The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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.

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.

In the Book series/ Movie trilogy the apparent theme of government weakness is portrayed and incitingly accurate in this dystopian themed series. The Hunger Games is a fictional representation on the dos and don’ts on how one nation should conduct themselves between the bottom of the social class up until the very top, where government officials and businessmen dwell. Seemingly enough all throughout the entire series the obvious mistreatments amongst the nation of panem’s Citizen’s becomes more brutally prevalent!

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?

A government is one who provides protection and services to the citizens. It is a group that governs a community and sets policy’s, political and sovereign power through customs, and laws within a state. There are many different forms of governments. If we take the movie, “The Hunger Games” and describe their government, it will have many similarities and differences as our government today. We are given freedom of speech in our society where as the citizens in the movie were held captive under their capitol.

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.

Like unjust societies in the past, Panem restricts the basic human rights of its citizens. In one way or another all articles from the Declaration of Human Rights have been breached by the government of Panem; specifically, the right to live free from torture, the right to life, liberty and security and also the right to move freely. Importantly, throughout this text Collins celebrates the power of the individual spirt to triumph over these injustices. Despite economic, political and social control, the citizens of Panem find ways to resist and rebel the Capitol. Early in the text, this is seen through the example of “the Hob, the black market that operates in an abandoned warehouse” (pg. 13). The Hob is significant as it represents the subtle rebellion of the districts and their desire to be autonomous. The desire to self-govern and control one’s own life is most prevalent when Katniss threatens to eat the berries. This is the ultimate act of rebellion against the Capitol and its ways evident when Katniss narrates “when I poured out those berries, I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it” (pg. 435). Collins uses war-like language such as ‘weapon’, ’actions’, ’outsmarting’ and ‘defeat’ to reflect how Katniss’ actions were an act of war and resistance against the

Suzanne Collins wrote her dystopian fiction novel, The Hunger Games, in 2008, portraying heroic qualities through the characters and themes within. A hero is defined as a person that is admired for their courage, achievements or noble qualities. Collins’ bestselling novel follows protagonist Katniss Everdeen, as she endures many trials, conflicts and challenges throughout her journey, illustrating heroic qualities, evident through her resilience and determination. Collins also utilises the characterisation of Peeta Mellark, Katniss’s love interest, as a heroic young man, maintaining his values, integrity and kind nature. The Hunger Games presents these various aspects through characterisation, expressing various heroic qualities, ranging from strength to compassion, qualities are all imperative in a hero.

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 this book, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, both Gale and Peeta are a big part of Katniss’s life, but does not coexist well together in her thoughts. These two boys that grew up in the Seam of district 12 each have their own differences, but as the book draws to an end, they push their cons aside and ends up having many similarities to helping out Katniss to survive in the game. In addition, Gale and Peeta did have a signify for Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire.

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,

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

Suzanne Collins is an American author she is a television scriptwriter and a novelist. She was born in Hartford Connecticut, August 10, 1962. Her book genres are Fantasy Science fiction childrens literature and young adult fiction. Her greatest novel was The Hunger Games Mocking Jay.

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

In both 1984 and The Hunger Games, there is a common idea of a ruling minority. The societies in Oceania and Panem are organized much like a pyramidal hierarchy that keep people doing as they are supposed to and preserve order. In Collin’s novel, their hierarchical system heads with President Coriolanus Snow, who exercises complete control over the government (the Capitol) and makes all of the decisions for the majority of the citizens. Following President Snow, there is the residents of the Capitol who are the sophisticated brains and beauty of the nation. Next, are the citizens of the higher ranked districts, which makes prized materials along with other necessities. Lastly, is the other half of the districts who live more in poverty and are people who manage and endure all of the burdensome work that the higher class citizens do not want to do, but cannot live without like food