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If each of these objects was a person, what would you expect their personality to be like?. Reading Quiz. 5 minutes. The Hunger Games: Chapters 1-3. All the information we learn about Panem is told to us from the viewpoint of Katniss .
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If each of these objects was a person, what would you expect their personality to be like?
Reading Quiz • 5 minutes
All the information we learn about Panem is told to us from the viewpoint of Katniss. • What are the key points we discover about the society of Panem?
District 12 • The Town: • The Seam
The Reaping • Unfair?
Prim is chosen • Reaction of Audience • Reaction of Katniss • Audience’s Response to Katniss
Visitors • Who comes?
Manners • Effie Trinket’s comment • Katniss’s response
Why do you think the writer chose to name KatnissEverdeen after this plant? What does the name suggest about her character? Extension – Why do you think the writer chose the names Gale and Primrose for the other main characters we have met so far?
Is Katniss a typical Dystopian Protagonist? The Dystopian Protagonist • often feels trapped and is struggling to escape. • questions the existing social and political systems. • believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives. • helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.
• Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society. • Information and independent thought are restricted. • A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society. • Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance. • Citizens have a fear of the outside world. • Citizens live in a dehumanized state. • The natural world is banished and distrusted. • Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad. • The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.