The Hunger Games & The Republic The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins‚ which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises political control over 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
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The Hunger Games By Landon Courtney The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games generates suspense‚ action‚ and science fiction‚ and a form of dictatorship. The setting is in Panem‚ formerly North America. Part of the book is in District 12‚ near the Appalachian Mountains. It is set in the future. Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the Hunger Games. She is sixteen years old; she is determined‚ loving‚ and caring. She has straight black hair that is usually braided
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Imagine being a teenager that has been forced to have the responsibility of protecting their whole family‚ but one day‚ their entire life gets altered into having to murder other children for survival; this is the fate of tributes of the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins illustrates a desolate world where survivors of the post-apocalyptic continent of Panem segregate into twelve separate districts and tasked with specific responsibilities of harvesting the Earth’s remaining natural
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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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and Power in The Hunger Games Professor Kenneth Wong G15 Dorothy SIOK Li Phing LIU Zhe LIN Feng Ian Nicolette CHEN Lixin TAN Yan Zhen 1 1 Introduction 2 The Ethics of Power 2.1 How Power is Obtained and Maintained The Hunger Games is a dystopian
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Catching Fire is better than The Hunger Games in some key areas of storytelling‚ but it does not redeem this blockbuster trilogy of its principal flaw: its future is never fully believable. I suspect that‚ like Twilight fans‚ what appeals to the bulk of its fan base is not just the action-packed premise‚ but the love triangle at the heart of the tale‚ between put-upon teen heroine Katniss Everdeen‚ her Games partner Peeta Mellark (with whom she must put on a show of romantic feeling‚ though on his
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An unpleasant drunken genius? Haymitch Abernathy is certainly one of the most interesting characters in Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games. While he is the well-known alcoholic mentor of District 12‚ Haymitch ends up being a smart competitor who helps Katniss to survive the Games along with her partner. While they don’t always get along‚ Haymitch and Katniss match wits with the Capitol and end up winners. One of Haymitch’s more undesirable characteristics is the fact that he is a drunk.
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Published in 2008 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins quickly rose through the ranks and has become one of the most influential and best selling books of the late 2000’s. Based in a post-apocalyptic United States‚ The Hunger Games tells the story of the young heroine Katniss Everdeen and her journey of survival in both the harsh conditions of her coal mining home in District 12‚ and the later dangerous climate of the Capitol and the hunger games. Survival is one of the major reoccurring themes that
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The Hunger Games really relates to real life at the moment because of the corrupt government. In the hunger games‚ the government puts everyone against each other by putting a boy and a girl from each district in a competition where they must fight to the death. It’s all symbolic on how the Capitol prevents the people from forming an alliance and rebelling; the Games keep “every district against the others” and fighting among themselves. The government today‚ is tearing apart our united nations by
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character in the book The Hunger Games. Katniss is a sixteen year old girl who lives in District 12. During the reaping of the 74th annual Hunger Games‚ Katniss’ younger sister Prim is chosen for the reaping. Katniss quickly volunteers to take place of her sister. Katniss Everdeen demonstrates Habits of Mind and Habits of Character. Katniss shows the Habit of Mind known as Taking Responsible Risks. First‚ she shows this characteristic by volunteering to be a tribute in the Hunger Games instead of her
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