1. Context 2. Themes and Ideas Key Words 1. The Hunger Games has been compared to the popular Japanese novel-turned-film, Panem is a dictatorship which keeps its control by creating division among 1. Panem’s people—splitting up the country into twelve districts—and making Battle Royale Battle Royale, in which junior high school students are forced to fight to the death in a Division and program led by an authoritarian Japanese government. Control sure they are dependent on the government. The Hunger Games further divides the districts by forcing the districts to fight each other. 2. Dystopian A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. Dystopias are In the Hunger Games, the tributes are forced to tap into their most primal Fiction often characterized by dehumanization, tyrannical governments, environmental 2. survival skills and let go of what makes them human- compassion and a sense disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. The Human Condition of morality. Extended Though the Games turn tributes into brutal competitors who know only that Reading 3. Suzanne Collins came up with the idea of The Hunger Games while watching news 3. they must kill or be killed, Katniss focuses not alliances but friendships. Peeta’s Reality coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The depictions of these wars, when Love and Friendship love for Katniss is used as way of romanticising the fight for survival and Television and combined with the popularity of reality TV, and the ways in which coverage of the War Coverage manipulating those in the Capitol. wars seemed itself to be a kind of reality TV. In The Hunger Games, social inequality occurs at all levels: throughout the 4. 4. Suzanne Collins drew from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. According to the nation of Panem, among the twelve districts, and among the inhabitants of any Inequality Theseus and the Greek Myth, every 9 years King Minos of Crete sends 14 Athenian tributes into a given district. Minotaur 6-9 Grade labyrinth to be killed by a Minotaur. One year, a Greek hero named Theseus Exam The Hunger Games are set up as entertainment for the citizens of the Capitol volunteers as tribute to enter the labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. 5. Appearance Answer and are an extreme reality television show. The powerful and influential vs. Reality choose to ignore the bloodthirsty and inhumane nature to feed their need for entertainment. 3. Writer’s Methods 4. Major Characters 1. A name that fits some aspect of a character 1. The lead protagonist and narrator of The Hunger Games. Katniss is Aptronym Ex: Gale - sounds like a strong forceful wind. Katniss- a wild, life-saving Katniss Everdeen an intelligent and skilled survivor whose short childhood has made vegetable her quick-thinking and resourceful. 2. The choices writers make to create characters. This can be though their Video link 2. Characterisation behaviour, the way they speak, how they treat others and appearance. Ex: Katniss’ younger sister. Originally called as a tribute, she symbolises Primrose Everdeen The Capitol citizens have a distinct accent, outrageous way of dressing, and how ruthless and unjust the reaping system can be. superficial values. The Districts all have a specific trade and identity. 3. Peeta is the male tribute from District 12. The son of an abusive 3. Collins shows the stark divisions and links between class and sometimes Peeta Mellark Them and Us mother, he is kind and considerate and seems to genuinely be in love race. This is shown through settings (Capitol, Districts, Arena, Homes) and with Katniss. characters (tributes, entourage, family, citizens) 4. District 12’s only surviving tribute and mentor to the tributes who 4. Narrative voice is the perspective the story is told from. Ex: The Hunger Haymitch tries his best to look after them. HIs experiences have given him Narrative Voice Games is narrated by Katniss from a first person perspective. This gives us a PTSD that he ‘controls’ with large quantities of alcohol. Revision one-sided view that helps us understand motive and 5. Katniss’ hunting partner and best friend, he is a fellow struggler from skills 5. Used to help the reader feel as if they are a part of the scene. Ex: All the Gale Hawthorne the Seam in District 12. He takes on the role of guardian to her Descriptive Devices colours seem artificial...like the flat round discs of hard candy we can never family. afford to buy... 6. The female tribute from another district rife with poverty,District 11. Rue She is an ally to Katniss and shows great compassion.