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    韩佳利 Starry 131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make

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    Katniss Everdeen Analysis

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Katniss Everdeen Character Analysis Katniss Everdeen was a sixteen (16) year old girl from the coal mining district 12 in the post-apocalyptic continent once known as North America. This area was then known as Panem. Katniss had black hair‚ gray eyes‚ and olive skin‚ which was common for the people of the Seam. She was very independent because she had to take care of her mother and her little sister when her father died in a coal mine explosion. This had

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    Rebellion in Hunger Games

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem‚ where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises government power on the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

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    The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about the yearly event that the government forces the twelve Districts to participate in. That event is called the Hunger Games. Each year‚ they hold a reaping where two names will be drawn for all twelve of the districts. From district twelve‚ the girl tribute is Katniss Everdeen and the boy just happens to be Peeta Mellark. On their way into the arena‚ they get to eat all kinds of spledid foods. This is new to all of the tributes because they grew

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    Hunger Games Essay

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    friends? Been forced into a game where to stay alive is the only way to win? That is what the hunger game is. A violent game that 24 contestants are chosen to fight one another and the winner will never have to work again. In the Hunger games Suzanne Collins uses characterization to show how Katniss uses survival techniques the love for her family and friends and tested her trust to the people around her. The love Katniss show in the book is very relevant right at the beginning of the book when Prim

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    The hunger games

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    way immediately allowing me a straight path to the stage. I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm‚ I push her behind me. "I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (2.5-6). “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a book filled with adventure and exciting imagery‚ from the first page to the last‚ all while teaching moral lessons and touching on political and social topics. Because of the books compelling storyline this would be a great addition to the required

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    The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a novel about 13 districts ruled by malicious capital. Many years before this story was set one of these districts caused an uprising‚ rebelling against the capital. The capital after a long hard battle finally managed to regain control of all the districts. Although only once obliterating the cause‚ district 13. The power house of all operations had become a pile of smoking rubble. Ever since then the capital hosts

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    Hunger Games Evaluation

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    Book Evaluation: The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins had me interested because it deals with a sixteen year-old girl that goes through a drastic change after some events that happen in her life. The Hunger Games is about a girl‚ Katniss‚ that volunteers to take the place of her 12 year-old sister‚ Prim‚ in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a televised event in which a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the 12 districts of Panem‚ is

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    1920 Bloody Sunday

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    future’s judgement on this particular event. For myself my conscience is clear. There is no crime in detecting in wartime the spy and the informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin.” These were the words Michael Collins wrote on the executions of the Cairo Gang. Bloody Sunday was the end of a long path. It began when Sinn Fein won the 1918 General Election and saw them inaugurate the first ever Dail Eireann in January 1919. On the same day that the Dail met for the

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    What in your view‚ was the short term significance of Michael Collins? Michael Collins played a major part in Ireland’s History‚ in the years 1916-23. He had a short but political life where he had increasingly been involved in events such as the Easter Rising‚ Anglo-Irish War‚ Treaty Negotiations and the Civil War. Although he was only active over a relatively short period of time‚ his significance in such events was profound. His public image changed throughout the years‚ from one of the UKs most

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