Literary Analysis Of The Hunger Games

Analysis of The Hunger Games: The Presence of the Elements of the Monomyth Released in 2012, The Hunger Games is an adventure science-fiction movie by Gary Ross starring critically-acclaimed actors Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth. It is the first installment of a four-movie series based on the novel trilogy The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins (“The Hunger Games”). The movie tells the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old citizen of Panem’s District 12, who volunteers to take her younger sister’s place in the 74th Hunger Games, a televised competition where one boy and one girl of each of the twelve districts of the nation of Panem are randomly chosen as tributes to fight each other to death. Broadcasted throughout the whole nation, the annual Hunger Games serve as

From that moment, the first step of the hero’s journey is represented through Katniss’ environment, status, and personality. Indeed, she comes from a coal-mining region dominated by poverty, misery, and starvation. Food is hard to find and she finds herself having no other choice but to hunt, which she appears to do more in order to sell the prey to make money than in order to eat to satisfy her appetite. Katniss is depicted as a quiet and independent woman, but she also demonstrates a lot of fierce. Despite that, she does not seem totally aware of her full potential, thus demonstrating the innocent of the youth of the hero. She is well aware of her abilities in terms of surviving, hunting, and practicing the art of archery, but it is questionable if she thinks she had the ability to win the Hunger Games, or if those abilities are only helpful in the “real world.” For example, when saying her last goodbyes before travelling to the Capitol, although she tries to be strong and unbreakable, her fragility can still be perceived. Her confidence builds slowly but surely later on in the