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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quite 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‚
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Keira Cass and Suzanne Weyn are two authors who ask questions that others are afraid to ask or don’t even think of. What could the future look like? What if’s? These are only some questions that they have asked themselves when starting to write The Crown: by Kiera Cass published May 2016‚ and Empty: by Suzanne Weyn published in 2010. Kiera Cass is a young woman who has written an archetype based on Cinderella and Esther. She imagines “what if” for both stories. Suzanne Wayne; however‚ found inspiration
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March 22‚ 2012 English 801A&B The Hunger Games The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book about survival. Survival forces you to be courageous‚ enduring‚ and most of all do things you’ve never imagined. One of the main characters Katniss Everdeen is forced to change who she is and act like she’s in love in order to survive The Hunger Games. Katniss demonstrates her courageous characteristic when she sacrifices herself and takes her sister’s place in The Hunger Games
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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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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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in today’s society. Shirley Jackson’s short story‚ “The Lottery‚” is an ideal representation of this theme because a citizen of their village is sacrificed each year to be the lottery’s “winner‚” and that winner is stoned to death. Comparably‚ in Suzanne Collins’ film The Hunger Games‚ a similar lottery is drawn each year where 24 citizens of Panem must fight to the death to achieve the country’s “winner.” The citizens of both the village and Panem have been programmed to understand that this tradition
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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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Jerad Chandler Mr. Stark English 101 27 September 2012 The Hunger Games In the dystopia world of “The Hungers Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ lies a nation called Panem‚ a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is strict and keeps the districts in line by hosting the annual Hunger Games. Twenty-four teenagers are forced to fight to the death on live television. Two children‚ one boy and one girl‚ between the ages of twelve and eighteen‚ are randomly chosen from each
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Despite working with low-budget and a small crew‚ Orson Welles makes his Othello interesting and memorable through several techniques. He generates a sense of suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film‚ he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live up to the viewer’s ideals of the characters
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