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.

The Hunger Games, a novel by Suzanne Collins, is the story of 16 years old, Katniss Everdeen, who fights to death for her district. The Hunger Games is an event hosted every year by the Capitol of Panem, where a randomly chosen boy and girl both need to represent each of the twelve districts that the capitol is composed of. When Katniss little sister, Prim, is chosen to be the representative for District twelve, Katniss volunteers to take her place and fight along her male counterpart, Peeta. The reason I choose this book for my book report is because Katniss is not your typical 16 year old girl. Not only is she her family’s provider but she’s also skillful, strong, rebellious, and unsentimental heroine. These are characteristics that society would mostly link to a 16 year old boy rather than a girl.

Economics is the study of scarcity within a systems of rules. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’ can be translated into such, with hunger being scarcity and games being a system of rules. In the Hunger Games, we are introduced to a country called Panem. The country of Panem is divided into twelve different districts and the Capitol, where the government resides. Each district has their own different specializations and they have distinctive economies. The government regulates the trade and each district rely on trade from each other district and the Capitol for the goods they don 't produce. All of the districts and the Capitol is interdependent.

The Hunger Games is the story of a leader, President Snow, who rules from the Capitol where he oppresses the 12 districts that make up Panem. Democracy & freedom are replaced by a modern dictatorship based on surveillance, police oppression and a division of social classes. The rich and elite owning class thrives on the backs of the citizens of the Districts, who in contrast are close to starvation. This is evident in one scene where Katniss Everdeen states that it would take her days to prepare one meal that those living in the Capitol would eat. To preserve their social order, the Capitol relies on a massive police force called The Peacekeepers, who are always ready to repress any kind of uprising. They

Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the gloomy tale of a girl named Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence. In the movie, she volunteers to battle in a lethal tournament in which 24 tributes from ages 12 through 18 fight to their death for the amusement of the Capitol. In the future, North America, as a country, no longer exists. In its place has risen Panem, a nation divided into 12 districts. After randomly choosing a boy and a girl from each of the districts, a shady fixed government arena subjects them to a kill-or-be-killed hunt from which only one winner can arise. Every year, each district selects tributes to test their mental, physical, and emotional strength in a competition known as the Hunger Games. The Capitol’s purpose is to broadcast the tournament as entertainment and to reinforce the government's total power. When Katniss’s younger sister, Prim, is chosen as one of District 12's tribute, Katniss volunteers to take her spot. She trains under an always-inebriated former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson, to hone her killer instincts. Now, in order to remain alive the tournament and be crowned the Hunger Games victor, this young warrior must put all of her ability to the ultimate test.

Katniss Everdeen, of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games (2008), is a working class heroine whose upbringing leads to rebellion against her totalitarian government. Upon being thrust into the ‘Hunger Games’, devised to exercise control, Katniss utilises survival skills to outsmart, out-hunt and out-live her fellow ‘tributes’. The urge to survive has driven Katniss since her father’s death and her mother’s deterioration; “…blank and unreachable, while her children turn to skin and bones.” (p. 10) As well as hunting for food, Katniss recalls; “I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.” (p. 7) Her survival skills, both physical and psychological, are born of her background of poverty.

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!” is a famous quote said by Effie Trinket, an escort for the District twelve tributes. Effie said this quote before drawing the names from the drawing pool at the reaping. This quote was meant to give them hope and faith that they were not going to be chosen as a tribute in the hunger games. Throughout the novel, there were many roles, meanings, media, outward appearances, technology, and government significances towards the Hunger Games.

The movie or the book the Hunger Games came out with a bang when it first hit theaters or the shelves of the bookstores. It was dubbed as one of the best films or books to read, interestingly enough it was a remake of the stories or myths most people heard when they were younger, but modernized and turned into a collage of all the best roman and Greek stories. Suzanne Collins brilliantly combined the Greek and Roman influences to make the movie/book unforgettable. By using stories from the romans and Greeks, to the Greek warriors Suzanne Collins demonstrates how she really drew inspiration for the book and movie.

In Suzanne Collin’s trilogy The Hunger Games, the story focuses on the journey and struggles of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen within the dystopian society of Panem. Throughout the books, Katniss is torn between choosing to fight the injustice and tyranny that has long been a problem for the people of Panem, or to give in to the power of the Capitol in order to keep herself and more importantly her family safe. In the end she rises up and without really intending to, becomes the hero that has long been needed in order to create change in her society. Katniss is like a modern day Robin Hood, because she stands up for and ultimately leads the common people in a revolution against the oppressive Capitol, despite it putting her and her loved ones at risk for the greater good.

In the “Hunger Games”, citizens in thirteen districts are subordinates to the citizens of the capital. These subordinates were forced to work for the capital and were given no mercy — there were public beatings for crimes and even their kids were killed on a comical television show for the capital citizens. These ideas, which Suzanne Collins used in her book, can be traced to our own past. Similar to the forced labor and abuse the Capital imposed on the district members in the “Hunger Games”, blacks in early United States were treated very poorly. Ironically, many people living in the United States after the Revolutionary War were still oppressed, slavery still existed, and discrimination was prevalent. Slavery did get banned in the

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, there is a new post-apocolyptic country created called Panem which used to be North America, that is divided into 13 districts. The main character of the novel is a girl named Katniss Everdeen from District 12 who is put to the challenge of competing against 23 other girls and boys to the death in the annual Hunger Games. The Capitol, is who rules the 13 districts. They create unfair and strict policies, which once cause the districts to rise up and rebel.

Both of the stories 1984 and The Hunger Games are set in the future in a totalitarian government that is dictated by an inner party or group of people. A totalitarian government is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life. In 1984 the group that runs the government is the Inner Party, lead by Big Brother. There is no way of telling if Big Brother is a real person or just a symbol of the party, but Big Brother can monitor everything you do, say, or even think through telescreens and the thought police. In The Hunger Games the group that runs the government reside in the capitol, there is no name given for this party system, but they are lead by President Snow who acts as the Big Brother in this story. The government has a way of

For example, in the novel, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins the leaders from the Capitol show dehumanization on a grand scale with a callous disregard for the value of its citizen’s lives. The annual Hunger Games consist of twenty-four children ages twelve to eighteen, two from each of the twelve districts, who have to fight to the death. These Games occur in an arena which the game makers of the Capitol control with technology. The game makers design the arena to entertain the masses as well as to destroy the teenagers, both physically and psychologically. While the possibility of a scenario like the hyperbolic fictitious world of The Hunger Games is unlikely to happen, especially at such an extreme scale in today’s society, the conditions present in the book are, in fact, prevalent and exist in today’s society. Like her predecessors, Collins dystopian novel serves to warn today’s society. The unjust social hierarchy, the danger of abusive powers and the destructive force of humans stem or lead to dehumanization. In the games, the entire nation of Panem, which make up the twelve districts and the Capitol, watch as these kids fight each other to the death until only one victor is victorious. Leaders that reside in the wealthy Capitol, the body of elites that makes up the government, use the games to flaunt and strengthen their power over the districts by means of oppression and dehumanization to keep them in line.

The best book series in the world finally exist. It 's called the Hunger Games. Even people who hate reading love it since it is that good of a book. The first book in this series is called the Hunger Games and it 's the one I just finished reading. This book gives society a twist, and changes the way people think because finally, for once in a story, the female lead character is the one who can fight better. I 'm sick of all those stories where they portray women as weak and need a man to save them. I hate stories like that and hunger games is finally a story in which the woman is the one saving the man. I would recommend this book to anyone and I think that even if you hate books in general you should read this book sometime in your

As I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the story seemed familiar on a personal level although I had never read the book or saw the movie before. The descriptions of the lives of teenagers Cato, Katniss, Peeta, and Gale and their battle scenes was like a mixture of video-war games, ancient Roman gladiator battles, and some reality TV shows I’ve watched.