Person with a Passion Passion is one’s strong or obsessive feeling in someone or something. As we are humans, we have different interests and passions based on our beliefs, knowledges, and upbringings. It’s interesting why someone thinks something is passionate. Here is a passion interviewing from my friend, Dreamteam.…
Payton Laube In the article it talks about the probaility and games theories that occur in the Hunger Games. The first example was the chances of ones name being drawn at the Reaping. So say if you were 13 and your name was not drawn from last years reaping, your name would be added twice into this years reaping. Meaning you would have more of a chance on being selected, then say a 12 year old who only has their name in the lottery only once, because you would have your name twice since you are 13, and you were not picked for the last year lottery.…
The Hunger Games the Ethical Struggle Once upon a time in the long distance future in the nation of Panem (actually the US if someone thinks about it) there was a rebellion. The rebellion was between the Capital and District Thirteen and with that District Thirteen was demolished. To display the Capital’s force they decided to force each district to offer one male and one female to participate in a gladiator type game where only one survived. “May the odds ever be with you” is a saying that advertise the game.…
The story takes place in a fictional area called Panem, located in the ruins of North America. It has 13 districts. The Capitol is located in the Rocky Mountains and is the wealthiest district, all the other 12 districts are ruled by the Capitol. Each of the districts is responsible on manufacturing different kinds of products, however, people from the remote districts rebelled because most of properties are controlled by the rich, and people in the poor districts just become poorer and poorer. To punish and control the rebelled area, the government held the hunger game, which is a survival game that needs one boy and one girl to get involved from every district.…
We all chase for well-being in one’s life. Especially in today’s society, we rely much of our living on technology to enjoy more affluent life. Extraordinary breakthroughs in science, such as robotics, nuclear fusion and internet have brought lots of benefits to human society and raised man life to an unprecedented level. Therefore, people cling too much on the development of technology nowadays. However, excessive pursuit of advancement in technology may become the very body of the untruth.…
The Hunger games through different sociological perspectives and ideas In the first movie of the Hunger games series, there are just two types of social classes which is the rich (Capitol) and the poor (the 12 districts). The differences of social classes in this movie are strongly pointed out. Especially, since the capital holds an annual event called the “Hunger games” in which they (The capitol) pick one girl and boy from each district and have them fight to the death till there is only one survivor in which they win the game. The movie also takes on a gender role swap with a strong, smart, and cunning female main character as a tribute.…
The Hunger Games franchise has shaped the evolution of Young Adult movies specifically in dystopian themes. The movie starts with Katniss Everdeen played by the beautiful Jennifer Lawrence on a hospital bed recovering from being attacked by her friend Peeta Mellark (Played by Josh ) who has been brainwashed to kill her by the Capitol. Within the movie there are 13 districts within the country who are awfully poor compared to the capital where all the “educated and rich” live. Katniss is considered to be a symbol of freedom and righteousness. Within the districts there are rebels who do not believe in her cause nor follow the rules from the Capitol.…
Well starting next week we are going to watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I will first compare the movie to Butler work. I felt Katniss is stuck here because President Snow has seen through her innocent acting conspiracy. This was just like Butler said a person leaves one closet to enter another closet, but sometime I think we don’t even realize that we have entered a new closet. It’s just we want to live in one closet believing everything is going to be fine, but latter on we realize it is not easy to live in one closet for our whole live.…
Catching Fire Hunger Games I have read Catching Fire twice, and I enjoyed the book. I feel this book should not be banned. Listed are the top three reasons this book is banned: 1) Sexually explicit 2) Violence 3) Offensive language I can understand offensive language since this is a war book. I do not agree with the other two reasons.…
I have two ideas of movies with a cohesive group, both of which I have watched recently and know pretty well. Idea #1: The Hunger Games Catching Fire Small group: Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy, and Effie Trinket. I think that these four characters are a good choice because they all have to work together throughout most of the movie.…
The Hunger Games is thankfully not based on a true story. Well the story is about a capitol surrounded by 12 districts, those districts are very harsh and very cruel. The district's force the capitols to bring all the the kids they have ages 12-18 to participate on the annual Hunger Games and fight to the death on live TV. All the kids dress to impress they got ready to get chosen even though no one wanted to get chosen they were all afraid to die they weren't ready. Effie Trinket is the escort to the Hunger Games she is going to pick the chosen kids that have to fight.…
Dystopias, a common place for individuals to envision a perfect world, a utopia reality in which the world is a paradise, bearing ideas of ideal perfection. However, a corrupt government that craves power, projects false images, causing citizens to struggle for freedom proves our society is far from perfection. ‘The Hunger Games’, a dystopian novel written by Suzanne Collins explores many dystopian themes/elements that are still relevant in all aspects of society today. Themes of a totalitarian government – where all aspects of life is controlled-, a place where characters actions and choices exaggerates broken relationship between family and friends, emphasising on the imperfections of relationships that’s society tries to conceal through…
The hunger games is set in the future of North America known as “Panem”, where the capital rules over the twelve districts. The capital is rich in comparison to the twelve districts, where each experience some sort of poverty. During the reaping the capital selects two individuals from each district, one boy and one girl, to participate in the annual hunger games. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl from district twelve, which happens to be one of the poorer districts. During the 74th annual hunger games reaping, Katniss’s sister Primrose is selected for the hunger games.…
Suzanne Collins in her novel The Hunger Games offers a critique on Western culture and civilization. In this novel through the portrayal of dystopian society that is driven by technology and consumerism Suzanne Collins explores and advocates against the commodification of youths and neglect for environment. The Hunger Games, first of a trilogy, set in a time after environmental havoc and massacre, replaced by a dystopian country Panem, comprised of 12 suffering districts ruled by the Capitol city. Panem is a “country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America…a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts” (Collins, p.18). However, the rebellion of thirteen districts against Capitol brought chaos within once…
This essay examines the growing need to provide students with the opportunity to study young adult literature with a scholarly eye through implementing the latest literature craze, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, in the English classroom. While the first book of The Hunger Games series may be controversial in the classroom due to its troubling content, this paper argues that the book which carries the series title provides a basis for academic discussion on par with classic dystopian novels commonly taught in the high school English classroom. In addition, unlike the common notion that young adult literature cannot contribute to cultural literacy, this paper argues that The Hunger Games provides a springboard to fostering cultural literacy…