Hunger Games Dystopia

Another important idea that Katniss makes the audience think of is Love. She helps the audience see this because the main driving point of the novel is Katniss’s love for Prim. This is the reason she volunteered for her at the reaping and why she is in the Hunger Games in the first place. This love is shown when she buys Prim her goat, “She (Prim) was so excited she started crying and laughing all at once.” This tells us that Katniss was willing to spend her money on a goat for Prim that she could’ve spent on something else that would’ve given them better prospects or saved the money. Instead, she chose to give her sister something that she could look after, love and give her lasting memories of fun and happiness. Katniss also shows love for Peeta when she nurses him back to health in the cave. Even when she thought that their love was fictional she still fought to get to him and helped save his life when he was

Before the games start, we find out that Peeta – the male tribute from District 12, has long ago developed romantic feelings for Katniss. They’re advised by their mentor to play along with that outburst, in order to gain more wealthy sponsors. Their story gains a big amount of attention and the Capitol portrays them

Peeta helps Katniss later on in the games after the members of his alliance are killed. They fake their love for each other in order for both of them to survive. Rue shows Katniss how to get rid of the people camped below her. After Katniss gets stung by very dangerous bees she passes out and Rue helps heal the bee stings. Katniss leaves District 12, her home, and travels to the capital. After her training for the Hunger Games is done she is sent into the arena. Characters that try to prevent her from staying alive are the Game Makers. They will try to steer the competitors away from the edge of the arena with bizarre

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 Hunger Games is full of violence, murder, and profanity but the theme of it is hope. Hope is expecting or desire for certain things to happen. When you look at the Games where the Capitol can execute 24 children each year but they let them fight to give them hope. In the darkness of the Games, Peeta is the one who gave Katniss hope by being by her side wanting them to win gave her someone to believe in. “ I don’t want them to change me in there.

Research Paper During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It is inferred that he believed that revolution could only be triumphant if there were violence and sacrifices. Many would argue that a solution can be attained through peace and non-violent practices. The theory of civil disobedience coincides with the concept of non-violent protesting.

To bring us to speed here is a recap of the story thus far: Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) a resident of the impoverished mining province of District 12, controlled by the dictator of the Capitol President Snow. As punishment for a past rebellion, the Capitol requires all 12 districts to nominate two teenage “tributes”—one girl and one boy—to participate in the Hunger Games. These games are played to-the-death with only one survivor. In the previous movie, Katniss volunteered in place of her sister who was chosen to represent District 12. The male tribute, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a young baker was chosen as the male tribute. The catch is that Peeta has been in love with Katniss from when they were both young. She uses this emotion

“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.

Katniss and Peeta have to work even harder to overcome the bias against them and win the hearts of the sponsors and the crowd. Being as poor as they are comes with some benefits and some disadvantages. They have been under fed most of their lives which means they are skinny and weak compared to the other tributes. Living in district 12 also gives them the natural sense of survival. Katniss spends a lot of time hunting to survive which is basically what the hunger games are. Peeta also uses skills from his trade, like his cake decorating, to give him an upper hand in the games. Just like in their everyday lives Katniss and Peeta are spending every waking moment during the games fighting to survive. Because of the social class system set up by the Capitol people are treated very unfairly based on where they were born.

Katniss witness first hand how privileged the Capitol is over her district. Upon starting the journey as being a tribute, Katniss reflects on an inability to support her family back home. “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?”

During the game Katniss have to pretend that she loves Peeta, but inside she knows that her real love was Gale and that he was waiting for her. It was hard for all of them because Gale was outside seeing how Peeta kiss his girlfriend, and for Peeta because he knows that Katniss was in love with another boy and not of him, and to Katniss because maybe she was with Gale, but passing time with Peeta and look how he tries to saved her life make her get confused about her feelings so she focused in what is good for her, and not of what she real want.

In Gary Ross’s, The Hunger Games, the main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark go from rags to riches after winning the Games together. Every year, two tributes are selected from each of the 12 districts and sacrifice their bodies to represent the war fought between the Capitol and the people. Throughout the movie, Katniss and Peeta both have a winning mindset and are determined to win. According to Warks’ idea of “gamespace”, winning is everything and nothing else matters. We see this lens specifically during the Tribute Parade, where Katniss and Peeta represent District 12 with confidence and heart. Every little aspect of the Hunger Games can be considered “levels” where each layer of the game is trying to rank

In The Hunger Games, there are many significant plots show Katniss and Peeta try hard to overcome many difficulties. To begin, Katniss has a big conflict with Career Tributes who

Imagine living in a society where the government watches their citizens’ every move. A place where even the smallest mistakes and acts of independance are punishable by death. According the many sci-fi, fantasy authors this is what it would be like living in a dystopian future. Dystopian societies are undesirable, fearful societies usually due to a government who does not care about its citizens. Dystopian fiction is a fast growing genre of literature. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth are both books which take place in a dystopian future. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian North America, called Panem. Panem is separated into the Capitol, where all the rich and government workers work, and twelve districts,

Before they begin celebrating, the Capitol diminishes the rule that was previously in place, which allowed for two winners from the same district, and returned to the original rule in which only one tribute shall be crowned victor. Neither Katniss nor Peeta gave in to the controlling and evil plans of the Capitol, which called for either of them to turn on the other, and Katniss unselfishly suggested that they both eat the poisonous Nightlock berries, leaving no victor. Here they both demonstrate great courage and passion, as they are about to eat the berries when the Capitol gives in and allows them both to be victorious. Katniss and Peeta defy that violence is necessary to gain their independence as Fanon suggests. Rather than violently fighting until one of them remains, they understand that if this were to happen the Capitol would have been pleased; however, instead Peeta and Katniss use peace and intellect to first act on what would strongly annoy the Capitol, having no winner, forcing the Capitol to have the final decision, two winners or no winners. Living under the totalitarian rule of the Capitol, participating in these games in which, the most important key to survival is to kill, Katniss and Peeta definitively defied Fanon and provided a strong, symbolic message to all of the districts and the Capitol that change was headed its way.