Identity Construction in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games:

Abstract

Due to the popularity of young adult dystopian literature, this thesis aims to analyse novels written by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. The thesis in the first chapter investigates dystopian fiction and young adult literature. In the second chapter the focus is on the identity construction of the protagonists and their quest for justice under the choices that are forced on the m by their society. The third chapter examines how gender is portrayed in Collins’s work, the focus on the construction of gender , the protagonists learn to perform different gender roles, those different appearances, and performances, altho ugh imposed, but have helped them to restore the different parts of identity . The thesis concludes that Collins does not give answers to everything, but it states that Collins does create a kind of awareness toward important issues in society.