Mockingjay, Part 1 by Suzanne Collins. Mockingjay, Part 2. Catching Fire. Research it with Articles Try these articles to get started. Consumed: Food in The Hunger Games. Zygmunt Bauman, postmodern ethics, and Utopia as process in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games: "it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back".
Research it with Books Try these books and eBooks to get started. Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy : A Literary and Cultural Analysis This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal.
It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media studies, philosophy, and cultural studies. An analytical rather than evaluative work, it dispenses with extended theoretical discussions, academic jargon, and even footnotes. Assuming that readers are familiar with all three volumes of The Hunger Games, the book also avoids plot summary and character analysis, instead focusing on the significance of the story and its characters.
It includes a biographical essay, glossaries, questions for further study, and an extensive bibliography. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults. Critical Insights: Contemporary Speculative Fiction. Several chapters cover the Hunger Games. Also available in print in COM Library. Critical Insights: Dystopia. Critical Insights: Hunger Games. Hunger Games and Philosophy : A Critique of Pure Treason A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel.
The post-apocalyptic world of Panem's twelve districts is a divided society on the brink of war and struggling to survive, while the Capitol lives in the lap of luxury and pure contentment. At every turn in the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and their many allies wrestle with harrowing choices and ethical dilemmas that push them to the brink.
Is it okay for Katniss to break the law to ensure her family's survival? Do ordinary moral rules apply in the Arena? Can the world of The Hunger Games shine a light into the dark corners of our world? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts.
The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games.
But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Still, if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. What will our world become if the divide between rich and poor continues to grow? Do children possess fundamental humanity and goodness?
The Hunger Games stays with you for a long, long time. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner If there really are only seven original plots in the world, it's odd that "boy meets girl" is always mentioned, and "society goes bad and attacks the good guy" never is. Collins hasn't tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less and rather more Death Race , hers is a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for the United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators in a televised fight to the death.
Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable.
She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser. It's no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. Release 01 September Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection.
View more libraries In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games.
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