Katniss Everdeen’s Reason To Be The Mockingjay In The Hunger Games : Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Study
In 1998,the students of Indonesia are united action astounding, they depose
Soeharto who was a president in Indonesia, they depose Soeharto, because Soeharto
at the time it makes Indonesia experienced a prolonged economic crisis and the
regime. These students set up the posts of resistance in various campus to invite all
students are united in the ouster of the president, this action also received from the
government respond to the kidnapping of several activists, beating students who took
to the streets to revolt until at its peak a few students were shot, due to of action that
the public had come to move on and come together with students by doing vandalism,
robbery and rape and looting in some places in Indonesia as a form of support of the
student movement, until finally making the situation in Jakarta is the capital city of
Indonesia is not controlled, then the students simultaneously occupying symbols
legislative government to finally make Soeharto backwards from office. Students
resistance of events conducted in
1998 to depose Soeharto period, then get a
reasonable actions like shooting and kidnapping for the rebellious also reflected in the
novel The Hunger Games Mockingjay which also tells of the struggle of the District
13 which is led by the president of Alma Coin, Katniss Everdeen which invites the
whole district to unite and fight it out to rebel liberate the whole district of the Capitol
led by the President of the vile, cunning and a regime that is Snow.
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The Hunger Games Mockingjay is a novel which tells the story of the
struggle of Disrict 13, led by the President Alma Coin through Katniss Everdeen. She
is a girl who has survived two times in the deadly Hunger Games to undermine the
Capitol which is the capital of the State of Panem ruled by the cruel and authoritarian.
Actual rebellion has begun since time immemorial by District 13, a district
considered to have been destroyed by the capitol, this continues to go back and
continue his preparation in the basement. This revolt is starting to show its action
after action that destroys arena Katniss Hunger games to 75 as a form of
disagreement with the implementation of unscrupulous games that take a lot of
casualties this. After the destruction of the arena, Katniss and Peeta, her boyfriend,
unconscious. Katniss rescued by rebels of District 13 while Peeta and several other
participants were arrested by Capitol. After Katniss conscious, Coin explain all plan
their rebellion and asks Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion they were called
Mockingjay. Katniss initially refused in the end to accept the offer of President Coin
with some reservations, then began their movement. In this rebellion, they have two
main strategies: uniting the whole district and offensive. In uniting the whole district,
Katniss asked to stop in some districts and make video recordings to be broadcast to
the entire district as a means to evoke the spirit of rebellion. In the midst of their
action, it turns Capitol also prepare a plan to prevent the resistance. They make a
show interview broadcast on tv using Peeta who have been brainwashed to suppress
their movement. Seeing this, the president Coin asked District 13 to send soldier to
liberate Peeta and the other contestants out of the hands of the Capitol. Once rescued
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it turns out Peeta has really marred sense and mind, and indoctrinated to kill Katnees.
After the first successful strategy, they began to attack to the capitol, led by Boogs.
But before enter to the Capitol, Boogs exposed by a trap from Capitol. At the end of
his life, Boogs reveal the secrets of President Coin who did not like Katniss. Then
katniss replace Boogs led the attack. After struggling desperately against Capiol, they
finally managed to win and capture President Snow. In accordance with the
agreement with Coin before the attack, Katniss welcome to execute President Snow
with her own hands. Then they held a public execution witnessed by everyone;
President Coin also present. Katniss take a position and be ready to release her arrow
to Snow. But something surprising happened; Katniss changes the direction of the
arrow and kills Coin. It is surprising everyone. But once traced, Katniss turns have
realized that Coin is not different with Snow. From the beginning of an uprising Coin
plan not merely to free the people from the hands of tyranny; the real purpose is to
control the entire Panem and into the next regime. And she did not intentionally kill
Katniss is beloved sister Prim. After the war ended, Snow died as a result of his
illness. Paylor then elected as the new president of Panem through voting. Peeta and
Katniss is married with two children. The writer interested in discussing the novel
because it has elements of prose that makes the reader to fancy, then the novel also
create imagination of a writer and the reader is increasing in each paragraph, while
poetry has only limited paragraphs and only set up a few line only. Later if the author
chose the poem, the reader must really understand the meaning of each word.
3
The Hunger Games Mockingjay, the authors are interested in the character
because the character Katniss Everdeen is very inspiring story where a beautiful
young woman who was supposed to cook in the kitchen had to fight tooth and nail to
resist the regime and save the entire district of the capitol grip ruled with an iron fist.
In addition, she also had to fight against the man she loved because it has been
kidnapped and brainwashed by the capitol, this all feels like endless suffering.
Suzanne Collins, the author of the novel, tells the novel so interestingly, so excitingly
that readers cannot wait to read the next page and make the readers reluctant to move
from the chair before finished reading; she brings the readers into the novel.
Literature Roberts and Jacobs (1995:1) say that Literature is written or oral
compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and
advocate ideas. With the major genres being prose fiction, poetry, drama, and prose
non fiction. Poetry, drama, and prose fiction are imaginative literature.
The writer uses the work of intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren
(1997:139) that it manages to take the data from text itself.
1.2 The Problem of the Study
The problems of study are:
1) What makes Katniss Everdeen join the rebellion?
2) How is the rebellion set?
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1.3 The Scope of Study
The writer would like to focus on the reasons that Katniss Everdeen joins the
rebellion and the strategies of the rebellion.
1.4 The Purpose of the Study
The purposes of the study are:
1) To find out why Katniss Everdeen joins the rebellion.
2) To find out how the rebellion is set.
1.5 The Significance of the Study
The significances of the study are:
1) Theoretically, the significance of this study is the reader will understand about the
rebellion in a novel as literary work in addition to add study of literature of a novel
particularly about rebellion.
2) Practically, the study can be used as reference for learning and understanding
about rebellion in a novel besides to give contribution to some study of literature
to reader through this paper.
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1.1 The Background of the Study
In 1998,the students of Indonesia are united action astounding, they depose
Soeharto who was a president in Indonesia, they depose Soeharto, because Soeharto
at the time it makes Indonesia experienced a prolonged economic crisis and the
regime. These students set up the posts of resistance in various campus to invite all
students are united in the ouster of the president, this action also received from the
government respond to the kidnapping of several activists, beating students who took
to the streets to revolt until at its peak a few students were shot, due to of action that
the public had come to move on and come together with students by doing vandalism,
robbery and rape and looting in some places in Indonesia as a form of support of the
student movement, until finally making the situation in Jakarta is the capital city of
Indonesia is not controlled, then the students simultaneously occupying symbols
legislative government to finally make Soeharto backwards from office. Students
resistance of events conducted in
1998 to depose Soeharto period, then get a
reasonable actions like shooting and kidnapping for the rebellious also reflected in the
novel The Hunger Games Mockingjay which also tells of the struggle of the District
13 which is led by the president of Alma Coin, Katniss Everdeen which invites the
whole district to unite and fight it out to rebel liberate the whole district of the Capitol
led by the President of the vile, cunning and a regime that is Snow.
1
The Hunger Games Mockingjay is a novel which tells the story of the
struggle of Disrict 13, led by the President Alma Coin through Katniss Everdeen. She
is a girl who has survived two times in the deadly Hunger Games to undermine the
Capitol which is the capital of the State of Panem ruled by the cruel and authoritarian.
Actual rebellion has begun since time immemorial by District 13, a district
considered to have been destroyed by the capitol, this continues to go back and
continue his preparation in the basement. This revolt is starting to show its action
after action that destroys arena Katniss Hunger games to 75 as a form of
disagreement with the implementation of unscrupulous games that take a lot of
casualties this. After the destruction of the arena, Katniss and Peeta, her boyfriend,
unconscious. Katniss rescued by rebels of District 13 while Peeta and several other
participants were arrested by Capitol. After Katniss conscious, Coin explain all plan
their rebellion and asks Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion they were called
Mockingjay. Katniss initially refused in the end to accept the offer of President Coin
with some reservations, then began their movement. In this rebellion, they have two
main strategies: uniting the whole district and offensive. In uniting the whole district,
Katniss asked to stop in some districts and make video recordings to be broadcast to
the entire district as a means to evoke the spirit of rebellion. In the midst of their
action, it turns Capitol also prepare a plan to prevent the resistance. They make a
show interview broadcast on tv using Peeta who have been brainwashed to suppress
their movement. Seeing this, the president Coin asked District 13 to send soldier to
liberate Peeta and the other contestants out of the hands of the Capitol. Once rescued
2
it turns out Peeta has really marred sense and mind, and indoctrinated to kill Katnees.
After the first successful strategy, they began to attack to the capitol, led by Boogs.
But before enter to the Capitol, Boogs exposed by a trap from Capitol. At the end of
his life, Boogs reveal the secrets of President Coin who did not like Katniss. Then
katniss replace Boogs led the attack. After struggling desperately against Capiol, they
finally managed to win and capture President Snow. In accordance with the
agreement with Coin before the attack, Katniss welcome to execute President Snow
with her own hands. Then they held a public execution witnessed by everyone;
President Coin also present. Katniss take a position and be ready to release her arrow
to Snow. But something surprising happened; Katniss changes the direction of the
arrow and kills Coin. It is surprising everyone. But once traced, Katniss turns have
realized that Coin is not different with Snow. From the beginning of an uprising Coin
plan not merely to free the people from the hands of tyranny; the real purpose is to
control the entire Panem and into the next regime. And she did not intentionally kill
Katniss is beloved sister Prim. After the war ended, Snow died as a result of his
illness. Paylor then elected as the new president of Panem through voting. Peeta and
Katniss is married with two children. The writer interested in discussing the novel
because it has elements of prose that makes the reader to fancy, then the novel also
create imagination of a writer and the reader is increasing in each paragraph, while
poetry has only limited paragraphs and only set up a few line only. Later if the author
chose the poem, the reader must really understand the meaning of each word.
3
The Hunger Games Mockingjay, the authors are interested in the character
because the character Katniss Everdeen is very inspiring story where a beautiful
young woman who was supposed to cook in the kitchen had to fight tooth and nail to
resist the regime and save the entire district of the capitol grip ruled with an iron fist.
In addition, she also had to fight against the man she loved because it has been
kidnapped and brainwashed by the capitol, this all feels like endless suffering.
Suzanne Collins, the author of the novel, tells the novel so interestingly, so excitingly
that readers cannot wait to read the next page and make the readers reluctant to move
from the chair before finished reading; she brings the readers into the novel.
Literature Roberts and Jacobs (1995:1) say that Literature is written or oral
compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and
advocate ideas. With the major genres being prose fiction, poetry, drama, and prose
non fiction. Poetry, drama, and prose fiction are imaginative literature.
The writer uses the work of intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren
(1997:139) that it manages to take the data from text itself.
1.2 The Problem of the Study
The problems of study are:
1) What makes Katniss Everdeen join the rebellion?
2) How is the rebellion set?
4
1.3 The Scope of Study
The writer would like to focus on the reasons that Katniss Everdeen joins the
rebellion and the strategies of the rebellion.
1.4 The Purpose of the Study
The purposes of the study are:
1) To find out why Katniss Everdeen joins the rebellion.
2) To find out how the rebellion is set.
1.5 The Significance of the Study
The significances of the study are:
1) Theoretically, the significance of this study is the reader will understand about the
rebellion in a novel as literary work in addition to add study of literature of a novel
particularly about rebellion.
2) Practically, the study can be used as reference for learning and understanding
about rebellion in a novel besides to give contribution to some study of literature
to reader through this paper.
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