Power is addictive to humankind, people can not help but crave more than their share. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir that bears witness to the abusiveness of control. The book follows the author, Elie Wiesel, in his horrific experiences of the Holocaust and how he survived. In many situations people with higher status took advantage of people subordinate to them. Although many believe that fear is a person’s main downfall, power is an extremely manipulative source that causes the decline of people who have it and who do not.
In the book, The Hunger Games, one of the main events is when Katniss volunteers for her sister, Prim, to participate in the annual Hunger Games. After reading this event, I was very surprised. I noticed that Katniss surprised herself by saying she would volunteer, but then quickly recovered once she remembered that the reaping would be shown on television. “…this is upsetting me and I don’t want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I’ll be marked as an easy target.
“Hero’s are made by the path they choose, not the power they are graced with.” - Brodi Ashton. Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of this novel, who has to obey society’s unfair rules. Katniss chooses volunteers for her sister Primrose at the district 12 reaping to participate in a yearly event called The Hunger Games. She is forced to fight against the other tributes chosen from the other districts.
Essential to overcoming adversity is the ability to cause change in yourself and others. In the book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, has to learn to be strong and brave in a crisis. This helps her to survive the Hunger Games, because it gives her more faith especially when the price of losing her family is on the line. Ultimately, Collins shows that Bravery and strength leads to a successful person and can help one survive in something life changing.
Annotated Bibliography Eckerd, Marcia. " Should Children See Hunger Games?" .People skills: Health, Help, Happiness Find a Therapist, Psychology Today, 24 Mar. 2012. Web.
Essay In the book “The Hunger Games” there are many themes throughout the book. The most prominent of these is the theme of Self Sacrifice may be necessary to save loved ones. This theme comes up 4 times throughout the book and it fits in all of the scenes.
“And right now, the most dangerous part of the Hunger Games is about to begin.” (Collins 359) This sentence towards the end of the young adult dystopian novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins is the culminating factor to the dangers of punishment. In this part of the book, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have just won the Hunger Games. Normally, for these games, there is only one winner, but Katniss had the idea that she and Perta would eat a lethal berry unless the rules stayed true to the adjustment that was made earlier on in the game. The original plan was that if the last two people were from one district they would both win, but the Capital of Panem, the place where the games are run, changed the rule back to its original
Is dehumanization for entertainment acceptable? In the novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 24 tributes, 2 people per district, are sacrificed and forced to fight until death. This fight, or as the Capitol calls this , “The Hunger Games”, is live streamed like a reality TV show as entertainment.
In the film version of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen undergoes her initiation when she crosses the stage at the reaping. When a protagonist experiences initiation, they have to cross a threshold that will ultimately force them to give up their old reality for a new one. Annually, all boys and girls ages twelve to eighteen in all twelve districts are required to sign up and attend the reaping for the Hunger Games. At District Twelve’s reaping, the first name to be drawn was Katniss’ younger sister Prim. Once her name was called, Katniss immediately volunteered as tribute to take her sister's place.
Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games is about stereotyping and dehumanization as ways government uses to control ordinary citizens of Panem. The main character, Katniss Everdeen, is forced to take part in the Hunger Games, which is one of the main approaches to dominate over the country. Even though Katniss is pressed to face various difficulties, the novel focuses on political and social problems that are faced in modern society. The definition of the word dehumanization by Merriam-Webster is to ‘depriving human qualities, personality, or split’.
Hunger Games- EQ #1- Do individuals or external forces have more power to impact change? In The Hunger Games the external forces have more power to impact change because in The Hunger Games the government is in power over everyone and if someone steps out of line or out of their place then they could be injured severely or even killed by the government. For example when the story went back to district 12 it says “Boom!
The Hunger Games: A Modern Day Odyssey? The Hunger Games is about a civilization that randomly selects two members from the different districts. Those two members are then forced to fight in an “arena” in which there is only one victor. In a way the Hunger Games is very similar to the Odyssey. The Odyssey begins years after the Trojan War has ended and Odysseus has not returned home.
This essay will critically examine on how the female figure is represented throughout a very “selective” media outlet (the film industry), and how society is depicted in the film medium. The chosen media text for analysis is The Hunger Games, a theatrical adaptation of the novel written by Suzanne Collins and directed by Gary Ross. The film is centred on Katniss Everdeen - a teenage girl who volunteers on behalf of her sister, to fight in the annual Hunger Games- and the male District 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark, with whom she shares quite an intense past. Both characters embark on a journey that will test their physical and emotional boundaries, while being hunted by the other 22 competitors who all fight for the same objective: survival.
