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The Hunger Games and catching fire by Suzanne Collins. The theme of the hunger games was sacrifice it was full of sacrifices starting with Katniss taking her sister’s place at the reaping both her and peeta sacrifice themselves. The main themes of catching fire was survival,and sacrifice also struggling In Between independence and interdependence peeta takes haymitch’s spot in the new hunger games and troops occupy district 12 and gale gets whipped Katniss steps in and gets hit and Haymitch…

Panem is the fictional world in which the action/adventure book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is set in. In Panem, The Hunger Games are a very big deal. the Hunger Games represent the war that the Panem districts had. Now as a symbol to never go to war again, when a child needed extra rations of food, their name would be added once more into the jar where at the end each year every district will pull out two names to go into the Hunger Games. This particular year, Katniss’ little sister…

The Hunger Games is a great film to tie this course all together at the end. Throughout this course we have learned many key terms and concepts that help us better understand the world and help people realize they are always part of something bigger than themselves. The Hunger Games puts everything we learned in this semester in to a perspective that we can all relate to and understand. The terms I will be using to relate sociology to The Hunger Games are the One Thing, fear-mongering,…

The Hunger Games is an adventure novel written in 2008 by Suzanne Collins. The book is the first of a trilogy and tells of a post-apocalyptic country where a sophisticated metropolis has gained political and military power over the rest of the nation. This metropolis divides the country into twelve districts and designates that every year each district must produce a boy and a girl for the annual televised reality show. These boys and girls must fight to the death for the amusement of the upper…

Although it is disturbing, try to envision what it would be like to live in a country in which the government took children and televised them while they were fighting to their death. The author of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, writes about living in this future dystopian country, called Panem, which consists of twelve districts and the capital. To maintain order and for cruel entertainment, the capital hosts the Hunger Games each year by placing two tributes, boy and girl, from each…

which was controversial during that time. Although this line has lost its true, intended meaning over the years, it’s still a vital component if a creature is to survive and thrive in nature. In the story “The Hunger Games,” the author, Suzanne Collins, narrates about a coming-of-age, post-apocalyptic story that targets human relationships and emotions between each other and the challenges that they have to face along the way.The way how each characters…

around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in March 2012, it dominated the box office. Although I thought that the movie was absolutely FANTASTIC, as a reader of the Hunger Games Saga, I was disappointed in what was left out. We all know that rewriting a book into a motion…

The Hunger Games Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins takes a deep dive into the oppression and struggle in the districts, as the Capitol lives in complete excess and waste. This is the second book in The Hunger Games series. In the first book we were introduced to; The Hunger Games, The Districts and The Capitol. We are now faced with the Victors and how their lives have changed; the inspiration that they have become, and the uprising they have unwittingly sparked. Katniss and Peeta will be…

In Suzanne Collins’ exciting novel The Hunger Games, the author depicts the struggle of two tributes from District 12 and their personal development as well as how they survive in the harsh wilderness of the arena. In the beginning of the Hunger Games the story takes place in District 12, which is a part of the nation of Panem. Panem was originally home of 13 Districts but the government took control and destroyed the 13th because the people tried to rebel. As a punishment for what they did…

Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay takes place in a futuristic place after there has been disaster in North America. Katniss has started a rebellion since after the first Hunger Games. Katniss has to face the struggles of maintaining her friendships and relationships. Katniss has the tough choice of believing who she truly loves and the cause of hurt she can cause the other. The big theme of friendship runs throughout the whole story. One complex lesson the story gives is while some friendships may be…