Exposition: We are introduced to Katniss Everdeen, who lives in District 12 of Panem. We learn she hunts illegally in the forest with her friend Gale, in which they make money off their kills while also feeding their family. We also find out that her father was killed in a mine accident, and she has a little sister named Prim and a mother. “My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion” (Collins 5). Furthermore, we also figure out that the Capitol, the central city in Panem, hosts a game called “The Hunger Games” in which 1 boy and 1 girl aged 12 -18 from each district are forced to fight to the death until one remains. This was introduced to remind people of the failed rebellion led against the Capitol, …show more content…
Katniss doesn’t want to fight in the Games, so she volunteers to take her place. She considers this a death sentence, but she does it because she thinks she would be better dead than Prim. The other tribute picked for District 12 is a kid named Peeta Mellark, whom Katniss recognizes because he left some bread out for her when she was younger. After this, they start preparing for the first pre-game event, the carriage ride. Rising Action 2: During the carriage ride, they easily steal the show with their outfits, showing them on fire. This started earning Katniss the nickname “Girl on Fire”. After this, they get ready to train, in which Katniss excels at shooting and tying knots. They then move on to the private training sessions, in which Katniss scores an eleven out of twelve. Then it is time for the interview, in which Peeta declares his love for Katniss. She is at first upset by this, but she realizes that it will help her with getting sponsors during the games. Climax: After this, the Games officially begin. The opening moments of the Games are bloodshed, and this leads to eleven people dying on the first …show more content…
However, dehydration sets in quickly, and right before it looks like she is about to die, she reaches a pond and fills up her water bottle with it. After this close call, she plays it safe and makes sure to take things more slowly. The problem is that the Gamemakers want the Games to be interesting, so they send fireballs at Katniss, hoping for action. This is successful, and Katniss is forced to move away from the water source. Falling Action 1: Katniss runs into a group of tributes made up of the career tributes and Peeta. She is then alerted by a tribute named Rue of a tracker jacker nest in her tree. Tracker jacker venom can be deadly, so Katniss decides to drop it on the group. While she does take out two of the career tributes, most of the getaway, Katniss suffers three stings. This causes her to black out, when she wakes up, she realizes that Peeta saved her life by telling her to run. She then decides to team up with Rue and the two decide to destroy the career tribute’s food supply. This is successful, but Rue ends up dying from a stab wound to the stomach. Falling Action 2: A new rule is introduced in which if the last two tributes are from the same district, they both get to
The Hunger Games are basically the embodiment of society's off sense of entertainment. It combines the oddities that are violence and reality TV. However, what is it that insinuates the tones for this type of movie? Initially, there's a scene that addresses the fact that the society of this movie is conducting the games as though it was a standardized athletic tournament. In the movie, Haymitch Abernathy brings up how there are sponsors who deliver supplies to the “contestants”. Basically, sponsors influence the who will live or die, incidentally affecting the course of the games. During this scene, he claims, “And to get sponsors, you have to make people like you.” This scene mentions the thought on how people living in societies today work
“Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.” Suzanne Collins’ book, The Hunger Games, illustrates a dystopic future in “the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America.” (pg. 21). Katniss Everdeen lives in District 12 of Panem where the totalitarian government, run by the Capitol, separates her district from the 11 other districts and places clear class separations. Katniss is obligated to play in a fight to the death tournament, called the Hunger Games. If Katniss had been on her own in the Hunger Games, she most likely would have died, however, her survival skills did benefit her. In the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss receives help before and in the arena that help her survive. Katniss receives help during an incident involving tracker jackers, killer wasps. She also gets much needed aid from her sponsors. Together with the help of others Katniss receives, she still her own survival skills that strengthen her game.
Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games is called to adventure at the competition's yearly lottery. When Katniss' sister’s name, Prim, gets called, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Once she leaves her home and sent to the capital to start training for the Games, Katniss meets her mentor. Before the competition, she meets her mentor, Haymitch. He helps her by providing advice on how to survive in the competition.
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Amusing, violent revenge for a past rebellion against the Capitol, the games were created and televised the broadcast through Panem. The 24 participants are sent into an arena and are forced to purge the other Tributes while it’s mandatory for the citizens of Panem to watch. When Prim, Katniss' young sister, is chosen as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place. She and her male colleague, Peeta, are put against bigger, stronger tributes, some of which have trained to fight for the games their whole lives.
Katniss’ act of defiance near the end of the novel with attempting to have her and Peeta eat the poisonous berries to assure there will be no single winner of the games, sparked a fiery rebellion in the districts. That same flame that was in the hearts of the people of America in the 1770’s is shown in this fictional story burning hot in the hearts of the nation of Panem’s citizens. As the books carry through the series, the reader can see that Katniss did the people a favor and sparked progress towards a better life for them. Eventually, the districts win the rebellion and gain reliable government leaders. The story of Katniss in The Hunger Games reaffirms Wilde’s claim, proves disobedience to be valuable, and promotes social
The Hunger Games are a systematic way of reminding the citizens of Panem that the Capitol is not to be defied. It is also widely seen as a form of entertainment by the wealthy in the Capitol; the people who are not required to enter the games. Every year, a male and female between the ages of 12 and 18 are ‘reaped’ and chosen to represent their district at the games. The rules of the games are simple, you must be the last survivor; it is a fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are the two tributes chosen to represent district 12 at the 74th annual Hunger Games. Katniss did not have her name drawn, rather she volunteered to take the place of the female who had originally been selected; her sister Prim. This act highlights one of the quality personality traits Katniss possesses; selflessness.
In the trilogy, The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins depicts a futuristic government that reaps from the twelve districts of Panem, two eligible contestants who will have to endure the Hunger Games. The story begins on the reaping day when Katniss Everdeen “volunteers as tribute” to save her little sister from having to experience such cruel government control and high class entertainment. She then enters the arena with twenty-four other children, including a baker, Peeta Mellark who was also selected from her district. They both have to fend for their lives, hiding from the other tributes that were trying to kill them, saving the weaker contestants so they could have a chance, and killing so they would not be killed. The only thing Katniss and Peeta had was true love, which may or may not be a reason for the government to end the Games.
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 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...
But in this movie, a person in charge picks a girl and a boy between the ages of twelve and eighteen out of a lottery from each district to represent their district and fight to death. The children, who are chosen, are trained for a week and then sent to and outdoor arena. In the movie, the capitol shows a video explaining the tradition, the rules of the game and how it must be followed no matter what. The characters in this movie have to orient themselves in order to stay safe from the capitol; they also need to follow all the rules provided in order to live. In the story, Prim Everdeen was chosen as of the children to represent the district but her sister Katniss Everdeen volunteered instead to save her sister. After the children are chosen, they are placed in an arena that is controlled by the people who invented the game with advanced technology. The game is being broadcasted all over the world as a reality show, showing the kids of each district killing each other and how they live. The children were almost treated like animals, they were out in a forest setting that is made with the technology, and having to survive off the environment they were given. They were rewarded with food or survival kit each time they kill each other. This portrays exploiting their tradition as entertainment and not seeing the cruelty of
The Hunger Games is a film based on a novel by Suzanne Collins about a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world set in Panem. Every year, the Capitol of Panem maintains its control over the districts by forcing each to select one teenage boy or girl, known as tributes, to play The Hunger Games, which is a deadly fight between each district. Only one player has to make it out alive. Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games follows the hero’s journey, a layout that is commonly used in stories.
When Gary Ross’ 2012 adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ famous novel ‘The Hunger Games’ exploded on screens, it was received as an action-packed, thrilling story of survival, determination and over-coming corruption. Audience’s watched in equal parts awe and horror as Katniss was thrust into Panem’s battle arena and fought for justice, family and friendship. However, if we as an audience think more critically about the film; if we think beyond the wild costumes, gripping action and skilful performances, we can see that the story explores complex philosophical ideas that strongly relate to the experiences of humanity in the real world.
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.
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor” (Collins 19). Those were some of the last words Katniss heard before her sister’s name was called out for the seventy-fourth Hunger Games. Without thinking about anyone else, Katniss bravely accepted her sister’s spot in the games, a basic suicide mission. Katniss Everdeen had a vibrant personality, she was bold, intelligent, and a loving person. Her country, Panem, was controlled by President Snow, who let his country suffer in poverty. The capital was harsh and forces every district to send one boy and one girl to take part in the yearly Hunger Games. While a Disney Princess would yell for her