The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, imagines a world where people are divided by district just like the real world does with the high, middle, low classes. This book is full of themes, literary devices and also talks about how the government — in this case the Capitol — oppresses their citizens.

This book contains many universal messages, but the most prevalent are that if you want to do something, you can do it and the other is that true love is the strongest feeling in all the world.

When you really like something, you work really hard to get it. If you are failing a subject, you work tirelessly to pass. In this case, The Hunger Games expresses a universal message that when you want to do something you can do it. In other words, if you want to survive, you need to fight for it. That is Katniss’s situation when she decides to protect her sister when she is selected to go to the Hunger Games and she needs to fight to stay alive and make true the promises she makes to her sister. “ Really, really try. I swear it, “ I say. And I know, because of Prim, I´ll have to,” (pg. 36). This is Katniss promise that motivates all her days when she needs to be alert that any tribute comes and kill her first, and when she doesn't have nothing to eat or a place were to sleep. That is the most evident example that when you really want something, or when you have a motivation or a goal you are expected to give and do the best of you. When you really effort yourself and you want to gain something anything becomes impossible even this game was impossible for Katniss because at the end she knew that all that sacrifice has a reason and was her sister. You realize all this exactly when she wins the games with Peeta, “The frantic vo...

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...zis and the Capitol. Also, the tributes were obligated to go to the Hunger Games the same as when they caught a Jew he needs to go to the concentration camp. The only difference between them was that the “tributes”only one or two have the possibility of stay alive the other were condemned to die.

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