HUM 3285: Postmodern Adolescent Literature Girl on Fire HUM 3285: Postmodern Adolescent Literature Spring 2012 Dr. Perdigao April 11-13, 2012

Senior Design Ideas? Muttations (185) Katniss Tracker jackers—attack Hallucinations—reality, illusion (192-3) Ways of interpreting the game “Destroying things is much easier than making them” (211): Stephens? Mockingjays (212-13) Katniss and song (234-5), for Rue Song, Peeta’s memory (300-1) Waiting for Cato, mockingjays: back to Rue (329)

Senior Design Ideas? New muttations (331) Something about them (333) “Their eyes are the least of my worries. What about their brains? Have they been given any of the real tributes memories?” (334).

Trauma Disembodiment Screaming (194) (Adam?) Rue’s death, making meaning (236-7), remembrance Dream of Rue in trees (239) Making Rue and herself “unforgettable” (242) First kill (243) Unreality—the moon as fabricated or real (310) “There never will be anything but cold and fear and the agonized sounds of the boy dying in the horn” (339). “I try to remember” (341)

Redefining “No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But then. . . what?” (310) Acquisition of food defining Katniss: “Take that away and I’m not really sure who I am, what my identity is” (311) Hunting with Peeta, “I feel like I’m eleven again” (316) Capitol as new institution, defining the tributes, even the victors (Trites) Never leaving the games: “It’s the Capitol’s way of reminding people that the Hunger Games never really go away” (370). Adulthood, no real security

Death and the Adolescent “But in adolescent literature, death is often depicted in terms of maturation when the protagonist accepts the permanence of mortality, when s/he accepts herself as Being-towards-death” (Trites 119). “Adolescents often gain their first knowledge of the pain permanent separation involves when they feel powerless because someone they love dies; the corollary that inevitably follows is adolescents recognition of their own mortality” (119).  Narrative structure, ends of chapters “But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct” (22).

Disempowerment: Empowerment Weapons—new perspective (197) Survival—District 11, sustenance Careers “don’t know how to be hungry” (208) Jonas—starving Playing to audience (248), all construct for Katniss? Story as censored for broadcast (270) “remarkable memory” vs. “unforgettable” (302) With Thresh’s death, “I promise to remember him” (309) {Mockingjay?}

Bicycling into Oblivion Foxface, Clove—identifying others Katniss as “Fire Girl” to Thresh (288) Peeta—”boy with the bread” (297) Dressing as a girl for the interviews (355)—innocent “I begin transforming back into myself. Katniss Everdeen. A girl who lives in the Seam. Hunts in the woods. Trades in the Hob. I stare in the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not” (371).