Gender Roles In The Hunger Games

The Chosen highlights Rueven Malter and Danny Saunders and their childhoods. They live a few blocks from each other in Brooklyn, New York. The Chosen elucidates family relationships, friendships, and trials of growing up. The author, Chaim Potok, began writing at age 16. David Malter, Rueven’s father, possesses many positive characteristics that people should strive for. During his life in Brooklyn, Mr. Malter plays several roles, such as a father, teacher, and friend. Within these different roles, Mr. Malter displays his support, forgiveness, and care numerous times.

Every year a competition is held where one girl and one boy, ages 12-18, from each District is chosen for a game of survival. The last tribute alive, wins riches and lots of food. These games are called The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen is from the poorest District, 12. She shows survival every single day of her life. Everyday she hunts, illegally, to supply for her family because her father died when she was young. Going into the games was no different. During a conversation with Peeta he says, “You know what my mother said? She said ‘District 12 might finally have a winner,’ but she wasn't talking about me. She was talking about you.” Because everybody knew how good she was at surviving, District 12 got a little bit of faith. He is saying that even his mom believed more in her than in him, because she had experience in survival and he, as a baker’s son, did not. This shows the audience that despite hardships and losses a human has the ability to overcome and do whatever it takes to survive. Katniss shows a strong relationship with her sister. After Prim, her sister, is drawn for the games she volunteers and goes into the games to protect her sister. Throughout the movie any decision that Katniss makes, is made with the thought of Prim. During an interview with Caesar Flickerman, he

The emotion that Katniss has for Peeta is illustrated in the quote, Katniss has to struggle emotionally to understand her relationship with Peeta in the game. By mentioning Peeta as "the boy with the bread," she links him to the kindness he showed her when she was starving in the past. She sees that generous kindness as a weakness of herself, and she thinks that it's a debt that she has to pay. All

The next scene is a heavy contrast to the first. In this scene we see Katniss hunting for food for her family and in doing so, assuming a role more commonly associated with males. In the lead up to the games she poses as a girl madly in love with the male tribute from her district in order to gain sponsors and attention from the Capital. She demonstrates intelligence in doing so because she knows that she is more likely to be accepted by the capital if she adopts a more feminine persona. It is only after the Games begin that Katniss demonstrates her natural talents, those more typically associated with a male character. She uses her hunting skills to her advantage by catching food and killing people when necessary. She also exhibits a wide range of knowledge which helps her to survive during the Games. Towards the end of the film, it has been made clear to the audience that whilst Katniss assumes a traditional female role when with her family or when it benefits her, her true character closely follows the characteristics typically seen in a traditional male gender

Gale is a strong-willed, stubborn, short-tempered boy. Peeta is a sweet, sensitive, yet strong and able-bodied young man. The two have very little in common, besides the fact that they both have strong feelings for Katniss. However, their differences definitely outweigh their similarities. The three main differences are their personalities, the way they care for Katniss, and their relationship with Katniss.

The repetition highlights the strong bond between Katniss and Prim and as a result, it is evident that Katniss is extremely selfless and is willing to give up her life for those she loves. Another moment when Katniss displays the heroic quality of bravery is when Katniss, again, was willing to risk her life. “No, you’re not risking your life for me.” are the words of Peeta when he demanded that Katniss did not go to the cornucopia to get the medicine needed to heal his knee. Through the use of emotive language, Katniss’ bravery is again recognised as she is willing to give her life, which further highlights her qualities as a hero.

In The Kite Runner men and women have roles to play in Afghan society. Men are universally portrayed as physically and emotionally strong. Women as submissive, dependent,and pure. This fits with stereotypes in the world because stereotypically men are viewed superior sex. Examples of characters who are positively shown for there gender specific roles are Baba and Soraya's mother Khala Jamila. Baba obviously is physically strong and does show few emotions his interest and bravery make him the epitome of the Afghan male. Khala Jamila is very submissive to the general and has even given up singing to appease her husband. Characters who don’t fit the mold like Amir and Soraya are in a negative light. Soraya has a rebellious spirit and has to keep

When it comes to Hobbits and Dwarves, the females are not sufficiently described, probably because of their lack of importance and presence in the story. However, one of the noticeable females among the race of the Hobbits is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, who is presented as a very unsympathetic but brave housewife and a thief, who is later put in prison for stealing some of Bilbo’s property. Some critics say that “the matriarch of the Sackville-Baggins clan is an embodiment of a particular sort of woman Tolkien probably knew in real life – and heartily disliked” (Theironylady). She rarely appears in the whole story, but at the beginning she is introduced as a strong woman, who is not scared to hit people bigger than herself. The following fragment

After Katniss steps up as the female representative for district 12, Peeta gets called next. Katniss observes "The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey," (Collins 25-26). Again Judith Butler insists that gender is an imitation of an ideal, expectations clearly state that males are not suppose to be emotional but Peeta broke down and started crying in front of everybody which made him seem like a punk. Peeta is a complex character because in the beginning Peeta challenges gender roles, but towards the end during the hunger games he starts to uphold them.

Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, decided to do something different with her main protagonists, Katniss and Peeta. In the book, they seem to have flipped gender roles that society does not see males and females in such a way. For example, women have often been seen as housewives by society, which has set certain occupations and responsibilities they must abide to. Furthermore, women were allowed to handle activities such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children and men. On another note, men have also had been told they are only capable of engaging in masculine activities. This was limited to working and providing for the family, nothing more. According to the book Handbook on Gender Roles: Conflicts, Attitudes and Behaviors by Amato and Booth, these gender roles are classified as traditional. In the book, Collins tends to switch what each societies gender norms; she challenges what each character is meant to do because of their sex. She wants to prove that men are capable of doing a woman’s job and a woman being capable of completing a man’s job. Katniss and Peeta both do not meet the expectations society has set them to do; in fact it is the total opposite.

At first it was hard for Katniss to trust Peeta but this is understandable. Imagine being forced to like and love someone you barely even know, how would you know to trust them? Katniss and Peeta first encountered when she was younger and looking for food, Peeta was told by his mother to throw away a piece of burnt bread but instead he gave the burnt bread to Katniss. That was the last interaction Katniss had with him before the Games and ever since then she has felt like she owes him something for helping her while she was struggling. They’re both brought into the Games and know very little about each other but

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

Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” follows a boy named Pip through a journey of meeting new people around the town and also is considered an Orphan. There are a lot of characters that are introduced like Miss Havisham who always wears a wedding who shows up a lot in the book. Pip changes a lot through the novel with wanting to be a gentlemen but has made a lot of mistakes and blames it on his sister Mrs. Joe who raised him by hand. The women seem to be different from the men in this novel with different roles they play so I’m going to show they are different.

After watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part Two, I was able to see how gender roles both differ and remain the same in this movie. Although some gender stereotypes apply to the film, I think many characters defy the stigmas typically assigned to males and females. Strong female roles, such as Hermione Granger, Molly Weasley, Professor McGonagall, and Luna Lovegood, help portray sturdy independent women who take charge. Reflecting on this movie, even as a dedicated Harry Potter fan, I have always admired how female actors in the series have had “the brains” in tricky situations. After watching the movie, I saw themes of power feminism, stereotyping, and negative connotations of males who express emotion.

J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan tells the story of “the boy who never grew up.” Barrie paints Peter as an extraordinary character living in a mystical world called Neverland, flying through the air, and fighting villainous pirates. He is also the boy who takes a young girl named Wendy from England back to Neverland with him. The interaction and interdependence of Barrie’s two characters, Peter and Wendy, symbolize and spread cultural gender stereotypes by mirroring the stereotypes embodied by the adult characters in the story—Mr. and Mrs. Darling—and by reflecting the ideas of gender roles of the time and foreshadowing the children’s understanding of reality and expectations, as well as their eventual maturation.