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    Forbidden Rebellion How is it possible that one force can rule over a group more than double its size? In Suzanne Collins’ novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ there are 12 districts of many people ruled by one force known as The Capitol. The country is run is a Marxist manner: The Capitol serves as the bourgeoisie of Panem‚ and the districts 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

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    hunger games analysis

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    victor of the Hunger Games‚ escaped from the Quarterly Quell‚ and started a rebellion ending the games. 2. Theaseus volunteered and defeated the deathly Minotaur‚ saving the lives of others. 3. “Katniss‚ the girl who was on fire!”-Suzanne Collins. Katniss’s perspective in the Hunger Games had a major impact on readers as well as on the story itself. Her specific viewpoint allowed story to be remarkable. Through the trilogy readers maintained a deep connection with Katniss due to her background

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    Kristen Smith ENC 1102 19 September 2013 Mini-Essay 1 The Thin Line Between Hope and Hopelessness Suzanne Collins ’ novel‚ The Hunger Games and George Orwell ’s 1984 both illustrate the theme that hope can remain alive even amid the most hopeless of circumstances.  The main characters of these stories‚ Hunger Games ’ Katniss Everdeen and 1984 ’s Winston Smith live in similar totalitarian societies where every move they make or thought they have is controlled by an all-powerful government.  Although

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    Ay’Zaa Hanyard Eng. 111 – 70A K. Schlene September 27‚ 2014 Evaluation of the Hunger Games The movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ is based on the book by Suzanne Collins and was made into a movie in 2012. It is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District Twelve. After bombings and wars‚ North America turned into a country called Panem. Panem was split up into thirteen districts‚ but when district thirteen rebelled‚ the Capitol created something called the Hunger Games. The Games

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    Descriptive Essay

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    (over‚ beyond) and –vīvere (to live). The phrase survival of the fittest was used in the seventeenth century to replace Darwin’s term natural selection‚ “to kill or be killed”. Although the term survival has various meanings‚ in reference to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games‚ survival is used a verb to describe the act of surviving. Katniss enters the hunger games as a volunteer‚ and is expected to fight until death‚ and if she so happens to survive she and her family will go to live in Victor’s Village

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    contrasting the similarities and difference of group and individual survival between the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collin‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and the 1990 film of Lord of the Flies directed by Harry Hook. BY: Becky Coutlee April‚ 23‚ 2012 D.Smith Comparing and contrasting the similarities and difference of group and individual survival between the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collin‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and the 1990 film of Lord of the Flies directed by Harry Hook. “And

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    The book I am reading for my book report is Catching Fire‚ the second part of the Hunger Games. The Austhor of Catching Fire is Susanne Collins. The book Catching Fire is a very good book‚ it emphasis’s more on the characters rather than the plot. Catching fire has many different scenes in many different places‚ but two of the zones are important for the characters‚ which is District 12 and the Guarter Guell arena. There are 8 important characters in Catching Fire. Katniss Everdeen‚ is the

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    The Hunger Games‚ Uglies and Futuristic Ideas Humankind has thought up of many different ways our future could be like. Some imagine robots and flying cars‚ while others think of freedom and peace. Although Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies seem to have nothing in common at first glance‚ their time setting is what makes them alike. Both taking place in a distant future‚ they both create an image of what the world could look like. However‚ robots and flying cars

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    In the interlude and the eleventh chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster analyzes the different effects violence has in literature. Firstly‚ Foster distinguishes that there are two different types of violence in literature. The first form of violence is when a specific injury is brought upon a character by themselves or another character through “shootings‚ stabbings‚ garrotings‚ drownings‚ poisonings‚ bludgeonings‚ bombings” and other harmful means (96). Contrasting

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    nauseating. The Hunger Games is a shameless inoculator‚ its anti-subversive‚ pseudo-dystopic‚ politically biased‚ and simplified world-building has inseminated the genre‚ producing more works of the same platitude. It’s strange to think that Suzanne Collins was actually attempting to write an important piece of social commentary‚ when the book was completely devoid anything thought-provoking. She failed to grasp the concept of a dystopia and instead created a gimmick for her condensed world‚ tossed in

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