Analysis Of The Hunger Games

Upon watching the movie “The Hunger Games” from a sociological perspective, I learned that many of the things that we have gone over in this online sociology course were incorporated heavily into what is perhaps one of my personal favorite movies of all time. Things like social status, culture, heritage, gender, and more were all used throughout the film in order to portray a realistic and believable setting for the viewer from a social perspective. Probably the most important sociological themes explored in this movie were the struggle to maintain a high ranking social status amongst surrounding humans, the pre-perceived idea of what you were and weren’t allowed to do legally speaking based on your district, and most importantly, how humans can ultimately make life or death decisions based on the value or benefit of a certain person to the group.

In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins expresses two themes. The first one is that we can’t let the government use their power to treat, and use people like they want, they are oppressing them. “At one o’clock, we head of the square. Attendance is mandatory unless you are on deaths door. This evening, officials will come around and check to see if this is the case. If not you will be imprisoned.” (Collins, 16) we can see that the Capitol forces the people to participate in the reaping by threatening them. “When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to

The characters needs and wants are met throughout the movie in different ways. The people in the districts need food. They obtain this food by working in the coal mines and in return they receive rations. The Capital need the people in the districts to work hard to generate coal. The government make different districts to to focus on the most valuable resources like oil, coal and others. They implemented this concept so obtaining raw materials would be cheap for them. In exchange they would be given other resources which are replenishable and easy for them to make. The revolutionary war in Panem forces the people in the districts to treat their government like gods just to have a meager survival. The war caused chaos and conflict causing the

The whole story itself would be much better without romantic feelings between the two main tributes. We’ve known about Peetas’crush on Katniss even before the games started, and towards the end, we also understand that Katnisss herself began to develop feelings. In my perspective, it would be interesting to see something different from the other stories, I would rather see her rejecting Peetas’feelings and just playing along to the act for the sake of attention. Later, through the series their feelings will grow even more and become something more, and that made me really disappointed. Therefore, the first Hunger Games movie will get four stars from

Most people have heard of the Hunger Games, but don’t know the true meaning. People say it’s a book (or movie) about innocent people getting slaughtered. It may look like that but there is so much more depth. When authors write books, they add their perspective and beliefs. It could be about government, religion and many more controversial topics. In the Hunger Games, the author Suzanne Collins shows what she thinks about government. She does this by relating the Hunger Games to the gladiators and Ancient Roman times. Even the names of characters relate. Hunger Games may not be a sweet and innocent book, but there is a good lesson behind all the violence.

The nation of Panem has risen out of the ravaged ruins of what was once known as North America. 74 years ago, the poverty-stricken districts of Panem rebelled against the wealthy, controlling the Capitol. After its crushing victory, the Capitol devised the Hunger Games as an annual reminder to the twelve districts of its authority, and as continuing punishment for the rebellion. Every year, each district must hold a raffle (known as the "reaping") to choose one boy and one girl (ranging from age 12–18) to participate in the Hunger Games, a competition in which each of the twenty-four contestants (known as

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many characteristics of a dystopian society. Propaganda is used throughout the book to control the citizens of society. The people of the twelve districts have their Information, independent thought, and freedom restricted. The type of dystopian control present is corporate control.

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Dystopia essay analysis The hunger game & v for vendetta The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, describes a dystopian nation Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capitol. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games where teenagers are forced to fight to the death so the world can be entertained, because they want remind 12 districts the consequences of disobey and the war; let them be afraid of Panem. Katniss Everdeen; a sixteen year old girl who volunteer to be Tribute for her sister,Primrose Everdeen, she survived from the hunger game with her partner Peeta Mellark, but president Snow thinks Katniss Everdeen brought hope to people in 12 districts, and this is

Economics today and in the future consists of having product and needing product that you may not have but need to trade to receive. Our government and our well being solely depends on our trading and our growing and creating of goods to survive as a Civilization. If we don’t have distribution recurring we may have a serious lack in goods and services which would eventually lead to our government crashing. Economics today and for the years to come will be what makes our government grow and give it the ability to continue to move forward. It gives us the tools to grow our business and survive and live our lives.

Freedom of choice, the transference of power away from and to the oppressed, and rebellion against societal norms: these are some of the many ingredients of a book that hailed a new approach toward writing, trailblazing a whole subgenre of fictitious works. This book, a book which will stand the test of time, embodies the female struggle in an oppressive society. This book, Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, will survive as it became a beacon in the new style of young adult dystopian novels with female protagonists. This book, much in the same way that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre inspired writers like Jean Rhys to write Wide Sargasso Sea and Gilbert and Gubar to pen the first edition of The Madwoman in the Attic, opened the path for Suzanne

Happy Hunger Games! May the odds ever be in your favor. The odds are only in my favor cause nobody will defeat me. Your money will be saved. You lost money and won money, but you maybe don’t see that I can win the games, I can. I have spent many hours on working to win these games for many years. The amount of training I do has brought me to the top. I may get hurt, but to get back up so I can win for my sponsors. I may be young, but I will come out victorious as no one would think I could do. I will win cause I am creative, I can use a variety of weapons when needed in combat, and I can shoot a bow and hit my target from 20 feet away, and I'm a great actor.

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The Hunger Games take place in a country of Panem. Panem is made up of the Capitol and Thirteen Districts. “The Dark Days brought the uprising of the Districts against the Capitol. Twelve Districts were defeated and the thirteenth was obliterated. This rebellion created the Treaty of Treason which was a new set of laws that guarantees peace and a yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.” (Collins Page 18) The Dark Days are the reason there are major differences in their culture compared to my own.

In District 12 of Panem, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen is walking to meet her friend, Gale, a boy she seems to like, in the woods so they can do some hunting for food. As she’s walking, she thinks about her mother and her younger sister, Prim, who is 12 years old. They have depended on Katniss for food ever since their father died in a mine explosion when Katniss was 11.