This Means War In every country, there are numerous people who are living a life of suffering at the fault of someone else. Through discrimination, deprivation and brutality, ill-minded superiors are maltreating the people they deem as beneath them. To fully learn and grow, a person needs adequate space, love, and living conditions. Without access to these essential needs, a person’s life will lack vital qualities. In order gain equality, someone must take a stand and fight for their rights. In Room by Emma Donoghue, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, major characters are kept in confinement and denied an suitable quality of life. Violence, hunger and enclosed space create an increasingly difficult lifestyle for the characters in Room and District 12. With no other option, several main characters are forced to fight back for their lives. Donoghue and Collins use the mistreatment of central characters in confinement to show how the denial of basic human rights leads to rebellion. Emma Donoghue holds major characters in Room held in confinement with a captor that has complete control over the quality of their lives. Ma, kidnapped at 19, has been trapped in Room for seven years. Over these years, life is not easy for Ma, especially with her son, Jack. While …show more content…
After decades of involuntary violence and mistreatment of the Districts, a rebellion is undoubtedly going to occur. As citizens are too afraid to stand up alone, they have unknowingly chosen Katniss as their symbol of the rebellion, which began at the reaping when they all united in raising three fingers in her honour. Katniss wholeheartedly disagrees with all of the Capitol’s morals, and she is not one to hide her distaste. At the end of the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta are the remaining two competitors, although there can only be one victor. Katniss has a different idea of how the games will
The boy tribute that is from her district is Peeta Mellark who she knew from long ago. Peeta confessed to the public that he loves her and that begins their friendship. Throughout the games, she watches as tributes are killed and a young girl named Rue is murdered. When this happens, Katniss kills Rue’s attacker. This is the first time that she has ever killed a person, so she takes it very hard. Rue was not only Katniss’s ally but her friend, she was Prim’s age and reminded her of her sister. So, when Rue was killed it struck Katniss deeply. By the end of the games she has come to love Peeta back and it comes down to the two of them. They refuse to kill each other, so they decided to eat berries that are poisonous but the capitol has to have a victor, so the capitol announces that they are both victors. When she did this, it was a direct punch to the capitol and it ignited a spark in the people, that began the process of a revolution. After she returns home, she realizes what her actions caused and that is the real reason that she went there. She was destined to be the Mockingjay, or the leader of the revolution against the capitol. She realizes that she is the only way that the people will unite and fight to
Can you imagine the feeling knowing that at anytime, a close one could be taken away. A best friend could be stolen. A family member could be killed. Even yourself could be sacrificed for nothing. Do you think that the emotions a family member may encounter, the sadness of an entire community, or even just the thought of dying, is worth it to provide a dominant government their “Hollywood ending”? Well, in the book “The Hunger Games” written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen lives in a dystopian society where her community is divided by 13 different groups. Each year, their government randomly selects two participants from each group to play in the Hunger Games, which is a fight to the death among the other participants. In the book, Katniss’
Much of the Hunger Games is centered around portraying a certain image, or identity if you will. The capital manipulates the weaknesses in their society and in their people to create an identity of unity and nationalism through the way they present the games to the districts of Panem. This idea of appearing to be one thing but really being another is ingrained in the society of Panem. District 12, in particular, maintains this image of complacency for the sake of survival, and Katniss is no exception to this.
Humanity is one of the many virtues we as humans believe we are born with. However, living in a world much like the one described in both The Hunger Games and The Road novels, some may argue that turning off one’s humanity is a necessity. Nevertheless, both novels prove that while some characters had to turn off their humanity in a horrific world like The Hunger Games and The Road, the two main characters of each book demonstrated how a barbaric world could not take that virtue from them.
Through the events of the book , Katniss steps up to fulfill the role of the Mockingjay , the ultimate symbol of rebellion . Following Gale's whipping , Katniss rationalizes that both of them have always been rebellious .' Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods"(130) are but few examples of Katniss rebellious actions even before setting foot in the arena . This rebelliousness continues to be a character trait , publicly exhibited in the arena as she threatens to commit suicide along with Peeta to deprive the Capitol from its victors . Katniss' brief romance with Gale is also a sign of her defiance and of her refusal to be Snow's pawn , Katniss deduces that she has chosen Gale instead of Peeta because " and a
However, forcing Districts to give up their resources isn’t enough for the the Capital. It demands the Districts to surrender one boy and one girl to go into the annual Hunger Games, an annual fight to the death, in order to prevent all out war. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the Hunger Games alongside Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because only one victor is allowed by the Capital. Because of this situation in the book, conformity and civil disobedience play a huge role in the Hunger Games.
When hunger games start the tributes (participates) pick up their packages and run. Katniss however, does not pick up her package and run just as Haymitch had advised her. She goes deep into the forest and tries to stay hidden from other tributes for fear that that might kill her. She’s afraid but she was also a skilled survivor so she tries to work on a plan of winning the games. She contemplates the odds of her survival, as an ally she had befriended earlier dries. During this journey she discovers her true self and the battle she was once having within herself changes to resentment towards the Capitol. She realizes that true enemy in the Capital. “Rue was death has to forced me that confront by the own fury against the cruelty. No way is
“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.
At the end of the Hunger Games, Katniss tells Peeta to eat the poisonous berries and they will die together, after it was announces that there could only be one winner. However, the Capitol needed a victor, because without one people may have started to realize how barbaric the games were, thus Katniss and Peeta were announced the winners of the Hunger Games. “I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it” (Collins 358). Government and companies may not see protests as legitimate until they take a hit from negative responses.
The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, and Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, are films with similar themes such as heroism, dystopian world and sacrifice. Both films involve killing of innocent lives by authorities in charge as a mean to find peace. The Maze Runner is about finding a cure of civilisation whilst the The Hunger Games uses the competitions in order to control the population and prevent an uprising. Katniss in the film is a 16 year old girl who volunteers as a tribute in the competition. Thomas is also a 16 year old Glader who was forced to be inside the maze by the Creators. The themes and filming techniques used by Gary Ross and Wes Ball in both in their will be compared in order to see the similarities. There are two
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has many characteristics of a dystopian society. Propaganda is used throughout the book to control the citizens of society. The people of the twelve districts have their Information, independent thought, and freedom restricted. The type of dystopian control present is corporate control.
Imagine if you lived in a place were everyday you had to fight to survive. This is exactly what the characters in The Game and in The Hunger Games had to do. In the science fiction book The Game written by Monica Hughes, which was about 10 people who were invited to a game, to see if they would be able to survive on a different environment. In the movie based on a book The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, was about twenty four people who had to participate in a life or death situation and only one could survive. Both of the authors help you understand tenacity, innovation, creativity.
As and only a deal, she requests that the leader of District 13, President Coin, to protect all of the winners of The Hunger Games, who were captured and imprisoned in the Capitol. She also demands to execute President Snow herself. Clinched alongside a brave rescue, Peeta and the others were saved from the Capitol. Though, Peeta has been brainwashed under hating Katniss, and tries to kill her upon their gathering or reunion in District 13. The rebels take control of all the districts and start an ambush on the Capitol itself, which Katniss may be a part of.
In the film ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross, Katniss Everdeen is an example of a leader who takes risks for the chance of change. Not just once but on numerous occasions Katniss steps up for what she thinks is right for herself, her District and Panem. The first risk is when Katniss volunteers to fight in place of her sister Primrose in the 74th edition of the Hunger Games "I volunteer as tribute!", without any hesitation her first instinct was to protect her family rather than herself. This is a true insight into the leadership status of Katniss because it shows she cares about others, and she refuses to let injustice harm those she loves. She willingly sacrificed her own life because she knew she had a much better chance of making a difference to
In the beginning, Katniss is living the hard life of her district. She goes to school and hunts so that her family has food. She has a younger sister named Prim and a mother, however it is time for the reaping which is when the Capitol picks names out of a bucket for one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death tournament where the winner gets fame and fortune. Prim gets chosen to participate in the games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place(22). A boy from their district named Peeta also gets chosen and Katniss realizes that he had given her bread when she didn’t have food for her family. They go to the Capitol and meet their mentor, Haymitch(56), who helps them train, then they go into the arena and battle. Peeta joins up with some Careers, children that trained for the Hunger Games all their lives, and tries to win but then he betrays them. The Gamemakers make a rule change and say that two tributes from the same district can win together so Katniss finds Peeta and helps him because he has been injured. After they are the only two people left the Gamemakers change the rule back to force Katniss and Peeta to fight each other, rather than fight, Katniss takes some poisonous berries, called Nightlock, she found in the arena and gives half of