The Hunger Game Analysis

People’s lives are constantly changing, and the changes could be small or massive. I have chosen to explore the theme ‘My World has been Turned Upside Down.’ This theme is portrayed in the novel The Hunger Game, by Suzanne Collins; the short story The Sniper, by Liam O’Flaherty, an advertisement for State Insurance, shot by Nathan Price and the visual text Aliens directed by James Cameron. The texts The Hunger Game and The Sniper have the common connection of killing people and keeping themselves alive. In the texts The Aliens and The Hunger Game they are connected because the main characters both need to save loved people and take massive risks. As well as the similarities there are also contrasts among these texts. The difference between

In The Hunger Game, Katniss had a sister called Prim who was picked randomly to join the game. Katniss volunteered as tribute to take Prim’s place “I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!” Katniss did this because she knew Prim could not survive in the game and she would do anything that could maintain Prim’s safety. Before getting into the game, Prim and her mom came to see her. Katniss promised Prim she will really try for win the game, “‘You will try, won’t you? Really, really try?’ asks

The Hunger Game is told in the perspective of Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the written text. As the whole story is told in the first person, we can know more about her emotions and personality. Her life has been considerably turned upside down because she was the one who went to the Hunger Games. The text shows her own experience of her mom’s depression after her dad’s death and how it led Katniss to fend for the family. This narrative point of view helps us to gain an understanding of how her feelings are built up during the game. We get inside of her emotions. For example, we can feel the heartbreak of Katniss when Rue died, “My throat is tight with tears, hoarse from smokes and fatigue.” We can also feel her struggle when other people was going to die, “I don’t want Cato to kill Thresh at all. I don’t want anyone else to die.” We get the direct emotions and feelings of her and how her world turned upside down through the narrative point of the first person perspective. A contrast in Aliens is the film being told in the third person. Although it is limited for audience to feel Ripley’s emotions and thoughts, we still can gain the understanding of how her world has been turned upside down through judge her body language. When Ripley tried to rescue Newt a close up of Ripley’s facial expression shows the audiences how tensive she was. We can get her