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The Hunger Games Online Worksheet

Write brief answers during viewing. Use character choices and scene evidence for your analysis.

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Before viewing

1. How can entertainment serve political power?

2. Why can different audiences interpret the same act differently?

Part A · Selection and spectacle

3. Why does Katniss volunteer at the reaping?

4. What does the contrast between District 12 and the Capitol show?

5. How do stylists and interviews shape the tributes’ public identities?

6. Why does Peeta’s interview statement matter?

7. How does Haymitch connect audience response with survival?

Part B · Survival and audiences

8. How does the arena demonstrate that the competition is controlled?

9. Why does Katniss form an alliance with Rue?

10. What does their attack on the supplies accomplish?

11. How does Katniss respond to Rue’s death?

12. Why can that response have political meaning?

Part C · Rules and resistance

13. How does the announced rule change alter Katniss’s plan?

14. How do private feelings and performance become difficult to separate?

15. Why does the last rule reversal expose unequal power?

16. What does the threatened use of the berries accomplish?

After viewing

17. Which scene most clearly reveals propaganda or media framing?

18. How does the film make viewers reflect on watching violence?

19. How does a selected novel passage change access to Katniss’s thoughts?

20. What conflict remains after the apparent victory?

Final written response

How does the Capitol use spectacle to control people, and where does that control fail? Write a paragraph with a clear claim, evidence from two scenes, and reasoning. End with one limitation of the film’s portrayal or one question for further study.

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