For my book report I chose “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins. Catching Fire is set in a alternative universe that is set up in a way a monarchy would function there is the king or a president who is a cold hearted human being named President Snow. Then there are the nobles or in this situation the capital people, the capital people are wealthy and they dress outrageously just so people can distinguish them from non wealthy people. Lastly skipping the presents you have the slaves or the districts there are twelve districts and each district specializes in a different trade or the manufacture of different products such as fabric and coal miming. For example district four specializes in catching sea food and district five is lumber and district twelve is coal. There use to be a district thirteen but they did not think they should be slaves to capital any more so they disided to start a uprising but sadly they fail and their district was distorted.
Every year after the uprising the capital hosts the annual Hunger Games were two children no younger than twelve and no older than seventeen are reaped and then put into a arena to fight to the death while the whole country of Penma watches till only one tribute stands in reminder that the capital has the ultimate power. Until one year one girl unknowingly defied the capital by attempting to kill herself and her fellow tribute who was madly in love because they were the last two in the games and they did not want to kill each other. Until at the last minute the games were considered over and they were both crowned victors. These two tributes were Katniss Everdean and Peeta Mellark .Catching Fire takes place after the 74th Hunger Games Katniss Everdean and Peeta Mel...
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Right before she is knocked out, she hears Peeta yell for her and she knows they have been betrayed by their alliance. When Katniss wakes up, she realizes Beetee was attempting to blow up the force field around the arena with the tree and the wire. She then takes the wire, ties it around her arrow, and shoots a flaw she sees in the force field at the same time the lightning strikes the tree, blowing up the force field.
Katniss wakes up on a hover craft whose passengers include Beetee, Haymitch, Plutarch and Gale. She confronts Haymitch about what is going on and he informs her there was a plan to get them out of the arena as soon as the Quarter Quell was announced. She also learns the capital has picked up Peeta and Johanna. Gale then informs her that there is no longer a District 12, that the Capitol destroyed their home.
“The Fire,” chapter two of the novel “Kindred” by Octavia E. Butler is about how Dana survives in the past after she is conscious of where and when she is. The story starts with Dana frightened of being transported again, which she did. After saving the boy, Rufus, from burning his house, she discovered that she has gone to the past, 1815, and that Rufus was her ancestor. Since it was the age where slavery was present, she escaped Rufus’ house in fear of being slaved to search for Alice, another one of her ancestor, hoping to get shelter. She found it at the time Alice’s family was raided by the whites, and Alice’s father was captured. She helped Alice’s family, but soon after she was discovered by a white man. Dana knocked him unconscious, then returned home. Afterwards, Kevin and her prepared Dana in an event where she get transported again.
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
This part of the journey begins when Rue dies. Katniss tried to save her and failed. She shares her struggle when she shares, "Rue's death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence. “There's no way to take revenge on the Capitol. Is there?” (Collins 1364). This part of the journey continues when she finds Peeta inured. Katniss constantly risks her life to get resources to help bring Peeta back to health. Katniss is willing to go through all of this trouble because Peeta is her friend and she knows that his survival is crucial to her winning the games, and returning to her district. Protecting
Katniss ends up in District 13, which she thought was destroyed years ago by President Snow, as she shatters the games forever. She accepts to become the symbol of the rebellion, “the Mocking Jay”, to go against and fight the Capitol. However President Snow broadcast Peeta stating that he is a live with the former victors and Katniss
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
They never had the success in killing her, so they waited for her to come down but while they were waiting they all fell asleep. During the next morning in the book it says that Katniss thinks of a plan to cut down a branch that had tracker jackers on. In the movie it shows that Rue wakes up Katniss and points to the branch that the tracker jackers were on and gives her the idea to cut down the branch. Cutting down the branch would make the tracker jackers land on the other tributes attack as well as killing them. In the book how Katniss was the one to think of the plan to cut down the branch is trying to show that she is strong minded and she is very independent. But as Rue shows her in the film, it is showing that intelligence doesn’t just come with age. Intelligence comes with experience and that anyone at any age can show their skill. Also it is showing that Rue was on Katniss’ side and Rue wanted the other tributes dead.. Once this day was over, many of the tributes had gotten killed by the other tributes. In the book, hovercrafts pick up all of the eleven tributes that were killed as soon as they were killed. But then, in the film the hovercraft only comes for Rue after she got poisoned by one of the other tributes while trying to help Katniss. This part of the scene in the film is very significant because it is showing that the Capitol as a whole is trying to show
Katniss's mother who stopped caring for Prim and Katniss after the death of her husband in a coal mine explosion. This led to Katniss becoming the family's main provider. Katniss's little sister who is kind and gentle. Katniss volunteers in her place when she is picked to fight in the Hunger Games. Katniss's friend and hunting partner. He is the person closest to Katniss, and only with him can Katniss fully relax and be herself. Boy tribute district 12, he is kind and loyal. He becomes Katniss's main ally and love interest. Protagonist and female ribute of District 12. She is tremendously resourceful and a great hunter. Peeta's and Katniss's trainer. He is a alcoholic who is one out of two people from district 12 to win the Hunger
In addition, at the end of the Games, Katniss and Peeta are left with the question of either killing each other or both killing themselves. Collins says that after everyone is killed, the decision of the victor of the Hunger Games lies between Katniss and Peeta, both tributes from District Twelve; even though either tribute would be willing to give up their life for the other, they both decide to kill themselves after becoming fed up with the Games (344-345). Peeta and Katniss are so emotionally unstable from everything they have experienced with the Games that they both choose to die with each other. Furthermore, if an adolescent manages to survive the harsh war environment, they must still continue to fight the mental effects of the
The Hunger Games are one of the most emotional, viscous and cruel books I’ve read before. But both heroes Katniss and Peeta have survived to live the next day. They are both winners and Katniss lives to feed her family once more. It was a fantastic book of amazing features, characters, themes and creativity.
What happens in the Hunger Games is that when Katniss goes up to be a volunteer for the hunger games there is a moment of silence. This is because there are many who know this girl who now has only a slim chance of surviving. Many of the people live in fear of their world in this fictional society. So a moment of silence for there sure to be fallen hero is all they can put forward because of fear.
She keeps arguing with Peeta whether or not she is going to go or not. Katniss wants to go and Peeta is saying she is going to stay behind. Peeta says “No, you’re not risking your life for me.”(274). Then Katniss lies and says she’s not going but really she just gives him spoonfuls of a syrup which actually makes him sleep so Katniss can sneak out and grab the medicine. Once she grabs the medicine Clove is saying that Cato, is out there hunting for Peeta. Clove said “I don't think you'll have much use for your lips anymore, want to blow Lover Boy one last kiss?”(286). When she gets back to Peeta she gives him the medicine and when they wake up it is much better than what it was before. “Much better, whatever you shot into my arm did the trick.”(291). Said Peeta. Katniss showed great bravery and courage when she ran out into the middle trying to grab that pack filled with supplies including the medicine.
...nt, Katniss decides not to play by the rules anymore and she splits a handful of poison berries with Peeta. She decides that she is not going to let the “Gods” manipulate the game anymore. Right before they eat the berries the leader’s voice comes overhead and tells them that they have both one. The reason he decides to do this is because the crowd would be incredibly disappointed if the “show” ended this way. This is Katniss’ true show of courage, to defy the leaders/Gods and make her own ending. It can be said that this was Katniss’ destiny or fate: that she was meant to win the Hunger Games.
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...
“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 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