The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

To begin with, The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, and is written by Suzanne Collins. First off, the novel takes place in Penem, a make-believe future where the Capital is surrounded by districts. The Districts are like slaves to the Capital, give away resources to the Capital and only keep some resources to themselves; so you can imagine that the districts are very poor. The Capital also forces the districts to give up one boy and girl to go to annual Hunger Games, so to prevent War. Katniss, the main character in the book, ends up being part of the hunger games alongside with Peeta. Katniss then has to fight for her life because there may only be one victor. Lastly, throughout this book you’ll see 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 Hunger Games by Susan Collins is a slap in the face for society, essentially a wakeup call. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl that volunteers as tribute for Prim, her little sister and is the focus of The Hunger Games. The book is set in Panem a dystopian society with twelve districts and an over ruling power, the Capitol. The Capitol has created a punishment for a rebellion that occurs 74 years earlier, called the reaping. Every year there is a reaping, the reaping requires each of the twelve districts to gather and watch as two of their children are picked to compete in the most dangerous game; the hunger games. Each child sent is in a competition for their life, one will survive. After the reaping the tributes are sent to the Capitol where they are introduced to the public. The tributes are treated like celebrities, interview and forced to play their best angle to the media. See any similarities between 21st century America and the world Katniss lives in? Panem and

‘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

Katniss Everdeen is a brave, young protagonist in the Hunger Games. Her fierce fighting, and personality is what allows her to survive. Suzanne Collins, the author of the book (Hunger Games) does a tremendous job showing how the setting impacts the whole book. The story kicks off in a country called Panem. Its separated into 12 districts and a capitol.

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.

With this statement, President Snow reveals the overall scheme of the government, in how they use the Hunger Games to keep the Districts in line. They use the Games to punish the Districts, and make them fall into line, but at the same time, they use the Games to give the people in the Districts a false sense of hope. Because the Games have a winner, each District has the faint hope that someone they send might win, thus investing them in the contest, and giving them incentive to care about who wins and who loses. And if a District does have a winner, that winner and the District are given the chance for many rewards and opportunity for advancements and improvements. The winner of the Hunger Games will become a celebrity overnight, and would be able to use his or her power to help improve the conditions of their District, if they so chose. So with the Games giving the Districts this hope, a hope of a reward or a better chance, the government of Panem is able to keep the rebellious Districts in line, with minimum fuss. A perfect, if devious, combination of punishment and reward.

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.

The ‘Careers’ from richer districts “project arrogance and brutality” (p. 116), while the poorer tributes “have never been fed properly. You can see it in their bones, their skin, the hollow look in their eyes.” (p. 115) Koenig describes them as “those who must physically bear the memory of the districts’ past.” (Koenig, 2012, p. 43) In contrast, Katniss is not only equipped with physical survival skills in the Games but an understanding of how she must ‘play her part’, though her strong sense of moral duty means she struggles not to rebel. As Hanlon states, “The suffering and deprivation of her youth initially make Katniss a rebel in a brutal, oppressive society.” (Hanlon, 2012, p.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a first person point-of-view story about a sixteen-year-old woman named Katniss Everdeen struggling to survive in a future dystopian world. This new nation, Panem, is viewed as a utopia by residents of the Capitol, but it is instead seen as a harsh war zone by many of the Capitol’s twelve outlying districts. Years ago, the districts attempted a rebellion against the Capitol, but unfortunately failed, resulting in many deaths and extreme penalties. As punishment for this war, the Capitol requires one male and one female tribute from each district to participate in the Hunger Games, an annual event that requires the twenty-four tributes to fight to the death until one tribute remains and is crowned the

Bryan Lanz M. Tabut BSCE – V03 The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. Katness Everdeen is the main character in the story where she played in the annual event of Hunger games. She lives in the dystopian. The Capitol, is a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and girl aged 12-18 from each of the districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to complete in televised battle to the death.

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

In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, a totalitarian nation called Panem is divided into 12 different districts and the Capitol (the head of Panem). Panem is ruled by the wealthy residents of the Capitol. As an annual show of devotion to the Capitol, each District must draw two young Tributes, one boy and one girl, to compete in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a result of a past rebellion and is a competition in which twenty-four young people fight to the death…until a lone victor remains. The victor’s district is often rewarded with abundance of food and other rare commodities.

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

What is the story of the Hunger Games? The story centers around a girl named katniss everdeen who lives in a dystopian society with her mom and sister .in Panem their country the land is broken up into districts 1 through 12. The people are assigned or forced to live in certain distinct because of government oppression or their financial circumstances. Each year two youths are selected from each district to represent their section, in the hunger games. The games were created to remind the people of the districts of the failure of their past rebellion. The 24 participants chosen for the sport are forced to kill each other while their districts watch. When katniss’ younger sister is selected for the games katniss’ volunteers to take her place.