Essay Writing Hunger Games Practice

Brainstorm: 

Katniss

- Emotionally and physically stronger.

- More powerful and popular - everyone knows who she is now

- Beginning - caring for her sister, shy, quiet, good in hunting/archery, shows caring and selfless when she volunteers for Prim in the reaping, values family.

- Middle - when she enters the games - determined, cautious - runs away and hides, smart, doesn't kill unless she has too, still see she is caring and look after others, doesn't want to use her skills to hunt others, she watches people die - her reactions are big forms an alliance with Peeta which make them favourites and her popular in the Capitol, more cunning - no longer oblivious to the influence of the Capitol - we see when she forms alliance with Peeta.

- End - angry, powerful - has power over the Capitol because she was going to end the games with no victor, intimidating.

Theme link to -

Hope & Rebellion - starts by following the Capitol's rules but by the end she stops and rebels against them.

Rich vs Poor - not a good choice.

Propaganda - she goes against the propaganda of the Capitol - they are fighting for glory, the Capitol is superior, the games are a good thing.

Struggle for power - in the games she was powerless, eventually she gains the power through rebellion.

Thesis Statement:

In Gary Ross's film, The Hunger Games, one way that Katniss changed was by gaining power and influence in the Capitol. This is shown through her struggles with the themes of hope and rebellion.

Paragraph 1 - Describe her at beginning in detail - clothes, make up, family, values, characteristics. 

Sentence linking to theme - has no hope at start.

Paragraph 2 - Describe change at middle in detail, link to theme.