The Hunger Games is a fantastic science fiction novel by the great and renowned American writer Suzanne Collins. This book is written in the voice of sixteen year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol is considered as the highly advanced metropolis as because this capitol exercises political control on rest of the nation. The Hunger Games in the book is the annual event in which one boy and one girl aged twelve to eighteen from each of the 12 districts that surrounds the Capitol are selected by lottery so that they can compete in a televised battle to the death. Collins has successfully created a brilliant dystopian world that gives a treat to the readers. Reading the book provides concise as …show more content…
However, her life as a tribute becomes more complicated by the other tribute from districts twelve. Peeta Mellark who is the son of baker that Katniss owes a favor to because of his kindness that he showed her when she was in need and was most desperate and her family’s survival was at stake. However, Katniss knows that then her survival would mean his death. In order to get involved in the ceremony Katniss is whisked away from loved one, her family and Gale who is her best friend and hunting partner. Katniss is being prepped and primped for participating in the Games. She and Peeta are to be mentored by Haymitch who is very reluctant and regarded as the inadequate mentor, so finally Katniss realizes that she must rely on her own abilities and strengths for survival. The book Hunger Games is very appealing and compelling to the readers and makes the reader curious as they want to read the next book immediately to find out what has happened to Katniss and Peeta. The novel has very appealing themes as it talks about the issues that are "tackles” such as the utter penury, oppression, starvation and the other effects of war among the people as they are being forced to participate in the games that are meant for entertainment and are deadly in nature. The novel deals with the struggle for the self-preservation
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.
The girl, whose name is Rue and Katniss decide to team up and work together to destroy the food stash of the stronger tributes called Careers, which have also teamed up together. After successfully working out a plan, Katniss destroys the Careers food stash and runs to the area where Rue and her have agreed to meet back up. On the way back, she witnesses Rue’s death at the hands of a Career. In order to survive, she decides to run even further out into the woods hoping to find a way to survive. While she’s running, the Capitol then announced that both tributes from the same district can win together. After this she finds Peeta, lying in the mud covered in leaves and sticks in an attempt to be camouflaged so none of the tributes could find him. Katniss helps Peeta wash off and tends to a big cut on his leg which was given to him by one of the Careers. For the next few days, the two hide in a cave allowing each other to rest and show one another love and affection, ultimately hoping to win over the Capitol. After Peeta is knocked out by medication, Katniss makes the trek to the cornucopia where the Capitol is hosting what they call a feast, but it is actually just a way to get all the remaining tributes to fight one another. After surviving a near death experience, Katniss makes her way back to the cave. When she returns, Peeta is somewhat healed and they both make the long hike together to the cornucopia. Once they arrive, they see
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins published in 2008 stars Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch, Effie Trinket, and lastly the cold President Snow is a book that takes place in the future in Panem(North America). The basic plot is that 12 districts are kept in famine and total distress by the Capitol’s leader President Snow. Every year they are forced to send 2 tributes from each district one boy and one girl in a winner takes all death match to keep the districts feel inferior to the capital.
The book is in the voice of a young 16 year old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District 12 which is the poorest district in all of Panem, and all of the districts are controlled by the Capitol. The character who is in charge of the Capitol is President Snow and he and the people of Panem have created this entertainment for themselves called the hunger games. The games consists of randomly drawing one male and one female from each district to compete in the games until one alive remains. The winner gets to receive an income from the Capitol, to live in a better environment in their district with their families, and is adored by the Capitol. The day of the reaping, which is the day the names are randomly drawn was mandatory for
The book is about Katniss, a sixteen year old girl, who lives in district 12 with her mother and her sister, Prim. Each year, the Hunger Games are held, and a boy and a girl from each district are chosen to fight to the death. Prim is chosen but Katniss volunteers to take the place of her in the game. Peeta is chosen as the boy from District 12. The majority of the book takes place in the Arena designed by the Gamemakers. The main goal of the games is to kill the others and be the last one standing. The winner and their
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.
The Hunger Games trilogy begun while she was flipping through channels one late night. Suzanne thought that we were being deprived from the whole reading involvement. She thought that we were being given so much coming at us in terms of electronics and technology. She wanted to make a change. And thus, the Hunger Games trilogy was born. The story revolves around the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl living in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, previously known as North America. It takes place about 200 years in the future. Boys and girls take place in the annual Hunger Games event where 24 tributes (2 from each district) fight to the death. It started to show the nation of Panem that they had no power over the
The Hunger Games is about a teenager named Katniss Everdeen. She lives in a place called Panem. In Panem, there’s the capitol and 12 districts. The president and Capitol citizens live in the capitol. All the districts contribute something to the capitol like food, or power, and in return, the capitol gives the district's security. Katniss lives in district 12. District 12 provides coal but is also the poorest district. Everyone lives off of small animals they can catch. In order to survive, Katniss hunts on illegal land to provide for her mom and her sister, Prim. Every year the Capitol holds an event called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is were two tributes from each district come to an arena and
The Hunger Games, the introductory novel in a trilogy book series written by author Suzanne Collins in 2008, is a young adult novel that surrounds a teenage girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic tale of a teenager who defies all odds when they are stacked against her. She is shaken to the core with sacrifice, adversity and danger when she finds herself forced to compete in a televised series of games where there is only one survivor. Not only does she want to live, but she has an incredible sense of responsibility to her family that she’s left behind. The film based off of the best selling novel, also entitled, “The Hunger Games,” premiered in March 2012. Director Gary Ross does a great job of incorporating the plot, setting and
Katniss finally arrives to the Capitol. Here is where things start to change and life as she knows it is completely different. The first thing on the agenda is to cleanse Katniss. She is waxed from head to toe and is washed down for Cinna (her stylist) to create the new Katniss Everdeen “Girl on Fire”. After being completely transformed, Katniss and Peeta (the boy tribute from
Resulting in even more survivors including Peeta, Katniss, Finnick, Beetee, Johanna, and one or two
Katniss shares a strong connection with a few other characters in the film some of them being Cinna, Rue, Haymitch and finally Peeta whom she bonds with the most and makes the audience believe they are in love. She shows a strong connection with Rue when the team up together to take out the big supply of food and equipment that was protected by the tributes that were the biggest threat. When Rue was killed by a spear through the chest Katniss honoured her death by covering her with flowers. She shows her strong connections with Peeta by going and saving him when it was announced that two victors could be announced with they were both from the same district. She saves him from death and looks after him while he gets better even going as far as getting medicine from the cornucopia much to her risk as she almost died getting the medicine.
Katniss and Peeta have won the games now Katniss is being born again into a new form of herself. Winning the games has made them a popular image within all the districts. Everyone sees Katniss as a heroic figure and someone to look up to for hope of security from the capital. Katniss wants nothing more than to see the Hunger games be put to an end, and she has an idea to make that happen.
she lands herself in some very challenging situations. On one occasion she comes face to face with career tributes and manages to kill two of them with some clever tactics. The servicing career tributes latter become Her toughest competition. After the incident she teams up with a girl named Rue from district 11 together they plan an attack on the Careers. Rue starts a fire to district the tributes while katniss located their supplies and destroyed them. Although the plan was successful Rue was killed while executing her part of the scheme. Katniss goes on to find the other tribute that came with her from her district and helps him out, because of their relationship the capital changes the rules and allows two survivors to return instead of one . in order to speed up the games the district invites the tributes to a feast where they find items the they need. Katniss decides to go to the feast which leaded to an altercation between her and the career tributes and eventual the