The Hunger Games is a novel by Suzanne Collins about a lower class girl who finds herself suddenly surrounded by a striking upper class lifestyle. Growing up in District 12, it was very hard for Katniss Everdeen to picture life on the wealthier side. She lives in a country called Panem, which is divided into 12 districts. All 12 districts are controlled by one greater force, the Capitol. The Capitol is known for it’s lavish lifestyle and harsh methods of control. The Capitol controls the media, the schools, the food supply and most importantly, the people. Panem suffers from immense class differences, harsh body modifications, glorified spectacles of violence, and monstrous sponsorships. Life in Panem is a lot more similar to life in …show more content…
The chance of her name being drawn is very slim compared to to those who live in the Seam. Not impossible, but slim. And even though the rules were set up by the Capitol, not the districts, certainly not Madge’s family, it’s hard not to resent those who don’t have to sign up for the tesserae” (Collins 13). Each time a family runs out of necessities, they have two options, they can go without and try to make ends meet, or they can put their name in the drawing for the games another time. This is the tessera program. The tessera program is just one way that the government allows itself to keep the upper hand. With the division between the upper and lower class being so large, and the majority of the population being lower class, we can see how closely life in the districts relates to life in America today. According to pewresearch.org, the middle class makes up about 46% of the American population today. This leaves more than half of the population to be divided between the upper and lower classes. With the upper class making up less than 10% of the population, this means that around 44% of Americans are considered to be lower class citizens. Also, as gathered from pewresearch.org, in 2010, the median wealth for upper class families was 6.2 times that of middle class families. By 2013, this number grew to 6.6. With such a high population of lower class
‘The Hunger Games’ written by Suzanne Collins (2008) describes a narrative where there are 12 districts that came from the ruins of North America that is called Panem, 3 of the districts are favoured by the Capitol, the rest of the districts are really poor. Each year a male and female ranging from 12 to 18 must go to the Capitol’s arena where they fight to the death reality television show called ‘The Hunger Games’. The text describes a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in the dystopic district (District 12). Throughout the novel she makes friends and enemies. Despite being portrayed as a reality television event in Panem, there is mostly nothing realistic about the hunger games. In the novel the arena is altered and prepared with
One Person can change everything Some readers may argue that one person cannot make a difference because they are just another person. As shown in the movie The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Harrison Bergeron there was information on a specific person and how they can make a big difference. So can one person really make a difference?
Economics is the study of scarcity within a systems of rules. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’ can be translated into such, with hunger being scarcity and games being a system of rules. In the Hunger Games, we are introduced to a country called Panem. The country of Panem is divided into twelve different districts and the Capitol, where the government resides. Each district has their own different specializations and they have distinctive economies. The government regulates the trade and each district rely on trade from each other district and the Capitol for the goods they don 't produce. All of the districts and the Capitol is interdependent.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo demonstrates the way in which people are affected by war, and a brutal dictatorship. The authors illustrates the main purpose for writing their novel through the use of imagery, characterization, foreshadowing, flashback, similes, and symbolism.
In short summation, The Hunger Games novel is a dystopian themed novel about a country called Panem who rose from the ashes of natural destruction. Cataclysmic events and wars have formed the nation, but these events have sadly birthed a nation at fault. Divided into twelve districts, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on these areas by forcing a reaping of one boy and one girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called The Hunger Games. The Games, put on by the Capitol, are
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.
Contrary to the belief that feelings like fear and sorrow dominate the emotional atmosphere within a dystopian state, there exists an absence of feeling which competes for dominance. Suzanne Collins’ demonstrates this competing apathetic mood in her novel, The Hunger Games, through the citizens of the divided dystopia of Panem. This essay will analyze the origins and influence of apathy on a people and an individual, in both a political and personal sense. Collins’ main argument, that citizens’ facing governmental oppression can either become compliant with apathy, or, instead, utilize apathy in creating a false appearance to increase their chances of survival in a sadistic society, is conveyed with contextual motivation for the protagonist’s actions, exploration into false appearances, and through a lack of material resources.
One day there was people walking around a small village, where people was pour and hungry. There was a girl who was a good hunter, Katniss Everdeen is a hunter, and also she had a partner name Gale Hawthorne who was a good hunter. Katniss is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Her name come from the planet called Sagittarian. Gale Hawthorne, is Katniss best friend and hunting partner, one of the series main character. He is fiercely devoted to his family and to Katniss and is a true rebel and visionary at heart.
In his novel Between Hell and Reason, Albert Camus states, “Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.” Evidently, utopias are nonexistent in actuality, but visions of a perfect society may distance an individual from reality. However, concepts of ideal societies cannot be visualized without first analyzing the errors and weaknesses presented within dystopias. These defects, including the restriction of independent thought, lack of freedom, and constant surveillance and control, are presented through the real world, films, and literature. In the works The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan, and World War Z by Max Brooks, authors create dystopias in which ethical issues are presented to fuel one’s imagination regarding what qualities a utopia may possess.
Trust is well-defined to be as to having assurance, reliance or confidence in someone. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins takes place in the ruins of what use to be North America, which they call their land Panem. The Capitol consists of twelve districts and every year one male and one female “tribute” between the ages of twelve and eighteen are chosen to perform in an annual live event called Hunger Games. All participants must engage in a deathly battle and kill each other until one remains standing, achieving a great amount of fame and food. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem,
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in a classic example of a dystopian Text as it is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through a bureaucratic, technological, or totalitarian control. Throughout the book their are many forms of powers from wealth, gender, the Capitol, and Peeta Mellark.
The book The Hunger Games takes place in the U.S many years after a war that put the world in total
In the book The Hunger Games( by Suzanne Collins ), what today we call the United States of America is now divided into twelve districts; or as it is more commonly known as to the readers of this series, Panem. As one discovers, Panem is ruled by affluent members of the Capitol. However, there was not always just twelve districts. There, upon a time, was thirteen; until a rebellion seethes up, and caused the Capitol to take immediate action to cease the schism of uprising citizens. The Capitol proceeded to wipe out the entire district as a dreadful reminder to never rebel against the Capitol again. This even is which triggered what is now the Hunger Games. As the title misleads, this is obviously more than a game. It is a death match between twenty-four young men and woman, fighting for their lives. Also, it should be added that they aren 't only fighting for their lives, but the Capitol 's entertainment, riches, and food. Food that is scarce among the districts, yet plentiful in the Capitol. The story really sets the mood of the disparity between rich and poor. It is to be noted, this book can also be described as stoic, but occasionally very emotional; however at the same time it can be quite violent.
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
The book I read is called “The Hunger Games”. This book is about 24 people killing one another, and the main character is Katniss Everdeen. The setting is at Panem in North America. The question I chose is about what the book makes me feel, and what does it remind me about it.