The Hunger Games is a trilogy by Suzanne Collins about a 16-year-old girl named Katniss who lives in a futuristic dystopia. Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place in an annual battle in which 24 teens fight to the death on live television. The book is rated by Scholastic as grade 5.3 and for ages 11-13.
Summary. The original cuts of all The Hunger Games movies directed by Francis Lawrence received an R rating due to the violent subject matter and numerous brutal deaths in the series. The movies had to be toned down to earn a PG-13 rating to reach their target audience of young adults and become a cultural phenomenon.
The Hunger Games is an action adventure based upon a series of teenage fiction books by bestselling author Susanne Collins. The film is emotionally intense, violent and thought provoking and more suited to older adolescents and adults.
If your child is a fan of action-packed adventures, they'll fall in love with Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series. Ideal for older readers in grades 7-12, these books feature exciting story lines and memorable characters who will resonate with your child and get them excited about a daily reading routine.
Readers are meant to feel outraged by the violence of the Hunger Games universe, but some parents have taken it a step further, landing the book on the American Library Association's list of the most challenged books. Why It Was Challenged: Depictions of violence, perceived “anti-family” messages.
The film contains segments of intense violence involving Hunger Game contestants viciously slaughtering each other with a variety of weapons including hunting knives, swords, spears and arrows as well as being physically bashed to death.
Katniss comes close to crying, something she knows she mustn't do because it would indicate weakness to the other tributes and make her look vulnerable; thankfully, Haymitch distracts the crowd and the cameras by stumbling off stage.
And EW can reveal exclusively that the group rates The Hunger Games a “Pause 13+.” What does that mean? “When we rate something 'pause,' it's really a know-your-kids situation,” managing editor Betsy Bozdech tells EW. “It's iffy for the age, but some 13-year-olds may be able to handle it, and some may not.
She is thin and not very tall, but is strong for her size from hunting to feed her family in the woods outside of District 12. Katniss is sixteen years old during the 74th Hunger Games, and seventeen years old during the Quarter Quell and the Rebellion.
Characterization. Peeta is the same age as Katniss, making him 16 years old in The Hunger Games and 17-18 in Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Peeta is of "medium height, stocky build" and has "ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead." He has blue eyes.
But the thing is, Stranger Things is still rated TV-14 and still has its share of language, blood, and horror-esque moments. No matter how many kids are allowed to watch it, it's never going to be called a kid's show.
The Cornucopia Bloodbath scene at the start of the hunger games is very intense and quite disturbing. We see children brutally murdered by other kids, although the camera is shaky, making the gore hard to focus on. We see spearing and stabbings and blood splashing out as well as a brief leg amputation.
The 42-second deleted scene was posted via Lionsgate UK's Twitter account with the caption: “Since you all loved the last one so much, here's a Mockingjay - Part 1 deleted scene.” In the clip, Katniss is seen getting her 'make-up' done by two Avoxes - rebels who are unable to speak as they've had their tongues cut out.
As the explosive finale to the “Hunger Games” trilogy, “Mockingjay” is the darkest and most grim book the series has to offer. Unlike the previous two books in the series, “Mockingjay” does not feature the Hunger Games itself, but rather features a rebellion against the Capitol that forces the cruel annual event.
Notably, she is responsible for feeding her family, which she does by hunting and foraging, skills she learned from her father before his death in a mine explosion years earlier. Hunting, however, is illegal and punishable by death. Katniss does it anyway, indicating a rebellious streak in her.
Challenged and presented to the Goffstown (NH) school board by a parent claiming that it gave her eleven-year-old nightmares and could numb other students to the effects of violence.
The story's narrator, Percy Jackson, will be familiar to most young readers, and here he retells the stories of the Greek Gods with wit and style. This book is appropriate for ages 10+, although some of the stories feature themes that are a bit more mature.
Like the previous four movies, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has been rated 12A in the UK and PG-13 in the US. The PG-13 in the US means any children can see it without an adult, but parents of those under 13 are 'strongly cautioned' about its content.
At eighteen years old, Gale has his name entered the Reaping Bowl forty-two times. This is because he has signed up for tessera several times (once each for himself as well as his family members – his siblings, Rory, Posy, and Vick, and his mother, Hazelle Hawthorne) every single year since he was 12.
