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.

Katniss gets stung and the venom causes her to experience hallucinations. After Rue helps Katniss recover, they become friends and Katniss comes up with a plan to sabotage the other contestants. Later on Katniss finds Rue caught in a trap but after freeing her, another contestant kills Rue on the spot, so in order to avenge Rue’s death Katniss kills that contestant. Katniss places flowers on Rue’s body and then holds up three fingers (a salute from her district) as a sign of respect towards Rue’s distract. Rue’s distract causes a riot which eventually makes the president of the game to change the rules and allow two people from the

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.

A sixteen year old girl who has been reaped for the purpose of fighting against her fellow ‘tributes’ in a game show put on for the people of Panem. In The Hunger Games society, the higher class people live in the Capitol and wear eccentric costumes, while the rest of the population is diminished to animalistic Districts whose sole purposes are to supply the Capital. The people of the Districts are taken for granted and treated like animals by the Capital, until they are brought to the public eye by being reaped. Once in the Games, Katniss fights not only the other tributes but herself and her government system. In the end she defines herself by winning the games with a fellow tribute which simultaneously triggers new hope of a rebellion against her

Katniss after that started having illusions.When the illusions were over she went out to hunt for food. After Rue,dies with a spear in her stomach Katniss finds out about a new rule. The new rule was that two tributes could win the Games as long as they were from the same district. After that Katniss showed loyalty to Peeta by taking care of his leg and the tracker stings. When Katniss went to the Cornucopia she was injured and Peeta woke up and found her lying in a huge pile of blood he took care of her until she awoke. Katniss and Peeta then used friendship to win the

And may the odds be ever in your favor!” As Trinket, Everdeen and Mellark boards the train that will take them to the Capitol, they have the company of Haymitch Abernathy who will be the tributes mentor throughout the games. As Haymitch will have the power over Everdeen and Mellark, the control lacks because Haymitch is always drunk. He promises, “He would sober up long enough for Katniss and Peeta to play the Games and help them” this helps him gain control over the two tributes. When arriving at the capitol, there are two stylist Portia (Peeta’s stylist) and Cinna (Katniss’ stylist) that will make the tributes looks unforgettable.

On page 22, the reader notices a contrast and contradiction because Katniss, who seems like she is very serious, shows the loving side of her. “‘I volunteer,’ I gasp, ‘I volunteer as tribute.’” This quote exemplifies how Katniss would rather die herself than to see her sister die in the arena. So she does something that rarely ever happens in district twelve - she volunteers as tribute. By volunteering, she is sacrificing her life for Prim, her sister, who was supposed to fight to the death in the arena. To add, on page 32 Katniss has a memory moment back to when she was younger and her father had just died about a month earlier. The quote on page 32, “To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope,” shows that before the games there is a clear connection between the two; Peeta sacrifices bread for not only Katniss, a young, hungry girl, but he is really sacrificing for the greater good of humanity in District 12. It is more than just giving a loaf of bread to a starving girl. In actuality, he knows that people need

As Americans, we are fairly accustomed to taking on each of life’s phases and challenges one at a time, and in the right order. We begin as children, innocent and carefree, and we take our sweet time to grow into adults and carefully step out into the world. Suzanne Collins’ young-adult novel, The Hunger Games, tells the story of a young girl who is forced into a life she probably would not have chosen for herself. She must make some brutal decisions and experience things that, very few people, much less 16-year-old girls, will ever have to experience. Throughout the story of The Hunger Games, we follow Katniss closely as she experiences dramatic and unexpected shifts in the role she plays in the world, which are often beyond her control.

Katniss Everdeen is the girl tribute from District 12. She is 16 and lives in the dirtier part of town called the Seam. On the reaping day her younger sister Primrose was chosen to be the girl tribute, so Katniss volunteered to take her place. Katniss has many skills like being able to use the bow and arrow very well and being able to identify plants. In the games, Katniss forms and alliance with Rue (the girl tribute from District 11). Katniss killed Glimmer by cutting a tracker jacker nest onto her head and killed Cato and Marvel with her bow and arrow. Katniss gets sponsors by playing up the romance with Peeta (the boy tribute from District 12). In the end, Katniss and Peeta become the victors.

It’s been six months since Katniss and Peeta have seen the deathly arena life. They finally win the seventy-fourth hunger games, an annual fight to the death for all the districts in an arena. Each year a male and female are sent off from one district to fight for fame and fortune. Only one tribute is allowed to win, coincidentally, Peeta and Katniss break these rules when they both decide to eat poisonous berries to end the games. The Games are immediately called

The next scene is a heavy contrast to the first. In this scene we see Katniss hunting for food for her family and in doing so, assuming a role more commonly associated with males. In the lead up to the games she poses as a girl madly in love with the male tribute from her district in order to gain sponsors and attention from the Capital. She demonstrates intelligence in doing so because she knows that she is more likely to be accepted by the capital if she adopts a more feminine persona. It is only after the Games begin that Katniss demonstrates her natural talents, those more typically associated with a male character. She uses her hunting skills to her advantage by catching food and killing people when necessary. She also exhibits a wide range of knowledge which helps her to survive during the Games. Towards the end of the film, it has been made clear to the audience that whilst Katniss assumes a traditional female role when with her family or when it benefits her, her true character closely follows the characteristics typically seen in a traditional male gender

Do you like intense fighting, along with romance, as well as hand to hand combat? If so the Hunger Games is a great book for you. It tells an amazing story of a teenage girl, in the future, going through an intense competition known as the Hunger Games. This story is performed in what they think is the near future of the U.S, where there is a live broadcast which is filming people drafted to districts to fight to the death kind of like a fighting arena but the rules were a little different, the so called game makers would control things that may distract the tributes, one in particular was the fire wall and it had a massive effect on them. This goes through a first person mode story in which we go through a young teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen as she goes through the Hunger Games using many combat and survival skills.

The novel Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins and the motion picture In Time; both embraces the functionalist perspective, where they’re contributing to the stability of their nation of a whole by intimidating their citizens, by keeping the districts/time zones isolated from one another to prevent them from rallying together against an authoritative leadership, that consist of the Capitol being ruled by President Snow (Hunger Games) and New Greenwich (In Time). In both the novel and film, each district and time zones, the leadership’s uses characteristic of Weber’s Model of Bureaucracy where within the nations they have absolute control of every aspect of life, where they attempt to give districts solidarity through mechanical solidary unique to each district, where each serves through a division of labor. Both accentuates conformity to its demands and values, and to keep them from going against the leadership they maintain a constant police presence with peacekeepers (Hunger Games) and timekeepers (In Time).

Another time Katniss stepped out from her comfort zone was when she encountered a harsh period of starvation. Luckily, she encountered Peeta outside of the bakery where he purposely tossed her a burnt loaf of nut and raisin bread. This kind gesture seriously saved Katniss’s life and her family’s. The reason behind Peeta’s act of kindness lies deep within his heart since Katniss was his lifelong crush. Katniss owed him back once the Reaping’s began. Once the seventy fourth hunger

The reaping begins and Prim’s name is drawn. Katniss freaks out and volunteers to take her place, making her District 12’s girl tribute. The boy tribute’s name is drawn and it’s Peeta Mellark, who is the baker’s son and the same age at Katniss. Katniss remembers, when they were children, Peeta saw her starving outside in the rain and gave her a burnt piece of bread that his mother had told him to feed to their pigs. Katniss wonders how is she supposed to kill him in the Games after he was so