Most of the people today can hardly imagine the hardships and sacrifices that peoples have to make during a war. It is said that true victory requires sacrifice and ideally one would believe that this is true. Throughout the novels Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the authors express their viewpoints on war and how it has both a physical and psychological effect on one’s actions and motives. It is clearly expressed in both novels that a war damages one’s behaviour by igniting different emotions such as anger and as well as nervousness that everything that surrounds a person is wanting to kill them. Both Collins and Boyden express the hardships that one faces through war in the characterization of Katniss …show more content…
In this novel, the Capitol started the Hunger Games to remind the citizens that rebellion will not be tolerated and without them the Capitol would have no control over the 12 Districts and the population within them. As the population of Panem is in its all-time high, it is decreed that every year one man and woman will represent their district in the Hunger Games to fight to the death and the one winner of the games will be wealthy and famous. Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 volunteers for her sister Primrose Everdeen because she loves her and that she would certainly die in the arena. “I protect Prim in every way I can, but I’m powerless against the reaping. The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face. “(Collins 16). This quote signifies that Katniss shows compassion and nobility by giving her sister a fighting chance to live and survive and that she couldn’t see her sister in pain. Also, Katniss feels that the Capitol showcases the games each year as a source of entertainment because people in the Capitol are wealthy and do not need to worry about competing in the Hunger Games and Katniss is furious that the Capitol tears her apart from a normal life and from her family. During …show more content…
Three Day Road takes place in the uphold of World War 1, where they are many battles that Xavier Bird has to take part in that creates more experiences for him to share with Niska, his aunt. Xavier Bird, a prestigious sniper in World War 1, who was abandoned by his mother. Xavier and his best friend Elijah took part in World War 1. Before the war, Xavier was an Aboriginal boy who was discriminated in Ontario, Canada. He was forced to attend a residential because of control from the Europeans. Just like how Katniss was forced to enter the games, Xavier was forced to attend a residential school and suffer from racial slurs and discrimination. Because of all the slurs, he knew he wasn’t going to be suffering for the rest of his life so he decided to go into the military, hoping to escape all the racism in his community. Xavier suffers from discrimination in the military and he doesn’t have good English so he’s always left out in conversation. Xavier has excellent accuracy when it comes to sniping, but Elijah always takes the credit which results in Xavier being excluded even more in conversation. The sacrifices that Xavier Bird made in the wars was for one he starts his addiction to morphine, which represents the downfall of Xavier and he took morphine to wipe away all the pain and sorrow that wars takes on a person. “I figure its safe enough to light a
Katniss volunteering for the hunger games to take her sister prim's place because prim is just a child in katniss’s eyes. The hunger game arena could Be identified with a maze. Peeta the other tribute for District 12 had fallen in love with Katniss before the reaping. Because of her uniqueness the crowd
The movie The Hunger Games, originally based on a book by Suzanne Collins, is about a place called Panem, which is ruled by the Capitol and has 12 districts within it. These 12 districts are separated founded on their economic statuses, meaning the higher the district, the more impoverished the residents are. There are 2 tributes that are chosen to participate, forcibly, in The Hunger Games each year. Each competitor is instructed to eliminate one another in order to survive and come out on top. There is only one tribute allowed to come out of the arena alive. Katniss lives in District 12, which is the most impoverished district of them all, and she volunteers as tribute in “the Reaping” when her sister is chosen to participate. She and the other tribute from her district, Peeta, make it into the arena with the hopes that one of them comes out the winner and above all else, alive (Ross, 2012). I will refrain from going any further just in case you have not read the book or have not seen the movie. In terms of soci...
Katniss volunteered because her sister’s name was randomly chosen on the day of the reaping, the day each year when one known as a tribute is chosen for the Hunger Games. Prim was the minimum age of 12 when she was picked. The author, Suzanna Collins, states “… in District 12 … the word tribute is pretty much synonymous in the word corpse” (Collins 22). Katniss wanted to spare her sister’s life. “Prim … is the only person in the world I’m certain I love” (Collins 10). In the end Katniss not only survives the Hunger Games, but helps her teammate, Peeta Mellark, survive as well. Katniss was motivated to survive because she wanted to get home. “The train begins moving and we’re plunged into night until we clear the tunnel and I take my first free breath since the reaping … I begin to think of home. Of Prim and my mother … I begin transforming back into myself. Katniss Everdeen” (Collins
As can be seen, Paul Boyer, Tim O’Brien, and Kenneth W. Bagby, convey the notion that war affects the one’s self the most. Through the use of literary devices: tone, mood, pathos, and imagery, these 3 authors portray that war affects a person’s self most of all. War is not only a battle between two opposing sides, but it can also be a mental conflict created within a person. Although war is able to have an effect on physical relationships between family, friends, or even society, conflict within oneself is the most inevitable battle one must face during war times.
Collins has embedded a very strong moral behind her writings, which she has made quite clear through the morals of Panem and its Capitol. The Hunger Games could be described as a massive, national television show with a little – well, big – twist. Like reality television in our day and age, it is extremely popular with plenty of drama; except, perhaps the drama is a little too dramatic, involving the brutal murder of tributes and the literal back-stabbing of fellow ‘allies’. Essentially, the Hunger Games is a large sport and source of entertainment, where the tributes must face atrocious perils such as fireballs, mutated, dogs, along with tracker-jackers – wasps genetically modified to create hallucinations and kill with merely a few painful stings. Although this is a bit too extreme for our reality television, there are still many similarities.
The contest within The Hunger Games is rooted deep in the film's backstory, in which the nation of Panem was rocked by a civil war. Twelve oppressed Districts rose up against an oppressive Capitol, and the end result of this civil war was a Capitol victory (Hunger Games). In response to the rebellion of its outer provinces, the government of Panem decreed the creation of the Hunger Games, in which each District would send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to fight in a battle to the death, until only one Victor emerged supreme, who would then, “be showered with glory”, by the Capitol, in order to show the mercy and ...
The Hunger Games do not provide a realistic glimpse into the lives of the tributes. The Capitol takes great pride with appearances and fashion, and this is reflected through the tributes. Every year the tributes are groomed and pampered by the Capitol’s chosen stylists for the Games in order for the tributes to be admired by the people of Panem before entering the arena. Katniss acknowledges this when she says, “What do these people do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to row in and die for entertainment” (Collins, Hunger 65). The Games show a glamorized type of reality in order to entertain Panem. The tributes cannot win on strength and brutality alone; they must win the hearts of sponsors and citizens of the Capitol. The tributes transform in to celebrities to win the hearts of citizens before being killed on live television. Mary Matos in her article “Media in the Hunger Games”, she states that throughout the Hunger Games trilogy Katniss alternates between that awareness, understanding, and manipulation of the media (Matos 4). While Katniss is alternating between all of these she will never out of the media itself. Being a tribute she will always be juggling herself between these three
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.
Since she is the female victor from district 12, she is in the 74th Hunger Games. She sees how painful and scary it is and so she tries to stop the capital which is who is controlling everything. She doesn’t want that to happen to anyone else. She rebels against President Snow in plan of eventually killing him to take over the capital and change the world. Teens can relate to this because a lot of the time we feel controlled. It might be by a parent, teacher, grandparent or someone else but all of us are controlled by someone. A lot of teenagers end up rebelling because they feel as if they have no choices. They go against the rules of who they are rebelling against. That persons rules and values are not necessarily right. Who decides what is right? It seems as if we have entered into a state time where there is no right and wrong. Katniss breaks free of that control and does her own thing. Another way teens can relate to the hunger games is through the love triangle. Some of us might have a similar situation of where we might like two people. In the movie it says, “What I need is not Gales fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can
The Hunger Games takes place in the ruins of a nation once known as North America that is now called Panem. There are twelve districts in Panem including the Capital and what used to be district thirteen before it was destroyed in the uprising. District twelve, in charge of the coal industry, is where the main characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark belongs. District twelve is known for being the poorest of all the districts so Katniss is known in the district for her amazing hunting skills when it comes to a bow and arrow. Seventy four years before the novels plot a rebellion or uprising occurred, because of this uprising the Capital created the hunger games as a punishment to remind the people of the Capitals power.
Growing up I learned that in life, a person always comes across a point where he or she has to make a tough decision or a sacrifice. That sacrifice could be for his/her happiness, someone else, or almost anything in the world. In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss, the narrator, goes through a journey in her life where she had to make tough decisions and sacrifices. While reading about some of Katniss’s decisions, I could relate to the way she was feeling and why she had to make these choices.
Our world has suffered many losses from war. Wars has changed the world and the people in it. In the novel ¨The Hunger Games¨, Suzanne Collins created a story about the United States post war, showing what our world could turn out to be after a major war. Even though this story can be interpreted as entertainment, the novel is to inform the audience, and the movie is to entertain. Suzanne Collins made her novel ¨The Hunger Games¨ to inform the reader of what war can do, and just how powerful the government is.
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.
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