Catching Fire: Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Anthem There are many reasons why dystopian story draw young adults attention. Many young adults compare the books/stories to their life. Adults don’t give them any freedom. They are told to do everything. they have too many rules for life, they can never have fun.

Finally they arrive at the capitol, where President Snow has invited them to his mansion. They go to the ball and everything is nice and beautiful. Katniss wants to eat everything in sight, but there's too much, she keeps passing her leftovers to Peeta. He goes to Octavia, one of his makeup people and asks her how she can eat so much. Octavia almost fell over laughing at him saying this.

In the Novel “The Hunger Games Catching Fire” Many New things have occurred but some parts of the book really surprised me. In chapter 9 to 14 it explains on how Katniss wants to run away from the district with Peeta and Haymitch but right before the day they are going to run something bad happens. On that day Gale is found on the ground half dead and being beat by someone. Katniss tries to save Gale but ends up being whipped by the rope across the cheek. Peeta and Haymitch help Gale up from the ground and quickly takes home to Katniss’s house.

Katniss Everdeen is the main character of the book, The Hunger Games, and a tribute from District 12. Grey eyed and olive skinned, she takes care of her mother and younger sister, Prim. Their mother was living through depression after her husband died in a mine explosion, giving responsibility up to Katniss. The sixteen year old would often find herself hunting (for food) with her close friend, Gale, although it was not allowed to the people of Panem. A major practice that Katniss inherits, and is known for, is the ability to hunt and her skills with the bow and arrow.

Perseverance can lead you out of a quagmire when matched with the right character. This is shown in The Hunger Games. Katniss and Peeta exhibit their grit throughout the plot. The Hunger Games takes place in the country of Panem, a dystopian society that is located in North America. The Hunger Games is all about the survival of the fittest.

Ordinary world The ordinary world is where the Hero's exists before their present story begins, it's their safe place oblivious of the adventures to come. Their everyday life sets the story and when we learn crucial details about our Hero, their true nature, capabilities and outlook on life. The journey begins in ends in the ordinary world. Hercules lives a normal childhood with his “mother” and “father” in a small town, were he is known as the town freak and is use to being shunned for superhuman strength, that causes the town a lot of chaos.

“The Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins, is about twelve, previously thirteen, districts, that are under constant observation, and suppression from the Capital. The Capital controls everything, and everyone in the districts since the rebellion. Annually they host a game to keep everyone under control. The Tracker Jackers are venomous, genetically modified hornets that were created by the Capital in order to fight against the rebellion. They symbolize fear, control, and suppression.

The participants fight till death, and the survived participant is crowned as the Victor. The novel tells the story of the sixteen-year-old girl Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers to take her younger sister's place in the annual Hunger Games. Peeta was chosen as the male contestant from district 12. The novel

In the novel The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins conveys the qualities of a hero through the character Katniss Everdeen. The novel is set in the dystopian nation of Panem, where one boy and girl from 12 different Districts must take part in The Hunger Games, a televised annual event in which the tributes of each District, are required to fight to the death until there is only one survivor. The protagonist Katniss everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister Prim’s place and subsequently evolves into a significant hero in the novel. The qualities that emerge as a result of Katniss’s journey that make her a hero include courage and evolving identity. Thus, it will be ascertained that through the character Katniss Everdeen, Collins conveys the qualities of a true hero.

In the book, “The Hunger Games,” the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, lives with her mother and sister Prim in District 12 of the country of Panem. Katniss volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games after her sister is chosen. Peeta Mellark is chosen as well. The Hunger Games is an event hosted by the Capitol of Panem every year where two tributes from each District, a boy and a girl, are drafted to participate. They are brought to an arena created by the Capital to fight to the death until only one comes out victorious.

In literature class, we read the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell. The theme of the story, life or death, could be compared to the famous movie, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a futuristic movie, where one boy and one girl from every district is taken to an arena to fight for the chance to be the last standing and to live. It is very similar to the fact that “The Most Dangerous Game” is about survival and fighting to live. One could say the movie and short story do not compare because The Hunger Games is also considered a romance, while “The Most Dangerous Games” is strictly about life and death.

INTRODUCTION Literary Darwinism in the last couple of decades attracted a diversity of credible thinkers and lead to integration of literary concepts with a modern evolutionary understanding of the evolved and adapted characteristics of human nature. New age authors seem to be mixing this theory with their contemporary, speculative fiction. The Divergent series by Veronica Roth, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, The American TV series, LOST were all highly successful and set records with their readers and the box officer. All of these books/series had the underlying theme of the “survival of the fittest” under harsh environments that challenging situations put the protagonists in. According to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Darwinism designates a distinctive form of

Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games is about stereotyping and dehumanization as ways government uses to control ordinary citizens of Panem. The main character, Katniss Everdeen, is forced to take part in the Hunger Games, which is one of the main approaches to dominate over the country. Even though Katniss is pressed to face various difficulties, the novel focuses on political and social problems that are faced in modern society. The definition of the word dehumanization by Merriam-Webster is to ‘depriving human qualities, personality, or split’.

This novel is place in the future Americas in an area called Panem. Panem is split up into twelve sections, called districts, and a sparkling capitol. Each district provides different supplies for Panem and the capitol. They also re required to provide one boy and one girl for the Hunger Games yearly.

One of the characteristics of the dystopian society is that; the people have horrible fear of the outside world and that is exactly what happens with the people in Panem as Katniss says “[f]ear shoots through me, but I have enough sense to keep still” (Collins 185) expresses her fear in that new world, using stream of consciousness. Obviously, Katniss and Peeta face a lot of difficulties and Tests in the games. Katniss describes her state “I’m wounded and trapped. Darkness has given me a brief reprieve” (Collins 186). They are really in hell facing their Enemy, the Gamekeepers, as they are constantly trying to throw the tributes off during the games.