What are you supposed to do when your government makes you sacrifice 24 lives every year? How do you deal when they are innocent children, ranging from ages twelve to eighteen? Written by Suzanne Collins, in 2008, "The Hunger Games" is a masterpiece of unfairness, righteousness, and the rebelling against the wrongful doing of government. While the government reigns supreme, it is unfair and dehumanizing.
Every year, 24 "tributes" are chosen to participate in "The Hunger Games"; a televised ultimate death match of teenagers. There are twelve districts, (like states) that the "tributes" are chosen from. Two from each district, a boy and a girl, ageing between twelve and eighteen. Katniss Everdeen, our main character, is believed to be strong, fierce, and loving. She makes the ultimate sacrifice-volunteering her life in the Hunger Games- in place of her younger sister, Primrose Everdeen. Chosen alongside her in her district, Peeta Mellark is a handsome, caring intelligent, artistic fellow. You also have the other 22 "tributes", from the other eleven districts, participating in the 75...
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
Yamato, Jen. Burning Questions.“The Hunger Games and Real World Parallels: “Can kids all become Katniss Everdeen”. Movie Line. March 13, 2012. Web. May 04, 2012
The hero’s journey is a useful tool in analyzing narratives of all kinds, from myths to movies to everyday life. One of the most iconic stages in the Hero’s Journey is the ordeal, otherwise known as the belly of the whale or the cave, in which the protagonist has reached their darkest and most hopeless point – things cannot get worse. Once the hero gets through the main ordeal, their journey home is much more sedated. This can be paralleled to the encompassing plot structure, in which there is a climax, and then the intensity of the story winds down again. This stage is one of the most universal in the hero’s journey, because without conflict and climax, there is no drive or reward within the story. Popular movies such as The Hunger Games,
Do you enjoy reading about how to survive? Do you like to see children kill each other? The book, called “Hunger Games” has all the elements of survival. It is the perfect amount of survival and murder. Survival is key in the Hunger Games. You mainly need water, food, and shelter.
The 1st theme I have chosen is violence- violence is an act of physically abusing someone else. Violence is important because during being a tribute in the Hunger Games if you weren’t violent towards other tributes you were at risk of dying. From beginning to end the Hunger Games shows violence everywhere but one particular example would be when Katniss goes back to where they began to get a bag with healing cream in it for Peter but ends up having a run in with Clove. Clove tries to stab Katniss. While Clove is trying to stab Katniss she is ripped off of Katniss by Thresh because she was one of the tributes that killed Rue, he beats her head against the ship that had all the weapons etc. until she falls limp on the ground.
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.
Entertainment can come and be enjoyed in many different forms. Television shows and movies are some of the different forms of entertainment can be in. The lives of famous actors from shows or movies are constantly scrutinized on and off screen. Within the world of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins a version of reality entertainment is the televised murder of innocent children. Those who are chosen to be within the Hunger Games become a scrutinized celebrity. Katniss and other tributes that are forced to fight and kill show how human identity can become lost as they become objectified for the people of Panem. The Hunger Games helps represent the harm that reality television can have by using the glorification of death with the objectification
In order to survive, people will do almost anything. It’s hardwired in our minds, even after years of evolution.
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...
The movie “The Hunger Games” has many similarities and relations to World Mythology. While it may not seem like this movie is as myth related as others, such as Troy and Thor, many of the themes and situations in the movie were inspired by the stories of the great myths and epics. The overall theme of the movie is courage, strength, and destiny.
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.
The book The Hunger Games, portrays a society where people are treated unfairly based on factors that they cannot control. The people are born into one of 13 districts. There lives vary drastically based on where they are born. Someone born in the Capitol has a completely different life than someone born in district 12. A person born in the Capitol lives a wealthy life and is always treated with respect. On the other hand someone born in district 12 has a life of constant back breaking work. They live in poverty and struggle to survive.
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.
Yet, this only depicts what poverty is; the Hunger Games figuratively depict the cyclical nature of poverty. Every year twenty-four tributes are chosen at random, two from each of the twelve districts to compete in the Hunger Games; yet in the wealthier districts, some children chose to train and later, volunteer to compete. Since these children have an advantage – training – they are more likely to win and gain recognition amongst their district (Collins 94); the new generation of children of competing age then look up to the past victors of their district and want to train to compete and win like them. Meanwhile, those in the poorer districts who do not train are more likely to lose; having so few victors to train the new tributes hinders their progress and likelihood to win. This cycle continues because those who are prepared for the task will do better than those unprepared; once a district has an advantage, it hard for those without the same resources to compete with them. This can be extended to poverty; people who have money are able to invest and make more while those with little are only able to cover the basic survival
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.” by Alfred Lord Tennyson basically sums up The Hunger Games. While the Tennyson quote is about the courageous Light Brigade in the Crimean War, The Hunger Games is a twisted and sick corruption of government’s care of the people. The Hunger Games is the story of how a leader keeps control of his people by frightening them with the yearly sacrifice of 24 of their children. I did not enjoy the film adaptation of the The Hunger Games ,by Suzanne Collins, as much as I enjoyed the book.