The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist in The Hunger Game series, is one of the survivors of the hunger game. Katniss comes from district 12, the poorest area in the whole countries. The character’s image is tough and strong because she wants to protect her family from any dangers. Therefore, she volunteers to replace her sister in the hunger game to protect her. She even become the symbol of resistance (the Mockingjay) of the war to the Capitol during the revolution. For people in the Panem, Katniss is the victor of the hunger game, the hope, who survives from the torture and poverty. The image of Katniss represents people who fight for survival in the real world. People sometimes need to give up something when they faced difficulty, like Katniss, she makes efforts to fight with the government.

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.

When one loves a person or thing dearly, then they have the tendency to do almost anything they can to protect and save them from whatever harm they come across. Katniss volunteered for the games knowing she was saving her sister from a terrible fate. She made a promise that she would try her best to win the Hunger Games, but her confidence in her own ability to kill another person was minimal. She did not want to get any blood on her hands but knew that in order to win she would be forced to. The author of Genocidal Killer, Crispin Sartwell recognized situations like these when he said, “your goodness, like mine, has little to do with who you are and everything to do with the social conditions you find yourself in” (Sartwell). The circumstance Katniss found herself in was full of violence, pain, and ruthlessness which further contributed to the tainting of her

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.

“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.

It all starts when Katniss’s father dies in a mine explosion leaving Katniss alone with her mother who becomes depressed and young sister, Prim, by themselves. The death of her father force Katniss to become the family provider and her little sisters’ guardian. Thanks to the skills of hunting and foraging that her father had taught her before passing away, Katniss was able to provide food for her family and stay alive during the games. Some of the things she did to provide for her family were “stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet.” (19) In today’s

Most people have heard of the Hunger Games, but don’t know the true meaning. People say it’s a book (or movie) about innocent people getting slaughtered. It may look like that but there is so much more depth. When authors write books, they add their perspective and beliefs. It could be about government, religion and many more controversial topics. In the Hunger Games, the author Suzanne Collins shows what she thinks about government. She does this by relating the Hunger Games to the gladiators and Ancient Roman times. Even the names of characters relate. Hunger Games may not be a sweet and innocent book, but there is a good lesson behind all the violence.

Now open your eyes; this all seems unrealistic doesn’t it? In “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen experiences all of this in result of volunteering as tribute in place of her sister. As many spinning and life-threatening events occur, the Hunger Games creates strong feelings of hope within the audience. As Katniss goes into the games already struggling for the survival of herself and family, many view her as weak and unprepared.

“’Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!’” (Collins 19). This is the line in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins that is most memorable. The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in post apocalyptic North America called Panem. It is broken up into 12 districts each district getting more impoverish the higher the number. Here we find Katniss in 12, they are ruled by the capitol and its president Snow. This society keeps peace by having a drawing in each district for tributes a male and female from the ages of twelve to eighteen. The tributes which Katniss is one, are then put in an arena and they fight to the death for all to see on tv, until only one is left alive. An analysis of Katniss will be done by her character and how it is shown in the book through her loyalty, anger, and stoic personality.

Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the gloomy tale of a girl named Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence. In the movie, she volunteers to battle in a lethal tournament in which 24 tributes from ages 12 through 18 fight to their death for the amusement of the Capitol. In the future, North America, as a country, no longer exists. In its place has risen Panem, a nation divided into 12 districts. After randomly choosing a boy and a girl from each of the districts, a shady fixed government arena subjects them to a kill-or-be-killed hunt from which only one winner can arise. Every year, each district selects tributes to test their mental, physical, and emotional strength in a competition known as the Hunger Games. The Capitol’s purpose is to broadcast the tournament as entertainment and to reinforce the government's total power. When Katniss’s younger sister, Prim, is chosen as one of District 12's tribute, Katniss volunteers to take her spot. She trains under an always-inebriated former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson, to hone her killer instincts. Now, in order to remain alive the tournament and be crowned the Hunger Games victor, this young warrior must put all of her ability to the ultimate test.

A place where anything can happen, waiting for you, ready to attack without making a sound and kill you. This will be the stomping grounds of the twenty-four tributes, which will battle to the end, until one tribute is alone standing to become the victor. In the novel The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins. Panem is described as having a cruel government. The Capital uses children from the ages of twelve through eighteen to battle to death. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old. She took the place of her sister Primrose as tribute to fight the bloody battle in hopes of winning and becoming the victor so she may return home to protect Prim from unseen mishaps. Katniss will have many challenges in her way, if she wants to win and come home to protect her family from starvation. She will have to work through her impulsive, mistrust, and self-doubt to stay alive and make victor.

Torture still happens in some societies around us. With different levels of torture, it is being passed on from generation to generation. It reflects a lot on the connection between people in the community and how a person’s personality is shaped. Between The Hunger Games, “The Lottery,” and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” the three authors all want to argue about how society uses torture to rule the community. Even though the government succeeds in forming an organized society, the connection between people no longer exists. Being selfish or careless wasn’t their natural born quality. The tradition of where they were born has formed their characteristics since they were raised along with it. Without understanding thoroughly about the tradition, they tend to keep passing on the tradition, which is why people in the community do not care about others nor bother to help them.

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.

There are books about mighty and brave people that do daring things. There are also books about intelligent people who do incredible things. The Science Fiction trilogy, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, combines these themes to create a suspenseful book that is not only interesting, but is fun to read. This book contains many moments where the main character, Katniss Everdeen, showed immense bravery and intelligence. One of the bravest things Katniss did came during the start of the book in chapter 2.

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.