The Hunger Games Essays

In recent years Dystopia has grown to a rather popularity genre, among older as well as younger readers. One reason for its popularity is the film adaptations of several dystopian novels that have been brought the genre in front of a larger audience. Young adult fiction has also grown from …

Katniss Everdeen, who tells her story in the first person, wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister, Prim (short for Primrose), asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and …

In the novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the main character, Katniss Everdeen is the female tribute representing District 12 in the Hunger Games trying to be the last tribute to survive. There are eleven other districts and 23 other tributes. In the end, only one is known to …

Fascism, love triangle, uprising, oh my! These are just a few of the many foci of the second book of the Hunger Games series. As it’s the second of a series of three novels, a quick briefing is necessary. So here’s the low down on the first book- Katniss Everdeen …

Summary: We travel towards the future in the Post-Apocalyptic nation Panem which is the remains of the old United States of America. Our main character and heroine Katniss Everdeen lives with her younger sister Primrose and widowed mother. The nation is divided into 12 districts, a severed District 13, and …

In literature, how an author chooses to construct their words is very important. They need to use them in a way that will allow the reader to take more meaning away from it, and see them as more than just words on paper. Literary devices are what give literature a …

In the novel, there is a very clear sense of right and wrong. The Capital killing children and growing rich of the toil of the people is obviously wrong. Katniss does what she must to survive and does kill other competitors. Morality is defined as personal or cultural values, codes …

While both novels are science fiction, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, shows more action and vigor than The Giver’s perfect utopian society with unnerving truths. The two novels have a conflict that includes survival. Lowry, author of The Giver, uses action, ideas, and adjectives to describe her main …