Wilkie Collins

Book Review: The Hunger Games The nation of Panem is a rich Capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in line and to show how powerful they are, they force each district to send one boy and girl from ages 12 to 18 to fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen is a simple girl from district 12 who is struggling to keep her family from death’s grip of starvation, and her one motivation in life is to keep her little sister safe at all costs. So when her sister Prim is reaped to compete

An adventurer who aspires for a bone chilling tail will not only be amazed at Suzanne Collins’, The Hunger Games: Catching fire, but entertained. This heart throbber is perfect for teens and up. The book is an action packed tail that catches every reader who reads this book. It’s been six months since Katniss and Peeta have seen the deathly arena life. They finally win the seventy-fourth hunger games, an annual fight to the death for all the districts in an arena. Each year a male and female

It hard to fight when you know at the end of the day only one comes out alive. This all started when the capital wanted an entertainment show, they put us into 12 districts a boy and a girl from each district get chosen to battle to death only one will survive. They call it the hunger games I got chosen this year with a boy I never saw before in my life. I will try to win this just so I can come home to my little sister i'm in it to win it. A few skills that will help me in the hunger games is

In Divergent by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games by Susam Collins they both show the struggles of a possible future in a dystopian universe. Both stories are set in future America after a cold, long war, and show examples of symbolism consequently showing signifance in both their plots. In The Hunger Games the mocking jay is a symbol for hope, freedom, and rebellion. After the reaping the mayors daughter gives Katniss a mocking jay pin to represent her support for her. As the story progresses Katniss

In chapters 6 through 10 of, “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins, the reader is told about the life of a tribute starting at the Training Center. The Training Center is a tower which will be the tributes home before the games begin. There are 12 floors and each girl and boy from each district get the floor that is the number of their district, so Katniss and Peeta are on floor number 12. Their floor contains “Avoxes” to help clean, make food, serve, etc. An Avox is someone who committed a crime

In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, a totalitarian nation called Panem is divided into 12 different districts and the Capitol (the head of Panem). Panem is ruled by the wealthy residents of the Capitol. As an annual show of devotion to the Capitol, each District must draw two young Tributes, one boy and one girl, to compete in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are a result of a past rebellion and is a competition in which twenty-four young people fight to the death…until a lone victor

Independent Novel Assignment- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins A) Succeeding Katniss’s rescued from the previous hunger games, it is revealed that she is living in district 13 (which was believed to be non-existent) with the rest of district 12, who were bombed. President coin pressures her into becoming the face of the revolution, the Mockingjay, which she accepts after she sees Peeta, who is captured by the capitol, acting as a traitor. While seeing another broadcast of Peeta, he warns

also has so much power and you have no say in any of it. Imagine seeing someone who you think could be the leader of a rebellion. A rebellion you desperately want to join; but your life is at stake. In The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins simulates this for her readers. Collins uses the craft move of symbolism all throughout the story to display it for the readers. The symbolism takes place in the form of the District's, Capital and Katniss. In The Hunger Games, the Districts symbolize conformity. This

The book I chose to read was “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. This story is about how a boy and a girl are chosen from each of the 12 districts to fight to the death in an arena. This story will revolve around Katniss Everdeen who volunteers for her sister when she was chosen and how she will survive the Hunger games. Throughout this story, she will face many challenges, but also will make many new friends and achieve many great things. The genre of this book could best be described as Action

In the book “The Hunger Games” and “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins Katniss Everdeen desperately fights for her life in the arena. She has been chosen as a tribute in the reaping day and promises her sister Primrose Everdeen and later on in part II Rue a district 11 girl who she was allies with. Katniss learns that she must be dependent on others to have a chance to win. The books give a great description with her relationship with Peeta, Rue, Haymitch, the tribute victors, and family and friends