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1.1.5. Type of Dystopian control in the Hunger Games It is usual, for dystopian fiction, to incorporate some kind of societal control, which is oppressive in nature and the main purpose for which it is used is, to keep public under control. The Hunger Games presents the technological control in which a society is basically controlled by technology—through robots, computers, surveillance and/or scientific means. The specialists designed the arena through computers and other complicated softwares

Written by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games takes place in a post-apocalyptic country, called Panem. The country is divided into twelve districts and controlled by a central city, known as the Capitol. Every year, each district has to select two children as tributes to compete in a brutal sporting event, known as the Hunger Games in which they must kill each other until there is a lone winner. In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins criticizes the dehumanization of reality television, warns readers

Persuade your reader that The Hunger Games either is or is not a feminist text Throughout history society has constructed the views of femininity to mean maternity, in the first few pages of The Hunger Games it is suggested that Katniss’ natural instincts are “protect Prim in every way I can” (18). Katniss’ voluntary tribute at the reaping was to protect Prim “re-defin[ing], consciously or unconsciously, a project concerning identifications and desire, or alternatively suffers the ‘fate of a disposable

Divergent and the Hunger Games Two great authors stroke the world by surprise through their bestselling novels that left their readers hungry for sequels. The two magnificent authors: Veronica Roth, author of Divergent, and Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games dominated the young-adult, dystopian genre with their outstanding books. At first sight the two books seem rather similar. A typical strong courageous heroin, living in a segregated community, rebels against the government in

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, there is a new post-apocolyptic country created called Panem which used to be North America, that is divided into 13 districts. The main character of the novel is a girl named Katniss Everdeen from District 12 who is put to the challenge of competing against 23 other girls and boys to the death in the annual Hunger Games. The Capitol, is who rules the 13 districts. They create unfair and strict policies, which once cause the districts to rise up

The Hunger Games, a science fiction adventure novel, written by Suzanne Collins describes a world that conflict and intertwine with many different social theories. The Capitol is a powerful government that controls every district as a template of a hierarchy. As a powerful government, the Capitol contains most the wealth of the twelve districts, many lives in lavish lifestyles with technologically advances while the other twelve districts lives in poverty. Each district consists of their own specific

Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. (Collins 6).” This entry depicts a couple of Katniss' attributes that are key to her voyage through the novel. To begin with, they show that she has a characteristic comprehension of the shameful acts sustained by the Capitol, and in addition an inalienable

Natalie House Hunt English 110 23 September 20XV The Hunger Games: Should it be censored? Since its publication in 2008, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins has become “one of the top 50 books sold on kindle and in stores today” according to Forbes Magazine. (Gaudiosi. 1). Because of its astounding popularity, the novel has also attracted a large amount of criticism as well as praise. Because The Hunger Games’ basic storylines revolves around teens fighting each other in order to survive

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

In the novel, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins argues that North America will be demolished. Collins detects that our society is becoming a dystopian world. As the writer Suzanne puts it "history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that [once was] called North America… the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, [and] the brutal war" (Collins 18). Now, that North America has vanished The Capitol