Essays on The Hunger Games

2012, directed by Gary Ross

based on Suzanne Collins's 2008 novel "The Hunger Games"

Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose, Gale Hawthorne, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Caesar Flickerman, President Coriolanus Snow, Cinna, Seneca Crane, Glimmer, Cato, Clove

The film is set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where a boy and a girl from each of the nation's 12 Districts are chosen annually as "tributes" and forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place when her sister was initially selected as tribute. With her district's male tribute, Peeta Mellark, Katniss travels to the Capitol to train and compete in the Hunger Games.

Feminism, politics, social issues.

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don’t hurt anyone but myself.”