Annotated Bibliography Example on The Hunger Games

Broad, Katherine R. "The Dandelion in the Spring": Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy." Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults. Routledge, 2013, pp. 129-142. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781136194764/chapters/10.4324/9780203084939-17

The author describes Suzanne Collin's portrayal of Katniss Everdeen as a depiction of a strong and tough woman who challenges authority and becomes the central figure in a revolution against a tyrannical and oppressive dystopian government. The author explains the stereotypes and labels on women from poor backgrounds and how they have the will to overcome their situation and initiate change. She writes of how a focused and determined young woman goes against the odds to seek for a just society-a utopia- in a dystopian society (135). The dandelion here represents Katniss Everdeen and her quest for survival and winning in the Hunger Games despite the odds against her (140). This scholarly source will help boost the fact that despite the dystopian government making sure that the children are brought up in ideologies they can't escape, there are some who are determined enough to change the tide. This source will assist in explaining how the dystopian government can maintain control and power through fear by ensuring that people from all ruled districts grow up in the ideology of freedom of choice.

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Curwood, Jen Scott. "The Hunger Games": Literature, Literacy, and Online Affinity Spaces." Language Arts 90.6 (2013): 417-427. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24575002?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

The author in this article elaborates on The Hunger Games in the literacy and literature perspective. The author also discusses the significance of the novel in society today and how it can impact it has as an online publication as well as print media. She holds her argument that youth today use technology more as part of the vital inquiry in the quest of knowledge. She further explains the importance of clarifying the settings, characters, and themes found in works of literature such as The Hunger Games, to the youth (420). The author writes shows how technology can be used to make easy the youth's active involvement in online spaces through developing their skills in literacy and literature by relating the works of literature to their society (425). This article will help in showing how the dystopian society and the lifestyle lived there is based on totalitarian control, propaganda, and power to rule by fear. Also, the settings, characters, and themes can be related to the 21st Century governments and thus remove doubts about how close The Hunger Games dystopian society is to our current society.

Tan, Susan Shau Ming. "Burn with us: sacrificing childhood in The Hunger Games." The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 37 no.1, 2013, pp. 54-73. http://mobilityincontextspring16a.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2016/01/37.1.tan01_1.pdf

Susan Shau Ming Tan explains the horrific nature and image created in our imaginations when considering a dead child. From the first case of Abraham almost sacrificing his son Isaac and Jesus being the ultimate sacrificial body for salvation, the author shows the depth in which life is precious, and how the life of a child is held in high regard. A child's growth from dependence to independence and eventual reaching his or her potential is important to both the child and the society at large. However, when odds are set against the child by the society he or she comes from, the child either suffers and dies or rises against the odds and becomes triumphant (60). This article will assist in explaining the odds that were set against the poor folk from the poorest coal mining district of The Hunger Games dystopian society. Similarly, it will explain sickness of the demand by Capitol for two teenage tributes from each district and how it rids children off life and growth such as the death of Rue. Lastly, it will show how Capitol, the seat of power in The Hunger Games dystopian society manages to maintain control and power through fear and undermining freedom of choices for the District's citizens.

Popular Sources

Harding, Luke. "Mass surveillance is a fundamental threat to human rights, says European report." The Guardian, Jan 26, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/mass-surveillance-threat-human-rights-council-europe

Luke Harding explains how Europe's top rights body has the opinion that practices of mass surveillance violates people's privacy and is a threat to basic human rights. Reports on technologically advanced systems for surveillance and spying by the governments have been tabled worldwide. There is evidence that US and UK intelligence agencies are carrying out mass surveillance through social media and online sites in which user information is unlawfully spied on. Since rights are cornerstones of democracy, any spying and unlawful surveillance infringe on these rights and the core of democracy. A result of this phenomenon is fear of the government by citizens and totalitarian control by the governments. The fear of the government gives it the power to manipulate the citizens and bend them to their will. This article will be an aid in explaining how the dystopian society in The Hunger Games uses mass surveillance through drones, guards, and hovercrafts to know what the citizens are up to. Any citizen who goes against the Capitol's rule is killed. This fear thus rids the citizens of freedom and enables the government to have power and control over them.

Somers, Jeff. "5 Dystopian Societies That Might Function." Barnes and Noble. June 10, 2015. Accessed on March 24, 2019. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-dystopian-societies-that-might-actually-function/

Jeff Somers describes a typical dystopian society in its elements and how there is always a member who comes out to challenge the norm of society. He talks about how the dystopian government of Star Wars-The Empire and the rise of the sleepy Republic to an evil Galactic Empire. It worked because of the monopoly power of The Force and functioning bureaucracy. Also, Brave New World's dystopian society functioned because of medical and pharmaceutical techniques that ensured compliance from the citizens. Oceania's government and The Water Knife's government were functioning because of a sole provider or resources to the people. The Hunger Games' dystopian government functions because of the division of each district to serve only one purpose despite different skills and talents. This form of oppression rids the citizens of freedom of choice and thus bends them to the will of their oppressors. This article will aid in explaining the significance of freedom of choice and its contribution to individuality and personal independence. The lack of which is present in dystopian societies has undermined the citizens' freedoms, initiated fear and thus gives the rules totalitarian and dictatorial power and control over the people.

Tahir, Sabaa. "Katniss Everdeen Is My Hero." The New York Times. October 18, 2018. Accessed on March 23, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/books/katniss-everdeen-hunger-games.html

The author of this article describes Katniss Everdeen as her hero, i.e. despite her complexity, flaws, poor background, she is fierce, focused, and a survivalist in the hardships of the games. Sabaa Tahir describes Katniss as a young woman with a deep love for family and friendship, hardworking, and equally dangerous. She is complex in the nature that her decisions and actions are questionable, she second-guesses herself, but her strength keeps her alive through and through. She is a young woman that young women would like to be in her shoes. The articles further explain how the character of Katniss Everdeen has influenced many young women in society and initiated a fire of resilience in them. This article will aid in explaining the way the ruling class in the dystopian society of the novel create an illusion of freedom and oppress the ruled, but there are people in the same societies who go against them despite the odds. Similarly, it will aid in elaborating the character of such people who help in changing the tide.

Works Cited

Broad, Katherine R. "The Dandelion in the Spring": Utopia as Romance in Suzanne

Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy." Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults. Routledge, 2013, pp. 129-142. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781136194764/chapters/10.4324/9780203084939-17

Curwood, Jen Scott. "The Hunger Games": Literature, Literacy, and Online Affinity

Spaces." Language Arts 90.6 (2013): 417-427. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24575002?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Harding, Luke. "Mass surveillance is a fundamental threat to human rights, says European

report." The Guardian, Jan 26, 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/26/mass-surveillance-threat-human-rights-council-europe

Somers, Jeff. "5 Dystopian Societies That Might Function." Barnes and Noble. June 10,

2015. Accessed on March 24, 2019. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/5-dystopian-societies-that-might-actually-function/

Tahir, Sabaa. "Katniss Everdeen Is My Hero." The New York Times. October 18, 2018. Accessed on March 23, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/books/katniss-everdeen-hunger-games.html

Tan, Susan Shau Ming. "Burn with us: sacrificing childhood in The Hunger Games." The

Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 37 no.1, 2013, pp. 54-73. http://mobilityincontextspring16a.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2016/01/37.1.tan01_1.pdf