GabbieMichael, KatySchuler, and MadelynMauer's Hunger Games Plot/Themes/Symbols

government control

- Capitol is in control of everything - Class system:Hierarchical arrangements - Providing a meager tesserae for children between the ages 12-18

Inhumanity

- Capitol punishing citizens with the Hunger Games - Working conditions in districts - District 11 Peacekeepers - Gamemakers changing the rules at the end of the Games - Capitol making the citizens watch the Hunger Games - Making the victor watch the recap show - Victory tour-- opening all those new wounds - Making the victors mentor the new tributes year after year

Hunger/Starvation

- Capitol withholding food and fencing in districts - Meager tesserae (forcing the youth to weaken their odds in the reaping if they have large families to feed) - The people Katniss's mother and sister try to save - The contrast of the exuberance of food/eating in the Capitol with the starving people in the districts

Trust

- Katniss's lack of being able to trust Peeta - Peeta trusting Katniss - Katniss trusting Gale - Rue and Katniss trusting one another - Katniss and Peeta trusting Haymitch - Katniss not being able to trust that her mother could take care of prim

Humanity 2

- Madge toward Katniss with pin and kiss - Peeta's dad giving Katniss cookies and looking out for Prim - Katniss and Rue with mutual humanity toward one another - District 11 people to Katniss with gift of bread - Thresh letting Katniss go - Katniss taking care of Peeta and getting the medicine for him - Katniss putting Cato out of his misery - Cinna with his wardrobe choices

Hope

- Peeta's bread, Peeta himself, Madge's show of friendship, Cinna's faith in Katniss - Baker telling Katniss he would look out for Prim - Prim's goat, dandelions Rue and Katniss becoming allies - Katniss finding Peeta and saving him - Thresh letting Katniss go, Haymitch's gifts

Love

- Peeta's unconditional love for Katniss - Katniss's unconditional love for Prim - Katniss beginning to love Peeta - Her conflicting feelings for Gale - Katniss withholding love from her mother

Violence/War

- The Hunger Games event-- children being forced to kill one another, often in brutal violent ways - The knowledge of the rebellion against the capitol

*reality TV/ desensitization*

- The Hunger Games event-- children being forced to kill one another, often in brutal, violent ways while being televised - The Capitol audience members treating the district tributes as entertainers rather than real people - The overall desensitization that the capitol people have when someone was killed - The tributes that try not to get too close/ personal to one another since they will have to kill them eventually

survival

-Katniss and her family trying to survive after her father's death - Katniss and Peeta's quest to survive the hunger games -The citizens of the districts struggling to survive

How does the Dandelion appear in the novel?

-Katniss sees the dandelion at school and is reminded of how Peeta threw the bread to her and saved her family from starvation. -She is also reminded of her father when looking at the same dandelion because he taught her all about which plants eat and not eat. -She sees a dandelion again when she throws the cookies that Peeta's dad got her out the window.

Humanity 1

-Peeta showing Katniss humanity without her ever knowing her (giving her the bread, protecting her in the Games) - Peacekeepers allowing illegal hunting - Katniss's mother and Prim by trying to help those who are sick, dying, or injured -District 12 people giving Katniss "silent salute"

Exposition

1. Background info. on Katniss' life (District 12, family, friends, etc.) 2. History of Panem 3. The Reaping 4. The Bread Story 5. Tributes' Good-byes to family and friends 6. Train ride to Capitol (shift in setting) 7. History of Mockingjay (pin) 8. Explanation of Katniss' relationship with her mom 9. Katniss' relationship with Haymitch 10. History of the Capitol

Main Internal Conflicts

1. Katniss struggles to deal with her dad's death 2. Katniss struggles with her relationship with her mother 3. Katniss feels guilt for not helping the Avox girl 4. Katniss struggles with her relationship with Peeta 5. Revenge for Rue's death and feelings about her first kill 6. Feelings for Gale

Main External Conflicts

1. Katniss struggles to keep her family fed (alive) 2. District 12 vs. Capitol (illegal hunting in the woods, black market: Hob) 3. Struggle to survive the Hunger Games 4. To keep Peeta alive as well, in the Games= two winners 5. Who's to die: Katniss or Peeta to win=both w/ berries? 6. Katniss' actions vs. Snow=berries 7. Katniss vs. Kato

How does the bread from District 11 appear in the novel?

After Katniss honored Rue with the flowers, District 11 sent her a loaf of bread thank her.

How do Rue's flowers appear in the novel?

After Rue is killed by Marvel, Katniss feels she should be honored, so she gathers colorful flowers and puts them all around her body. She also thinks back to Peeta's statement that he wanted to be more, not just a pawn in their little games. This is Katniss's way of proving that Rue was more, not just a pawn in their games.

How do Katniss's outfits appear in the novel?

Cinna creates her outfits to resemble burning embers and fire, and nicknames her "Katniss, the girl on fire." Fire itself is a symbol for change in alchemy, it also represents renewal, passion, anger, destruction, and sacredness.

What do the poisonous berries represent?

Deception, rebellion.

What does Peeta represent?

Friendship, love, sacrifice

What does bread from District 11 represent?

Gratitude, respect

What does Katniss the plant represent?

Her skills with and arrow (visually), survival.

What do Rue's flowers represent?

Honor, respect for the dead, rebellion against the Capitol.

What does Rue represent?

Innocence, friendship, inhumanity

How does Katniss the plant appear in the novel?

Katniss first finds herself- the katniss root plant- while swimming in the pond in the woods. The top that sticks out of the water looks like an arrow. The bulbous root is edible, similar to a potato. Her father said she could survive if she could find herself- referring to the plant.

How do the woods appear in the novel?

Katniss first learns to hunt in the woods with her father; after he dies, she starts to go into the woods by herself (after seeing the dandelion) and learns how to survive, as well as finds Gale for a hunting partner and friend.

What does the Mockingjay Pin represent?

Katniss's father's singing, later it will represent rebellion, survival, ability to adapt.

Who was the protagonist?

Katniss: 16 year old girl from District 12 that took her sister (Prim) place in the Reaping. Skilled at archery, hunting, plant gathering, is in love with Peeta and Gale, wins the Hunger Games; round and dynamic; main character

What does Peeta's Bread represent?

Life, friendship, survival, love

Peeta

Main character: Baker's son, chosen in the Reaping for the Hunger Games, saved Katniss' family's life with bread, has always loved Katniss, winner of the Hunger Games; round and dynamic

Thresh

Main character: District 11's male tribute, dark skin, 6.5 ft tall, one of the final 4 tributes, spares Katniss' life and kills Clove instead, Thresh dies in Chapter 23= cause unknown; (flat and static)

Rue

Main character: District 11's twelve year old tribute, dark skin, petite, "flys" through trees, very smart and resourceful, forms an alliance with Katniss, District 1 boy kills her with a spear, Katniss gives her a proper burial; round and static

Effie Trinket

Main character: District 12's chaperone from the Capitol. Oversaw the Reaping, has pink hair and the Capitol's "fake" look, very annoying, and is desensitized

Haymitch Abernathy

Main character: District 12's mentor because he is the only one left that has won a Hunger Games (the 50th), is drunk, middle aged, rough and crude, tells it like it is; round and dynamic

Cato

Main character: District 2's male Career tribute, huge, strong, mean, one of the final 3 tributes; ripped apart by wolves in the climax, Katniss kills him to end his suffering; round and static

Gale Hawthorne

Main character: Katniss' best friend and hunting partner, is 18 and good looking, very bitter attitude that stems from a hatred for the Capitol, lost father in same mining explosion, also has younger siblings to take care of; round and static

Cinna

Main character: Katniss' main stylist, has dark hair and wears blacks= which makes him more normal looking compared to most people in the Capitol, soft spoken, chose District 12; flat and static (for this book)

How do the poisonous berries appear in the novel?

Nightlock berries, first found by Peeta when he accidentally killed Foxface with them. Katniss saved them hoping to kill Cato with them also, but she ends up using them in the end with Peeta to almost commit a double suicide rather than either one killing the other.

Resolution

Occurs in chapters 25-27: Peeta and Katniss win the Hunger Games; both get medical attention

Friendship

Peeta, Madge, Gale, Rue, Thresh, Katniss, Caesar Flickerman, Cinna, Haymitch

What does the Mockingjay represent?

Rebellion, survival, ability to adapt

What does "The Silent Salute" represent?

Respect, gratitude

How does Rue appear in the story?

Rue is the 12 year old District 11 tribute who reminds Katniss of her little sister Prim, another reminder of how unfair and inhumane the Games are.

What do Katniss's outfits represent?

Strategy, change, passion

What do the woods represent?

Survival, the world beyond District 12, danger, rebellion.

Who were the antagonists?

The Capitol= Gamemakers and President Snow: seek absolute control; is desensitized; has inhumane rules; lush/colorful; flat and static; main character

How does the Mockingjay appear in the novel?

The capitol's mutated jabber jay male birds (who were left to die) mated with mockingbirds.

Verbal Irony Example

When Effie says, "But I've done my best with what I had to work with... How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your distict."

How does "The Silent Salute" appear in the novel?

When Katniss volunteers for her sister Prim at the reaping, the citizens of District 12 give her the three-finger Silent Salute.

How does Peeta's bread appear in the novel?

When they were 11, Peeta purposefully burnt some bread to throw to Katniss to feed herself and her family.

Setting

Where: District 12 located in Appalachian Mountains (nickname: The Seam), in the country of Panem (which used to be in North America), The Capitol (located in the Rockies) When: in the future (hundreds of years) Evidence: (How do you know where and when?): book directly states where and when on pages: 4, 6, 18, 41

How does Peeta appear in the novel?

While Peeta had noticed Katniss since the first day of school, Katniss really only noticed Peeta when he gave her the bread. However, as the novel progresses, she will start to fall in love with him, even though she is unable to trust him because of her own defenses she creates.

Plot vocabulary meaning

a series of events

Tone

dark and cynical-(distrustful of human nature)

What was the type of narrator in this story?

first person narrator: a character in the story who talks to us, using the first-person pronoun I; we only know what he/she thinks and experiences or what they choose to tell us; Katniss was the narrator

Narrator vocabulary meaning

is a storyteller who controls everything we know about the characters and events in a story

Climax

occurs in Chapter 25 when the mutated wolves attack the remaining three tributes, forcing them together at the cornucopia

Exposition vocabulary meaning

part of the story in which the basic situation is outlined and the main characters and main conflict are introduced

Mood

serious and suspensful

Theme

survival

What does the Dandelion represent?

survival, hope

Characters vocabulary meaning

the people you meet in a story, poem, or play

Setting vocabulary meaning

the time period and place in which the action of the story takes place

Author's purpose

to entain and inform about desensitization

*Desensitize*

to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically : to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it