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Essay On Catching Fire By Katniss

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Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, a 281 page novel, the n-word occurs approximately 48 times. The frequent use of the word demonstrates the racial biases and prejudices that occur daily in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a black man gets unfairly sued and proven guilty due to racial bias. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, Katniss uncovers the truth about District 13 despite the government’s lies which made her develop untrue biases. Both Lee’s and Collins’ books demonstrate a bias that distorts reality. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of unquestioned biases distorting reality is demonstrated when Scout hears others call her and Atticus a n****r-lover. When Scout is talking with Francis during …show more content…

Scout’s biases distort reality by making her believe that she is superior to a group, specifically black people, for no reason. In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins reveals the theme of unquestioned biases distorting reality through Katniss’ perception of District 13. When Katniss meets strangers in the forest and hears that they want to go to District 13, she immediately tells them “‘There is nothing but rubble,’. ‘We’ve all seen the footage’” (Collins 187). Katniss says that District 13 is all destroyed because of what she has seen on TV her whole life. She doesn’t question if what she has seen is the truth or not, and due to the TV, she has developed a bias that distorts her view of District 13 and the people living in it. When Katniss returns from the forest, she pays attention to the TV clips and realizes that “The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at

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Her family, which is her mom, her sister Prim, and their cat Buttercup have also survived and are safe in district 13, along with the rest of the refugees. Peeta, who Katniss loved, has been captured by the Capitol and it 's killing Katniss on the inside. Also district 13 was real. The Capitol was trying to conceal the fact that it was there, but the refugees from the districts were rescued by district 13, and are now under their wing. A revolution has started, led by the rebels of the districts.

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Life is not fair. Some people fight back. Other people just go with it. In The Hunger games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss has to live on minimum wage and go into the Hunger games. In Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, Katniss has to go BACK into the Hunger games, because the government tricked her.

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The story first presents Katniss going off into District 12 in the diseased ashes left by the bomb the Capital had sent. It had been a month following to Katniss' rescue from the arena after shooting at the force field. During that time she stayed in the underground where District 13 was found; they were the core of the revolution and they went by the rule of President Coin. She had gone to District 12 because she wanted to see her once called home. Gale had led people out, this including Katniss’ mother and sister.

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When she did this everything happened very quickly the whole arena started to crumble. “Everything seems to erupt at once. The earth explodes into showers of dirt and plant matter” (Collins 380). As a result of her doing this the capitol decided to take there anger out on district 12, where Katniss is from. “Katniss, there is no District Twelve.”

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“Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is her favorite child” (Don King). In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, a young girl named Scout is receiving a first hand experience of racism and its brutality. In Chapter 26, during school, Scout’s teacher, Mrs. Gates explains what a democracy is and how it differs from the events taking place in Germany with Hitler and the Jews. Using her biased opinion, Mrs. Gates shows Scout that the world can be a cruel place in more ways than one. During the scene, “Mrs. Gates,” Scout learns that hypocrisy exists in the most trusted through the character of Mrs. Gates, the internal conflict of Mrs. Gates and racism, and the settings of both the school and the Finch home.

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For example, when Atticus takes the case many people say things to Scout and Jem and when Scout asks Atticus what a n*****-lover is, Atticus responds, "Scout, nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody” (108). Atticus shows Scout the right way to act and confront racism by exemplifying it through his own actions. If everybody in town had the same mindset that Atticus had, Tom Robinson

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