At first the main conflict of the book is her survival in the games itself. As she represents her district, she has to survive. Within this context, she has to battle others, the elements, and even her own sense of what is right and wrong. In a dystopian world, inner conflicts always exist.
"Catching Fire" is the second book in "The Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins. The book is primarily focused on a man vs. man conflict, particularly that of the tributes battling each other in the games and that of the people fighting against the oppressive Panem government. However, the series' protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, also struggles with a variety of internal conflicts, or man vs. self conflict. In "Catching Fire," she struggles with her role in the rebellion and her own personal feelings of guilt.
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Katniss and Peeta survive the games, resolving the main plot. If the book was a standalone, that they will need to be mindful and play parts forever would be enough of a resolution, and the readers would be left to imagine how their personal relationship might or might not develop.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler says inner conflict is a defining mark of a literary work. A book might also possess characteristics of a particular genre, but inner conflict can give a novel a sense of being the literary kind.
A conflict in a book is a situation or meeting between characters that results in challenge and opposition. Conflict, such as a power struggle between a hero (or protagonist) and villain (or antagonist) is arguably the most important element in fiction because without conflict there is no movement and no narrative drive.
Notice here that the type of conflict does not dictate the genre of the novel. Cujo is a horror novel while the Little House books are about an American frontier family and Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a young girl struggling to survive stranded alone on an island and might be called an adventure novel.
Person against self is a common secondary conflict in much fiction. It is not uncommon for a protagonist to be struggling with some aspect of self-sabotage. The character might be struggling with fear, a difficult past, an addiction or a tendency to keep choosing the wrong relationships. Even if this is not the main conflict of the novel, a person against self conflict can add significant depth and complexity to your book.
In Crime and Punishment, the murderer Raskolnikov is equally in conflict with others and himself. Identifying the key conflict or conflicts in your novel is key to ensuring that you keep your focus on that conflict throughout the book, as well as maintain enough narrative tension.
Complaints levelled against the books included "anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence." The Hunger Games, which centres on a violent conflict in the arena, continues with Catching Fire and Mockingjay, which involve a bloody rebellion against a totalitarian state.
I think you've put forward some interesting points in terms of what polyamory could mean for Katniss, Peeta, and Gale, but a lot of that proposed narrative is, I think, based on a radical reading of who Katniss is. I feel that Katniss comes across more as aromantic/asexual than anything else, so forcing her into a love triangle (both by characters in the book and out here in meatspace by folks like us) betrays a perceived necessity that she end up with someone(s), and that coupling/tripling up will bring her happiness, rather than giving respect to what, it seems, is important to Katniss: the necessity of keeping herself alive in the face of real physical and emotional danger. This, of course, is the real conflict of the series, so while interesting discussions have been borne of the "love triangle," I'm not sure that Katniss herself sees romantic relationships with both boys (men?) as being a high-priority achievement.
While Katniss [spoilers] chose Peeta in the end, it wasn't necessarily Katniss was forced to gender complement her partner or however you chose to term it. Choosing Peeta was a choice she freely made and being with him actually allowed her to be more herself and allow herself to make choices, like getting married and having kids, that she denied herself in the past because of the hunger games.
For many fans, The Hunger Games isn't just a young adult novel series or blockbuster movie trilogy. Many fans who were teenagers when the books and films first came out are now adults, but The Hunger Games still holds up for adult viewers and readers. Suzanne Collins, the books' author, created a lush and captivating world filled with details that younger audiences might have missed the first time around. There are also nods to the real-world inspirations that Collins drew from to create the Hunger Games universe, such as the Greek Mythology behind the games themselves or the historic framing of state-sanctioned violence that might not have clicked for viewers the first time around.
Five years after the conclusion of the civil war looks generally better for those societies. There still remains 28% of the sample that have a worse off situation, but 50% show an improvement. Naturally, this is a small sample of intra-state wars and the possibility of a Panem type situation is certainly possible. The 3 cases that show a change below -1 are Myanmar in 1982, Indonesia in 1992, and Ethiopia in 2000. The Panem situation, if I understand the story correctly, has been ongoing for 74 years by the time of the first novel, no such analogue is available in the data given the limitations of the CIRI dataset. Also, the amount of state capacity demonstrated by the Capitol in enforcing laws seems far superior to any of the examples above. The strength of the state in the book is something that should decrease the probability of conflict by rational revolutionaries.
Before the release, Scholastic also released a trailer for the book, launched a Facebook page that gained over 22,000 fans in 10 days, and held a contest for booksellers to win a visit from Collins and an online countdown clock to the release date. There were also advertisements for the book on websites such as Entertainment Weekly and Romantic Times. National Entertainment Collectibles Association also sold other goods such as T-shirts, posters, games and bracelets.[20] Collins also held a "13-District Blog Tour" where 13 winners received a free copy of Mockingjay on August 24, 2010.[21] A tour was also scheduled, starting at Books of Wonder in New York where the official party took place. The tour ended on November 6, 2010, in the Third Place Books store in Lake Forest Park, Washington.[22] 2ff7e9595c
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