The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

In the fictional novel The Hunger Games, selected teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in an arena when an entire nation watches on. Leaders from the Capitol who are in power use this tactic to dehumanized the people from the other districts. The concept of dehumanization has applied to various religions, races, and nationalities throughout history. From slavery to the Holocaust to genocides around the world, dehumanization has been used to continue on ways of living and justify certain acts. Pieces of literature attesting to this treatment are great sources of proof that dehumanization has occurred throughout history. In The Hunger Games, the leaders from the Capitol showed dehumanization on a grand scale by assigning very little value to human life to the citizens of Panem. The people in power take advantage of the victim this concept continues to be document in literature and the media.

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.

However, forcing Districts to give up their resources isn’t enough for the the Capital. It demands the Districts to surrender one boy and one girl to go into the annual Hunger Games, an annual fight to the death, in order to prevent all out war. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the Hunger Games alongside Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because only one victor is allowed by the Capital. Because of this situation in the book, conformity and civil disobedience play a huge role in the Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games, a novel by Suzanne Collins, is the story of 16 years old, Katniss Everdeen, who fights to death for her district. The Hunger Games is an event hosted every year by the Capitol of Panem, where a randomly chosen boy and girl both need to represent each of the twelve districts that the capitol is composed of. When Katniss little sister, Prim, is chosen to be the representative for District twelve, Katniss volunteers to take her place and fight along her male counterpart, Peeta. The reason I choose this book for my book report is because Katniss is not your typical 16 year old girl. Not only is she her family’s provider but she’s also skillful, strong, rebellious, and unsentimental heroine. These are characteristics that society would mostly link to a 16 year old boy rather than a girl.

The themes that found in the novel The Hunger Game such as survival, violation, power, inequality, poverty, devotion and so forth are presented to demonstrate a critical time in the history throughout clarifying the cultural significance in an unspecified future time. The novel’s main point is the struggle to adapt to normal daily life and how individuals are finding it difficult to adjust within their environments at this time.The adventure novel follows sixteen years old Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Malirak who lived in the twelve poor districts that ruled by the rich Capitol, which located in the Rocky Mounted. Noticeably, the perspective of Collins anticipated that readers have to draw attention to the domination and bias as significant issues

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 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.

The Hunger Games is the story of a leader, President Snow, who rules from the Capitol where he oppresses the 12 districts that make up Panem. Democracy & freedom are replaced by a modern dictatorship based on surveillance, police oppression and a division of social classes. The rich and elite owning class thrives on the backs of the citizens of the Districts, who in contrast are close to starvation. This is evident in one scene where Katniss Everdeen states that it would take her days to prepare one meal that those living in the Capitol would eat. To preserve their social order, the Capitol relies on a massive police force called The Peacekeepers, who are always ready to repress any kind of uprising. They

Katniss Everdeen fought for her family's survival to the point where she was facing imminent death daily. Fara Ahmedi lived in harsh conditions with her mom. Alex wanted to save himself and 13 others. The situations couldn’t be more different, nevertheless, all three are determined to survive and live a better life.

“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.

In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen has three searches. Throughout the book, she looks for safety, truth, and hope.

As American author Janet Morris so aptly puts it, "Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold". Sacrifice in the name of the self-preservation and preservation of others is a noble cause, but how far is too far when it comes to giving all you've got? Is it worth giving and giving until there's nothing left but an empty shell of the person you used to be, or giving to the point of physical self-destruction? I believe that Suzanne Collins is warning us of this danger. In her novel The Hunger Games, the inhabitants of the country Panem struggle to survive while those in the Capitol sit in luxury. And every year, each of the 12 districts is required to send two of its youth to the Capitol to fight to the death; the prize of said fight being money for the winner and food for everyone in the winner's district for one year. Many in this fictional country are in the same boat as the book's protagonist Katniss Everdeen: barely having enough to get by all while doing everything they can, no effort is wasted and life for those who provide is dismal at best. They work themselves to death so their loved ones can live as happily and optimistically as possible, or at

Imagine living in a world where you have no chance to advance your position in society; you’re born into your fate. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, describes the journey of Katniss Everdeen who lives in what used to be North America, now called Panem, which is divided into 12 districts. An annual competition, the Hunger Games, is held which forces each district to choose one male and one female tribute to fight to the death on live television. Throughout The Hunger Games, a common link appears between Marxism and the Panem government. This is established by a totalitarianism ruling, a planned revolution, and a struggle between classes.

Speculative fiction, that does not fit into the conventions of the real world (Neugebauer 2014) and realist fiction, possible stories with no appearance of the supernatural (Lukens 2003, p. 14) present a misogynistic view of females and their role in society. Misogyny is defined as dislike, contempt or prejudice against women (Oxford Dictionary 2017). Both speculative and realist fiction present misogyny in one way by portraying women as a damsel in distress. In these genres of fiction, there is also a tendency to objectify and sexualise women, in that they are not seen as people with real human emotions, needs and wants, but as objects of a man’s desire and affection. Lastly, speculative and realist fiction genres, focus on the