Class Struggles In The Hunger Games

The boy tribute that is from her district is Peeta Mellark who she knew from long ago. Peeta confessed to the public that he loves her and that begins their friendship. Throughout the games, she watches as tributes are killed and a young girl named Rue is murdered. When this happens, Katniss kills Rue’s attacker. This is the first time that she has ever killed a person, so she takes it very hard. Rue was not only Katniss’s ally but her friend, she was Prim’s age and reminded her of her sister. So, when Rue was killed it struck Katniss deeply. By the end of the games she has come to love Peeta back and it comes down to the two of them. They refuse to kill each other, so they decided to eat berries that are poisonous but the capitol has to have a victor, so the capitol announces that they are both victors. When she did this, it was a direct punch to the capitol and it ignited a spark in the people, that began the process of a revolution. After she returns home, she realizes what her actions caused and that is the real reason that she went there. She was destined to be the Mockingjay, or the leader of the revolution against the capitol. She realizes that she is the only way that the people will unite and fight to

The Hunger Games is a well-known book written by Suzanne Collins. A dystopian society is a futuristic, imagined world that has the illusion of a perfect world. In the book, Panem is a dystopian society. It is a dystopian society because it is futuristic, it has constant surveillance, and it exaggerates worst case scenarios

Much of the Hunger Games is centered around portraying a certain image, or identity if you will. The capital manipulates the weaknesses in their society and in their people to create an identity of unity and nationalism through the way they present the games to the districts of Panem. This idea of appearing to be one thing but really being another is ingrained in the society of Panem. District 12, in particular, maintains this image of complacency for the sake of survival, and Katniss is no exception to this.

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

Katniss Everdeen shares in Thoreau’s beliefs and has a strong hatred towards the government in which she lives under. The government she lives under, led by the Capitol, is a totalitarian government. They are very cruel and they attempt to control every aspect of the people’s lives. Katniss says, “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch--this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy” (Collins 17). This shows just how controlling and intimidating the government of her society is. Katniss expresses her hate for the Capitol when she says, “It’s the Capitol I hate, for doing this to all of us” (Collins 166). Katniss hates the government and how they operate, just as Thoreau and other transcendentalists do.

The author communicates the important message by using some literary devices, for example she used verbal irony when Peeta say, “Always worried about our safety.“ (Collins, 81) It was sarcastic because he was talking with Katniss about what happens if they try to suicide from the top of the building, but they can’t because the Capitol want them to be alive for the game.

She shows that actions are more powerful than words when Rue dies because she puts her head in her lap, bushes her fingers through her hair, and she sings to her until she was completely dead. After Rue was completely dead Katniss also laid her down and covered her in beautiful flowers. Katniss did that to show President Snow that little kids should not be apart of the Hunger Games and that they should be able to live a long and happy life without worrying if they were going to get chose or not to be forced to fight. This scene that katniss did had a big impact on District 12 and it also shows that her actions can be more powerful than

“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong” (Collins, 2). In this moment, not only citizens, but neighbors, friends, family, neighborhood, look up at Katniss knowingly in pure frustration and empty hearts that their humanity is slowly slipping away before them and there is nothing no one can do about it. Susan Collins creates a government that generates fear to the citizens who live in a pain, fear filled dystopia. A dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, oppression, disease, and overcrowding sums up Panem and its districts accurately. The central government that

The Hunger Games is a futuristic film that shows how society accepts diverse norms which are in no way fair or moral. The Hunger Games was set by a governing body as ‘hunger games’ which are used to entertain the general public in times of crisis. The movie is directed by Gary Ross and was released in 2012. In the movie citizens of Panem between the ages of 12 and 18 years of age are mandatorily required to participate in The Hunger Games if they were selected. The games are annual and televised consisting of different tributes from various Districts who fight to the death until there is only one survivor left. Jennifer Lawrence acts as Katniss Everdeen in the movie. She is a young lady from a small town known as District 12. She voluntarily

Rue is a girl tribute from district 11. Katniss and Rue formed an alliance; partially because Rue reminded Katniss of her younger sister Prim. Katniss loves and cares alot for Prim. Katniss and Rue wanted to destroy the Careers supplies in the Cornucopia, so the Careers can have a “real taste” of the Games. Katniss went close up to the Cornucopia, while Rue stayed in the woods.

Since the Capital will favor them, the people in the Capital will start to like District 12. When she realizes that people are starting to like them, she gets some sponsors who help her out in the game by giving her supplies. In the middle of the games, she makes an alliance with a girl from District 8, Rue, who unfortunately dies. To honor her death, Katniss makes her a look really nice by putting flowers all around her body before she is sent off. After putting flowers all over her body, she gives the camera

Rather, I believe that Katniss is more focused on ensuring the continued survival of Prim instead of rebellion. In lecture, when discussing Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs," it was mentioned that attributes on the lower levels such as bodily safety were aligned with feelings of animal instinct. Because Katniss describes her visceral sensation of shock over Prim's name being called in the reaping and the force of compulsion to react, I believe that this reflects that kind of animal instinct for survival (Collins 22). Likewise, Katniss relates her shock to similar experiences in the woods which stand-in as a symbolic and literal environment for her continued survival (Collins 21). Thus, while I do believe that Rue's death and the act with the Nightlock berries at the end of the novel do reflect rebellion's characteristic defiance against the government by directly interfering with the mechanics and attitude of the Hunger Games, because Katniss experiences intense instinct to protect Prim even over her own safety, I would argue that she is motivated by the survival of

Katniss knew that the cameras were going to be focused on her a lot, but more importantly she knew that the cameras show a death for a long time. So when she was able to find the flowers and place them around her body she was able to show the Capitol that Rue was a person too and she deserved to be respected. Also placing the flowers around Rue showed how Katniss went against the rules of the games so that the Capitol and Gamemakers could see what she was doing and have no power against it. Secondly a way in which Katniss was able to show rebellion against the Capitol and the idea of having to kill during the Hunger Games is when Katniss and Peeta are told that there can only be one winner, so they decide to take berries that will instantly kill you to show the Capitol that they are not and will not be a piece in their game.

However, at the first stop in District 11, Katniss got emotional in front of Rue’s family. Rue is one of the competitors in last year’s Hunger Games that Katniss befriended. Because Katniss and Rue became so close, Katniss tried protecting her at all costs; however, she couldn’t. Seeing Rue’s family forced Katniss to get very emotional and speak from her heart saying, “But I feel as if I did know Rue and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind.

A typical characteristic of dystopian literature: having the ability to seize and destroy anything that threatens its power, the Capitol rules Panem without humanity. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the novel, resides in district twelve which she describes as enclosed by “a high chain-link fence topped with barbed-wire loops” (Collins 4). From the beginning of the novel, the readers can understand that the characters are isolated from nature. The Capitol set up the fence to protect the citizens from wild animals, yet in doing so, it successfully creates a distrust and fear of nature in the minds of the citizens. Furthermore, this shows that the citizens should have trust in the Capitol because it is protecting them. Katniss also reveals that “trespassing in the wood is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties” (Collins 5). The citizens are forbidden from entering and exploring the forest, thus showing the Capitol’s intention to prevent its citizens from searching for new areas and ideas to rebel against it. The citizens are born and live to work until they die without being able to produce new and radical changes in order to improve their living conditions, while only the Capitol, having absolute