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ENGB35 Exam Notes and The Hunger Games
Write in pen, double-spaced Read instructions Section A: answer: o Only answer a) OR b) per question Short Answer: Answer 6/9 questions o cumulative o Offer choice o Show off your analytic skills and concepts o Based on issues, themes noted in class o Mostly applied knowledge o Not looking for ten distinct marks Marked based on level of insight Essay Section: o Write about 2 or more books that you haven‟t written about in your essay o Make argument, but you can prepare things you want to say o Do NOT repeat yourself in section A, though if you can show you know more than what you wrote in section A, then go ahead and use it if you need to o The questions in section A may help you think about your essay You can totes use them
The Hunger Games:
Katniss covering Rue‟s body with flowers o It‟s a rebellion because the Capitol dehumanize the tributes and whatnot o This is a strategy K uses to rehumanize herself o It shows that people aren‟t barbaric and whatnot Effie Trinket talks about table manners and stuff Very colonial discourse The games depend on barbarism Kind of an allegory for neoimperial colonialism o A form of respect for the body President Snow seems kind of descendant of the White Witch The frozenness of his tyrannical state Not just a ritual that reinforces the past But meant to show that the inhabitants of the district do not own their bodies Or their identities o Peeta = moral guide for Katniss; his words before the games He‟s much more ahead of her at thinking through the implications of the situation She‟s got a very restricted viewpoint She remembers him saying stuff about how he wants to die himself and whatnot Not even just the Capitol has the power of life and death, it holds the narrative of their lives in its hands o Rue = Prim substitute
The flowers themselves—they look like rue flowers More weedy than primroses, but in film, she‟s covered with rues K giving Rue back her identity, with the flowers that she‟s named for K‟s dad: “You can survive if you can find yourself,” Yeah, it helps her survival, „cause it‟s a plant But also the “be true to yourself” moral Uses the natural world and childhood as shorthands for romanticism Playing romanticism vs. Hobbesian state of nature (life is nasty, brutish, short) o Not nature at all, it‟s Capitol-inflicted Hobbesian war o That the Hobbesian state produces radical individualism Total alienation K terribly wary of other people and owing them at the start The alliance between K and R is also rebellious in and of itself As well as the love plot The wild and freedom in childhood o Childhood barely exists in the Hobbesian districts o K‟s an agent trying to restore childhood (really partially to her sister) Reality tv as metafiction: o The artifice in this book works to reconcile at a certain level, the opposition between Gale and Peeta o Gale = force of wild nature o Peeta = son of baker and art, the figure for culture and art Mimetic representation of the truthful world Not an art that modifies the world, like the Capitol does With its weird hybrids and shit “To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed” Saving her life Feeding her or whatever Bread of life thing o Like Jesus o Peeta = Peter; he is the missing part of the Christ implied in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe o Subtle significant element o Peeta = Pita bread Reclaiming the bread from Panem (Panem et circenses, Bread and Circuses) o So, art does have a place and role in life Distinguishing between a romantic art and ridiculous artifice of the capitol o The televised thing of whatever K using the methods of state repression against themselves Beginning to see the power of technology and it breathes its own resistance K changing the significance of Rue‟s death
Should be symbol of Capitol‟s power Instead, K reminds people that R‟s a human being and a child And that she had human ties Representing her body as a sign of the Capitol‟s brutality Berries: pharmarkon: poison and cure o John Milton: uses the herb Rue to clear Adam‟s sight Love Plot AS LOVE PLOT (all caps) o Emotion comes after the poses of being in love o the investment in romanticism is a response to the loss of innocence in Panem o this compromise becomes more obvious o not just a question of life imitating art, but a collapse between art and the real o there‟s also the rehearsal of P‟s father for K‟s mother Genre: science fiction Dystopia o YA dystopias give hope and change To identify w/ the child/young adult Majorly different from adult dystopias In an uncertain world, what you do matters and will have an effect on the future o
Write in pen, double-spaced Read instructions Section A: answer: o Only answer a) OR b) per question Short Answer: Answer 6/9 questions o cumulative o Offer choice o Show off your analytic skills and concepts o Based on issues, themes noted in class o Mostly applied knowledge o Not looking for ten distinct marks Marked based on level of insight Essay Section: o Write about 2 or more books that you haven‟t written about in your essay o Make argument, but you can prepare things you want to say o Do NOT repeat yourself in section A, though if you can show you know more than what you wrote in section A, then go ahead and use it if you need to o The questions in section A may help you think about your essay You can totes use them
The Hunger Games:
Katniss covering Rue‟s body with flowers o It‟s a rebellion because the Capitol dehumanize the tributes and whatnot o This is a strategy K uses to rehumanize herself o It shows that people aren‟t barbaric and whatnot Effie Trinket talks about table manners and stuff Very colonial discourse The games depend on barbarism Kind of an allegory for neoimperial colonialism o A form of respect for the body President Snow seems kind of descendant of the White Witch The frozenness of his tyrannical state Not just a ritual that reinforces the past But meant to show that the inhabitants of the district do not own their bodies Or their identities o Peeta = moral guide for Katniss; his words before the games He‟s much more ahead of her at thinking through the implications of the situation She‟s got a very restricted viewpoint She remembers him saying stuff about how he wants to die himself and whatnot Not even just the Capitol has the power of life and death, it holds the narrative of their lives in its hands o Rue = Prim substitute
The flowers themselves—they look like rue flowers More weedy than primroses, but in film, she‟s covered with rues K giving Rue back her identity, with the flowers that she‟s named for K‟s dad: “You can survive if you can find yourself,” Yeah, it helps her survival, „cause it‟s a plant But also the “be true to yourself” moral Uses the natural world and childhood as shorthands for romanticism Playing romanticism vs. Hobbesian state of nature (life is nasty, brutish, short) o Not nature at all, it‟s Capitol-inflicted Hobbesian war o That the Hobbesian state produces radical individualism Total alienation K terribly wary of other people and owing them at the start The alliance between K and R is also rebellious in and of itself As well as the love plot The wild and freedom in childhood o Childhood barely exists in the Hobbesian districts o K‟s an agent trying to restore childhood (really partially to her sister) Reality tv as metafiction: o The artifice in this book works to reconcile at a certain level, the opposition between Gale and Peeta o Gale = force of wild nature o Peeta = son of baker and art, the figure for culture and art Mimetic representation of the truthful world Not an art that modifies the world, like the Capitol does With its weird hybrids and shit “To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed” Saving her life Feeding her or whatever Bread of life thing o Like Jesus o Peeta = Peter; he is the missing part of the Christ implied in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe o Subtle significant element o Peeta = Pita bread Reclaiming the bread from Panem (Panem et circenses, Bread and Circuses) o So, art does have a place and role in life Distinguishing between a romantic art and ridiculous artifice of the capitol o The televised thing of whatever K using the methods of state repression against themselves Beginning to see the power of technology and it breathes its own resistance K changing the significance of Rue‟s death
Should be symbol of Capitol‟s power Instead, K reminds people that R‟s a human being and a child And that she had human ties Representing her body as a sign of the Capitol‟s brutality Berries: pharmarkon: poison and cure o John Milton: uses the herb Rue to clear Adam‟s sight Love Plot AS LOVE PLOT (all caps) o Emotion comes after the poses of being in love o the investment in romanticism is a response to the loss of innocence in Panem o this compromise becomes more obvious o not just a question of life imitating art, but a collapse between art and the real o there‟s also the rehearsal of P‟s father for K‟s mother Genre: science fiction Dystopia o YA dystopias give hope and change To identify w/ the child/young adult Majorly different from adult dystopias In an uncertain world, what you do matters and will have an effect on the future o
