Censorship In The Hunger Games

The media instills messages into society. They sometimes go out of the way in advertising or glorifying certain issues. Usually, a bad or detrimental message is packaged in a glorious way. Often times there is encouragement to act in ways that promote thrill and adventure. This way, media glorifies the bad aspects of people and encourages them to act in forbidden ways. The Hunger Games includes many of these aspects. For example, observe Katniss Everdeen in her journey as a tribute, a victor, and a leader. Her varying degrees of awareness, understanding, and manipulation of televised content accurately reflect how our own society responds to it as well. A focus on how much the media influences especially how to control citizens, whether it involves, body image, emotions, or in many cases violence.

I chose to the modern mythology known as The Hunger Games a novel written by Suzanne Collins and later adapted into a feature film. The novel was actually part of a trilogy The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. The story begins by introducing you to our main character Katniss Everdeen who lives in a world run by the Capitol where President Snow resides and has enforced a form of martial law on all 13 districts. Every year the Capitol hosts their annual Hunger Games which is a form of entertainment for the Capitol. Out of every district two tributes, one boy and one girl will be picked to participate in the Hunger Games which is a battle to the death. Whichever tribute manages to survive till the end will be rewarded by getting to stay in the capitol and their district will be given more food and supplies. The reason Katniss becomes a part of the games is because her little sister prim is chosen during the reaping to be the tribute so Katniss hearing her sisters name volunteers as tribute to save her sisters life but she tries to win the games for her district and to provide for them. The only problem is she finds it hard to murder the other tributes because they are all so young and she doesn’t see why she must kill them for the Capitols entertainment.

The Hunger Games by Susan Collins is a slap in the face for society, essentially a wakeup call. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl that volunteers as tribute for Prim, her little sister and is the focus of The Hunger Games. The book is set in Panem a dystopian society with twelve districts and an over ruling power, the Capitol. The Capitol has created a punishment for a rebellion that occurs 74 years earlier, called the reaping. Every year there is a reaping, the reaping requires each of the twelve districts to gather and watch as two of their children are picked to compete in the most dangerous game; the hunger games. Each child sent is in a competition for their life, one will survive. After the reaping the tributes are sent to the Capitol where they are introduced to the public. The tributes are treated like celebrities, interview and forced to play their best angle to the media. See any similarities between 21st century America and the world Katniss lives in? Panem and

The Hunger Games is a futuristic film that shows how society accepts diverse norms which are in no way fair or moral. The Hunger Games was set by a governing body as ‘hunger games’ which are used to entertain the general public in times of crisis. The movie is directed by Gary Ross and was released in 2012. In the movie citizens of Panem between the ages of 12 and 18 years of age are mandatorily required to participate in The Hunger Games if they were selected. The games are annual and televised consisting of different tributes from various Districts who fight to the death until there is only one survivor left. Jennifer Lawrence acts as Katniss Everdeen in the movie. She is a young lady from a small town known as District 12. She voluntarily

The Hunger Games promotes the idea of a total government control. The Capitol controls everything that the twelve districts do. The world of Panem is divided into 12 districts where each district has its own role to fulfill from luxury to coal mining. "Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch. This is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy" (Collins 18). This shows that the districts all pay a yearly sacrifice to the Capitol in the form of tributes. Another of showing that the Games is a dystopian society is that any evidence of an act of rebellion will result in the government having to kill anyone who gets in their way. "Look how he take your children and sacrifice them there is nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District 13" (18).

Censorship and book banning are similar, but also different things that are in everyday lives of people. Book banning happens to books or other printed works such as essays or plays which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or (less often) commercial motives. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

“’Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!’” (Collins 19). This is the line in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins that is most memorable. The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in post apocalyptic North America called Panem. It is broken up into 12 districts each district getting more impoverish the higher the number. Here we find Katniss in 12, they are ruled by the capitol and its president Snow. This society keeps peace by having a drawing in each district for tributes a male and female from the ages of twelve to eighteen. The tributes which Katniss is one, are then put in an arena and they fight to the death for all to see on tv, until only one is left alive. An analysis of Katniss will be done by her character and how it is shown in the book through her loyalty, anger, and stoic personality.

Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the gloomy tale of a girl named Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence. In the movie, she volunteers to battle in a lethal tournament in which 24 tributes from ages 12 through 18 fight to their death for the amusement of the Capitol. In the future, North America, as a country, no longer exists. In its place has risen Panem, a nation divided into 12 districts. After randomly choosing a boy and a girl from each of the districts, a shady fixed government arena subjects them to a kill-or-be-killed hunt from which only one winner can arise. Every year, each district selects tributes to test their mental, physical, and emotional strength in a competition known as the Hunger Games. The Capitol’s purpose is to broadcast the tournament as entertainment and to reinforce the government's total power. When Katniss’s younger sister, Prim, is chosen as one of District 12's tribute, Katniss volunteers to take her spot. She trains under an always-inebriated former Hunger Games champion Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson, to hone her killer instincts. Now, in order to remain alive the tournament and be crowned the Hunger Games victor, this young warrior must put all of her ability to the ultimate test.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins tells the story of, Katniss Everdeen, a young teenage girl representing District 12 in the Hunger Games alongside her partner, Peeta Mellark. The Hunger Games is a tournament where twenty- four people, two from each district fight for their lives in an arena to entertain the Capitol, there is only one victor. Throughout the Hunger Games Katniss’ survival is very important. Haymitch, Cinna, and Peeta all played a key role to ensure Katniss Everdeen’s survival. The sponsors and skills Katniss gained, the impressions she made and the need of her to be desirable are all key elements that ensure her survival in the Games. These factors are heavily influenced by Haymitch, Cinna and Peeta’s need to keep Katniss

This book shows the life of Katniss Everdeen after winning the Hunger Games an event that is sponsored by the Capital, where children are put into an arena to fight and kill each other to survive, and how her life was affected while in the games and after as well. She also has to relive the horrors of the games because her and Peeta Mellark fellow winner of the games have to go on the Victory Tour around all the districts so the Capitol can keep the terror of the games alive. Then later it is announced that, “‘on the seventy-fifth anniversary… the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors’”(Collins 175) which meant that Katniss and Peeta along with the other victors would have to go back into the Hunger Games again and fight to win. The book is set in a futuristic place called Panem. Which according the website Shmoop.com Panem is “...a country that - after a series of vague disasters - rose from the ashes of North America… [and] it’s all pretty post-apocalyptic”(Shmoop Editorial Team) where people are put into different districts. While the more wealth people get to live in the Capitol where they do not worry about starvation and everything else that the people in the districts go

The first book in the Hunger Games trilogy has sold over 28 million copies in the U.S alone and an astonishing 65 million copies total across all three novels. The Hunger Games is a clear example of how a corrupted government can negatively impact the world. This fictitious novel is set in Panem, a country that is separated into thirteen poor districts and the very wealthy Capitol. Every year, the Capitol forces every district to send two kids ages 12-18 to fight in what is called the Hunger Games; a brutal fight to the death. This is what the Capitol does to show the districts that they are the follows to the almighty leader as well as provide entertainment.

In the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, there is a new post-apocolyptic country created called Panem which used to be North America, that is divided into 13 districts. The main character of the novel is a girl named Katniss Everdeen from District 12 who is put to the challenge of competing against 23 other girls and boys to the death in the annual Hunger Games. The Capitol, is who rules the 13 districts. They create unfair and strict policies, which once cause the districts to rise up and rebel.

A utopia is described as a place where “no social ills such as crime, poverty, and injustice [exist]” but is “impossibly ideal and unattainable” (Werlock, par. 1). Some American authors have explored what would happen if a government attempted to form a utopian society in America, and the result is typically a dystopian nation. The government, in an attempt for perfection, censors what the populace can read or experience creates uniformity, banning self-expression; and surveils the community to ensure everyone is compliant with the rules. While some dystopian societies are obviously oppressive, as shown in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, other dystopias are hidden behind the facade of a utopia, like the government in the Matched trilogy

The trilogy of The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, focuses on a country that is being controlled by an oppressive government and the people who are fighting against it for their freedom. Although the odds are against the rebels, they continue to combat tyranny at the risk of their own lives. The story takes place in the not too distant future in a country called Panem, which represents the United States. The Capitol, which is the center of the national government, is a brutal and very advanced metropolis, exercises political and physical control over the entire nation of Panem. One of the methods used by the government is the annual lethal “Hunger Games.” The main character, Katniss Everdeen is

The Games fulfil their purpose of terrifying the people of the Districts and thus preventing them to rebel against the government as they once tried. If the consequence of the last rebellion were the Hunger Games, there is no way of knowing whether or not the Capitol would destroy every one of them were they to fail again: “How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion” (Collins). Panem is a truly totalitarian state, where dictatorship rules, with a tremendous difference between the rich, who live in the Capitol and the Districts nearest to it, and the poor, especially the outer Districts like Eleven or Twelve: “What it must be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?”(Collins). In such a society the bonds between people outside one’s family are weak and trust does not come easily, of which Katniss is the best example. The question whether love is possible in such conditions remains throughout the trilogy, as Katniss has to sort out her feelings towards Gale and Peeta and decide without whom she cannot live. However, in the first book the reader finds out that she never wants to have kids, meaning she would not want to expose her children to the dangers of the Games. The movie essentially preserves the original genre of the text, although it mostly focuses on the adventurous parts, and meticulously tries to follow the main plot but certain alterations were