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Mocking Jay Book Report Essay

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Caleb Kang
Mrs. Kirkeby
English 10, Period 2
12 November 2014
Book Report Hunger Games: Mocking Jay
1. Title of work: Hunger Games: Mocking Jay
2. Author and date written: Suzanne Collins 2010
3. Country of author: United States
4. Characters: attached sheet
5. Major Setting- The Capital: The Capitol is the dazzling and exclusive part of Panem, where the wealthiest of the rich and the celebrities live. People in the different districts work hard to serve and provide luxuries for the citizens of the Capitol. It's also a powerful entity in its own right, not just a place: the Capitol of Panem tortures different people, the Capitol wants Katniss to give up, and the Capitol was manipulating her and Peeta.
District 13: Because district 12 got bombed, …show more content…

Major themes: Power: Power comes in many ways, there are people that have it or not, in the story we see lots of people wanting power.
8. Courage: In all the books, it shows lots of courage. Katniss is very courageous and brave; she helps others and puts her last to everyone that she cares for.
9. Friendship: When going into a war, it’s very good to have good friends to rely on; they watch your back, and when things get bad, they give you a reason not to give up and to keep on fighting. She helps all her friends to make them alive.
10. Symbols: Crazy Cat appears briefly, for only a couple of pages, but it's still an effective symbol in Mockingjay. Crazy Cat is a hard game that Katniss plays with her family's cat named Buttercupp. District 13Roses are a small but potent symbol in Mockingjay. At the beginning of the book he has left a white rose in Katniss's house as a kind of different messages for Katniss. The smell of the roses makes her aggressively ill, because she had connections them with President Snow, who's out to get her.
Bow and Arrow she uses the bow and arrow: Katniss uses the Bow and Arrow for hunting and in the hunger games. It is her signature weapon that she loves, and has lots of talent using

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