Red Queen Book Report

Another connection between these two texts is the protagonists being portrayed as underdogs. This is probably why I favoured the protagonists and wanted them to win their games (Hunger games and Hunting game). Both the texts have confident and ruthless villains that believe the victims are their puppets. In the Hunger Games, this is the Capital city and predominantly President Snow. It is The Capital who choose to run The Hunger Games and they believe that the tributes from the lower districts have a very slim chance at winning.

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 book series by Suzanne Collins, differs in few ways from Veronica Roth’s Divergent. The Hunger Games lead role, Katniss Everdeen, lives in a world of few choices. The government controls the lives of everybody in the 12 districts. When Katniss’ little sister, Primrose, is chosen to fight in the annual Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She is forced to fight and forced to kill, all to survive. This competition results in the people fearing not only their government, but also their futures. Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion against the

     Redwall is about a young mouse named Matthias. He lived in an abbey called Redwall. Redwall was a nice, peaceful place until a rat called Cluny the Scourge came with his horde and tried to take it over. The night before the citizens of Redwall knew that Cluny was coming, Matthias and Brother Alf had caught a giant fish that was big enough to feed all of the animals inside of Redwall so they had a big feast. When Matthias and Constance the badger were taking some of the animals who lived outside of the abbey home, they saw Cluny and his horde rolling past in a hay cart so they went back to the abbey to warn everyone.

In the story their are essentially two bloodlines: Silver and Red. and they are quite literally those colors. It reminds me of the Greek gods from the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. In his story, the gods bled gold ichor “the blood of the gods.” Mare, the leading character, sees the silvers as gods, “In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.” (Aveyard, pg.11)

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held by lies”, quoted by Dorothy Allison. Everyone probably remembers their parents expressing their disapproval towards lying. Yet, everyone has disobeyed them by lying and have learnt the upsetting consequences. However, do people lie to themselves? Sadly, yes, but not many people are aware of it. This commonly practiced action is known as self-deception. To advocate others about the dangers of self-deception, Victoria Aveyard has written “The Red Queen” which mainly revolves around this theme. She introduces the novel with a glimpse of prejudice. The world is divided into two distinct groups based on blood. Red blood means ordinary and silver blood means one possesses powers,

When the reader begins reading the novel, they are able to see how the protagonist Mare is shaped by her cultural surroundings. One night she sneaks out of the palace with Cal to go see her family. When she sees her family again, they question whether she has forgotten who she is. As Mare is being questioned by her family she argued," Give me a knife and I'll settle this right now." Then she adds," I'll show you what color I bleed," (pg. 159). Mare is proving to them that being forced to be a silver princess isn't making her forget who she really is. She knows she is raised Red and she is not going to let anything change that.

he book Red Queen takes places in the kingdom of Norta, in the future. Norta consists of Prince State, King State, and Regent State. The kingdom of Norta has people with red blood, and silver blood. The people with silver blood have powers and they are looked upon as regal and special. Most silvers find themselves better reds, and reds don’t like this. In each on state there is a main city or main cities. The main city for the Prince State is Delphie. Delphie is modern day Philadelphia and a lot of Silvers live there. The main city for King State is Summerton, right underneath Summerton is the Stilts. Summerton is where a lot of Silvers live, and the Royal family stays there for the summer. Summerton is very regal, clean, and nothing reds

Throughout European colonization in Canada Aboriginals were pressured to abandon their cultural identity and assimilate into western civilization. Aboriginals had inhabited the land for centuries; Aboriginals had already established their own distinct trade networks, social hierarchies and spiritual beliefs. Canadian colonization threatened the existence of Aboriginal culture; Europeans strove to achieve civilization in Canada and coerced “uncivilized” Aboriginals to adopt a Eurocentric way of life. This paper will argue that, a Marxist critique, of “A Red Girls’ Reasoning” demonstrates the persecution of Aboriginal culture in a Eurocentric society. Christine’s mixed race heritage enables her to play a role as a transgressor of rigid class, race and gender distinctions, representing her struggles as a microcosm of the imbalance between European and Aboriginal culture.

The book that I read for the truman report was Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. This book is about Mare Barrow and her family who are reds that serve the sliver elite. The silvers have supernatural abilities that make them nearly gods. Mare does what she can to help out her family until her 18th birthday when she gets set way to the war where her brothers have been sent in the past years. In a twist of fate she gets sent to the castle where she discovers her own power, but her blood is red. To keep the secret the king forces her into the role of a lost silver princess and betroths her to his son. As Mare is living the silver world she finds herself helping the Scarlet Guard, the leaders of the red rebellion. Every action

The color red is used prevalently in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a motif to emphasize the dystopia world. It also serves as a symbol to represent several meanings. Many connotations are associated with the color red. Red illustrates positive feelings from love and passion to negative feelings such as anger and hate. Not only that, as Moses (2007) describes, it is a color which represents blood and violence, creates emotional intensity, and to some extent also “evoke erotic feelings” (p.35). Overall it can be concluded that the color red is deeply related with humans and “epitomizes human vitality and most above all, power.” (Roland, 2013). The role of red successfully creates dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale by incorporating several symbolic meaning including fertility and love—themes related to the core of the story.

In literature, the color red symbolizes many things, each with its own emotional impact. Red can be associated with violence and bloodshed, or it can be associated with love and intense emotions. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred, chosen to be a “baby-maker” for a couple she was assigned to, desires to escape the dystopian society that she lives in. Thus, Margaret creates a fictional government that uses totalitarianism, violence, and the reoccurring pattern of the color red to illustrate the negative impact it has on women, especially the Handmaids.

With dystopia being a present theme in both George Orwell’s, 1984 and Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, both titles share similarities and contrasts to one another. Even though these books were written decades apart, they share similarities in the government control and the presence of poverty in the settings. But, both books contradict one another as futuristic settings are viewed differently depending on when the books are written, as well as the remembrance of past struggles in the societies. The seeds of a dystopian theme are found in 1984 and The Hunger Games, presenting similarities and differences from in both books, even though the books were written decades a part.

Dystopian literature adheres to certain conventions; the theme of a dystopian future typically encompasses a severely repressed society, with socio-political dysfunction and class stratification. Themes of surveillance, censorship and personal independence have been established by authors such as George Orwell, and are recurrent throughout 2008 novel “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, although Orwellian dystopia and conceived ideas of freedom are juxtaposed in an intriguing fashion. “The Hunger Games” revolves around the notion of the various districts of Panem offering in tribute one young man and woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice, Panem being the nation that was established during an unknown period of time, and the pageant of honor being the barbaric means of controlling its citizens. Whilst more recent dystopian literature derives heavily from Orwellian conventions in some respects, it arguably differs greatly in others, redefining to an extent the genre.

In Carol Ann Duffy’s “Little Red Cap,” taken from her collection The Worlds Wife, Duffy incorporates her feminist views on life to help develop Red-Cap’s character into an independent woman. In her work, Duffy intends to illuminate for the audience that woman are more powerful than they are perceived by society. In the poem, she writes about a young girl at the peak of her childhood, who is about to enter into the next phase of her life. The young, inexperienced girl describes the beginning of her transformation into adulthood after losing her innocence to “The Wolf.” The loss of her innocence contributes to the realization that she no longer needs an old, no good wolf. She gains the courage and reflects on how her life changes dramatically after her departure from the wolf. The poem “Little Red-Cap," written in The World’s Wife, closely relates to certain aspects of the original fairy tales written by The Grimm Brother and Charles Perrault. Duffy’s version of “Little Red Cap” is a rewrite of the original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” Duffy incorporates her strong feminist views by allowing Red-Cap to initiate her encounter with the wolf and to use him for gaining knowledge for her career and sexual desires. These aspects contribute to the development of Red-Cap’s character into a more independent woman to contradict the oppression of women in the past and present generations, and allowing her to offer suggestions for women in the future.