Reading The Hunger Games and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Suggestions for “Reading British and American Literature” Course in High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Jung-Hwa Lee
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games

scholarly journals Katniss’ Savior: Wilderness in Suzanne Collins’s 'The Hunger Games'

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Sufi Ikrima Sa'adah ◽  
Cyintia Febrianti ◽  
Della Ariyanti ◽  
Dewa Maulana Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

From many discussions on wilderness in literary works, only a few focus on the young adult dystopian, even more on Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. For this reason, this article aims to portray the wilderness in the book as the survival resource since the previous studies fail to point out such an issue. This recent study is conducted by descriptive qualitative methods. As the theoretical basis, the discussion employs Garrard’s account of wilderness and Ross’s myth of wilderness in American literature. As a result, the discussion depicts the wilderness as the natural woodland surrounding District 12 and the artificial battleground of the Games in Panem. The woods in Katniss’s district enable her to provide for her family and develop such literacy in the wilderness. This literacy is advantageous in the Games arena, thus helps Katniss to be one of the winners. The findings might provide such an insight to the reader to live harmoniously with nature, even more with the wilderness.

scholarly journals The Image of Childhood in Pop Culture (Childhood in Crisis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 202-208
Author(s):  
Raluca Zbîrcea Zbîrcea
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
William Golding ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
The World

This article will focus on the importance of educational values instilled in teenage characters of the Twentieth and Twenty-first century English and American Literature. Education is a fundamental part of intellectual freedom and one of its main values is enhancing how children view, exist in, and participate in the world (Rothwell, 2013). The scope of what follows is to examine the image of childhood in popular culture, comparing two great novels, Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Hunger Games written by American novelist Suzanne Collins. In both novels, children tend to get into various crises, as evidenced by contrasting images. It is here where the survival instinct becomes dominant and children lose their childhood together with their innocence.

scholarly journals STRUGGLES IN SUZANNE COLLINS’ NOVEL THE HUNGER GAMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Novia Sari ◽  
Purwarno Purwarno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
The Future ◽  
Katniss Everdeen ◽  
The Prestige

This research is the result of qualitative research on the protagonist’s struggles named Katniss Everdeen depicted in Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games. Burleson (1964) says that struggle is one of ways to reach the better life in the future and also to increase the prestige. It means that any hope will be achieved through struggling. Katniss Everdeen is a strong as well as a resourceful sixteen-year-old girl who is far more mature than her age would suggest. Katniss is the main provider in her family, which consists of Katniss, her mother, and her younger sister, Prim Everdeen. She must struggle hard to make herself and her family stay life. Therefore she always keeps on struggling in her life. The finding of this research shows that the protagonist is succesful in her struggles to fulfill her family needs, to protect her sister and to win in the Hunger Games.

scholarly journals Sentence Fragments in the Narration of the Novel "The Hunger Games"

Lexicon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhani Nurhusna
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Dependent Clause

The use of sentence fragments is generally discouraged in good English writing because they lack one or more essential components of a sentence, namely a subject and/or a predicate, and thus are grammatically unacceptable. However in fiction writing, the use of sentence fragments is not only quite common in dialogue, but in narration as well. The present study analyses sentence fragments in the narration of the first novel of the young-adult science-fiction trilogy The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, to investigate the types of fragments employed in the novel and their classification based on syntactic structure in the form of dependent-clause fragments and phrase fragments. The sentence fragments were further analysed for their use based on the context of their preceding sentences. The use of sentence fragments in the novel basically serves the function of creating emphasis or stressing important points in the story.

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