which are held every year making one girl and one boy‚ between the ages twelve and eighteen‚ from each district go to the Capitol and fight until only one tribute is left alive. While there is also a love triangle‚ it is not the same scenarios. Katniss‚ the hunter from the poorer part of District 12 is in the love triangle with‚ long time friend and hunting partner‚ Gale and the boy with the bread‚ Peeta. Another big difference between these two stories is the protagonists‚ sure they are both
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serve as the proletariat. The Capitol controls every move the districts make‚ punishes every act of rebellion‚ and kills off innocent people just to show their power and control. Many characters act as a symbol of rebellion against the Capitol. Katniss goes outside her district walls and hunts for food‚ Cinna makes the bold move of asking to makeover District 12‚ and District 12 as a whole uses symbols‚ not words‚ to express their rebellion. Through all of these characters‚ it is seen how the Capitol
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off‚ both books put a lot of emphasis on beauty. According to these books‚ plastic surgery could be a big thing in the future‚ much bigger than it is now. While only the population of the Capitol have access to these procedures in The Hunger Games‚ Katniss speaks a lot of how their looks barely even look human. Dying their skin green‚ purple hair being seen everywhere‚ changing their eye color permanently‚ those are just some of the things the people of the Capitol do to make themselves “prettier”.
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“The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.” Even though the novel The Hunger Games can be interpreted as entertainment in both the book and novel‚ the novel is to inform‚ and movie is to entertain. This is because in the first few chapters all the author talks about is how bad‚ sad and how the government is being ruined‚ how sad‚ informing the audience what the government can become. In the movie it doesn’t really express how bad the government is and
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geographically by being in the slumps. It is a poor place; therefore I compare it to a place of poverty. 2. Katniss crosses the gates to go hunting and she is able to get food to feed her family. 3. Gale is Katniss’ best friend and somewhat of a love interest. 4. The reaping is a lottery where someone is selected to participate in the hunger games. A boy and a girl are selected from each district. Katniss responds by putting her name in the lottery. When you do that‚ you receive something in return. When
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Catching fire. This is when Katniss finds out she has to go back into the arena and the fight the other victors. Some of them will be enemies such as the victors from 1 and 2. Some will be picked off immediately or just walk around like the morphing’s. Others will be allies such as nuts and volts or finnick. Finnick is an important character because he is brave‚ smart‚ and loyal. Finnick is brave in the arena‚ because he fights of the attackers at the cornucopia with Katniss on page 269 and 270. He
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Living through a dystopian world In a dystopian story‚ society itself is typically the antagonist; it is society that is actively working against the protagonist’s aims and desires. This oppression frequently is enacted by a totalitarian or authoritarian government‚ resulting in the loss of civil liberties and untenable living conditions‚ caused by any number of circumstances‚ such as world overpopulation‚ laws controlling a person’s sexual or reproductive freedom‚ and living under constant surveillance
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Thoughts After Reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins I am really pissed at Katniss. SWEEHEART‚ PEETA LUVS YA! And you love him too! Just admit it and live happily ever after! It is so obvious that when he "admitted" his crush that he was being real. And for some dang reason you can’t FREAKIN’ SEE IT! I mean it is in your face! Like right there. And you can’t see it. And why does your mind keep wandering to Gale? Did you not already say you were just friends? I mean‚ okay‚ I guess I can understand
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in his town has the knowledge of what happened before the Great Rebirth‚ they just choose not to bring it up because they are petrified of what their punishments will be. However‚ an example of the Power of Knowledge from The Hunger Games is when Katniss recognizes the weakness of Seneca Crane‚ which is not having a winner of this year’s game‚ and uses that to her best advantage to
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The film has many scenes of hovercraft‚ though the first sighting of the Capitol’s invention is when Katniss and Gale and hunting in the woods outside of the District 12 boundary. The low‚ menacing drone of the hovercraft is the first hint of danger‚ and causes Katniss and Gale to look to the sky in fear and see one of the Capitol’s large hovercrafts patrolling the area. Katniss and Gale are filmed from above‚ illustrating the hovercraft searching for them yet showing their insignificance
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