Hunger In The Hunger Game

Near the beginning of this school year, my friend Bianca frequently asked me, “Are you going to finish that?” Initially I suggested that she buy herself something or pack lunch, but she always refused and went without eating. After reflecting, I realized that Bianca suffered from the plight of food insecurity. I was hit with a whirlwind of emotions… how could someone that I know not have the resources to feed herself. From that moment forward, I began packing a little extra each day. For the remainder of the school year, I always shared my food with her to ensure that having something to eat was not a concern for her. This daily ritual made me interested in researching whether others dealt with this same issue. Sparking my passion, my friend’s situation

Other problems with hunger are visible, at one passage of the movie Katniss’ friend Gale pulls out a freshly baked roll of bread and her reaction is enthusiastic,If her response to bread says anything about the food situation then it is that they are on the edge of starvation. Hunger isn’t the only issue shown. The children of District 12 are shown as unsanitary, showing the poor conditions in District 12. The signs of poverty and hunger are just the first signs at the inequality present in Panem.

Children in District 12 have no chances for education and have to work as an adult in order to feed their family. Katniss has to hunt illegally and even risk her life to get into the forest to find food for her family (Sparknotes, n.d.). Some other villagers are not able to hunt so that means Katniss’s family is luckier than many other families in the same district (Sparknotes, n.d.). When she is in the Capitol, the meal, which she is having, makes her remember about the basic meal at home. “Chicken and chunks of oranges cooked in a creamy sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the color of honey” (Collins, S., 2008, p.79). The luxurious meal shows the significant different in living standard because of the various dishes in the meal in compare with a usual daily bread in District 12. “I try to imagine assembling this meal myself back home” (Collins, S., p.79). At home, Katniss has to hunt for food, but here at the Capitol, people just sit there, wait for the meal is ready to be served.

Firstly, “The Hunger Games” is set in a futuristic period where war and rebellion have caused a serious problem with the development of society (or its progress). Basically, in the Hunger Games Universe, both men and women are thrown into a situation where the success of their families and hereditary lineages is based solely off of social status. Even in the beginning of the movie, it is made clear that people from differing districts cannot simply make normal exchanges and social interactions with each other due to the cruel and brutal nature of the social bar that was raised extremely high off the bat. In other words, in order to be viewed as successful in the Hunger Games universe, one must be in an elevated social class position so as to be respected and accepted by the upper-class members of society (those members being the men and women fortunate enough to be located in districts one, two, or three). This fact is highlighted in the scene where Peeta graciously gives Katniss a purposefully burnt loaf of bread in order to help her feed herself and her family alike. However, Peeta gets beaten for his act of kindness by his mother because bread is seen as the only way to efficiently make a stamp or impact in the society in which they found themselves living in. Therefore, food and clothing were always in high demand due to their value in making connections with

After reading the extensive “The New Face of Hunger” (Tracie McMillan), my eyes became more open to the overall issue of hunger, faced by many people today. In a few words, I was absolutely shocked by the true meaning and examples provided of what exactly food insecurity is. Honestly speaking, when I hear the word “hunger” I think of a human who has no food, living on the streets. “The New Face of hunger” brought to my attention that food insecurity is much more than simply having no food. In fact, “In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat” (The New Face of Hunger). Not only was I able to see the harsh

Sahar Ahmadi Philosophy 1 Professor Llaguno July 29, 2014 Utilitarianism in The Hunger Games “All for one and one for all.” This idea of serving the majority was an idea presented by Jeremy Bentham. The idea coined the term “Utilitarianism”, or the act to promote the greatest good (pleasure) for the greatest number. Bentham believed in quantity over quality, or the more frequent experiences of pleasure and satisfaction over the actual quality of the pleasure and satisfaction itself. John Stuart Mill rejected this idea that Bentham proposed.

In the story hunger author Anne Lamott introduces herself and her struggle with food addiction and her battle with eating disorders that she suffered in the early part of her life. In this story she talks about her life how she was growing up, her personal obsession with food, her battle with alcoholism, and addiction to eating. Lamott in the short story hunger also covers her struggle for life with the eating disorder bulimia. The author throughout her story learns that her addiction and her battle with alcoholism were only symptoms of deeper lying problems, and eventually the manner in which she overcame all of that against all odds. The road was not simple but as you

Katniss lives in Sector 12, the poorest district in their world. There are electric fences that barricade the people from going into the forest. She cannot work to afford to feed her family, so instead she goes outside of the fence at a time that it is unelectrified and she hunts for animals to feed her family and survive. She doesn't usually even get much of the food that she gets for her family and usually takes the least amount she can have without starving. She is very kind and generous to her family with no return.

“Hunger”, by Lan Samantha Chang, is a cautionary tale of an immigrant Chinese family in this complex story about unrelenting hunger, oppression, love and loss. Narrated by Min; the deeply unhappy and obedient wife of Tian, a gifted violinist, finds work as a music teacher in New York, but ultimately fails to land a permanent job at the school. Driven by personal failure and his unrelenting hunger for the violin Tian cruelly forces his two daughters, Anna and Ruth to play the violin, so they can follow in his footsteps. Tian’s inability to separate himself from his violin ends up destroying his family. Chang uses Tian’s obsessive hunger for the violin as a symbol of his identity, showing us that we must be careful

“District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety,” Says Katniss Everdeen from the “Hunger Games” trilogy. Katniss is saying that while it might be “safe,” the community there is so poor that starving to death is definitely an option. Katniss keeps her family alive by illegally leaving the boundaries of the district to hunt birds and other animals such as squirrels and sells what her family will not eat, in order to get money to buy bread and other necessities. If Katniss did not break the laws she, as well as her family, most likely would have starved to death shortly after the death of her father. In katniss’ case breaking the rules to hunt is morally sound, and benefits the economy of the seam, where she lives, and keeps her family alive by

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.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be forced to survive in the wild, like in the Hunger Games? Could you survive without the daily essentials that we use everyday? Well that’s what they do to Katniss and many others. It’s harder for them to survive because they don’t have water, food, or shelter. Which means that they have to find their shelter, hunt for food, find water, and make weapons.

Furthermore, Katniss would have not survived without sponsors. Katniss receives many gifts from sponsors, including: the burn medicine, soup, broth, sleep syrup, and the crescent bread. The burn medicine that Katniss receives saves her life by healing the wound. Before getting the medicine Katniss could not even lift her leg, let alone walk. ‘I almost faint at the sight of my calf. The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters’ (pg. 217). Another gift that Katniss receives is the broth. This does not really save her live but does take the hunger out of her. The crescent bread was from district 11 and was meant to be a gift for Rue, after they saw what Katniss did for her, the bread got delivered to her. The last few gifts were for Peeta,

This is clearly a comment on the issues of society. The first and most obvious of the examples of the commentary is shown through the extreme poverty in which Katniss and most of the other districts live in. Katniss says after she volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games “I start to panic. “Don’t let them starve!” I cry out, clinging to his hand.”

The theme of the book The Hunger Games is, that survival is not something you learn, but rather it is an intelligence and ability that is just in you. Katniss had the will to survive, and it was something that came fairly naturally to her. Also, she had the intelligence to figure out the motive of the things the Gamemakers and people back at the Capitol had for the things they did. This helped her to make it through the Hunger Games because it comes down to more than just physical abilities when there is a situation like Katniss was in. “What is Haymitch doing?