Winter's Bone Literary Analysis

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 Hunger Games, A book series by Suzanne Collins, differs in few ways from Veronica Roth’s Divergent. The Hunger Games lead role, Katniss Everdeen, lives in a world of few choices. The government controls the lives of everybody in the 12 districts. When Katniss’ little sister, Primrose, is chosen to fight in the annual Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She is forced to fight and forced to kill, all to survive. This competition results in the people fearing not only their government, but also their futures. Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion against the

The American Civil War is one of the most impactful course of events in American History due to the massive violence, inadequate medical care, and destruction of the southern landscape. The war, which last from 1861-1865, resulted in over 625,000 casualties on the battlefield and a large unknown number of civilian and slave deaths. Due to the horrifying conditions of battle and of grossly understaffed and unequipped field hospitals, many soldiers deserted their positions and attempted to return home; such is the story of a confederate soldier named Inman in the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The Civil War also massively impacted the nations African-American populations as slaves were now free, however,

The book “The Hunger Games” was written by Suzanne Collins and it’s the first book out of the trilogy she has written. Collins uses a mixture of modern and classical as elements in this story and it allows for any age reader to enjoy it. Some the literary devices she uses in the book are setting, symbolism, and themes. It’s everything you could want in a book because it has a little bit of each genre, like action, romance, comedy, and even mystery. This book will have you sitting at the edge of your seat on minute and then grabbing for a tissue the next. When reading this book, “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and looking at the setting, symbolism, and theme it’s easy to sense the different tones and emotions going on in the story.

These theme for my book are very good themes about the book. The themes help the reader know what the book is about. The characters in the book are important to the book because with out the characters the book would make no sense. Every book must have characters and themes to the book because without those two things there is no book. The three theme from the book talk very good about the book. They describe what Brian has to go through in order to survive the cold winter in the canadian wilderness. One theme tells us how lonely it is in the wilderness and how lonely Brian is and how he has no one to talk to but a skunk. So those are some of my theme and characters of my story brian’s winter.

From its very title, The Bone People veritably declares that it will describe the lives of several, perhaps many. Even though this is in fact the case, the title does little to alert the reader that each of the three major characters will be so intricately intertwined as they are—each has his or her own point of view, yet none would be complete without the others. Predominantly told in the third person, The Bone People alternates between the limited points of view of Simon, Kerewin, and Joe, yet it incorporates their stream-of-consciousness thoughts in the first person and even includes snippets in the second person. While the shifts in viewpoint are not often heralded by marked changes in the narrative, the point of view is not the point

A common theme in dystopian novels is the severe imbalance of power between two groups. Often, the dominant group exploits the rest of the population or resources so it can remain in control. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood are no exception. The Hunger Games focuses on a teenage girl, Katniss Everdeen, and her struggle to survive under a totalitarian government. Oryx and Crake follow the accounts of Snowman struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of mankind.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a first person point-of-view story about a sixteen-year-old woman named Katniss Everdeen struggling to survive in a future dystopian world. This new nation, Panem, is viewed as a utopia by residents of the Capitol, but it is instead seen as a harsh war zone by many of the Capitol’s twelve outlying districts. Years ago, the districts attempted a rebellion against the Capitol, but unfortunately failed, resulting in many deaths and extreme penalties. As punishment for this war, the Capitol requires one male and one female tribute from each district to participate in the Hunger Games, an annual event that requires the twenty-four tributes to fight to the death until one tribute remains and is crowned the

Perhaps one of the most influential book series of this generation, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy became immensely popular among fans of Young Adult literature almost overnight. Set in the dystopian Panem, a post-apocolyptic North America, The Hunger Games presents to the reader an all-too-real future of institutionalized oppression based on social class.

For my independent novel study, I have decided to use Suzanne Collin’s Novel the Hunger Games; a story set around a teenaged girl’s firsthand account of gladiator-like sports in a post-apocalyptic era where North America once stood. The book creates a mood or sense of suspense and hope for Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist who has to fight for survival in the Hunger Games. This reminds me of and relates to the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Where in his novel, a group of boys are found stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere and must fight for their survival as well as hope to be rescued. Katniss, just like the boys, finds herself trapped in an arena with other tributes, but

For over a decade now, controversial debates have sparked upon whether Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games, has been a duplication of George Orwell’s 1984 through its similar qualities of dystopia in both fictitious societies. George Orwell, born in the early 19th century, ultimately expounds upon the dangerous impacts upon the development of technology. Indubitably, this is seen in his novel 1984, which was published almost 59 years ago, as Orwell utilized a main protagonist by the name of Winston Smith who rebels against the manipulative, technologically advanced government through a myriad of lawbreaking scenarios. Likewise, Suzanne Collins implements a protagonist named Katniss Everdeen, who like Winston, rebels against the government, but through contemplating suicide alongside a fellow opponent in a single winner competition. Both situations essentially leads to the suspenseful state of the novels plot, literary devices and the debated similar condition of each novel because both novels fights against tyrannical governments. George Orwell and Suzanne Collins are both immensely ornate writers, both of which explore the effects of a dystopian society upon the human spirit through elucidating a dangerously technologized setting, theme of manipulation of society and the final resolution of the novel.

After reading The Hunger Games, I immediately found myself analysing the deeper meaning behind the text whilst extracting the key themes and applying them to modern day society. The main themes that I drew from the text are how controlling governments put boundaries on our individual ability to succeed and the extent to which people go to survive under this style of leadership. The Hunger Games is a science-fiction novel, written by Suzanne Collins. It is written from the first person perspective which is of 16 year old Katniss Everdeen who lives in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. The Capitol is the name of the official government which exercises complete economic and political dominance over Panem.

With dystopia being a present theme in both George Orwell’s, 1984 and Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, both titles share similarities and contrasts to one another. Even though these books were written decades apart, they share similarities in the government control and the presence of poverty in the settings. But, both books contradict one another as futuristic settings are viewed differently depending on when the books are written, as well as the remembrance of past struggles in the societies. The seeds of a dystopian theme are found in 1984 and The Hunger Games, presenting similarities and differences from in both books, even though the books were written decades a part.

Dystopian literature adheres to certain conventions; the theme of a dystopian future typically encompasses a severely repressed society, with socio-political dysfunction and class stratification. Themes of surveillance, censorship and personal independence have been established by authors such as George Orwell, and are recurrent throughout 2008 novel “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, although Orwellian dystopia and conceived ideas of freedom are juxtaposed in an intriguing fashion. “The Hunger Games” revolves around the notion of the various districts of Panem offering in tribute one young man and woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice, Panem being the nation that was established during an unknown period of time, and the pageant of honor being the barbaric means of controlling its citizens. Whilst more recent dystopian literature derives heavily from Orwellian conventions in some respects, it arguably differs greatly in others, redefining to an extent the genre.

In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth a young girl named Tris who decides her fate against her parents will. As the cities around her turn to war Tris must stick by her friends and do what is right. Similar yet different, in the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins a young girl named Katniss takes the place of her sister in an annual war between 11 other districts. Katniss must choose between her well being and the wellbeing of the people she loves. In this essay readers learn how both books express similarities and differences in the theme, the setting, as well as the usage and meaning of symbolism.