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“ ‘I want the audience to recognize you when you’re in the arena’ says Cinna dreamily. ‘Katniss, the girl who was on fire’ ”(67). The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins gave birth to one of the most important characters in the modern day world of literature, Katniss Everdeen the girl on fire. Not only do we have a character that shook the real world with her debut, but we have a character that is dynamic in every way possible. She goes from a starving girl in district 12, to a loveable toy of the capital

In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen is a teenage girl who lives in an impoverished country of Panem. After he father passed away in a tragic mining explosion, she learned to fill in her father’s shoes. This made family her only priority as her mother was in no state to supper their family. Besides her caring nature for others, during The Hunger Games, Katniss develops a competitive attitude. As she grew up with no father and having little income coming from her mother, there

The book we read was The Hunger Games the author is Suzanne Collins and in this book the two main characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark both face many struggles like survival, hunger, having no money, families to help, and lastly having be participate in the Hunger Games. In this essay I will be explaining what stuff that they had to do to overcome the challenges they had to face. The first thing is their skills, Katniss is a phenomenal hunter with the bow and arrow which she needs because

Sometimes that old saying is true : books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a novel that was made into a movie in 2012. The movie and novel are about a girl name Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl who volunteers in the Hunger Games, and is from district 12. Her father had died in a explosion when she was 11 years old. Since then she has been providing for her mother and sister by using the hunting

Appearance and fashion are important factors that drive our societies today. We live in a world where people are judged by the way they look, dress and carry themselves. This phenomenon is display by Suzanne Collins in her New York Times bestseller trilogy the “Hunger Games”. In this book, Collins presents a dystopian world, a world that is awful and terrible. The different themes used in this book are violence, corruption, obsession, inequality and physical appearance and they somehow related to our

How to Escape from American Consumerism and Materialism We all know we live in a highly materialistic culture in which conspicuous consumption governs much of our lives. We strive to acquire goods which will define us to ourselves and to others and somehow satisfy our human need to justify existence. At the end of the day, we also all know that there’s a trap built into the system: the more you consume, the more you are pressed to consume more because whatever satisfaction possession of things

                     Alexandra Lloyd What role did 19th Century popular serial novels such as Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone play in British understandings of India? When Wilkie Collins first wrote The Moonstone in 1868, it was not published in the form available today, but was published in instalments in a popular Victorian magazine, All the Year Round. Upon its first publication it was eagerly

Notes Hum/105 World Mythology Instructor: Cheryl Anderson Brandi Pumilia 8/23/2015   Contemporary Hero’s Quest Presentation Speaker Notes The Hunger Games I chose to the modern mythology known as The Hunger Games a novel written by Suzanne Collins and later adapted into a feature film. The novel was actually part of a trilogy The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. The story begins by introducing you to our main character Katniss Everdeen who lives in a world run by the Capitol where

You are Not the Same as You were Before Have you ever made this comment to someone? When I was in high school in Mexico someone told me that I was no longer the same as I was before. At that time, I did not understand why he said that. It was during a rough time for me, as my most beloved grandmother was battling cancer. She had a tumor in her brain that could not be operated on. She was also in the process of chemotherapies. For those who have not had an experience like this with a family member

Brown Professor Lawson English 102 31 May 2016 Research Paper: Final Draft Word Count: 1142 Behind the Power: Panem’s Ideology How and why does Panem’s government oppress its citizens while keeping complete control? The “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel with an extremely corrupt government that controls the citizens with the District system. The corrupt government in “The Hunger Games” finds various ways to suppress Panem’s occupants, including but not limited to artificial scarcity