Essays on Katniss Everdeen

The Lord of the Hunger Games It may come as a surprise that a novel taught in a tenth grade english class is strikingly similar to a currently popular book of the teenage population. A common theme relates William Golding’s classic novel, The Lord of the Flies, and the very popular teen heart-throb, The Hunger…

Fascism. love trigon. rebellion. oh my! These are merely a few of the many focal point of the 2nd book of the Hunger Games series. As it’s the second of a series of three novels. a speedy briefing is necessary. So here’s the low down on the first book- Katniss Everdeen lives in territory 12…

Humankind has thought up of many different ways our future could be like. Some imagine robots and flying cars, while others think of freedom and peace. Although Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies seem to have nothing in common at first glance, their time setting is what makes them alike. Both taking…

Katniss Everdeen grew up in what is called the Seam of District 12 in Panem, a country that was built upon the ruins of North America. District 12 is the poorest district out of all 12 districts, with the Seam being the poorest part, and is home to the dangerous coal mines. When she was…

For my self-select book, I chose Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins. It is about an oppressive government that forces citizens to fight to the death in an arena every year. I selected this book for a number of reasons. First, I read the prequel to this book, The Hunger Games, a couple of years ago…

What makes your identity? Is it your past, your family, your hopes, dreams, fears? It is all that and more. Your identity makes up who you are. It is always growing and ever-changing. Your identity is what makes you human. Finding it can be a struggle, maintaining it can be even harder. Katniss and Peeta…

Erik Erikson, a loyal Freudian follower and student developed an eight-stage theory explaining personality through life development. He believed personality to not be a scandalous product of biological sexual turmoil in one’s life due to passed events, but rather having a genetic predisposition with the acceptance of external factors from the environment (Schultz & Schultz,…