Essays on Suzanne Collins

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The books that will be compared in this comparison essay are ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. While ‘The Lottery’ focuses on the town’s people having to draw out various slips of paper to see who gets a slip of each with a black dot of pencil, ‘The Hunger Games’ tells of Katniss taking the role of her sister as she is called to participate in the Hunger Games and tries to survive in the environment with Peeta. In the ends, this book maintains that Katniss and Peeta won ...

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games did not become instantly popular. No doubt, the novel has an independent, strong female protagonist, and the elements in it enable readers find a connection between the dystopia created by Collins and the world they are living in at the moment. The reality of war is made evident to the young adult audience of the novel without any hesitance. As readers read The Hunger Games, they should be able to see that Suzanne Collins is indirectly criticizing the modern day society in the United States, especially the role of entertainment in the American society of today. ...

Dystopian literature is well evident in the book “The hunger games” by Suzanne Collins. The book defines various social contracts that are usually expressed through dystopian literature. Different social contracts have been identified in the book and they represent extensive range on the bases of the Panem districts. Through exclusive analysis of the capitol various tools were used to indicate the social contract defined in the book. The elements are uniquely portrayed through the tools used by the author of the book. Through excellent presentation in the book, Suzanne Collins has been able to delineate unique elements that ...

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The fictional plot of hunger games has provided its audience with enjoyment and entertainment. However, the same themes that were used in the three novels reflect some of the issues in our society. Of course there is no such thing in the society as the actual hunger games where children starve and fight to death. The topics in the novel however are close to some of the issues that people go through in life. This paper explores how hunger games is connected with the revolution in Arabic spring and real life. Hunger games is not just fictional but is ...

Probably one of the finest science fiction novels ever written, The Hunger Games is definitely a feather of the cap of American writer’s Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the novel and she has an authority in the metropolis of The Capitol where there is political influence and almost completes control of the population. There is hubris in the sense of the gladiator battle to the death that is created by the battle on television, a highly original plot which caused quite a stir and controversy at the time. The novel is a sure fire read and has a ...

There is no doubt that technology is one of the strongest forces that have completely revolutionalized the modern world. It is clear that a day is approaching when the entire human race will be completely dependent on technology. In The Hunger Games, the author, Suzanne Collins portrays a world where almost everything runs on technology. She describes a high tech futuristic world with some technological features that are not even available in the world currently. Most of this technological advancement is mostly enjoyed by the upper class society who to a huge part uses it to oppress the poor. By using the narrative ...

The book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins takes place in a dystopian fantasy world. This genre is adventure fantasy. While reading one quickly realizes that things are not as we now know them. There is a great gap between the poor and the rich. The rich take advantage of the poor by using their children for entertainment is a televised event called “The Hunger Games”. Children are thrown into a generated environment and forced to fight to the death. The brutality of this treatment eventually leads to need to change the current political system. The setting of this book takes place ...

Gary Ross' 2012 adaptation of the young adult dystopian novel The Hunger Games was an effective, if somewhat uneven, film anchored by strong performances and interesting ideas. The tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the Capitol, is given a bleak and stylized look, fleshing out the world of the film while often shying away from real violence and issues where it counts. The sense of isolation that the protagonist feels is not unlike Foucaultian Panopticonism: Foucault came up with the idea of the ...

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Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. In The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. These differences will be discussed at length, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. Through analysis of the primary text and the surrounding scholarly literature, The Hunger Games is shown to be an ...

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The Hunger Games is the new global teen phenomenon. A previous image of successful film franchises such as Millennium, Twilight or Harry Potter, this is the adaptation of a bestseller, in this case of the American writer Suzanne Collins. The film, which is the third biggest opening of the story revolves around a television program which requires a group of teenagers to kill themselves (Hubbard 1293–1295). Its strong violent content, some critics have described as a cross between The Lord of the Flies and the slaughter of Columbine-has raised hackles among parents, but did not prevent teenagers from forming queues in all major ...

In Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. In my future paper, I plan to discuss those differences, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. In the book, Katniss is caught in the type of love triangle typically found in children's fiction: the sensitive new lover versus the old friend who understands her more. However, Collins seems to subvert this trope by playing up the ambiguity of Katniss' actual feelings for Peeta and ...