Suzanne Collins Essays

  • Suzanne Collins

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    Suzanne Marie Collins is a television writer and novelist; she is the author of the “New York Time”, “The Hunger Game” and “The Underland Chronicles”. Collins was born on August 10th, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her father was a solider for U.S Air Force, he has been fight in Vietnam War. Because her father is a solider, so when she was young, her and her family moves a lot, she have been in living in places like New York City and Brussels. For her family, learn history was an important subject

  • Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games

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    imagination. Authors like Suzanne Collins keep the concept of imagination alive by sparking ideas that could influence the world prodigiously from such vivid sources. As Susan Collins continues her work in the field of literature, her work continues to emphasize her personal family influences, influences from the idea of war, the importance that reading is for all ages, and the importance of hope in her writing. Born in 1962, in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, Suzanne Collins was the youngest of four

  • 'Catching Fire' By Suzanne Collins

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    The book I read was “Catching fire” by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is the main character in the book; she’s also brave and generous to others. Katniss fought many battles in her life, one battle is that she still hunts for food and hides from the Peacekeepers. Katniss despise President Snow because he threaten to kill Katniss’ family, reason why is because he doesn’t want her to start a rebellion again. Katniss cares for her sister Primrose, mother, Gale, and Peeta; they are the ones that keep her going

  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    Suzanne Collins is the author of The Hunger Games, which is an intense, suspenseful, and thrilling book and movie that contains many unexpected twists and turns. All of the readers and viewers of the Hunger Games confirmed that this is an astonishing movie and book. The book keeps you interested, because you’re turning each page with suspense. For the movie, you are just waiting to see what will happen next! I’ve heard many positive review about this book and the movie too! Therefore, these are the

  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    romance as a genre, is arguably the most popular of all narratives. However, the theme of love often takes presentences and overarches other thematic interpretation of stories. So why then are people seeking romance in the literature they ready? Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games with the intent to introduce her young adult readership to a number of politically charged themes. Although Collins's work is acknowledged for successfully presenting themes of sacrifice, versions of reality, and power,

  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    a phrase that would launch Suzanne Collins and her book The Hunger Games into a world of success. A reward of a lifetime: fame, money, food, clothes, and a house in the prestigious Victor Village is all waiting for the victor of the Hunger Games, but it comes with a hefty price. Suzanne Collins published the first novel of The Hunger Games trilogy in 2008. After the novel’s worldwide success, it was later adapted into a motion picture by Lionsgate with Suzanne Collins serving as part of the developmental

  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    The Hunger Games is the first book that makes up the famous trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. Katniss, the book’s main character, is a sixteen year old girl, who lives in Panem, a country divided in 13 different districts. Each year, a reaping is hold, where every district chooses one boy and one girl to participate to the games. The participants have to kill each other for their survival, and only one person can end up as a winner. Because of Katniss’ ingenuity and strategies, both tributes from

  • The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

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    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

  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    towards some unfair circumstance? Like a mistrial that leads to the freedom of an obviously guilty convict, or a a country that encourages an annual competition that involves the slaughter of innocent youth? “The Hunger Games” written by Suzanne Collins, describes this particular epiphany within a character in her book known as Katniss Everdeen. Katniss throughout the book has an angry and negative outlook on a powerful state known as “The Capitol” who run the country of Panem. Katniss’s state

  • Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games

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    certain extent. For this paper, I choose to write about the drama in the movie The Hunger Games. This movie is not just only drama, it is also adventure and sci-fi movie. The Hunger Games is a movie and a book from the trilogy The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; which also includes The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. The Hunger Games movie is about how each year there is an annual event called the hunger games. In the hunger games they are two people, one boy and one girl

  • Suzanne Collins´ The Hunger Games

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    In essence, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games is a myth about the heroism of integrity and loyalty to others in the face of brutality, exploitation, and oppression. Katniss Everdeen, the heroine, is launched on her trajectory when her sister Prim is selected for the brutal Hunger Games. Unwilling to watch her sister go off to certain death, Katniss opts to take her place, and is thrust into the superficial, affluent, cruel world of the Capitol, where she must compete in the Hunger Games, a violent

  • The Hanger Games by Suzanne Collins

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    negative impact or control other people’s lives. Power being defined as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events and abuse, meaning the use of something to badly effect or for a bad purpose . Suzanne Collins exemplifies power and abuse in various ways throughout her novel, ‘The Hunger Games’. This intense novel is set in a time period after a rebellion in North America left the country destroyed, divided into 12 districts and being controlled by the

  • Imagery In The Hunger Games, By Suzanne Collins

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    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

  • The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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    A Fire of Revolution "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

  • The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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    The Hunger Games cinema production is based on the trilogy novel series created by Suzanne Collins. The film is centered on the novel series written in post-apocalyptic era during a time of oppression and opposition. Austrian-American film expert, Francis Lewis in 2012, directs the film that is told through the viewpoint of the main character Katniss Everdeen. The intended audience of this film is geared primarily towards individuals who have read the trilogy series and understand the backstory.

  • The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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    The Hunger Games , released in March 2012, is the film adaptation of the first book of Suzanne Collins's best-selling young adult trilogy ( 2008 ) about a post-apocalyptic world and its 16-year old white hero, Katniss Everdeen. The film earned $408 million domestically, making it the third highest grossing film of 2012. Comparatively, Breaking Dawn , the final Twilight film, also featuring a teenage female hero, ranked sixth with $291 million (Smith, 2013 ). Our focus is The Hunger Games film, but

  • Perseverance In The Hunger Games, By Suzanne Collins

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    While reading the novel, “The Hunger Games”, written by Suzanne Collins, one could see without difficulty that a running theme flows through the writing. This theme being perseverance, the one thing that had allowed Katniss Everdeen, the main character that a reader follows during the events presented in the narrative, to live on and be crowned victor with her teammate, Peeta, a young man who ventures into the Hunger Games with Katniss. The theme of perseverance appears frequently as it is tied to

  • Sacrifice In The Hunger Games, By Suzanne Collins

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    A Novel has many components that makes it good. The novel “The Hunger Games” is a story that goes through many ups and downs. The literary devices Suzanne Collins uses makes it easier for the reader to understand the struggle the characters are going through. Three main components are theme, characterization, and point of view. A reader can see things differently than another person who already read the book. This is why literary devices are important in a novel, so that a reader can think about

  • Book Review: Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins

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    “Catching Fire” By Suzanne Collins Zoe Peters English B Honors 5/5/15 Catching Fire is a best-selling book written by Suzanne Collins. It is the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy. Catching Fire is an adventure story that leaves you on the edge of your seat at the end of each chapter. While Catching fire is much like the first book where 24 children are in a competition and are forced to fight to the death but it focuses more on the political involvement of the games as Katniss’

  • Analysis Of The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

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    The novel, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins takes readers to a future country known as Panem. In the nation of Panem, a trilling event takes place once per year. This event is known as the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a nationwide event that brings two, so called “tributes” from each district to the Capital. Many districts have been established in the nation of Panem, but they all revolve around the core of the country known simply as the Capital. The 24 tributes are chosen randomly