The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins March 2, 2014
After Reading the novel by Suzanne Collins it interests me to
discuss about the world and how reality shows, including the threats of war,
authoritarian governments and obsession with fashion that influence us daily.
This book realizes me the reality of how the old government govern their
society during their times. In the novel, there was this world called the
Panem. The Panem is an authoritarian society, this is the product of a horrible
disaster during the dark days. Because of this, it resulted to the
establishment of twelve districts ruled by the government in the capitol.
Peacekeepers and local government are instituted in each district, but the
rulers in the capitol have strict control over everything and everyone in each
district.
The Governance of this authoritarian society only shows how unfair
the rulers of our Government are. First they were using their positions just to
make control of everything including the properties of the other people and the
people. Second they’re making fun of
using the Government fond which is intended to the people, and instead of using
it and sharing it to the poor ones they’re using it for their own sakes, goods
and needs. This matter only shows that if the ruling systems, including the
rulers are not totally making their duties, it will lead the people of the
society to make a rebellion and revolution.
"When I was younger,
I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12,
about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the
Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I
learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so
that no one could ever read my thoughts."
A passage by Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games (Page 6, Chapter 1)
This passage spoken by Katniss describes a few of
her characteristics. And because of that I admire Katniss’s attitude and her
inherent understanding of the injustices perpetuated by the Capitol. Katniss
learned in her life that prudence suggests a stoical outlook which she adopts
in order to provide her family. And this forced attitude of her is the one that
she will challenge throughout the adventure in order to rediscover who she is
deep down.
Nowadays, when you don’t have a job, you don’t have
a money, and when you don’t have a money you will not able to buy food, and
when you don’t have a food you will going to starve to death. That is why we
need to have a job for us to survive and live. We all know that our parents are
the one who provides our needs, they give us food, clothing and shelter.
They’re also the who took care of us.
In the novel, Katniss is the one who provides food
for her family, that started when her Father died in the mine explosion and her
Mother who should be the one to took care of finding food for her daughters had
a trauma because of her husband’s death. Katniss hunts in the woods so she can
barter it in the market and when she has the money she’ll going to buy food for
her family. And with that Katniss’s experience, I can imagine and picture out
my father who is the one who works for us to send us money to buy food and to
send us to school. I can imagine how hard his work is, plus working far from
us, it makes me sad. I can imagine the sweat flowing in to his face because of
the heat of the sun while he is doing his work.
Like my father, Katniss is the provider of her
family and because of her, her family always got a food to eat. I know that
working to make your family alive is hard, but because they are your family,
you’ll do everything just to feed them, give their daily needs, not just daily
needs and food, but of course also your love and care for them.
Let me share something, when I am alone I always
thought of the future, what will happen to me, what is my life going to be,
what is my work going to be and everything. I also thought what would happen to
my family. Then I always thought that someday I’ll be the one who’ll find a
work just to provide my family’s needs. I want to be like Katniss, not
literally to be like Katniss’s, but her attitude, her love and care for her
family.
After reading this novel, some things cross my mind,
and I wonder, what if didn’t volunteered to be the tribute? What if it’s really
Primrose’s turn to be a tribute? Is she going to die or live? What is going to
happen to Katniss? Is she going to forgive her Mother for being irresponsible?
And the last thing, Katniss did take the place of being the 74th
Annual Hunger Games tribute, what if she died? What is going to happen to
Primrose and Mrs. Everdeen? Is her Mother going to be normal again?
“May the odds be ever on your favor” – The Hunger
Games
The odds are ever on Katniss’s favor. After the
triumph that Katniss had, I think she not going to hunt in the woods to have
food, because they do have now the money to buy REAL foods, not like the food
that they were used to eat but something different. I think someday, Katniss
will go to learn love Peeta. We all know that we cannot force someone to love us,
but we can teach them how to love us process by process and time to time.
Part
2
Entry
#1
Katniss
Everdeen
The
role of Katniss was played by Jennifer Lawrence
The narrator and main character of the novel
The Hunger Games. Katniss was the female tribute from District 12. She lives
with her Mother and her sister Primrose, she is also the one who provides her
family after her father died in a mine explosion.
I
can truly say that Katniss is one of my favorite characters in the book The
Hunger Games, and I also commend her for being the one who uses hunting to
provide her family’s needs also for taking care of her sister Prim and her
mother after her father died in the mine explosion. I’ve learn many things from
Katniss, one is for being so strong in volunteering the hunger games, it only
shows that Katniss really loves her sister and she’ll do everything just to protect
her. And another one, for being strong and willed teenager trying to survive
and win the game, this shows that Katniss really has that determination to win
the game for her Family especially to Prim and to her District.
Peeta
Mellark
The
role of Peeta was played by Josh Hutcherson
The
male tribute from District 12 and a son of a local baker. Peeta is loyal and
brave, and will do whatever it takes for Katniss to survive because he has been
in love to her since they’re five years old. Peeata was described as being medium
height, strongly built and has ashy blonde hair.
I
like Peeta’s attitude, especially when he will do everything just to make
Katniss win the game. In the novel, Peeta showed how in love he was to Katniss,
first in the scene where Peeta burned some bread, and instead of giving it to
pigs because his Mother was angry with him and let him feed the pigs with the
burned breads, she threw and gave it to Katniss. Also when they were in the
arena, he let Katniss pretend to be also in love with him, just to get sponsors
for them to survive. I also like Peeta, because even if it is so hard for him
to let Katniss pretend that she’s in love or they’re both in love with each
other, he still accept Katniss and love Katniss with all his heart.
Gale
Hawthorne
The
role of Gale Hawthorne was played by Liam Hemsworth
Katniss’s
best friend and partner in hunting in their district. Katniss describe him as
an attractive boy. They met when Katniss was just twelve and he’s fourteen.
Like Katniss, Gale’s father died in the mine explosion, so he is also the one
who provides his family’s needs. Gale’s call Katniss as “Catnip” even if he knows
her real name. In the novel, Gale treats Katniss more than bestfriends, and to
make it clear, he’s also in love to Katniss. And when Katniss volunteered to be
a tribute, he kept a promise to Katniss that he’ll be the one to took a good
care to Prim and her Mother, and also not to let them starve.
Primrose
Everdeen
The role of Primrose Everdeen was played by Willow
Shields
Katniss beloved sister, and the novel Katniss used
to call her Prim. Primrose is much more innocent and child-like not like
Katniss. Katniss makes it her life's
priority to protect Prim from the hardness of life, and Prim thus serves as a
personification of Katniss's deferred innocence. In the novel, Prim has a pet
goat named Lady, and works sometimes to help their mother with her duties as a healer.
Primrose was the one who was picked to be the tribute, but Katniss don’t want
to make her sister suffer, Katniss took the place. Primrose serves as Katniss’s
motivator and inspiration to win the game, she let Katniss promise to win the
game for her and Katniss did.
Mrs.
Everdeen
The role of Mrs. Everdeen was played by Paula
Malcomson
Katniss’s Mother, her name is not mentioned in the
novel, but she has the important role in Katniss life. After Katniss’s father's
death, her mother was paralyzed by her grief, so much so that she did not
provide for her daughters. This helplessness is what caused Katniss to begin
hunting and gathering to protect the family. The mother has since recovered and
works as an apothecary (which in Panem means a non-traditional
"healer"), but Katniss has never forgiven her for having disappeared
as she did. The mother was from a middle-class family, and married beneath her
station when she married Katniss's miner father.
Haymitch
Abernathy
The
role of Haymitch Abernathy was played by Woody Harrelson
One of the two sole District 12 citizens to have won
the Hunger Games, and the only one surviving. As such, he serves as a mentor to
his district's tributes. He is a heavy drinker, which makes him seem a buffoon
to most, but once Katniss and Peeta impress him, he proves himself a rather
adept mentor through establishing their unified front strategy. Though Katniss
professes to despise him, she realizes through the novel that they are very
much alike in their craftiness and ability to suppress their emotions.
Effie Trinket
The role of Effie Trinket was played by Elizabeth Banks
The District 12 escort, who is a happy and
bubbly person. She drew Primrose's (Katniss' sister) name during the reaping
causing Katniss to volunteer as tribute. She wears many different colored wigs
and helps Katniss and Peeta get sponsors in the Games. She constantly bickers
and argues with Haymitch. Very proper, she hates it when people do not have
proper etiquette.
Cinna
The role of Cinna was played by Lenny Kravitz
Katniss's stylist for the Games. Gentle and kind,
and, in the early stages, one of the few people she trusts on her team. He
helps realize Haymitch's unified front strategy by dressing Katniss and Peeta
similarly. He also devises the "fire" theme that distinguishes
Katniss as "the girl who was on fire."
President Cariolanus Snow
The role of President Snow was played by Donald Sutherland
The President of Panem. Though he seems genial enough, his
anger towards Katniss at the end of the novel suggests an uglier side.
The
difference between the Book and the Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FovFG3N_RSU
Before
I read the book, I’ve already watched the movie Hunger Games, and at first I was
amazed by the movie. It’s kind of fascinating to me, because first the role
players really suits to the characters in the story. And when I heard there
will be a sequel to that movie, I was determined to read the book, the book has
three series, first the one that I’ve read “The Hunger Games” followed by “Catching
Fire” and the last one is “The Mockingjay”. When I was reading the book, I was
shocked because, the book was tad different to the movie, even if the movie was
based in the novel, there are still some part in the book that was not shown in
the movie, at first I was upset but still I cannot blame the movie also the
directors because how in the world you can put the whole story of the book in a
2 to 3 hours movie? Right? So, still I can say that this movie and novel is one
of the best movie and book I’ve read and watched.
And
my Part 2 entry, I used the pictures of the actresses and actors who played the
said role, so that you or we can really picture out how incredible and amazing
the character is.
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