Periods 1-2 Book Talk: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins What the book was about: The Hunger Games is a book taking place in the nation of Panem‚ the cruel‚ superficial capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in order‚ and to remind them how powerful they really are‚ the Capitol makes each district send a boy and girl to take part in the Hunger Games‚ a brutal‚ gory fight to the death live on television‚ made so each person
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HUNGER DEFINITIONS: Definitions of hunger from commonly-used references include: A desire or need for food; any appetite‚ strong desire‚ or craving. (Dirckx‚ 2001) The uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food. (Oxford American Dictionary‚ 1980) A
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The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is set in a fictional country of Panem with a total of 13 Districts in which everyone lives and the Capitol. Every District is special in what the produce. For example‚ District 11 specializes in crops and farming. The story revolves around Katniss Everdeen from District 12. Every year‚ there is what’s called a reaping in which every district picks one boy and one girl to participate in the “Hunger Games”. The Hunger Games is entertainment to some districts (i
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12 Myths about Hunger Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it. Myth 1: Not Enough Food to Go Around Reality: Abundance‚ not scarcity‚ best describes the world’s food supply. Enough wheat‚ rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3‚200 calories a day.
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World Hunger *** Warning: the following is a look at World hunger which some people may disagree with‚ if you would look at non-partisan look at World hunger then keep reading *** Hunger is an issue which many people think lies little importance. Im going to give you a look at World Hunger as a Picture of Poverty‚ how it affects Third World Nations‚ and How World Hunger is a disease that is plaguing our society. "Food is more than a trade commodity‚" pleaded Sir John Boydorr in 1946. "It is
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events‚ it shapes them into fighters‚ when faced with life and death a person would do almost anything to assure survival. This is greatly demonstrated in the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins when the main character Katniss Everdeen’s world is shifted upside down when her father dies and when she volunteers as tribute for the Hunger Games. After her father’s death the weight of the world was on Katniss’s shoulders‚ as she had to learn how to provide for‚ and keep her family alive. Her family consisted
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Thesis and Quotes for Hunger Games Essay B. Thesis: “Katniss’s feelings for Gale and for Peeta both stem from an impulse to survive. However‚ when her survival is no longer threatened‚ Katniss’s feelings for Gale remain strong while her feelings for Peeta begin to dissolve.” Quote 1 - “Gale wont have any trouble finding a wife. He’s good-looking‚ he’s strong enough to handle the work in the mines‚ and he can hunt. You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in
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World Hunger: “Mostly a distribution problem” Have you ever thought about how much food the world wastes and how this increases world hunger? It has been proven that of all the food produced for human consumption‚ over one-third of it is lost during a year and over the 35% of that would feed all the people who lack food in the world (Gunders). The planet is experiencing times of great frustration with this. While the birthrate increases approximately one percent every year‚ the food just does
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Title: The Hunger Games Author Background: The author of this book is Suzanne Collins‚ who currently lives in Connecticut with her family. She started her career in 1991 writing for children’s television. She has worked on Nickelodeon shows including Clarissa Explains it all‚ The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo‚ Little Bear‚ and Oswald. Suzanne recently finished her third book in the series‚ The Hunger Games‚ Catching Fire. Genre: Science Fiction Meaning of the Title: The title The Hunger Games has
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Dear Suzanne Collins‚ I admire your work on the book series The Hunger Games. I want to tell you that your books have changed the way I see the world today. The book made me feel very grateful. This also made me look at other countries and see how we‚ as Americans we are spoiled and live lavish lives for no reason really. This is what I know about The Hunger Games trilogy. The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time‚ in the totalitarian nation of Panem. The country consists
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