Survive Survival The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is a novel based around 24 Tributes having to survive through the Games by killing each other. The book’s main character is Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old sharp shooting girl from District 12 who volunteered to be a tribute alongside a baker’s son, Peeta Mellark to participate in the Games. One theme in the book is Survival, Survival is about how someone can use their individual strengths or intelligence to help them survive and the importance of alliances to survival. One reason why Survival is the most significant theme is because the point of the Hunger Games is to survive. A second reason why Survival is the most significant theme is because in the Games, alliances play a big part into deciding who survives and who doesn’t. Lastly, Survival is the most significant theme because the people in the districts of Panem are trying to survive. Therefore the most significant theme in the story is Survival. …show more content…
When Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta’s mentor, gave them the last piece of advice before the Games began, he told them, “Stay alive” (139). Although there’s many things for Katniss and Peeta to worry about, instead of giving them advice about tactics and where to go, Haymitch still tries to explain that the whole objective of the Games is to survive and that you don’t have to try and kill everybody. In conclusion, surviving is a really important part of the Hunger Games and the Tributes are trying hard to do
In the novel, The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian young adult book that is based in Panem that is divided into twelve districts. Each year the districts have to send a boy and a girl into an arena to fight to the death. The novel’s protagonist is Katniss, who lives in the poorest district. Katniss makes the audience think of the important ideas of bravery, societal class and love.
In the novel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, survival is a real thing in the story. Suzanne Collins presents a story of life about how people needs to bet their life so they can save their family and save their own life in a death game. It can be seen in the novel how Katniss is trying to survive in the Qurter Quell when she reaped back for the second time to fight in the arena. She has to face the people are skilled and smart to kill, through all the traps, trials and other challanges of the game that could be more danger for her life. After the first Hunger Games she had through before, makes her need to be stronger and be more careful in facing the enemies or other tributes and choosing the ally. Her skill in using an arrow is important
The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins delineates that there are times when people believe that all hope is lost but only those who are strong will persevere through their darkest moments. Suzanne Collins portrays the theme throughout the novel with the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, as she struggles to endure her daily life and the annual Hunger Games. Collins displays the prodigious amount of persistence of Katniss Everdeen and her comrade, Peeta Mellark, which allows them to survive throughout the Hunger Games.
The key to survival is to never give up and have your mind set to do the impossible. In “The Hunger Games” Katniss Everdeen has to be one of the last survivors along her teammate, Petta. Katniss has to survive “The Hunger Games” for district 12 and for her to stay alive. Katniss has to survive the hunger games to return home to her family. If she wanted to fight for her life she had to seek for food, shelter, weapons, and anything possible that can improve her chances at staying alive . She relies on her hunting
In the Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that when people are feeling fear the do unexpected things that can affect them in a positive or negative way. The author, Suzanne Collins, shows this when Prim’s, Katniss’ sister, name is called for her to become a tribute. In the text it says, “One time, when i was in a blind in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wonder by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything.
In the future, the world is divided into districts. The Capitol, who demonstrates the districts how powerless they are, controls them all. Two tributes are chosen from every district to contribute in the Hunger Game. An arena that resembles a natural surrounding {wilderness, rain forest, desert, and so forth.) Here, the tributes need to attempt to survive and kill one another. The last person standing wins and can never be chosen for the Games again. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old and was chosen as "tribute" for the Hunger Games. She and another tribute, Peeta Mellark, who are the main characters in the movie, and together they must battle until the very end with twenty two different tributes from other districts areas on live TV.
Famous naturalist, Charles Darwin once said “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” In The Hunger Games there are 24 kids that must fight to the death in a big area. In Suzanne collins novel, The Hunger Games, the overarching theme is that people will do whatever it takes to survive demonstrated by the characters of Katniss, Foxface, and Peeta.
In the novel, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, there are many themes some of which include: survival, sacrifice and power, but in my opinion the most important theme of the novel is sacrifice. This is a futuristic dystopian novel, which takes place in a country called Panem (which used to be North America). After an uprising against the Capitol, District 13 lies in ruins and the Hunger Games are established as retribution. Every year one boy and one girl from each of the remaining 12 districts, (who are known as tributes), must “ fight to death” (Chapter 1, page 22, line 5) in a secluded area, devised by the Capitol, until “the last tribute standing wins”. (Chapter 1, page 22, line 6) Katniss Everdeen is a 16-year-old girl
The topic of Social Inequality has been around for thousands of years. The world, as we know, is full of different kind of people. Social inequality is characterized by the existence of an unequal distribution of wealth, respect, and opportunities. The world is divided in high, middle and lower class of people. The argument of Social Inequality is so trivial today, most of the people refuse to believe it even exist. The Hunger Games, an accurate book by Susan Collins, is a microcosm of what is going on in the world today. Social inequality occurs at all levels in The Hunger Games. The book is all about how the poor suffers while the rich enjoy. The nation of Panem, where wealth is heavily stored up in the hands of those living in the
From the above conclusion, the researchers wanted to convey some suggestions related to the understanding of literary works, especially novels, and which became the subject of analysis in the novel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, as follows
Social stratification is a concept used within sociology that explains the divisions and social inequalities of large groups of people within a particular society. The Hunger Games (2012) is a film that demonstrates this through amplifying how the power of the rich members in a polarised society are taking control of the poor and separating them in different districts which create specific social rankings. This essay will use the perspective of conflict theory to examine how Australian society is also effected by social stratification and therefore divided in social classes which effects their access to social equalities.
This theme also occurs during the main part of the book which is the actual games and the whole idea of the games is to survive and be the last one alive. There dropped into the arena with nothing and then they have to run to the middle of it to get supplies and weapons and that´s where most of them die.
In Collins’s novel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the main character, Katniss Everdeen has to struggle for survive for the second time in Quarter Quell, a game was made by the Capitol every twenty-five years once to celebrate the 75th Hunger Games. Katniss has to fight back to defending her life in this deadly game. It is not an easy thing to do by her, because in this game the opponents to be faced is not the ordinary people as her opponents in the last Hunger Games, rather they are the winners of each Quarter Quell who has been
As much as I don't want to watch the Games, especially this year, the Gamemakers don't give me a choice. I am forced to watch my best friend kill or be killed. Right now Katniss is on her way to the Capitol, to meet her Mentor, Haymitch. Haymitch is the one and only winner from District 12 and he’s supposed to help Katniss train, plan a strategy, and get sponsors to survive The Hunger
The Hunger Games has several themes, but one of the most dominant themes that carries throughout the entire novel is the theme of survival. From the very beginning of the first chapter, Collins introduces a dystopian world in which survival in the Districts does not come easily. From the perspective of her protagonist Katniss, Collins reveals just how difficult daily life in District Twelve and the 'Seam' can be; from scrounging for food, signing up for tesserae, learning how to trap and hunt, Katniss has been honing her survival skills for years before she ever set a foot in the Hunger Games arena.