The Hunger Games By Peeta Mellark

In the movie and/or book The Hunger Games, the main character is Katniss Everdeen. In the movie, she is hunting in the woods right outside of district 12, the place where she was born and raised. When Effie Trinket comes to select a tribute for district 12, her little sister is chosen but she has the courage to volunteer for her instead. When it is time for them to go into the arena, she has to show physical strength because she has to be quick and run as fast as she can to get to the weapons and get away from the middle of the arena. She shows a-lot more physical strength when she kills people so they will not kill her. Then she shows some mental strength when she kills people or sees people get killed because it is hard to un-see things

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.

In the film, The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross shows the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen as a strong well-skilled District 12’s female tribute who carries hope along to survive in the arena among other tributes to rebel against an oppressive government control. Throughout the film we can see how Katniss gets motivated by her loved ones back at home as well as her District 12’s members. For instance, Katniss’s younger sister, Prim gives strength when she gives the mocking jay pin

“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone,” said by the political economist Henry George. The meaning of this quote is that things work better when there is equality, and this relates to The Hunger Games theme of inequality between the poor and the rich. As seen in The Hunger Games, anyone who didn 't live in the capital was living in poverty. The only way to get out of poverty was to win The Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins tells the story of, Katniss Everdeen, a young teenage girl representing District 12 in the Hunger Games alongside her partner, Peeta Mellark. The Hunger Games is a tournament where twenty- four people, two from each district fight for their lives in an arena to entertain the Capitol, there is only one victor. Throughout the Hunger Games Katniss’ survival is very important. Haymitch, Cinna, and Peeta all played a key role to ensure Katniss Everdeen’s survival. The sponsors and skills Katniss gained, the impressions she made and the need of her to be desirable are all key elements that ensure her survival in the Games. These factors are heavily influenced by Haymitch, Cinna and Peeta’s need to keep Katniss

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.

In the “Hunger Games”, citizens in thirteen districts are subordinates to the citizens of the capital. These subordinates were forced to work for the capital and were given no mercy — there were public beatings for crimes and even their kids were killed on a comical television show for the capital citizens. These ideas, which Suzanne Collins used in her book, can be traced to our own past. Similar to the forced labor and abuse the Capital imposed on the district members in the “Hunger Games”, blacks in early United States were treated very poorly. Ironically, many people living in the United States after the Revolutionary War were still oppressed, slavery still existed, and discrimination was prevalent. Slavery did get banned in the

Katniss runs off instead of staying and fighting for the resources that were left in the middle of the arena like everyone else, and decides to stay on her own. Many of the twenty-four tributes die that first day. Katniss makes her camp in a far end of the arena but is attacked by a wall of fire and fireballs being shot at her by the Gamemakers (who are the people that control everything that happens in the games), driving her closer to the center of the arena. That night, she gets cornered in a tree by the Career Tributes who are the tributes from the more wealthy districts that train all their life for the games and volunteer to participate. Katniss climbs up the tree and they can’t reach her so they decided to wait below until she eventually gets hungry or something and has to go back down.

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, the main character Katniss is place to compete against twenty three other kids both boys and girls in order to survive. Katniss is a strong sixteen year old girl, who is far more mature than her age. Katniss is the provider in her family, which consist of herself, her mother and her little sister Prim. She is very protective over her sister and volunteers to take her place in the hunger games. Katniss is the person her family depends on for everything, but in a game like the hunger games, where life is at stake, and someone has to compete against others in order to survive, it is hard to survive without the help of others in some way. Katniss is able to survive the Hunger Games because of a

Three important qualities that Katniss Everdeen has in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are: the ability to survive, the ability to listen to advice and her compassion for others. These qualities affected both Peeta Mellark and Rue. This story is set in the future in an evil totalitarian led country of Panem, ruled by the Capitol, where two teenagers (tributes) are sacrificed every year from each of the districts in a ballot to fight one another to the death in the Hunger Games. These games are broadcast on TV to all the districts to warn them from rebelling against the government and are streamed to the Capitol as a form of entertainment. Katniss volunteers to save her younger sister Prim and Peeta is selected by ballot.

In the dystopian society that is Panem, Katniss and other tributes exert as much power as they possibly can. The tributes that are against the hunger games exert power to try and turn people away from The Games, the main characters that try to do this are Katniss and Peeta. Some ways that they try to exert power against The Capitol are; Peeta telling Caesar he likes Katniss during his interview, Katniss taking care of rues dead body and the two of them in the end choosing that they would die together. The exertion of power by the tributes represents how even in a dystopia people can be made to feel sympathetic of others and that when courage and faith is used in the right way, people can make a difference to how things are.

The Hunger Games are a series of events in which a male and a female, which are also called tributes, from twelve districts compete to stay alive. The tributes must use their smarts, talents, and outsmarting personalities to fight for their survival. Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old woman from District Twelve, faces life threatening challenges in order to stay alive, her decisions could cause her own demise, leave her family with everlasting disbelief, sorrow, and misery. If Katniss does not make wise decisions, her beloved sister, Primrose, could grow up motherless. In contrast, if she makes sensible decisions, she could return home to live in wealth and never see her family starve.

The country of Panem is divided in to thirteen districts and a Capitol. Traveling between the districts is forbidden, making communication and knowledge about other districts limited. Government’s totalitarian rule over the country tightened after the rebellion of the districts, thus demonstrating the absolute power that the government have over the people of Panem. The Capitol passed a new law forcing the districts to participate in “The Hunger Games”. A yearly blood sport, where two tributes— a male and a female— are forced to fight to the death. To further torment and demonstrate their absolute power over the people of the districts, the government forces the districts to treat the Games as a national holiday. The story’ protagonist, Katniss is a girl from district twelve. District twelve is arguably the poorest district of the nation of Panem. Her father died in a mine explosion when the protagonist was eleven years of age. Being the eldest of two children, she was forced to replace the bread winner. She learned how to hunt for food in the forest —which is forbidden— at an early age to feed her sister Prim and her mother. Her sister is then chosen to participate in The Hunger Games, which Katniss volunteers to replace her place as tribute.

Katniss Everdeen, winner of the 74th Hunger Games, risked her life to save her little sister Prim. Set in a dystopian future, where North America has been divided, where the wealthy live in the Capital while the 12 districts provide them with whatever they demand. This is a world in which Katniss and her friends and family live in. On top of that comes the Hunger Games, an annual event where people are taken from each district, thrown into an arena and forced to battle until there is only one remaining survivor. It was not Katniss who was chosen to compete, but instead, her 12 year old sister Prim. Katniss would not stand for this. Instead, she volunteered to take her place in the games, knowing full well Prim would never survive and most

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.