Many cultures have a trickster in their myths, a being who behaves differently than expected and who does his own thing for his own reasons. Native Americans have Coyote, the Norse have Loki, the Ancient Greeks had Prometheus, and we Americans have Bugs Bunny, Bree Rabbit, and now, Mitchael Abernathy. Haymitch Abernathy is a true trickster. He goes through the stages of becoming a trickster by being a sell-out with the role of a mentor that the capital thrust upon him after surviving the Hunger Games. Then he becomes a drop-out by turning to the bottle but then emerges as a trickster upon finding his moment to tear down the dictator that the Capital had become. “Just remember, Katniss, you want the audience to like you.” Haymitch gave Katniss this one last piece of advice, on page 134, before her interview with Caesar Flickerman. Unlike Katniss, Haymitch is very good at faking it. He almost has an air of just not caring, a neutralism that has possibly saved his life on many accounts. When the train stopped to refuel on the way home after the games Haymitch interrupts Katniss and Peeta's awkward conversation, “Great job, you two. Just keep it up in the district until the cameras are gone. We should be ok.” Then he turns and walks away to leave Katniss to explain to an already upset Peeta what he means.
Haymitch is a sellout, because he didn't want to die. The capital sent representatives to District Twelve to take four kids to die as martyrs in the Hunger Games, so that the Capital could show their iron grip on the districts and insure their continued blind subservience for another year. In the game, it came down to Haymitch and a professional from district one, Haymitch won by pure accident. But President Snow was furious with...
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...y Dereck Coatney, he quotes Haymitch saying “ And that is how a revolution dies”(179). After watching a very badly staged battle, staring Katniss against the Capital. That they were going to show to the Districts to convince them to join the revolution.
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...hanks - but I have elicited something dangerous. An act of dissent from the people of District 11. This is exactly the thing I am supposed to be defusing" (Collins 62). Katniss impulsively gives public recognition to Rue in District 11 in spite of being warned against fueling the fire for a rebellion. Even though she wants to keep her and Gale’s family safe by giving in to Snow's stipulations, her sense of personal obligation overrides her promise to Snow.
In the book The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins displays a variety of topics that most readers neglect to consider. One of key aspects she displays is the restriction against individuality. This is a similar theme that dominated the 1920s in America during the Red Scare. During this era many Americans were fearful of expressing views that were not in sync with the government’s perspective; likewise the capitol creates methods that inhibit the citizens ability to voice any opposing views. Most of the time, when controversial opinions were spoken, the punishments put in place were not worthy of the crime, such as the Sacco Vanzetti case in the 1921 and the imprisoning of the Avox girl. In order to keep this power as many people were imprisoned as possible during the Palmer efforts, similarly the reaping is held every year to show the citizens of Panem that they have no power whatsoever. Consequently, when a government provides strict standards, it hinders a person’s ability to be an individual.
...ends. Also, Katniss begins to care about other districts, like when she decorated Rue’s body with flowers to show District 11 that they weren’t the only ones who mourned her death. They thank her with the gift of a piece of bread. Another way Katniss becomes more caring is by realizing that each kill affects a family. This leads to Katniss wishing that she did not have to kill any more Tributes. Katniss wishes that there were a way for her to win the Hunger Games without killing anyone else.
The story of The Hunger Games is an intense depiction of a totalitarianism society that is reigned by the Capitol, whom of which has complete political control over the twelve districts that are all located in Panem. Those who live in the twelve districts must undergo the possibility of entering into the infamous Hunger Games that are intended to remind and represent the Capitol’s authority over the powerless districts. Suzanne Collin’s novel and Gary Ross’s film of The Hunger Games have several things in common but also a few differences as well.
"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance" (Walt Whitman). In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss is a young girl from District 12, who lives in a society which finds great entertainment in the organized killing of children. These bloodbaths are constructed by the Capitol into an event known as the Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games, kids are thrown into a huge arena and forced to fight to the death. Katniss`s younger sister Prim is chosen to participate in the Hunger Games but Katniss volunteers to take her place as tribute. Over the course of the Hunger Games and the events that proceed it, Katniss changes from being impulsive and feeling impotent into a rational revolutionist, who quietly defies the capitol and takes a stand for what is right.
The Hunger Games, a film based off of a novel written by Susan Collins, was released in March of 2012. The film, and the book it was based on, chronicles the struggles of a girl named Katniss Everdeen, a girl who lives in a poverty stricken province or “District”, until untimely circumstances forces her to play in the Hunger Games, a gladiatorial like contest where children between the ages of 12 and 18 are forced to fight to the death. A contest that was set up by an oppressive and authoritarian government, and has thus far been sustained via the forced obedience of the rebellious Districts, the brainwashing and conditioning of Districts 1 and 2, and the conditioning of the residents of its Capitol. The movie has a variety of messages, most especially in regards toward social control and social conditioning. With these ideas in mind, a case could very well be made that The Hunger Games, throughout its two hour long run time, shows a very realistic look at a socially conditioned society and what humanity can become with the right amount of conditioning and control by an authoritarian force.
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Katniss ends up in District 13, which she thought was destroyed years ago by President Snow, as she shatters the games forever. She accepts to become the symbol of the rebellion, “the Mocking Jay”, to go against and fight the Capitol. However President Snow broadcast Peeta stating that he is a live with the former victors and Katniss
In a not-too-distant, some 74 years, into the future the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 13 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; these children are referred to as tributes (Collins, 2008). The Games are meant to be viewed as entertainment, but every citizen knows their purpose, as brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts. The televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eradicate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. The main character throughout the series is a 16-year-old girl from District 12 named Katniss Everdeen.
With the constant notion of war in the neighboring situation, Katniss Everdeen reactions to her threats much differently than Harry Potter. As the Hunger Games contains a lot of futuristic elements, the society although as many innovative technologies, in the most part these technologies do not impact the people in the capitol or the districts. The only use of the common people of these advanced mechanisms is surveillance, as it control the separation of movement to prevent any alliances between the people. Hence, as Harry Potter is surrounded with his friends, Katniss is surrounded with the isolation of the
The Hunger Games- “a futuristic dystopian society [Panem] where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts” (The Hunger Games). The overpowering government lives in the Capitol of Panem and from there controls the citizens of the twelve districts through propaganda and other means. The Capitol has all of the economic and political power in Panem; they have complete control. The leader of the capitol is the harsh, dictator-like figure, President Snow. President Snow’s methods for keeping order in the districts are through Peacekeepers and the annual Hunger Games. The Peacekeepers are an army that monitors each district. Any sign of rebellion, and the Peacekeepers take care of it, usually by killing the rebel in some way. The annual Hunger Games are used to remind all of the citizens of Panem about the uprising in the now obliterated District 13. The Hunger Games, in a way, brainwashes all of the citizens, but a select few such as Katniss Everdeen, to believe that an uprising would be horrible and is not necessary and that the Capitol does what is best for all of the citizens. In
The main character, Katniss, volunteers as tribute for her district to save her sister from having to be tribute. Upon arriving in the Capitol for the games, she sees just how vast the gap between the Capitol and districts are. To fight against this class struggle, she begins to revolt. At first this comes in the form of small things, like shooting an arrow at a pig feast of Capitol higher-ups and refusing to kill her friend in the games, resulting in the first ever co-victors of the Hunger Games. Katniss’ actions soon lead to full blown rebellion in the districts, starting a revolutionary war between them and the Capitol. At one point Katniss remarks: “My ongoing struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side.” (Catching Fire 90). In true Marxist fashion the working class needed to use a violent revolution to confront the class struggle against the ruling