Essays on The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a coming out of age novel about teenagers living in a complex society. The teenagers have to participate in dangerous games to please the public. They have to make life or death decisions and can see someone dying each minute. They…

Introduction Are there frequent reoccurrences of motifs and or themes found throughout dystopian literature that can be considered ‘classical dystopian’? To quote Mourby, “as long as human beings have been able to conceive of the future they seem to have been able to imagine things…

Introduction This investigation will explore the representation of women in the films: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (Lionsgate Film, 2014), Prometheus (20th Century Fox, 2012) and Passengers (Columbia Pictures, 2016). Films usually represent women in an over-sexual and derogatory light. This study will…

The Hunger Games is a classic novel about a woman who defeats the superior community with leadership and courage. Some of the major themes in this movie were about society and class, power, identity, the reality, politics and competition, and human sacrifice. One of the…

Tomas Guerrero Mr. Epstien English Honors II August 10, 2018 The One and Only Book Imagining saving one and only one book from being destroyed, which book would it be? Why would I save this book? Why did I choose this book? There is just…

“Remember, they already love you,” he says gently. “Just be yourself” (Collins 123). The Hunger Games, a novel written by Suzanne Collins, narrate the story of a 16-year-old girl called Katniss Everdeen who steps in for her younger sister in a barbaric tradition called the…

Suzanne Collins Challenges the Norm of Feminism The literary genre of Science Fiction seems to contain a greater amount of male writers than female writers. Authors such as H.G Wells, Jack London, Aldous Huxley and Ray Bradbury have all created very dynamic characters though some…

In what ways have contemporary action films such as ‘The Hunger Games’ represented female characters as being more powerful? To what extent and why does this appeal to young female audiences? Over the years, the representation of women in the media has changed dramatically. Due…

The future of the United States, according to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novel, is filled with bleak, rigid and never-ending misery. In other words Suzanne Collins picked a world in the future, formally North America but now called Panem that has many dystopian properties. Dystopia…