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Girl on Fire. HUM 3285: Postmodern Adolescent Literature Spring 2012 Dr. Perdigao April 11-13, 2012. Senior Design Ideas?. Muttations (185) Katniss Tracker jackers—attack Hallucinations—reality, illusion (192-3) Ways of interpreting the game - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Senior Design Ideas?• Muttations (185)
• Katniss
• Tracker jackers—attack
• Hallucinations—reality, illusion (192-3)
• Ways of interpreting the game
• “Destroying things is much easier than making them” (211): Stephens?
• Mockingjays (212-13)
• Katniss and song (234-5), for Rue
• Song, Peeta’s memory (300-1)
• Waiting for Cato, mockingjays: back to Rue (329)
Senior Design Ideas?• New muttations (331)
• Something about them (333)
• “Their eyes are the least of my worries. What about their brains? Have they been given any of the real tributes memories?” (334).
Trauma• Disembodiment
• Screaming (194) (Adam?)
• Rue’s death, making meaning (236-7), remembrance
• Dream of Rue in trees (239)
• Making Rue and herself “unforgettable” (242)
• First kill (243)
• Unreality—the moon as fabricated or real (310)
• “There never will be anything but cold and fear and the agonized sounds of the boy dying in the horn” (339).
• “I try to remember” (341)
Redefining• “No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But then. . . what?” (310)
• Acquisition of food defining Katniss: “Take that away and I’m not really sure who I am, what my identity is” (311)
• Hunting with Peeta, “I feel like I’m eleven again” (316)
• Capitol as new institution, defining the tributes, even the victors (Trites)
• Never leaving the games: “It’s the Capitol’s way of reminding people that the Hunger Games never really go away” (370).
• Adulthood, no real security
Death and the Adolescent• “But in adolescent literature, death is often depicted in terms of maturation when
the protagonist accepts the permanence of mortality, when s/he accepts herself as Being-towards-death” (Trites 119).
• “Adolescents often gain their first knowledge of the pain permanent separation involves when they feel powerless because someone they love dies; the corollary that inevitably follows is adolescents recognition of their own mortality” (119).
• Narrative structure, ends of chapters
• “But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct” (22).
Disempowerment: Empowerment• Weapons—new perspective (197)
• Survival—District 11, sustenance
• Careers “don’t know how to be hungry” (208)
• Jonas—starving
• Playing to audience (248), all construct for Katniss?
• Story as censored for broadcast (270)
• “remarkable memory” vs. “unforgettable” (302)
• With Thresh’s death, “I promise to remember him” (309) {Mockingjay?}
Bicycling into Oblivion• Foxface, Clove—identifying others
• Katniss as “Fire Girl” to Thresh (288)
• Peeta—”boy with the bread” (297)
• Dressing as a girl for the interviews (355)—innocent
• “I begin transforming back into myself. Katniss Everdeen. A girl who lives in the Seam. Hunts in the woods. Trades in the Hob. I stare in the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not” (371).