Themes in the Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins

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Katniss is the main character in the novel, The Hunger Games. The author of this book is Suzanna Collins. Katniss is a 16 year old who has been chosen with 23 other tributes. In my class we have studied themes and key ideas such as Power of the Capitol, Competition against other tributes and Sacrifice for what Katniss acts and does in the Hunger Games. There are many themes but I have chosen these 3 because they show the most emotions and power. The main source of power in the hunger games is very clear showing that the government in this case the capitol how they use their power to control power. This is because the Capitol holds the most of the country’s money and wealth. The Capitol there is able to control what happens, when it happens and how much it costs. For example in the book Katniss has put her name down for the reaping as everyone else do too. ‘The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each 12 districts must provide a boy and a girl, called tributes, to participate.’ This quote from the book shows how the Capitol has made a law that they punish the districts because they were all smothered to bits and district 13 has been fully destroyed by the Capitols army. Although this book shows how Katniss resists the kinds of power against the capitol for example. How she salutes into the air in the games and everybody sees or when Rue dies and Katniss cover her with flowers. These symbolic gestures create attention to the fact that there are actual people out there in the hunger games not just game holograms. These small moments of truth and reality. The next theme is about the competition. The Hunger Games are very different from what we think of games to the Capitol and the whole of Panem. T... ... middle of paper ... ...al there would have been massive fights and the one who made it would be very powerful. “Prim!” the strangled cry comes out of my throat, and my muscles begin to move again. “Prim!” I don’t need to shove the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight path to the stage. I reach her push her behind my back. “I volunteer!” I gasp, “I volunteer as tribute!” This action and saying is a massive sacrifice giving up her life for someone else they value more than her, her sister Prim. This is a sacrifice for her family first and for her community! 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.

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