What makes your identity? Is it your past, your family, your hopes, dreams, fears? It is all that and more. Your identity makes up who you are. It is always growing and ever-changing. Your identity is what makes you human. Finding it can be a struggle, maintaining it can be even harder. Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games were two examples of finding and holding onto your identity. Katniss was the girl who had to grow up to fast. She had to learn how to provide for her family, to be strong. Katniss
Identity is an essential part of human culture. Personal identity is a person’s perception of themself that develops over their life. Without this personal identity, people may have a difficult time defining who they are as a human. Image is the perception that others have about a person, or the image they project to the world around them. These two ideas are intertwined throughout today’s culture, and throughout The Hunger Games, a New York Times Bestselling Novel by Suzanne Collins. In The Hunger
In the following film, The Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross, it focuses primarily on the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers to partake the Hunger games tribute that occurs once a year. Every year in each district, each of the two members of each gender is selected to fight the annual Hunger Games. Katniss intends to be the center of attention of this film, which gives the audiences a better insight of the movie, also revealing additional themes that the author is trying to convey. At
of films including American Hustle and Winter’s Bone, Jennifer Lawrence plays a role of The Hunger Games 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen who volunteers to partake the Hunger games tribute that occurs once a year. Every year in each district, each of the two members from each gender is selected to fight the annual Hunger Games. Katniss’s younger sister Prim was originally supposed to partake the Hunger Games until Katniss decides to take her spot. In the following film it focuses primarily on the protagonist
the correlating theme between The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Flies. Both stories have many similar themes, but the change from civilization to savagery is one main theme that relates between both books. Both The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Flies depicts the evil of man, and how savagery is an important aspect of it within all human beings. This first point is going to be explaining the civility and savagery that were present in both books. Starting with The Hunger Games, a civilized way
to do” (Leo Tolstoy). In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins and in A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, the protagonists Katniss Everdeen and Ishmael Beah are forced to endure violence for extended periods of time under the menace of death. However, during their traumatic experiences, both protagonists developed a strong sense of character identity. Despite being set in two completely different environments, loss of innocence, survival, and nature are important themes that can be found within the
Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is a novel that warns us of possible dangers in the future such as governmental control or corruption. Throughout the novel Collins uses the theme of oppression as a way of conveying the danger of a totalitarian government. There are many different forms of oppression displayed throughout the text; However, the control of resources and the games in general are the key forms of oppression in the novel. In Hunger Games, the control of resources was a significant form
Identity. Something so elementary to define, yet so onerous to apply to a person. Seemingly, it appears that only through experience someone can manage to partially grasp their identity as they are pushed to confront their environments and respond in an appropriate manner constitutionalized by their identity. In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, a novel set in Panem--a dystopian country that was originally North America before the outset of natural disasters, storms, fires, encroaching seas and
Identity and reality are both often skewed and/or compromised to meet the needs and wants of a person or platform. More often than not do people and markets put on fronts to be perceived in a certain way to gain favor in the public eye. They adapt because they have to in order to stay afloat in the ever changing world of fleeting beauty and immediate gratification. The world of Panem in The Hunger Games is not much different, in fact, it’s more similar than not. In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne
Personal identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life. This may include aspects of your life that you have no control over, such as where you grew up or the colour of your skin, as well as choices you make in life, such as how you spend your time and what you believe. You demonstrate portions of your personal identity outwardly through what you wear and how you interact with other people. You may also keep some elements of your personal identity to yourself