Hunger Games: Experiencing Emotional Conflict

Conflict can bring people together by providing an opportunity to express one's feelings and reveal who you can rely on and trust. It's demonstrated in two short stories. In "Abuela Invents the Zero," by Judith Ortiz, Connie's abuela feels hurt when Connie hadn't helped her back to their seat at church, causing her to embarrass herself. When they return home, she tells Connie how she feels. Later, Connie's mother tells her everything her abuela said, and Connie realizes the gravity of her mistake.

A conflict can start when a person or group feels hatred or jealousy against a family, race, or country. This is what usually drives a person to lash out and hurt others. When this happens, it can affect people in many ways. My question is, how does conflict affect us individually?

Conflict is all around us, and with conflict comes change. This idea is shown in real life, books, movies, and more. The book Among the Hidden and the real life conflict in South Sudan both show this idea. Conflict leads to change.

In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the author uses many different conflicts to engage the reader. One conflict that was used would be character versus character. On Katniss’s way to get medicine for Peeta, she encounters Clove who is determined to kill her. On page 285 it says, “Forget it, District Twelve. We’re going to kill you.” This is an external character vs. character conflict. This engages the reader because they want to know if Clove will kill Katniss, or if she will live. Also, the reader could wonder what might happen to Peeta if Katniss dies. Another example is character versus society. After Katniss has won the Games with her district tribute, Peeta, she discovers how furious the Capitol is at her. On page 356 it

In the book Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, the most important human experience is the loss of a loved one. Katniss loses many people close to her in the midst of the rebellion and war taking place in the fictional country of Panem, and this affects her choices and actions greatly. Many people are blindsided by the loss of someone they love and the sadness and pain from such loss can affect people so extensively that their decisions are impaired and they themselves change as a person. Katniss is changed and affected personally by the people she loses as every loss she experiences makes her question herself and her actions. Both people’s actions and Katniss’ in this book show proof of how everyone is susceptible to the pain, confusion, and change

One significant conflict in the novel is conflict with society. Social conflict is considered conflict with a group or a range of people. Not all, are known personally, but the group knows you and they know what you did. This conflict is generally with two or more people. An example of social conflict in the novel is the range of rebellious act’s Katniss does towards the Capitol. Showing them up in the arena, knowing an avox, not holding her tongue, etc. An example of this is “But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers, right because even that smacks rebellion.”

Conflict is an inevitable fact of life. Conflict is everywhere on a global scale as well as on a personal scale. Some may not be able to endure one day without conflict, while others may not even go five minutes without encountering conflict. Some conflicts are ongoing for years, never to be resolved, while some conflicts are short and resolved in a matter of minutes. Conflicts can be internal, meaning a struggle with one’s impulses or mind, or conflicts can be external, meaning a struggle with an outside force.

In the words of Stephen Moyer, “Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.” People face many conflicts every day, many different conflicts. Correspondingly, conflict changes the people it affects. Additionally, conflict shapes and molds people into different versions of themselves. Life is filled with conflicts such as; deciding what youth group to go to, being bullied, and indecisiveness.

In life there always seems to be some sort of violence and there always seems to be a good and a bad side. Directed by Gary Ross, The Hunger Games is a movie about 24 tributes fighting to the death for the Hunger Games crown and freedom from ever having to physically fight in the arena again. It is a game of violence, ferocity, and blood, and only one tribute can win. Even though stories often have a Battle between Good and Evil, it is Katniss’s internal conflict confronting her own good and evil that portrays humanity with a longing for destruction, violent inclination, and sense of separation.

Everyone has conflicts that change our lives. Conflict means a serious disagreement between two sides or more and there are many types of conflict. Sometimes conflicts start with other people and sometimes they start with oneself. Conflicts can change people. Kino from the novella The Pearl, Dominic from the movie War Dance, and I have had conflicts that change us.

Conflict could be stated as a ‘a solemn difference between two or more beliefs, ideas or interests.’ In general, it is a fairly indispensable part of our lives as well as shapes individuals into who they are, and due to the consequences that linger around conflicts , it affects the relationship they have built with others along with their opinions towards them. This is evident in the award-winning play written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. In which the two families , Capulet and Montague constantly compete each other, and in the midst of this heat, ‘a pair of star cross’d lovers’ strive for the sake of their short-lived love; as a result causing what is now known as ‘the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’. Correspondingly, in S.E

Conflict can change a person’s life. That conflict can be either good or bad. The scenarios that one goes through can either change them for the better or for the worse. That person can go through times that change that person for the better. In the end, that specific individual can do great things with that conflict. jjj

Another way conflict can impact people’s lives is emotionally. Conflict can break people down, build them up, and sometimes even build fear into a person. As an example, Anne Frank was scared for her life when the Nazis were going around. She had to hide in a place that she was not familiar with.

How a person reacts to conflict tells a lot about their character. Depending on whether they react positively or negatively, it can influence their life the the better or for the worse. How a person reacts to conflict, or a problem, can also impact the people around them and the people that they are closest to. People react to conflict in different ways and in different situations.

Conflict may be the result of scare resources, incompatible interests, norms, values and so on. Conflict has not only negative function. Social conflict can serve to change a social system and at the same time it may lead to innovation and technological advancement. Similarly, inter group conflict helps to bind the people belonging to a particular group together. Conflict may help to maintain equilibrium in the system and it may lead to a new system as well. Democratic governments, international organizations like UN, international laws and other features of the modern world have been very much successful in preventing and diffusing the conflicts in safe manner. These features have allowed the people to meet their ends and goals without use of destructive