The Control Of Power: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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’

In a life where one must rebel to stand up for what is right. In a world where there is only one government. In a game to kill or be killed. Who truly has the power? In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, power is shown in many parts of the book. Although the government is initially successful at controlling everyone’s lives in the Districts, as Katniss’ journey of survival progresses in the Hunger Games, her rebellious actions damage the Capitol’s power. This causes her to prove the Capitol that they do not own her, and she has self-power. Throughout the book, Suzanne Collins portrays that everyone has certain control. Collins uses the Districts, the rebellions, and the Capitol to get this message across to the readers.

Each year there is one male and one female chosen from each district to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Prime, Katniss, Gale, and Peeta are all from district 12 and when the time comes to pick a participant, Prime, Katniss’s sister is chosen. Katniss then volunteers to take over for her beloved sister, and Peeta is chosen from the boys side. They are then rushed to the capital to start their training for the games. Peeta works at the bakery so he is good at camouflage and throwing heavy things. Katniss if very good at archery and with a bow. Their job is to get sponsors while they are at the capital. When they go in to be evaluated, Katniss shocks the sponsors by shooting an arrow into the apple in a man’s hand when they underestimated her. That earned her a very high evaluation score and more sponsors. Peeta then claims to have a crush on Katniss in hopes of making her look more desirable to get more sponsors as well. While being pitted against tributes that have trained for this for their entire lives, people from the capital and all over are watching the games on a television. Katniss relies on her ability to shoot a bow and knowledge of hunting while hiding from the

This quote is showing the power the Capitol has and whatever they do no matter how bad it is there is nothing you can do and even if you do you will pay a severe consequence. In the hunger games they were able to prove there power by destroying district 13 so that they can intimidate the other 12 capitols so if they make any threats to the Capitol they will pay the price each district left is being forced to fight in the hunger games and as much as this anger each person of each district there is nothing to do but either cooperate in the hunger games while killing innocent people or suffer in misery while having to watch them die or if not involved in the hunger games having to live a life of unhappiness and pain just managing to live day by

First of all, at the District 12 reaping, a young woman from the Seam volunteered out of love for her sister to endeavor through the unknown. That woman was Katniss Everdeen, she and her family were of great poverty and would never expect to live the luxury like at the Capitol for even one day, but Katniss eventually did. She volunteered to enter the Arena in replacement for her

She gives Peeta the poisonous berries to consume so that both of them can die, meaning there will be no winner. She is gambling that they will either be alive or dead together. However, she acknowledges that the Capitol needs a winner in order to follow their rules and keep the audiences entertain. Consequently, Katniss humiliates the Capitol by forcing it to break the rule of allowing two contestants to stay alive and showing that the Capitol cannot control every situation. Collins portraits

The next morning the tributes are taken to the arena and the games begin. Each tribute is outfitted with a special suit and given a tracker so that they can be tracked throughout the arena. Each tribute is also allowed one small token from their district and, knowing this, Cinna pins the Mockingjay pin on Katniss before she leaves.Katniss is placed in an elevator alone and rises through a cylinder into the arena.

The reaping determines who goes into the hunger games. Two people from each district are chosen and sent to fight in an arena where the winner returns home to their district. The winner’s district gets gifts mainly food for the people in the district. The Games put is a punishment for the 12 districts and to remind them of the Dark Days. The games are also to remind them what will happen to them if they try to be like the 13th district that tried to rebel against the capital.

While the Capitol is wealthier, there is some districts that are more privileged than others therefore they can train their tributes so they can do great in The Hunger Games; just like in the modern society not everyone is privileged to go to school or college. Another thing point is the video Occupy Wall Street that shows the unrighteous division of the 1% rich and 99% of the working class. In the novel, the working class encounters many problems such as lack of food, clothes and shelters; while the 1% were living the life. To conclude, another point that is related to today’s society is child soldiers I feel like the government choosing a child between the age of 12 and 18 is related to what was happening in Africa where children were forced to fight against one

The nation of Panem is a rich Capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in line and to show how powerful they are, they force each district to send one boy and girl from ages 12 to 18 to fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen is a simple girl from district 12 who is struggling to keep her family from death’s grip of starvation, and her one motivation in life is to keep her little sister safe at all costs. So when her sister Prim is reaped to compete in the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss doesn’t hesitate to volunteer to take her place. With her fellow tribute Peeta Mellark she ventures into the Capitol to prepare and compete in the games. When a sudden interview turns Peeta and Katniss into star cross

In the Hunger Games, one young male and one young female are randomly selected from each District, or town, every year to go into war with one another. Only one of the twenty-four make it back out of the game alive. The mayor announces the chosen ones every year at a ceremony known as the reaping, where he explains the history and purpose of the games. There was a war in the past between the Capitol and the Districts. Since the Capitol won, they hold the Hunger Games in honor of their victory. The story mostly focuses on a specific Hunger Games tribute, Katniss Everdeen, who chose to volunteer for her sister who was originally chosen as tribute. Katniss and District 12’s boy tribute, Peeta, are shipped off to train for the games for a few weeks in order to learn more about how the game is played and how the Capitol actually has a huge hand on who wins depending on their likeability. People who live in the Capitol actually send survival gifts in the games, which is the key to winning.

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

The Hunger Games are literally a fight to the death in which each of the 12 districts sends too tributes, one male and one female. Being entered into the Games means either fortune and fame or unavoidable death. Katniss Everdeen volunteered for her little sister Prim when she got chosen. And the male tribute was Peeta Mellark, for district 12. Katniss knew Petta when he trew a piece of bread to her when it was raining.

After the Dark Days, when Panem was in rebellion against it’s Capitol, the Hunger Games were established. Every year in reminder of the district’s infancy, one girl and one boy would be chosen to participate. In a vast outdoor arena, the tributes would fight to the

Catching Fire, a novel in The Hunger Games trilogy, showcases the 75th annual hunger games, where the remaining victors from past games are placed in an arena to fight to the death once more. The creators of the games belong to a group known as the Capitol. “The Capitol is a tyrannical dictatorship, led by President Snow, which holds total political and economic dominance over Panem, enforcing its rule through an army of Peacekeepers, capital punishment, propaganda and the Hunger Games (“The Capitol.” The Hunger Games Wiki, thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/The_Capitol.)." The tributes partaking in the games are provided a mentor to guide them in any way possible. Katniss and Peeta, the tributes of district 12 in the 74th annual hunger games are granted Haymitch as their mentor. He as well as many other major characters (i.e Effie Trinket, Gale Hawthorne, Primrose Everdeen ) become extremely important parts of Katniss and Peeta’s lives. In the beginning of the novel, there’s a substantial shift in Katniss’ feelings towards the Capitol that affects the outcome of the novel drastically. The novel unveils the characters feelings in regard to the capitol and how their feelings change throughout the book. Many aspects within Catching Fire contribute to the overall growth and shift in Katniss’ character.