Analysis Of Suzanne Collins 'Reaping Game'

Katniss has an edge over many of the other tributes because she often lives not knowing if she is going to make it through the night. For years she has been responsible for the life or death of her family. She was devastated by the death of her father, though she recalls many of his fine talents and qualities. Throughout the training and the Games, she fights against feeling friendship for Peeta Mellark because she knows

The Hunger Games, the movie, was adapted from the popular young adult novel by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is sometimes described as another cliche love story for which the young adult genre is infamous. Despite appearances, The Hunger Games illustrates a complex and creative dystopian world with a much deeper underlying message, including topics such as, politics, history, and celebrity worship. The setting appears to be a futuristic version of America. This future America is very classist, and the tyrannical government is sure to keep the classes divided by heavily oppressing the working class. The working class is divided into twelve districts, which used to be thirteen districts until the thirteenth district was annihilated as a result of its uprising. In response to the thirteenth district’s resistance, the President created a game called “The Hunger Games” in an effort to instill obedience in the remaining twelve districts. Through the course of the movie, we learn that “The Hunger Games” are not only a mechanism to force obedience on the working class, but also to serve as entertainment for the elite society who live in the Capitol. The Games require 24 randomly selected children from the working class districts to fight to the death in an elaborately staged battle, all of which is filmed and broadcasted to the entire nation, working class and elite alike. Thesis: The Hunger Games, the movie, has a hauntingly feasible storyline and clear references to real

In the novel “The Hunger Games” Suzanne Collins conveys the qualities of a hero through the main character Katniss Everdeen. The novel is based around a dystopian nation, in which is placed in Panem. Through which a boy and a girl from each district must take part in ‘The Hunger Games’ where they have to fight to the death, until there is one survivor. Katniss subsequently evolves as a significant hero portraying the heroic qualities such as selflessness, identity change and intelligence. Selflessness is shown as she puts others before herself, her identity changes as she has to put up a brave face, and intelligence is displayed as her strategies progress in the games.

“We had to save you because you're the Mockingjay, Katniss, says Plutarch. While you live, the revolution lives” (Collins). Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games is a complex character who epitomizes the archetype of a hero, however, she also shatters the mold by rebelling against the capital and endangering her whole family. She starts out as a hero to her family, especially her sister, and then becomes the symbol of strength to everyone. Katniss sacrifices herself by volunteering to join the Hunger Games in place of her sister, it is a game of survival where a boy and a girl from each district are forced to fight the other members of other districts to the death. By going out of her ordinary world and preparing to join a game where her life could be taken, she fits right into the archetype of a hero. Her bow and arrow, the weapon that only she can wield, will be the only things to help her survive. Despite these heroic qualities, Katniss makes an erroneous decision and blunder mistakes that shows the reader the flip side of Katniss.

Do you have something you really want but don’t have the resources to get? People in society today have unlimited wants, but we can’t satisfy everyone, because what popular goods society has are scarce. The Hunger Games by: Suzanne Collins, written in 2008, follows a girl who “volunteered herself as tribute” to fight for survival, plotted as a game, to provide the society with what was needed to survive, and to support lower class families, while destroying the mindset of the “winner”. The Hunger Games represent politics and economics, versus society and the survival in need of scarce resources. Three reasons that support the claim are capitalism takes over a diminishing government, futurized economic issue, and the effects of the “game” on the main player, Katniss Everdeen.

All 24 tributes were sent, by tube, into the Arena, where 23, in this case 22, of them would reach their inevitable demise. The Games was Katniss’ only chance to prove her worthiness to the world, and herself. She fought for her life for days, and even made a few alliances, such as Rue and Peeta. Rue was a young girl from District 11, who had been watching Katniss since training. Rue reminded Katniss of her sister, Prim, which made Katniss trust Rue easily. Soon after their alliance formed, Rue was killed by a tribute from District 1, Marvel. He ended up being the first tribute Katniss killed in cold-blood, yet she managed to stay true to her heart but giving Rue a proper goodbye. “I can’t bring myself to leave her like this. Past harm, but seeming utterly defenseless” (236). The loss of an ally was the first emotional test in the Arena. After the loss of Rue, Katniss found Peeta down by the stream. Katniss nurtured him back to health and they then teamed up, since they were misled to believe that two tributes from the same district, could both win this year’s game, by the head gamemaker. Katniss, with Peeta by her side, fought until the final tribute, Cato, met his death. After threatening to both eat poison berries, which would cause there to be no victor that year, Katniss and Peeta were named victors. The Arena was a representation of the next step in the Hero’s Journey: The Innermost Cave. Katniss was tested intellectually and emotionally in an unknown environment. By the end of the Games, Katniss and Peeta were celebrities in Panem. Everywhere they went, hundreds of people were cheering and chanting their names. At this point, Katniss had become one of the most well-known woman in all of

In Suzanne Collins’s novel, The Hunger Games, a dystopian society of Panem is brought to life for readers through the story of the heroine, Katniss Everdeen. Being chosen as a “tribute” in the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss is thrown into a deadly arena filled with twenty-three other potential killers where she must fight to the death. The story of her survival against the other tributes, nature, and society is viewed by national television. In 2012, Collins’s novel was adapted into a film by Director Gary Ross. This adaptation still follows the journey of Katniss Everdeen, but it adds color, images, and sound, creating a whole new perspective for viewers. By showing an example of “reality TV” in a dystopian society, the plot of The Hunger Games illustrates the social issue of surveillance and its societal power with civilization’s composition, leaving readers questioning the use of such surveillance systems.

Survive Survival The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is a novel based around 24 Tributes having to survive through the Games by killing each other. The book’s main character is Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old sharp shooting girl from District 12 who volunteered to be a tribute alongside a baker’s son, Peeta Mellark to participate in the Games. One theme in the book is Survival, Survival is about how someone can use their individual strengths or intelligence to help them survive and the importance of alliances to survival. One reason why Survival is the most significant theme is because the point of the Hunger Games is to survive.

In a dystopian world, in the former United States, now called Panem, there is a girl named Katniss Everdeen who is a great archer and huntress. She lives in poverty with her mother and sister in the twelfth out of twelve districts. The day she wakes up is called “Reaping day”. It's the day where all the children in each district gather up for one boy and one girl to be chosen for “The Hunger Games”. The games take the two chosen from each of the twelve districts and make them compete in an arena to fight to the death until only one remains. Katniss’ sister is one of the unlucky called, and Katniss volunteers to take her place so her sister doesn't get killed. Soon after, a boy gets picked. The boy chosen was named Peeta. Katniss and Peeta

The 2012 film, The Hunger Games, portrays the sociological themes of social control, labeling theory, and structural strain theory. The Hunger Games is about a dystopian society that is separated into 12 “Districts,” the first being the richest and the last being the poorest. The main character, Katniss, lives within District 12. The food within District 12 is rationed, many people do not have enough to eat and people’s needs are not sufficiently met. Katniss portrays the fatherly role of the family because her father passed away when she was young, which left her mother devastated and incapable of caring for her and her little sister, Prim.

The Hunger Games is the first book that makes up the famous trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. Katniss, the book’s main character, is a sixteen year old girl, who lives in Panem, a country divided in 13 different districts. Each year, a reaping is hold, where every district chooses one boy and one girl to participate to the games. The participants have to kill each other for their survival, and only one person can end up as a winner. Because of Katniss’ ingenuity and strategies, both tributes from her district were able to survive and get through this challenge. This world clearly relates to the reality television in our contemporary world and to the gladiator fights. This essay will analyse the different themes, which are used to convey

The book The Hunger Games is about a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen who does everything she is capable of to protect and take care of her family. In District Twelve, where she lives, individuals are not allowed to cross the fence and find food. However, Katniss does not care about the rules, and she is only concerned about the well-being of her family. She, like most people in her district, is extremely underprivileged and if she did not hunt, her family would suffer starvation. She consistently puts others before herself.

The Hunger Games movie series is centered around the main character Katniss Everdeen. In Panem, the Capitol is over all districts and districts four through twelve suffer from violence and poverty. Every year, two people, one male and one female are chosen as tributes to compete for their district in the annual hunger games. During the first movie, it is time for the seventy fourth annual Hunger Games District’s Twelve drawing for names of the tributes of those who will compete. Katniss’ sister, Primrose, was chosen in the drawing, but Katniss volunteered as tribute in her sister’s place. The male tribute chosen was Peeta Mellark. Katniss and Peeta must fight against the other twenty-two tributes from the other eleven districts until only one tribute is standing. During the process of the games, there is clock time in which they must beat to be the last one standing. The tributes formed teams and interacted through focused and some unfocused interaction. The tributes build alliances with one another so that they could at least help each other. Throughout the process of the games, it is revealed that Peeta likes Katniss. While the games are ending, Peeta and Katniss are the last two standing, so they choose to eat poisoned berries; both eating the berries meant that neither one of them would win but the Capitol decided to let them win together and this started the second revolution because those watching felt it was as act of rebellion. This act leads

In the beginning, Katniss is living the hard life of her district. She goes to school and hunts so that her family has food. She has a younger sister named Prim and a mother, however it is time for the reaping which is when the Capitol picks names out of a bucket for one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death tournament where the winner gets fame and fortune. Prim gets chosen to participate in the games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place(22). A boy from their district named Peeta also gets chosen and Katniss realizes that he had given her bread when she didn’t have food for her family. They go to the Capitol and meet their mentor, Haymitch(56), who helps them train, then they go into the arena and battle. Peeta joins up with some Careers, children that trained for the Hunger Games all their lives, and tries to win but then he betrays them. The Gamemakers make a rule change and say that two tributes from the same district can win together so Katniss finds Peeta and helps him because he has been injured. After they are the only two people left the Gamemakers change the rule back to force Katniss and Peeta to fight each other, rather than fight, Katniss takes some poisonous berries, called Nightlock, she found in the arena and gives half of

The reaping begins and Prim’s name is drawn. Katniss freaks out and volunteers to take her place, making her District 12’s girl tribute. The boy tribute’s name is drawn and it’s Peeta Mellark, who is the baker’s son and the same age at Katniss. Katniss remembers, when they were children, Peeta saw her starving outside in the rain and gave her a burnt piece of bread that his mother had told him to feed to their pigs. Katniss wonders how is she supposed to kill him in the Games after he was so