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In the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.


Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, 2008. Print

Understatement: The deliberate playing down of an event or qualities of a charcter.
Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne are in the woods catching food before the reaping so they can have a good meal once it is over. They go to a open area outside of district 12 to eat some bread Gale traded for a squirrel to celebrate the hunger games. Celebrating the hunger games is not what most people do most would be scared and hudled in there house hoping they or there family doesnt get chosen. "We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits." (Collins 8). This is significant because Katnisses younger sister Primrose gets her name chosen and Katniss volunteers for her so what she should have took more seriously came back at her and her family.

Social Issues

I will be using the book SKUD to answer the main question "Why has this social issue been presented in your novel?". The social issue that will be used is inequality. Inequality is shown in the book SKUD when Brad gets taken off his hockey teams first line and gets put on the fourth line because a girl comes to the team who is faster and better puck handler than him but he was on the first line for three years in a row. The purpose of this  inequality in the book is to prove to Brad that hockey isn't the only thing in his life that matters.  

Significance Of.....

The book i have just finished reading is Skud.
Foon, Dennis. Skud. Toronto: Groundwood, 2003. Print.

For the first Significant element I will write about is when Tommy and Brad plan on beating up Andy because Tommy thinks Shelia and him are cheating but a unknown character Shane comes in a helps out Andy before he gets too badly beaten up so Tommy and Brad are scared of Shane because he is part of a gang and becomes a main charcter in the story. Here is a quote from shane once he comes to the cage and sees Them beating up andy "I'm his backup,"saith he(Foon,42). This reveals character traits about the supporting character Shane who here becomes a main character by seeing that he isnt some tough guy who just kills but someone that cares.

The second Significant element I will write about is what introduces a crisis to the main character Brad when the hockey arena burns down from flammables left in the change room from a girl that joins the team and when he gets put down to the fourth line of his team and his dreams of getting drafted to the NHL. The first quote is "I'm putting you on the fourth line, Brad."(Foon,89). "Alas, now all is charred and cindered. Nothing is left. Hockey is dead."(Foon, 125) This quote was made by brad after the fire came to the rink.