Objectives of the Study

revealed the end point of its logical maturation? Consider those rhetorical questions. Crabb, 2012 In the other hand, Kim Scharfenberger’s article “What’s So Great About “The Hunger Games”?” is about what in The Hunger Games are. Scharfenberger found that moral message on the topic of consumerism and self-sacrifice exists in The Hunger Games. Self-sacrifice is seen when Katniss sacrifices herself to take her sister’s place in Hunger Games. Consumerism is seen when the privileged members of the Capitol are uniformed about realities of poverty and suffering just outside their doors and remain cocooned in luxury just like what happen exactly nowaday. One good side effect of the story is the political and socioeconomic undertones of The Hunger Games that could succeed in getting younger audiences thinking. How did Panem get this way? What are the consequences of relying on a totalitarian government? The blatant excess and materialism of the Capitol can become a jarring self-portrait of the dangers inherent in consumerism. The privileged members of the Capitol are uninformed about the realities of poverty and suffering just outside their doors and remain cocooned in luxury. Their interests revolve mainly around the latest fashions and trendiest hairstyles, and as such their social awareness and willingness to challenge the obviously corrupt system that provides them with wealth is dulled by lavish distractions. The Hunger Games is mediocre at best in terms of ingenuity and moral message – but it’s not damaging to a young person’s social conscience either, and might even make some valuable impressions on the topics of consumerism and self-sacrifice. So if you find yourself chauffeuring your children, siblings, or friends to this newest flick, don’t despair – you’ll get more out of this series than from the likes of Twilight. Scharfenberger, 2013 From the two related studies above which are representing the real meaning of the violence in the book and about the moral message in the book, it can be concluded that the writer’s undergraduate thesis is different from the other studies and it also develops other studies because there is no analysis of the main character’s struggle in showing her existence in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games yet.

B. Review of Related Theories

This part will discuss about the theories that will be used to analyze the problem formulations in this study.

1. Theory of Character and Characterization

Character, according to M. H. Abrams, is “a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral, dispositional, and emotional equalities that are expressed in what they say-the dialogue-and what they do-the action 1985:23”. According to Richard Gill “a character is a person in a literary work. Characters in books may have all sorts of links with the people we meet every day but we only meet them in books. Characters are what they are like because of the way they’ve been made. The kind of conversations they have, the things they do, their appearances and so on are the particular ways in which the author has chosen to characterize his or her characters 1995:127”. Gill also stated in his book that the novelist E. M. Foster distinguished between what he called flat characters and round characters. What he has in mind here is the degree of fullness a character possesses; a flat character also called a type, or “two-dimensional” has few characteristics, while a round character has several 1995:130.