Spark. Notes: The Hunger Games: Themes, Motifs & Symbols. Themes. The inequality between rich and poor. In Panem, wealth is heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich. Capitol and certain of the districts. This disparity reveals itself in numerous ways throughout the novel, but. In the poor districts, many of the residents do not. Katniss notes that starvation is common in District 1. The novel suggests that most of the district’s residents are not. Katniss’s. family has, it is still more than many of the other families in her district. Katniss later learns. Peeta’s family, which owns a bakery and is thus one of the more well- off in. In contrast, when Katniss arrives in the Capitol. The food is. rich and abundant, and Katniss, for the first time, tries hot. Perhaps the best example of the inequality between rich and poor can be. Games. But in reality, the poor are much more likely. In exchange for extra rations of food and. Hunger Games can enter. Most children of poor families. Moreover, the rich who do become. Games and volunteer to do so. These trained tributes, which. Katniss refers to as Career Tributes, are generally bigger, stronger, and better. Hunger Games than those poor tributes. They are consequently more likely to survive. For these rich. tributes, it is an honor to compete in the Games, while for the poor tributes it. Suffering as entertainment. The Hunger Games present the tributes’ suffering as mass entertainment. Games become. The main draw of the Games for viewers is its. Katniss at various points talks about past Games and what. The Hunger Games (Movie) - Looking for quote from. President Snow: Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. The Hunger Games Quotes Peeta Mellark: 'I'll take the bow.' Katniss Everdeen: How will. President Snow: The only thing stronger than fear is hope,a little hope is effective,but too much hope is deadly. Themes in The Hunger Games. The government also uses technology to control the population and to instill fear in the people. 573 quotes from The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1): . The Hunger Games Quotes. The Hunger Games (film) From Wikiquote. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. Hunger Games quotes at the Internet Movie Database. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a. Well, Katniss, I hope when she goes, she goes quickly. She's actually a wonderful lady. The Hunger Games quotes at the Internet Movie Database. Hope is stronger than fear trust is more stronger, but the strongest at @L L is L0vE Hope and the Hunger Games. The principle is best exemplified in. Cato’s slow death at the end of the novel. Once the muttations have defeated. Cato, they don’t kill him immediately, and Katniss realizes that the Gamemakers. Cato to remain alive because it creates an exceedingly gruesome spectacle. The suffering, however. It can be psychological as well. Katniss’s. and Peeta’s romance, for instance, is the subject of so much fascination because. They become the “star- crossed lovers,” meaning. In essence, the Games are the equivalent of a televised sporting event in. Katniss even refers to the tributes. Games of past years. Most of the. players, however, are unwilling, and winning entails outliving the other. In both these ways the Hunger. Games recall the gladiatorial Games of Ancient Rome (notably, the gladiatorial. Games were one of the most popular forms of entertainment of their time), in. That the Games are televised and discussed incessantly in Panem’s media. Games and reality TV. This parallel. suggests that reality television, though perhaps not quite as barbarous as the. Games, still offers up real life as entertainment, and in doing so. Their value becomes determined by how. Reality television, the novel suggests, is a form of. The importance of appearances. Throughout the novel, Katniss and her team use her external appearance. At the reaping ceremony, for instance, she won’t allow herself to. Moreover, at the opening ceremony of. Games, the novel emphasizes how important appearances are by focusing a. Katniss’s preparations. The main feature of this focus is the. Cinna creates for her. It is covered in synthetic flames, earning Katniss. Katniss stand out among the. Drawing attention is more than just vanity in the Games. The tributes. that are most memorable tend to attract sponsors, who can provide gifts that may. Games. Katniss hides her tears during the Games for a. A. tribute’s appearance and behavior can therefore serve as a significant part of. Perhaps the most notable part of Katniss’s strategy involves her romance. Peeta. This romance is not entirely genuine on Katniss’s end. She cares. about Peeta and develops a romantic interest him, but her feelings don’t have. The act is one Haymitch devised for strategic reasons: Katniss’s and. Peeta’s love story elicits more gifts from sponsors than if they’re simply. Capitol’s decision to allow two. Consequently, the. Katniss puts on has a significant effect on both her and Peeta’s survival. Notably, fire is the element that gives the various outfits. Cinna designs for Katniss their character. Her first dress, for example, is. Katniss’s fire dress earns her the epithet “the girl who. After. Katniss’s surprisingly high training score is announced, Haymitch explains that. Cinna calls her “the girl who was on fire”. Katniss’s spirit and temperament. Katniss’s and Gale’s. Capitol’s rules. The same can be said for the existence of the Hob, the bustling. District 1. 2. The gesture of respect the residents of District 1. Katniss after she volunteers as tribute is similarly a form of defiance in. Capitol wants, and expects, to see. The. mockingjay, which appears throughout the novel, represents defiance in that it. Capitol’s failures, and Peeta essentially hopes to defy the Capitol. Gamemakers when he tells Katniss he wants to retain his identity and show. Games. The most significant acts of defiance. Katniss, however. Decorating Rue’s body after her death directly. Hunger Games, which demand that tributes show no. Katniss’s idea for her and Peeta to threaten suicide. Gamemakers’. rules. Hunting. Hunting reappears numerous times in the story, but it takes on vastly. Katniss, we learn at the. District 1. 2. In fact, she spends. Gale, and consequently it. Hunger Games. For instance, most of her stories about her father revolve around. She also met Gale while hunting, and one of her favorite stories, the. Peeta about how she managed to get a goat for Prim, begins with. Hunting also allows her to stay alive during the Games when there is no. In these circumstances, hunting to Katniss is always a. In the context of the Hunger Games, however, hunting takes on a very. When Katniss talks to Gale before she leaves for the Training. Center, he wonders if hunting a human will be any different than hunting an. As Katniss discovers, it is substantially different, and despite her. Moreover, Peeta often refers to the Career. Tributes as “hunting” when they’re searching for other tributes to kill. Though. the act of hunting remains essentially the same in the arena, the connotation. Katniss to an entirely negative one. Symbols. Mockingjays. The mockingjay represents defiance in the novel, with the bird’s symbolism. The mockingjay, we learn, came about as a. Capitol to spy on the rebellious districts. Katniss describes them as “something of a slap in the. Capitol.” The mockingjay pin Madge gives to Katniss is at first an. Later in the novel, however, the birds come to. Mockingjays become a link between. Katniss and Rue, with the two using the birds to communicate. When Rue dies. Katniss decorates her body with flowers as a means of memorializing Rue, but. Capitol. When Katniss later sees mockingjays, they remind her. Rue, and that memory inevitably stirs her hatred of the Capitol and her wish. The mockingjay consequently takes on an. Capitol, but also Katniss’s specific desire to defy it. Panem. Panem is the country in which The Hunger Games takes place, and it. United States. The word panem is Latin for “bread,” and. Hunger Games to the gladiatorial Games of Ancient. Rome, it recalls panem et circenses, or “bread and circuses.” The phrase refers. Roman Caesars’ strategy of quelling public discontent by providing the. The entertainment, of course, was. Games. In the novel, these gladiatorial Games. Hunger Games. Setting Panem in. United States, and retaining parts of U. S. But the metaphor gets more complicated because of the. Ancient Roman influences of Panem. The result is a triple metaphor that uses. Panem to draw connections between Ancient Rome and the modern United States, and. United States has something like its own panem et. Games. The metaphor offered by Panem, however, does not align perfectly with. Ancient Rome’s panem et circenses formula. For one, that formula is designed to. Panem are decidedly not content, at. In fact, the Hunger Games, unlike the. Games which appeased the masses, play a significant role in their. The Games were created as a reminder to the districts of their. Capitol ended in defeat, and it. Games to. be killed. Second, a key element of the panem et circenses strategy missing from. Panem is the bread. Most of the people in the districts are severely underfed. It leads directly. Katniss’s illegal hunting and the. District 1. 2. Rather than commenting on the. Panem, it instead comments the real United States in the ways. U. S. Katniss’s dresses. The dresses Cinna designs for Katniss not only give Katniss her epithet. Cinna designs. the first dress to reflect the main industry of Katniss’s home district, coal. Cinna creates a dress that would be. This dress begins the association between Katniss and. Katniss her epithet, “the girl who was on fire.” That. Katniss generally, however, and not just how she. Cinna’s designs. Haymitch, for instance, explains Katniss’s high. Katniss also thinks the Gamemakers may have targeted her with fireballs in the. The dresses, notably the. Cinna. creates for Katniss’s interviews, serve as outward, nearly literal. Katniss’s inner “fire.”.
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