Johanna (Jena Malone) wins the 71st Hunger Games by pretending to be weak, so that other tributes ignore her while they take one another out. Once Snow broke the rules by reaping victors, he invited the very defiance he hoped to suppress. Like many of the tributes of the 75th Hunger Games, Mags was drawn into a political fight she didn’t sign up for. Who wins the Hunger Games when the goal is not solely survival, but also making a political point? 6.

With that in mind, we’re taking the time to rank the Hunger Games victors’ winning methods, from most to least provocative. In Catching Fire Katniss and Peeta train and form alliances with other victors as they formulate a plan to survive (or not) in the arena.Īs the book progresses, it becomes more and more apparent to both Katniss and the reader that many of the veteran victors heading into the games are not necessarily there to score a victory of survival but rather a political win that could further the growing, Panem-wide revolution against Snow and his cronies. Everyone who participates has already survived-and killed-before. In Catching Fire, President Snow wants to reassert control over the games, and make a statement to the people of Panem, so the 75th Hunger Games-the third Quarter Quell-only pulls tributes from the existing pool of winners. We see this depiction of the Hunger Games as a tool of political control ramp up in the second book/film in the franchise. With the Hunger Games series, Collins was looking to explore some themes of revolution, depicting the games as a political arena as much as a literal one. The games are both a reminder and a warning to the people of Panem to stay in line and what happens when you don’t.

Like the gladiators of old, Hunger Games tributes are compulsorily drafted to fight to the death in dangerous arenas, for the amusement and appeasement of the masses. The story follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who volunteers for the annual battle royale, the Hunger Games, after her sister Prim’s name is drawn. The Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy of dystopian YA novels by Suzanne Collins, that were adapted into a four-film series, with the third book being split into two films.

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