In the written texts, The Hunger Games, The Real Katie Lavender, Goodnight Mister Tom and Looking for Alaska a common theme of how people change after loss is explored. Through the examples of Katniss’ father’s death, Neil’s suicide, Tom’s wife’s death and Alaska’s death, the theme of how the people close to those who died, change the way they live is illustrated.
The theme of how people change after loss is shown through The Hunger Games, a novel written by Suzanne Collins. Katniss has horrific flashbacks of her father’s death, that occurred because of an explosion in the coal mine of District Twelve. “ Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.” The loss of her father completely changed Katniss and what she had to do to
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The characters, also Alaska’s friends, Colonel, Takumi, Pudge and Lara showed this theme by getting over Alaska’s death and bringing her name a legacy. After Alaska’s death, her friends brought her a legacy by playing a final prank which involved the whole school. Playing pranks was Alaska’s specialty, so they did this prank in her name they called it “The Alaska Young memorial prank”. Alaska’s closest friends played a prank on the headmaster that will be remembered forever in Culver Creek school history. This helped them to let go of the grief of her death but keep her in their memory forever. The Author did this to show us that the best way to let go of grief and angriness because of someone’s death is to keep a good memory of them close to your heart. This enables us to change the way think and realise we can live through these struggles and comprehend that they are no longer with us. This novel connects to the other texts through the way people change after the loss of a loved one. In The Real Katie Lavender and Goodnight Mister Tom, the main characters have to get over the loss of a friend or family member and they get through this in different ways so they can cope and change the way they think about their loss by remembering the good memories from their