The Hunger Games: Multi-Paragraph Piece
Dystopian novels generally depict a repressive society, often instilled as being utopian amongst the citizens. This genre is popular with many young adults, and commonly written by many authors, such as Veronica Roth and Ally Condie. Another well known dystopian novelist is Suzanne Collins, best known for her trilogy The Hunger Games. Throughout The Hunger Games trilogy, the injustice and tragedy of the world of Panem severely impacts the characters of Katniss, Peeta, and Gale.
Katniss Everdeen is the first character influenced by injustice and tragedy, as well as serving as the protagonist of the series. Years before the story takes place, her father dies in a mining accident, along with Gale’s father. She is left to fend for herself by hunting, fishing, and
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After the Reaping of the 74th Hunger Games, where he has been picked as the male tribute, he is visited by his parents at the Justice Building; visitors are given one last opportunity to say their farewells to the tributes. His father is distressed, and his mother only reveals that Katniss may be the next victor of District 12. This leaves Peeta distraught; his own mother doesn’t believe in him to win, yet she believes in another person to become the victor. Soon after Katniss is recovered from the arena, he and two other tributes in the arena, Johanna and Enobaria, are captured and tortured by the Capitol. After being extricated from the Capitol, Katniss, the survivors of District 12, and the people of District 13 discover that Peeta had been hijacked with tracker jacker venom to distort his memories of Katniss; he thinks that Katniss is just another mutation designed by the Capitol and tries to kill her. He repeatedly attempts to convince Katniss to let him die; his efforts were fruitless, but he manages to eventually overcome his intrusive thoughts by the end of the