings. Emotional responses are key to analyzing our surroundings because they help predict what the outcome of an important situation will be. Collins proves this statement by having Katniss say, “My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight to the Gamemakers’ table.” (Ch. 7. In this scenario, Katniss had her turn to show her skills to the judges in order to get her score. Whenever it was Katniss’s turn, all the judges were not paying attention so Katniss knew if she shot her arrow into what the game makers were focusing on she could get their attention. Therefore, this proves that Katniss used an emotional response to predict a better outcome for herself. The emotional characteristic, that is, prediction, is very strong and can overpower other emotions. These emotions can be portrayed as good or bad, but never neutral. Suzanne Collins uses these emotions very …show more content…
Assessing and reviewing a situation also plays a major part in analyzing your surroundings and emotional responses. Suzanne Collins really brought these situations to life and gave examples of them. A very intuitive example is when Katniss says “Peeta Mellark.” Peeta Mellark! Oh, no, I think. Not to mention him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner.” (Ch. 2 pg. of the. 26) When Katniss was thinking of this Peeta, Mallark was chosen out of the crowd for the reaping, while Katniss had already volunteered. She knew that name but couldn’t have thought why or how, but then it dawned upon her when she remembered how she knew that name. Katniss says this shows how our emotions can help us remember sudden things that we may have forgotten for many years. This quote can help us understand how the emotional response to remembering and reviewing memories can help us analyze our surroundings. This quote was not the only time these emotions were portrayed by Collins. Showing how these emotions can affect one’s ideas and thoughts is important. Another important quote that Katniss said was “In the text, Peeta said, “Even the plant instructor in the Training Center made a point of telling us to avoid berries unless you were 100 percent sure they weren’t toxic.”(Ch. 12 pg. of the. 165 ) At that moment Katniss was starving and needed food,
instances in ‘The Hunger Games’ of people sacrificing themselves or someone else. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book about Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers in place of her sister to compete in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death. After about a week in the arena, she falls in love with the other contestant from her home of District 12, Peeta Mellark. In the end, both end up winning, but not without Katniss now living under threat from the Capitol, who organizes the Games (more on that
than the movie. So who is right? In the case of The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, the book is truly better than its film adaptation. While the film is still amazing and gives a great summary of the book, the film does not portray the characters the way the book does. The film makes it seem like Katniss, the main character as is helpless and weak. On the other hand in the book, Katniss is brave, strong, talented, and caring. The Hunger Games takes place in a country called Panem. Panem is split
such a powerful force.” In The Hunger Games, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, has many strong characteristics, like her survival instincts. Because of these instincts she constantly protects and provides for the ones she cares for. In Suzanne Collins’ novel, The Hunger Games, the overarching theme is if people rely on their instincts they can survive anything, proven by Katniss Everdeen’s survival tactics before the Hunger Games, during the first few days of the Games, and after she finds another
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 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
In Suzanne Collins’ renowned young adult dystopian fiction trilogy The Hunger Games, The United States of America, now known as Panem, is divided into twelve districts, of various wealth, who send their children to fight each other every year in an event known as the Hunger Games. The twelve districts annually sacrifice their children for the stability of the nation, and also for glory and wealth for the victor of the Games. The sacrifices that each character in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”, a very well known quote from the book series The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Pg 19). The Hunger Games Trilogy written by Suzeanne Collins has become enormously popular. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay are the three works that make up the series. A major motion picture was released titled The Hunger Games, after the first book in the series, and it instantly became a box office hit. Those who have not read the books
Historical Background Suzanne Collins published Catching Fire in 2009. During that year the United States was at war with Iraq. The main cause of the war was the terrorist attack that occurred on September 11, 2001. There is however another reason for the war. George W. Bush wanted retribution for his father, George H. W. Bush. The President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate George H. W. Bush. Years later Bush’s son was elected as president and also held a personal vendetta against
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
oneself. In the novel, Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins trickery and deception play an integral role through the influences of media, the perception of others and through the power of the capital. Suzan Collins exposes the deceptive nature of media throughout the novel, The
Class Mobility: A Character Analysis of the Metaphor for Transformation in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Devil in A Blue Dress by Walter Mosley This literary analysis will define the metaphor for transformation and class mobility of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Devil in A Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. Easy is character working as a day laborer in Los Angeles that is asked to find a woman for a friend in Texas, This opportunity to
and noble aspirations and qualities. Suzanne Collins has written the dystopian novel The Hunger Games, which utilises a mammoth amount of heroic qualities, these being exhibited within the novel. Determination, commitment and the willingness to sacrifice her own life for another are the three main heroic qualities Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist plays a part in. These three heroic qualities have been displayed more than once throughout the novel. The Hunger Games is a novel based on many heroic qualities
both books, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are introduced as the main characters to project the criticisms made by the author. Susan Collins creates a Dystopian society ruled by the Capital. Different areas of their country, named Panem, are separated into different districts. Two kids from each of the twelve districts are chosen at random to fight in an arena until 1 tribute is left, this is called The Hunger Games Both Peeta and Katniss fight together during
Mitch Bartram Eng. 112 Bierman 9 March 2014 The Hunger Games Analyzed “The Hunger Games”, a cinematic phenomenon or an unexpressed representation of the new world order; the film implicitly impersonating the idea of governments controlling aspects of citizens’ lives bringing frustration to numerous countries, or in this case, “districts”. The story consists of characters who share real-life similarities with common people as well as some big names in our world’s history. Most of the population enjoyed
Fire” By Suzanne Collins Zoe Peters English B Honors 5/5/15 Catching Fire is a best-selling book written by Suzanne Collins. It is the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy. Catching Fire is an adventure story that leaves you on the edge of your seat at the end of each chapter. While Catching fire is much like the first book where 24 children are in a competition and are forced to fight to the death but it focuses more on the political involvement of the games as Katniss’ (protagonist)
Access to food draws a thin line between the privileged and the poor. In Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games, food has a massive impact on the different characters from the different locations. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist, lives in the poorest district in Panem – District 12. Each different district has a specialty that they use to provide for the Capitol; District 12’s specialty is coal mining. Author Despail explains the districts in a way that makes it easier to understand by stating