Essay about Transcendentalism and the Hunger Games

The Hunger Games novel written by Suzanne Collins reflects significant issues in the reality world nowadays which relate to the humanity, the poverty, the violence,… It describes the issues through the characters and what happens in the story, and the most significant issue occurs throughout the novel is the gap between rich and poor people. In the beginning of the novel, Suzanne Collins describes clearly the scene of the poverty, the terrible fear of the 12-district’s villagers, in contrast to the wealthy of the Capitol’s citizens. The inequality of social classes becomes the theme of the novel because of its relation and the effects to the plots of the story. And the reason, which leads to that issue, is the policies of the dictatorship

The book The Hunger Games, portrays a society where people are treated unfairly based on factors that they cannot control. The people are born into one of 13 districts. There lives vary drastically based on where they are born. Someone born in the Capitol has a completely different life than someone born in district 12. A person born in the Capitol lives a wealthy life and is always treated with respect. On the other hand someone born in district 12 has a life of constant back breaking work. They live in poverty and struggle to survive.

The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins delineates that there are times when people believe that all hope is lost but only those who are strong will persevere through their darkest moments. Suzanne Collins portrays the theme throughout the novel with the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, as she struggles to endure her daily life and the annual Hunger Games. Collins displays the prodigious amount of persistence of Katniss Everdeen and her comrade, Peeta Mellark, which allows them to survive throughout the Hunger Games.

He has deeper thoughts. Like Emerson, Thoreau also wanted to live a simple life, in order to find deeper meaning in life.

This is further depicted when Katniss rebels against the capitol to ensure her family survives. - “District twelve where you can starve to death in safety”-, shows the reader how she really feels. It is shown through irony. Irony is used to highlight the main emotion the characters are portraying against each other, and their desire to save each other. Therefore it can be made evident that Katniss’ identity throughout her journey changes to protect those she loves, this shows the qualities of a hero.

Henry Thoreau’s masterpiece, Walden or a Life in the Woods, shows the impact transcendentalism had on Thoreau’s worldview. Transcendentalism is a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual over the material. Transcendentalism puts the emphasis on spiritual growth and understanding as opposed to worldly pleasures. Thoreau’s idea of transcendentalism stressed the importance of nature and being close to nature. He believed that nature was a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment. A walk in the woods therefore was a search for spiritual enlightenment. One should look ‘through’ nature, not merely ‘at’ her.

Emerson, like his student Thoreau, as was a major member of the transcendental movement that occurred in America during the time period. Marked by a focus on the spirituality of nature and

The Transcendentalism period arose in America in the year of 1836 by the founding father Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1836, he published an essay by the name of “Nature,” which reiterated the attention of many writers and philosophers who believed in the same concepts. Many of the church followers during this time were upset with the way the church was functioning, so they turned to nature and Emerson’s ideas. Consequently, he created a club where people of his fashion and intellectual could meet and share beliefs. Emerson named the club the “Transcendental Club;” many people joined it, including his friend Henry David Thoreau. Neither Emerson or Thoreau favored the way society thought or the way the government worked; this is why hey turned to nature for deeper understanding. Both Emerson and Thoreau believed in freedom, self-reliance, individuality, internal spirit, and were transcendentalists.

Transcendentalist has a handful of principals from self-reliance to the thought of technology is harmful.The main tenet throughout the paper will focus on the importance of nature. Transcendentalist views nature as a gateway to the spiritual world, a way to the Omnipower. Henry David Thoreau immersed himself into nature fully “The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it”(Thoreau II). Thoreau reveals how he has taken the time to observe nature to its fullest extent. He saw nature as a neighbor who was to be respected just as a man would treat another. Ralph Waldo Emerson a great transcendentalist, a mentor to Thoreau. Emerson’s point of view of nature showed how men and nature can become one to uplift themselves from the worldly shackles. Thoreau and Emerson both had a concept that nature was essentials to mankind, one sought out to respect it and the other viewed as a form of release.Nature is important to transcendentalism because it leads to spiritual connection and harmonization.

Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that swept across America in the 1820’s and 1830’s. It influenced people to be individuals and follow their emotions as well as to live simply and be in connection with nature. One of the most notable transcendentalist figures was (realist) Henry David Thoreau. His book Walden told of his attempt to live a minimalist lifestyle alone in the woods rather than conform to a society he did not like. He encouraged his readers to create their own “paths”, or do what they believed was beneficial for them, rather than follow what others do. “The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the

The dystopian protagonist that is present in the Hunger Games is Katniss Everdeen. “Finally, I am too restless to even stay in bed. I pace the floor, heart beating too fast, breathing too short. My room feels like a prison cell. I run down hall to the door to the roof. The energy field enclosing the roof prevents any desperate form of escape” (Collins 148) Katniss is often struggling to escape or feels like she’s trap, she knows that she’s a tribute in the hunger games and is afraid that she will never see her family again if she doesn’t come out as the victor. Through Katniss’s perspective you can easily recognize that there is something wrong with the society that she lives in. “ I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own” (Collins 237). Katniss knows that the Capitol is cruel and wrong for having the hunger games, forcing the tributes to kill one another

Henry Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden or a Life in the Woods, shows the impact transcendentalism had on Thoreau's opinion of the world. Transcendentalism is a (way of thinking/related to learning about how people think) that strongly defends/strongly expresses the extreme importance of the spiritual over the material. Transcendentalism puts the focus on spiritual growth and understanding instead of worldly pleasures. Thoreau's idea of transcendentalism stressed the importance of nature and being close to nature. He believed that nature was a metaphor for spiritual understanding. A walk in the woods therefore was a search for spiritual understanding. One should look 'through' nature, not only 'at' her. In Walden, Thoreau's idea of transcendentalism is broken into three

During the nineteenth century, the new philosophical trend of transcendentalism occurred. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two contemporary authors, expressed transcendentalist ideas through their writing. Their perspectives of nature and society were both very similar. They believe people need to simplify their lives, and spend time in nature. To them, nature is the key to peace and tranquillity that people knowingly and unknowingly seek.

In “Nature”, Ralph Emerson seamlessly uses elements of the nature belief to explain his opinion on the relationship between man and nature. Transcendentalism beliefs specifically address some sort of connection in nature. At one point of “Nature”, Emerson says “The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the

So I was like why not just read the book too, but once I had really got into the book I had became more and more interested because Katniss was willing to risk her life into protecting her sister. The Hunger Game was a event that no one had ever wanted it to exist, but since the Capitol had way too much power they couldn’t doing anything about it because they don’t want the things that had happened to District 13 to happen to them. And throughout the book many things had happened but the relationship between Peeta and Katniss is still not really understandable because they themself still don't know if them really have feeling for each other. Also I think what the author is trying to say is that the Capitol or as in the government should never have too much power because if someone has a little too much of something is