In the written texts, The Hunger Games, The Real Katie Lavender, Goodnight Mister Tom and Looking for Alaska a common theme of how people change after loss is explored. Through the examples of Katniss’ father’s death, Neil’s suicide, Tom’s wife’s death and Alaska’s death, the theme of how the people close to those who died, change the way they live is illustrated. The theme of how people change after loss is shown through The Hunger Games, a novel written by Suzanne Collins. Katniss has horrific flashbacks of her father’s death, that occurred because of an explosion in the coal mine of District Twelve. “ Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.” The loss of her father completely changed Katniss and what she had to do to …show more content…
The characters, also Alaska’s friends, Colonel, Takumi, Pudge and Lara showed this theme by getting over Alaska’s death and bringing her name a legacy. After Alaska’s death, her friends brought her a legacy by playing a final prank which involved the whole school. Playing pranks was Alaska’s specialty, so they did this prank in her name they called it “The Alaska Young memorial prank”. Alaska’s closest friends played a prank on the headmaster that will be remembered forever in Culver Creek school history. This helped them to let go of the grief of her death but keep her in their memory forever. The Author did this to show us that the best way to let go of grief and angriness because of someone’s death is to keep a good memory of them close to your heart. This enables us to change the way think and realise we can live through these struggles and comprehend that they are no longer with us. This novel connects to the other texts through the way people change after the loss of a loved one. In The Real Katie Lavender and Goodnight Mister Tom, the main characters have to get over the loss of a friend or family member and they get through this in different ways so they can cope and change the way they think about their loss by remembering the good memories from their
In the film: The Hunger Games, teenagers are picked into a killing games that consists of 24 tributes, two from the 12 districts, one male and one female, to kill each other until one person remains. When the time comes, Katniss did not expect that her sister would be picked in the reaping. It was Prim's first year, afterall, this is her first time. In an attempt, Katniss volunteers for her sister to save her life. She tells her sister that she would try to win for her.
Hi Charissa, Many journeys can include adventures. In The Hunger Game, Katniss didn't enjoy being away from her family because she was a loyal daughter and loving girl who her hope is to get home and regain her family. Through her journey, I believe Katniss will be learned how to overcome significant challenges and obstacles to reach home and lead a successful life. Collins makes the reader think about the meaning of life as a good example because the life is a journey to be appreciated, which means different things to different people. It is important to understand the nature, the significant, and the purpose of life.
Learning happens in everyone's life, and has a positive effect on every person. In the Hunger Games Kat Nissan lives in anew extreme poverty stricken area. Katniss learns how to create her own bows and arrows; and how to scavenge for food. By Katniss learning these survival skills she is able to provide food for her family and trade with people at the community market.
Sacrifice, is made in the beginning of the film all the way to the end of the film. At the beginning of the Hunger Games, Katniss’s sister Prim is chosen as the female tribute, but Katniss chooses to sacrifice her life and volunteers to take her place. As Katniss has a flashback of Peeta in the beginning of the film, to when Peeta threw out a loaf of burnt bread to Katniss. Which was sacrificing getting Peeta into trouble by his father, because the bread is intended to got the the pigs. Rue helps Katniss on two occasions.
The cannon alerted, Katniss bolted to a backpack with arrows in it. She successfully survived the cornucopia attack and hid in a tree. In this process, she relives she got separated from
The Hunger Games: Theme Do you like novels about murders and children killing each other? Or what about survival? Well, in the Hunger Games, the true battle isn’t about death and survival, but about who to love. The theme is very clear in Suzanne Collins’ s Hunger Games, teenage love. The real battle isn’t between the tributes or staying alive, but about who will have Katniss’s heart.
By analyzing the industries and wealth of each and every district we may come to the conclusion that district 1,2 and 4 are known to be the “career districts” which have much positive orientation towards Hunger games. Even though there is poverty and malnutrition prevailed in some impoverished districts, their tributes are generally healthy and strong enough to participate in the Hunger games. These districts give much importance to volunteers who can gain victory and hence regarded to be the highest. The children in these districts were often raised specifically to participate in the Hunger games even though it is against the rule of Hunger games. They are thus trained in the arts of combat and survival.
The major theme in The Hunger game series is the inequity between rich and poor In the books, the author points out that people from the poor district have never known what is orange juice, coffee or chocolate, things people normally know in our world; but for people in district 12, these are luxuries that they cannot afford in their lives (Collins, 2008, p.60). The author used this as an example to mention how poor people live under the Capitol’s control and also provide a reasonable motivation for the following revolution. To show the contrast, the author also mentioned lives in the Capitol in Catching fire. People in the Capitol drink a special liquid to make them vomit so that they can keep eating more food, which shows the extremely
Lazy parents and teachers prone to spouting clichés will often tell apathetic adolescents that it is a dog-eat-dog world out there. Assuming that we are not meant to take this literally, though in the case of out-state puppy mills and Michael Vick 's backyard perhaps we should, these sage mentors are trying to tell us that the game of life is hard. This has never been truer than in the kid-kill-kid world of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Set in a dystopian future The Hunger Games can be read as an allegory for the game of life and the struggle of teens to reach self-actualization.
The overarching theme of Suzanne Collins’ novel, The Hunger Games, is that love can make people forget their basic survival instincts as shown by Katniss’ willingness to put herself in peril to save her loved ones such as Primrose Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and the girl from district eleven Rue. Love 's effect on a person 's survival instincts is first demonstrated by Katniss ' love for her younger sister, Primrose (Prim).In The Hunger Games, every year the districts hold a reaping to choose the tributes that go to the games. Prim gets called at the reaping and Katniss volunteers for her. In paragraph six chapter two of the novel it states “With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. ‘I volunteer!’
The hunger games by Suzanne Collins is typically called a dystopian novel. Since it sheds the light upon a utopian society that is controlled by the government. A society that is fooled by the totalitarian government of the Capitol in order to maintain power, and prevent the uprising of the Districts.that authority is practiced by making people from the districts live in a dehumanized state using another form of dystopia which is propaganda for the reason that they showed them the penalty of disobedience. Another characteristic of a dystopian society that we can see in the novel are keeping the players during the games under surveillance at all times, and everywhere. The last thing that make "The Hunger Games" a supreme example of a dystopian society is the fact that freedom is restricted by forcing the families from the districts to send their kids to death, also known as the hunger games.
The Hunger Games is a book about 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen's fight to survive in Panem's infamous Hunger Games, a show broadcasted displaying children fighting to the death. This book takes place in Panem, a post-United States nation, but the majority of the book takes place in the Capitol's arena for the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games starts with Katniss Everdeen preparing for the announcement of this year's tributes to the Hunger Games, better known as the Reaping. In the Hunger Games, only children are allowed to participate, and as a child gets older, their name gets put in another time. Before attending the mandatory gathering, Katniss consults her friend Gale, who is like a brother to Katniss.
The question ask, which person has more of an impact on Katniss’s survival in the games. Gale or Peeta? To an extent, it is both of them. Gail tough Katniss how to set traps and how to provide for her family when her mom could not, and how to use what little she had, although Peeta did help Katniss when she got stung by tracker jackers by telling her to “RUN”.
Her father died in a mine accident and her mother has still not fully recovered from the shock of the death. Everyday, Katniss hunts illegally for food and other needs for her mother and sister Prim. Katniss Everdeen sees it as her own personal funeral to take her twelve year old sisters place in the Games. Soon she will have to choose between life and love and survival and humanity. But then Peeta Mellark gets chooses as the boy tribute of district twelve.
The Hunger Games, a novella written by Suzanne Collins set in the dystopian future of Panem. The reoccurring theme and concept of authority is shown through the eyes and thoughts of Katniss Everdeen. Katniss chooses to rebel against the main power of authority, the totalitarian government of the Capitol through small acts throughout the novel. Suzanne Collins gives us a very one sided view throughout the novel as Katniss Everdeen and her fellow district residents are forced into an arena for the entertainment of the wealthy citizens of the communist ways of the capitol. Collin’s shows how Katniss has been affected by this and how her free will was taken away from her.