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.
Each and everyone has our own idea of how success looks like. But for me, success is something that you’ve worked so hard to get to that you now have pride to have or be. But success isn’t so easy to reach. There's going to be challenges and times where one thinks they won't succeed. Its when you’ve flourished to the point where you’re happy with the placement of your life.
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.
Inside a Hero’s Journey How do psychoanalytic critics interpret The Hunger Games? Suzanne Collins’s novel The Hunger Games illustrates the challenging transition from Katniss growing from a young adolescence to an adult,from losing her father to volunteering in the games, and this fear of losing in the games but she couldn’t show any sign of weakness. This captured Katniss Everdeen’s growing responsibilities she faced under the Capitol’s spotlight in the Games. The Psychoanalytic theory has levels of understanding, elements of personality, defense mechanisms and psychosexual stages.
Did you know that the book The Hunger Games, sold 100 million copies since 2008? Although The Hunger Games is an original idea, Suzzane Collins took heavy inspiration from many modern and historical stories and epics. The ideas and character designs found in The Hunger Games are there due to other current and historical fiction. The story The Hunger Games uses the Capitol to show a corrupt government that rules over others with drastic reaches in how lower classes are treated. It states in the text that, (referring to the hunger games)“this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how we are at their mercy.
One of the most important aspects of any person is their view of other people. The value of life to a person is the deciding factor in countless variables and choices that make them who they are. This is shown in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is a book where Katniss, the protagonist, has a turn of misfortune and has to participate in the hunger games, a deadly “entertainment” show where everyone has to fight to the death. In this novel, some examples of people valuing or devaluing human life include the stylists’ presentations of District 12 tributes, Katniss feeling bad about all the other people dying around her, and the Gamemakers giving Katniss and Peeta false hope of being together.
In a futuristic time in the nation of Panem, which is located in North America contains twelve poor districts, and a wealthy and technologically advanced city called The Capitol, which rules over all the districts. Katniss, a 16-year old girl from District 12, the poorest among all the other districts, lives with her widowed mother and sister, Primrose Everdeen. Every year, two people, a boy and girl, are chosen from every district by lottery to participate in an event known as the Hunger Games to show the districts that the Capitol has absolute power over all the people, where people fight to death until only one remains standing, whom that person will be awarded riches while his/her district will be given food and supplies.
The famous French playwright Jean Racine once said, “Justice in the extreme is often unjust. " This quote is an example of what happens in dystopian society. Dystopian societies and modern-day societies have many differences and similarities. For example, censorship occurs in both modern-day and dystopian societies, although dystopias tend to have far more severe consequences. Another difference is the punishments someone might receive for speaking out against those in power.
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.
In the Hunger Games series, a dystopian future is set up. The government of Panem, The Capitol, holds the wealth of Panem giving it the power to control all districts. In order to enforce this theory, they created the Hunger Games. They suppressed the rights of the citizen’s of Panem and selected their children in order to fight each other do death for survival. These games were created to scare the people and show them who was in charge.
Dystopian literature often serves as a warning about the potential consequences of unchecked power and societal oppression. Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" paints a vivid picture of Panem, a dystopian nation ruled by a tyrannical government. This essay argues that Panem is a true dystopia, illustrating its oppressive nature through various examples from the novel. By examining the unequal distribution of resources, the dehumanizing treatment of citizens, and the ruthless control exerted by the Capitol, it becomes evident that Panem represents a frightening and nightmarish future.
The hunger games by Suzanne Collins is typically called a dystopian novel. Since it sheds the light upon a utopian society that is controlled by the government. A society that is fooled by the totalitarian government of the Capitol in order to maintain power, and prevent the uprising of the Districts.that authority is practiced by making people from the districts live in a dehumanized state using another form of dystopia which is propaganda for the reason that they showed them the penalty of disobedience. Another characteristic of a dystopian society that we can see in the novel are keeping the players during the games under surveillance at all times, and everywhere. The last thing that make "The Hunger Games" a supreme example of a dystopian society is the fact that freedom is restricted by forcing the families from the districts to send their kids to death, also known as the hunger games.
Derek Watry Mrs. Marshall Literature/Language 17 February 2023 Theme: Self-confidence can fluctuate quickly with interactions of other people. The Hunger Games Theme Analysis Have you ever thought about a whole continent that is under the control of one city, where people’s work isn’t appreciated, and where kids are chosen to be killed? Suzanne Collins’s action-packed book, The Hunger Games, gives us an insight into this and is full of emotion, dystopian governance, and blood. It shows us what society could become if we keep trending the way we are.
The Hunger Games trilogy revolves around universal dystopian themes such as :oppression, rebellion, class tension as well as appearance vs. reality ," Collins creates the world that on one hand seems quite improbable and extreme, but on the other, vividly reflects some specific issues in a real world, like social inequalities, ignorance and passivity of the people" (Macanić 7). Oppression is perhaps the most common and prevalent dystopian theme as it serves as a warning against a highly probable dark future through shedding light on the dark side of contemporary trends such as advanced technology and reality TV-shows .The Capitol 's oppression operates on two levels; districts and individuals. The districts in general and districts 11 and 12 in particular have suffered great injustices at the ruthless hands of the Capitol ; however, there is no greater injustice than The Hunger Games themselves not only are the people of Panem forced to surrender their children as tributes for the Capitol 's citizens viewing pleasure for a crime they had no hand in committing ,but they are also forced to watch helplessly as their children are killed in the most brutal of manners .In Catching Fire (2009) , President Snow decrees that " the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors" in order to get rid of Katniss once and for all ,and to further assert the Capitol 's dominance and quell any thoughts of rebellion(172).
Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and George Orwell’s 1984 are both dystopian novels, or a book set in an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state. As the focus in the current unit, the Capitol seems like a harsh government, oppressing its people with rules and obviously the cruelty of the Hunger Games. However, another famous book, 1984 depicts a much stricter government that makes the Capitol look like Disneyworld. This page serves the purpose to point out the difference between these two fictional dystopias and to show that the people of District 12 don’t have it too bad in comparison to the citizens of Oceania. The Hunger Games takes place in the country of Panem, the remains
