Saturday, March 9, 2019
Rebellion in Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is pen in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, where the countries of North America formerly existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises government power on the endure of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 1218 from each of the xii districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.The main topic in the book was teenage ascension which is shown by Katniss where she and Peeta change the rules at the final moments of the Hunger Games. Peeta and Katniss decide not to fight each other to see who will win the Games, still instead to deny the Gamemakers each winner at all by eating some poisonous berries in a double self-destruction attempt. As Katniss said Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers faces. Theyd have failed the Capitol. Might poss ibly even be executed, belatedly and painfully while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the agricultural.Instead of allowing the pair to kill themselves, the Gamemakers change the rules of the game once again and assert both Peeta and Katniss winners. The double suicide attempt is an act of rebellion towards the Capitol. until now after shes out of the arena, Katniss fears that the Capitol will somehow punish her subversive bearing with the power the government has over them. In reality, teenage rebellion isnt eternally negative and can be positive like what Katniss and Peeta have do to save their lives. Katniss also shows teenage rebellion where she sacrifices her life on a daily basis by going into the woods to provide for her family.With pass being illegal and holds high consequences with the chance of getting caught she and Gale sacrifice their lives to hunt and to bring food for their family. Her courage to provide for her family shows that she is independent. In the movie she slips through wire fences to meet Gale becuase she feels like its her job to provide becuase she doesnt know any other way to. Covering Rue with flowers is an intense act of rebellion against the Capitol. The experience of witnessing Rues death inspires Katniss to go on and win the Games and to prove to the Capitol that they cant parapraxis the tributes of their humanity.By calling attention to the sacrifice that Rue made during the Hunger Games, Katniss challenges the idea that Hunger Games and the people who play them are mere entertainment for the audiences confirm in the Capitol. For Katniss, Rue isnt simply a character on a television show. She is a human being who is worthy of respect, admiration, and mourning. When she says I indispensability to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that some(prenominal) they do or force us to do that there is a part of every tribute they cant own. That Rue w as more than a paper in their Games. And so am I.
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