Most of the people today can hardly imagine the hardships and sacrifices that peoples have to make during a war. It is said that true victory requires sacrifice and ideally one would believe that this is true. Throughout the novels Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the authors express their viewpoints on war and how it has both a physical and psychological effect on one’s actions and motives. It is clearly expressed in both novels that a war damages one’s behaviour by igniting different emotions such as anger and as well as nervousness that everything that surrounds a person is wanting to kill them. Both Collins and Boyden express the hardships that one faces through war in the characterization of Katniss …show more content…
Everdeen and Xavier Bird as their experiences in before and during combat change their personalities, the struggles and sacrifices that Katniss and Xavier partake during their respected wars that allow them to be successful, and the friendships that both characters encounter during their time in combat that displays a weakness to the enemy. Ultimately, both Joseph Boyden and Suzanne Collins use different elements in their texts to express the tragedies that one experiences in a war. Firstly, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is an exhilarating novel about a small-town girl, who wants to live a normal life, enters a war and she is surrounded with so much death that it consumes her and corrupts her nature.
In this novel, the Capitol started the Hunger Games to remind the citizens that rebellion will not be tolerated and without them the Capitol would have no control over the 12 Districts and the population within them. As the population of Panem is in its all-time high, it is decreed that every year one man and woman will represent their district in the Hunger Games to fight to the death and the one winner of the games will be wealthy and famous. Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 volunteers for her sister Primrose Everdeen because she loves her and that she would certainly die in the arena. “I protect Prim in every way I can, but I’m powerless against the reaping. The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face. “(Collins 16). This quote signifies that Katniss shows compassion and nobility by giving her sister a fighting chance to live and survive and that she couldn’t see her sister in pain. Also, Katniss feels that the Capitol showcases the games each year as a source of entertainment because people in the Capitol are wealthy and do not need to worry about competing in the Hunger Games and Katniss is furious that the Capitol tears her apart from a normal life and from her family. During …show more content…
this time of grief, Katniss also feels hopeless because there is a one in twenty-four chance that she lives, and the chances of death are large. During the Hunger Games, Katniss is fighting for her life and she is terrified because everyone is trying to survive as well as eliminate the other tributes. She escaped death by using her hunting skills she acquired from her time in District 12 to aid her in the games by making fires and hunting small animals. One of the many sacrifices that Katniss Everdeen made in order for her to take an advantage in the games was cutting the tracker jacker nest. “Fortunately, only these three tracker jackers had identified me before the nest went down. The rest of the insects have targeted their enemies on the ground. It’s mayhem. The Careers have woken to a full-scale tracker jacker attack. Peeta and a few others have thesense to drop everything and bolt.” (189). This is significant because she put herself in risk of getting stung or possible death to give her an advantage as well as a fighting chance. Cutting the hive gained her two important things a weapon and an ally and a friend, Rue, as well as a disadvantage of passing out for two days which may have killed her. Friendships and allies are critically important in a war as the more people are allied and are working together as a group, the chances of winning are higher. Throughout most of the Hunger Games, Katniss is friends as well as an ally with Rue from District 12. “‘You know, they’re not the only ones who can form alliances,’ I say. For a moment, no response. Then one of Rue’s eyes edges around the trunk. ‘You want me for an ally?’ ‘Why not? You saved me with those tracker jackers. You’re smart enough to still be alive.’” This signifies the importance of making allies because Rue saves Katniss from the tracker jackers, and that Katniss also provides safety for Rue as she can hunt. Making allies in the Hunger Games is common because the larger allied group can one by one eliminate the other tributes and essentially win. Rue and Katniss’s alliance allows them to accomplish many tasks such as blowing up a food pyramid run by Cato and his alliance. Ultimately, Rue, who was like a sister to Katniss, dies trying to blow up the food and it gravely impacts Katniss psychologically because she looked at Rue as her sister Prim, who she volunteered for at the Reaping. In collusions, Suzanne Collins, in her novel The Hunger Games, represents the hardships and obstacles that one can develop during a war. Likewise, Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road also includes the difficulties of war but in a different historical context.
Three Day Road takes place in the uphold of World War 1, where they are many battles that Xavier Bird has to take part in that creates more experiences for him to share with Niska, his aunt. Xavier Bird, a prestigious sniper in World War 1, who was abandoned by his mother. Xavier and his best friend Elijah took part in World War 1. Before the war, Xavier was an Aboriginal boy who was discriminated in Ontario, Canada. He was forced to attend a residential because of control from the Europeans. Just like how Katniss was forced to enter the games, Xavier was forced to attend a residential school and suffer from racial slurs and discrimination. Because of all the slurs, he knew he wasn’t going to be suffering for the rest of his life so he decided to go into the military, hoping to escape all the racism in his community. Xavier suffers from discrimination in the military and he doesn’t have good English so he’s always left out in conversation. Xavier has excellent accuracy when it comes to sniping, but Elijah always takes the credit which results in Xavier being excluded even more in conversation. The sacrifices that Xavier Bird made in the wars was for one he starts his addiction to morphine, which represents the downfall of Xavier and he took morphine to wipe away all the pain and sorrow that wars takes on a person. “I figure its safe enough to light a
cigarette. No one will notice it in the sunlight. I started smoking to fit in. now I like it. Sometimes I send up prayers on the smoke” (Boyden 67). The significance of this quote is that Xavier develops a habit of smoking and he does so fit in as well as keep his insanity in check. The morphine calms his mind down, and his addiction is a major struggle throughout the novel. Additionally, Xavier and his best friend Elijah shares many adventures together such as their time in residential school and the war. During the war, Elijah becomes consumed by European culture and strives to become like them. In the end of the novel, Xavier kills Elijah because of his transformation and the monster he became with his drug addiction problem as well as his idea of scalping his victims. This poses a major threat to Xavier himself because he kills his own friend for the safety of his life and well as the people in the barracks. In conclusion, both Collins and Boyden exemplifies that a war is life-changing between the characters Katniss Everdeen and Xavier Bird as a true victory requires sacrifices. Both characters sacrifice everything, including their lives in order to win. The Hunger Games and Three Day Road represents the importance of the experiences prior to war as it can determine if a person may live or die and the friends that you make during a war that poses a threat to the enemy. This is vitally important because comparing two characters in different time periods and experiences can mold a person, and this information can be rewritten for future generations. Wars were very common in the past, they will be common in the presents and definitely in the future. Ultimately, the ones who are strong, will tend to live.
Katniss volunteering for the hunger games to take her sister prim's place because prim is just a child in katniss’s eyes. The hunger game arena could Be identified with a maze. Peeta the other tribute for District 12 had fallen in love with Katniss before the reaping. Because of her uniqueness the crowd
Suzanne Collins has, through her writings, used great imagery to expose the meaningful side of ‘The Hunger Games’, the side that is not all about what takes place in the arena. The Capitol’s rule over the districts, the reality-show part of the Hunger Games and the Mockingjay pin are all fragments of deeper meanings that create the basis of all that the story is. Suzanne Collins has depicted the country of Panem as a place overruled by a large city, known as the Capitol. The Hunger Games is apparently a means to keep peace and a fair punishment for the rebellion of the districts, where district 13 was obliterated in the mess. However, Collins has spun this interpretation around and unveiled a different perspective – that The Hunger Games is
Katniss volunteered because her sister’s name was randomly chosen on the day of the reaping, the day each year when one known as a tribute is chosen for the Hunger Games. Prim was the minimum age of 12 when she was picked. The author, Suzanna Collins, states “… in District 12 … the word tribute is pretty much synonymous in the word corpse” (Collins 22). Katniss wanted to spare her sister’s life. “Prim … is the only person in the world I’m certain I love” (Collins 10). In the end Katniss not only survives the Hunger Games, but helps her teammate, Peeta Mellark, survive as well. Katniss was motivated to survive because she wanted to get home. “The train begins moving and we’re plunged into night until we clear the tunnel and I take my first free breath since the reaping … I begin to think of home. Of Prim and my mother … I begin transforming back into myself. Katniss Everdeen” (Collins
As can be seen, Paul Boyer, Tim O’Brien, and Kenneth W. Bagby, convey the notion that war affects the one’s self the most. Through the use of literary devices: tone, mood, pathos, and imagery, these 3 authors portray that war affects a person’s self most of all. War is not only a battle between two opposing sides, but it can also be a mental conflict created within a person. Although war is able to have an effect on physical relationships between family, friends, or even society, conflict within oneself is the most inevitable battle one must face during war times.
The Hunger Games was a good movie when it came out. This movie refers to a dystopia world in which there are 12 districts and a capitol who rules with an iron fist, in which the districts must provide a tribute to fight in an annual Hunger Game as a punishment for a past rebellion. Katniss Everdeen is a hunter from the 12th district, which Gale, her friend gives her tips on hunting. One day her sister, Primrose Everdeen, is chosen for the Hunger Games, and in order to save her, she volunteers instead to serve in the Games along with Peeta Mellark. During a TV interview, Peeta confesses her love for Katniss Everdeen, which causes the enragement of the latter; however, she later forgives him as he explains to her that it was only to gain sponsors. During the Hunger Games, she did not receive a lot of supplies except some medicine to cure a wound, but Districts 1 and 2 almost won the Game due to their training, and amount of supplies which Katniss destroys but cannot recover any of them. The Hunger Games was one of the best movies I ever watched because it has a little bit of everything and it captures the real-life survival game that we live on a daily basis.
In The Hunger Games Katniss is rebelling against the capital and does not like the fact that there are the games where kids have to slaughter each other till there is only one left. They have the hunger games Because before they had a war where all the districts rebelled
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.
The Hunger Games do not provide a realistic glimpse into the lives of the tributes. The Capitol takes great pride with appearances and fashion, and this is reflected through the tributes. Every year the tributes are groomed and pampered by the Capitol’s chosen stylists for the Games in order for the tributes to be admired by the people of Panem before entering the arena. Katniss acknowledges this when she says, “What do these people do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to row in and die for entertainment” (Collins, Hunger 65). The Games show a glamorized type of reality in order to entertain Panem. The tributes cannot win on strength and brutality alone; they must win the hearts of sponsors and citizens of the Capitol. The tributes transform in to celebrities to win the hearts of citizens before being killed on live television. Mary Matos in her article “Media in the Hunger Games”, she states that throughout the Hunger Games trilogy Katniss alternates between that awareness, understanding, and manipulation of the media (Matos 4). While Katniss is alternating between all of these she will never out of the media itself. Being a tribute she will always be juggling herself between these three
The movie The Hunger Games, originally based on a book by Suzanne Collins, is about a place called Panem, which is ruled by the Capitol and has 12 districts within it. These 12 districts are separated founded on their economic statuses, meaning the higher the district, the more impoverished the residents are. There are 2 tributes that are chosen to participate, forcibly, in The Hunger Games each year. Each competitor is instructed to eliminate one another in order to survive and come out on top. There is only one tribute allowed to come out of the arena alive. Katniss lives in District 12, which is the most impoverished district of them all, and she volunteers as tribute in “the Reaping” when her sister is chosen to participate. She and the other tribute from her district, Peeta, make it into the arena with the hopes that one of them comes out the winner and above all else, alive (Ross, 2012). I will refrain from going any further just in case you have not read the book or have not seen the movie. In terms of soci...
In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins a new country is created. Panem is born in place of North America, were the Hunger Games began. In the Hunger Games, there are 24 tributes. Tributes are people who live in the districts. The tributes in the Hunger Games are all the same. They kill one another and become the Capitols puppets. The tributes become violent, emotionless puppets. Then there is Katniss. Katniss is an excellent hunter and becomes lethal during the games. However, she has not lost her compassion. Katniss does not think of herself as a good person. When in reality she is a good person with a large heart, who puts others before herself.
Since she is the female victor from district 12, she is in the 74th Hunger Games. She sees how painful and scary it is and so she tries to stop the capital which is who is controlling everything. She doesn’t want that to happen to anyone else. She rebels against President Snow in plan of eventually killing him to take over the capital and change the world. Teens can relate to this because a lot of the time we feel controlled. It might be by a parent, teacher, grandparent or someone else but all of us are controlled by someone. A lot of teenagers end up rebelling because they feel as if they have no choices. They go against the rules of who they are rebelling against. That persons rules and values are not necessarily right. Who decides what is right? It seems as if we have entered into a state time where there is no right and wrong. Katniss breaks free of that control and does her own thing. Another way teens can relate to the hunger games is through the love triangle. Some of us might have a similar situation of where we might like two people. In the movie it says, “What I need is not Gales fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can
The Hunger Games takes place in the ruins of a nation once known as North America that is now called Panem. There are twelve districts in Panem including the Capital and what used to be district thirteen before it was destroyed in the uprising. District twelve, in charge of the coal industry, is where the main characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark belongs. District twelve is known for being the poorest of all the districts so Katniss is known in the district for her amazing hunting skills when it comes to a bow and arrow. Seventy four years before the novels plot a rebellion or uprising occurred, because of this uprising the Capital created the hunger games as a punishment to remind the people of the Capitals power.
The contest within The Hunger Games is rooted deep in the film's backstory, in which the nation of Panem was rocked by a civil war. Twelve oppressed Districts rose up against an oppressive Capitol, and the end result of this civil war was a Capitol victory (Hunger Games). In response to the rebellion of its outer provinces, the government of Panem decreed the creation of the Hunger Games, in which each District would send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to fight in a battle to the death, until only one Victor emerged supreme, who would then, “be showered with glory”, by the Capitol, in order to show the mercy and ...
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
Our world has suffered many losses from war. Wars has changed the world and the people in it. In the novel ¨The Hunger Games¨, Suzanne Collins created a story about the United States post war, showing what our world could turn out to be after a major war. Even though this story can be interpreted as entertainment, the novel is to inform the audience, and the movie is to entertain. Suzanne Collins made her novel ¨The Hunger Games¨ to inform the reader of what war can do, and just how powerful the government is.