What does a book about a strong female protagonist forced to fight in a battle to the death have in common with a book about a girl struggling to decide which boy she loves more? They're both written for a teenage audience. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a series about Katniss Everdeen a young girl who volunteers to compete in the Hunger Games, a vicious battle to the death set up by the corrupted government, in order to save her sister. Twilight by Stephanie Myers is about a girl who moves
from the suffocation of a too controlling society. This judgment of dystopian novels all having the same format is not false at all. However, just because books have the same underlying structure it does not mean that they all relay the same message to their readers. As a matter of fact, some dystopian novels can be a foretelling of the future, a warning, or even a symbol of hope. For example, authors George Orwell and Suzanne Collins wrote dystopian novels, but they each have a different purpose in
Have you ever wondered what the author was trying to say in a dystopian novel or short story, or how it is related to modern-day society? It may be difficult to read between the lines in some dystopian texts. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, a male and female from ages twelve to eighteen are chosen to fight until there is only one person standing. Katniss and Peeta beat the odds by out thinking the Capitol. In The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, the happiness of Omelas depends
Much like Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’s acclaimed novel, The Hunger Games, Theseus, a well known Greek hero, offers to be one of the tributes of a situation that could potentially end his life. In his case, Theseus voyages on a quest to the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur and free the other tributes. All four heroes in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology show traits and features that display their unworthiness to be named a hero. Nevertheless, these heroes also exhibit extremely admirable qualities
This is a barbaric game in which 12 males and 12 females of a young age are chosen to battle to the death in an arena rigged with deathly traps. This horrible competition is showcased in front of everyone in the population as a way to calm the hostile urges in everyone. The main character, Katniss Everdeen, doesn’t like to follow the ever changing rules of the government and creates chaos in the games. This chaos in the games then spills out into the population and Katniss
The United States is one complex historical rollercoaster of ups and downs but ultimately a great success from being a series of British colonies to the country we know today. As Stated by Rosenberg, “the growth of American power from the 1890’s to the 1940’s was spectacular.” Henry Luce’s profound belief, as noted by Dr. Rosenberg, in liberal developmentalism, which she sees as the ideological basis for US economic and cultural expansion between 1890 and 1945 was essentially directly promoted to
Now that matters of love magic have been put to rest, it is time to shift our attention to the last remaining witches of the Metamorphoses. In terms of the story’s narrative, Pamphile is after Meroe and Panthia the second witch that the reader comes across in the novel. The end of Aristomenes’ tale finds Lucius already in Hypata, searching for the house of his host, the frugal Milo. A random stranger points Lucius in the right direction, albeit not without making what might later be regarded as an
harvest and love. During Mooncake festival, there are many games, celebrations, delicious food displays, lantern lighting and costumes. This is considered as one of the most beautiful festivals around the
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and
Scientific Information developed extensive computerisation programmes that led to online information retrieval system (Mutula 2004). According to Mutula (2004), national library of medicine in Bethesda in the United States of America (USA) is known to have used computers as early as 1964 in photocomposition or computer typesetting in the production of index medicus. This was followed by the use of computer applications to specialist forms of information processing, such as chemical structure handling