The quote for this week is inspired by the new Hunger Games movie, which hit theaters last March 23rd. A scene between President Snow and Head Gamemaker Seneca Crane was added to the movie that wasn't originally a part of the novel. Click on the video to listen to the dialogue between the two characters.
“Seneca, why do you think we have a winner?” Snow asks while cutting a white rose.
“What do you mean?” Seneca asks. “I mean, why do we have a winner?” Snow repeats, before pausing. “Hope.”
“Hope?” Seneca replies slightly bewildered.
“Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous,” Snow declares.
“Spark is fine, as long as it’s contained."
“So?”
“So, contain it,” Snow warns.
Here's the portion of the quote up for interpretation:
Post below your overall interpretation of the quote. What does President Snow mean by hope being stronger than fear? Knowing that President Snow is the president of the society, Panem, in the Hunger Games, and that he has proven to be quite a cruel and manipulative dictator, what connections can be made between his comment on hope and the holocaust? Feel free to also make connections from this quote with other readings, media, current events, etc.
He means that hope is stronger than fear because having hope in things may be dangerous. Hope has a stronger connection than fear. It can be dangerous because if you have too much hope in something and something bad happens with that hope, it can crush you and change your thoughts on things. Snow was like Hitler because he has control over everything and he has the power to do anything he wants. Everyone feared Snow and Hitler but had more hope that everything will be okay in the end and that they can get through this.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because if you fear something you’re scared of it and you won’t do much about it because you fear it. Whereas if there is hope people will start to fight back for what they believe is right. this ties into the holocaust because the Jewish people feared Hitler because he hated them so much he would go to extreme lengths to get them out of Germany. Hope also ties in here because the Nazi’s would hide the Jews in their homes and protect them thus putting their lives on the line. In conclusion Hope is stronger than fear because it gives people the will to fight back.
ReplyDeleteThis quote means being hopeful is better than fearful because if you’re scared of doing something, you can never succeed. When you hope of something it’s like dreaming of something happening and that will help make you succeed. This relate to the Holocaust because if all Jews were always scared of the Nazi’s and never even hoped that it will get better, it would never happen. But you can’t hope so much that when it doesn’t go exactly how you want it to, you give up hoping for anything else. It’s hard to overcome fear because when you are scared to do something, you just refuse and walk away from the situation. But if you hope that it goes alright and you overcome that fear, the hope you had thought of helps you get through the fearful thought you had in mind. In the Hunger Games, of course the tributes were scared in the arena but they had to fight through it and hope for the best.
ReplyDeleteThere is fear and there is hope. Hope is how you survive bad times, it’s what keeps some people alive. But fear is the complete opposite of hope most times. During the Holocaust, there was a lot of fear, and not a lot of hope. But the people with hope helped others and themselves survive. They somewhat knew there would be light at the end of the tunnel. They were right and they survived.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because, hope can overthrow it. Fear changes the way you live. It changes the way you act in certain situations. Hope can change what you fear. When characters have hope, they achieve more. If you give up hope, you’re gonna have something bad to you. For example in the Holocaust, if you keep hoping and fighting there’s a chance you can succeed. But if they gave up and stop hoping they probably died. “A little hope is good but too much is dangerous”. This means if you live off of hope, not everything is going to go your way. A little hope is enough to keep you going.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think president snow means is that you shouldn’t be afraid of something or someone. You can have hope for what you do and how you do it. Having a lot of hope means that it is dangerous because the fear in having a lot of hope is also high. When you have a little hope, its much more effective than having a lot of hope because of the fear that you have in hope is very little.This quote reminds me of when the Jews got sent to the concentration camps. Some had no hope of surviving the war so they committed suicide. Some other Jews had hope of surviving the war and somehow got so much hope, that they started fearing of what would happen next.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what President Snow said because if someone had a lot of hope, they would keep on fighting. If they lose the hope all they have left is fear. Some people have a lot of hope and they will stand up for what they believe in. If they only have fear it will be easier for the dictator to control them. President Snow relates to the holocaust because Hitler also controlled everyone with fear. The Holocaust had a lot of hope though, that is why their are Holocaust survivors because they never gave up. Hope is stronger than fear because it can save lives and take down powerful leaders.
ReplyDeleteWhen people have hope they believe in herself. Like if they were in the holocaust the Jews had hope that they were going to be free. Hitler is the fear person and the Jews have hope that they will survive. The Jews had more hope than fear. People with more hope have a bigger chance to survive. As for fear is like having no hope because you're scared.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that more enough hope can gain enough power to overcome the bad. If you fear a person or thing that allows them to become stronger than you and they can control you as you are afraid of them. In the Holocaust the a lot of Jews were afraid of the Nazi’s. Most of the Jews who had hope survived while the others who feared Nazi’s died. With enough hope the Jews could go against the Nazi’s and show them that they are not afraid of them.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow is saying that hope is stronger than fear because a little hope can’t do anything. fear makes people listen and do what they are told to do. A lot of hope could be really powerful because people could work together. It reminds me of how the Jews that had hope mostly survived. When they were fearful they did what the Nazi’s wanted.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because if you have hope you have the will to stand up for yourself and othe. If you have fear you don't have the courage to have hope and without hope there no chance of standing up for your rights and other right. With hope you have chance of getting courage with courage you can stand up to anybody. Like if Jews and other had hope they can stand up to Hitler or anybody that took their rights away from them. Fear is strong too because with fear you can't do anything to help yourself or other.
ReplyDeleteWhat President Snow means by “Hope is stronger than fear” is that if you have at least a little bit of hope you can get through anything. Like during the Holocaust the people who held on to the little bit of hope that they had left are mostly the ones that survived. But the ones who lost all of their hope are the ones who didn't make it through most at the time. What he is trying to do is destroy all of hope that people may have and Hitler tried doing the same thing to the Jews. Since President Snow said “A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous” it reminds me of Warsaw ghetto. We haven’t learned about that ghetto yet, but what we have talked about is the “prisoners” in that camp had the courage to fight back because they had too much hope.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear that means that if there is hope fear will be gone overtime, to relate this to the hunger games hope being gone means less survivors and giving up. To relate this to the holocaust how Jews were being treated made them not have hope which meant more fear and also meant less survivors and thats kinda what dictators wanted back then. People not having hope back then meant death because fear takes over people if there is
ReplyDeleteno hope to keep them strong. Fear being there helped the dictators because of how they sent a lot of Jews to death camps to be killed well with fear taking over Jews made a lot of them die, so then less people have to be killed at death camps.(made it easier to kill Jews by taking away their hope and giving them fear.) Hope id the only thing stronger than fear because without hope fear takes over and fear can kill people.
I think President Snow means that when people have hope they have the will to live as best they can but when there is no hope for example during the Holocaust the people that lost hope were the people that did not survive. Even a spark of hope can keep a person living. I also think that by President Snow saying “ A little hope is effective a lot of hope is dangerous.” He meant that with a little hope people won’t rebell against the “dictator.” However with a lot of hope people uprise like in the Warsaw ghetto. Even though we have not talked much about it I know that the people in the Warsaw ghetto uprised because they had hope, and didn’t want to go down without a fight.
ReplyDeleteI think it means that hope is stronger than fear because fear is designed to
ReplyDeletemake it easier to control people. Because if they are scared of you they will not rebel against you because they are scared of what they might do.But with hope you have something to to drive you forward.It gives you somthing to fight and live for.And with hope you can hope that you can win and live for a better day
I think he means that if you have Hope then people can overcome fear. Fear is powerful because it can make someone obedient to someone else. In the Holocaust some people feared and let go of their beliefs but most of them had hope and held onto their beliefs. Also some were obedient to hitler because they feared. Some escaped the camps because they had hope.
ReplyDeleteThat’s saying that you could fear anything but if you have hope you’ll defeat it. But if you have too much hope you’ll think you are invincible. But if you don’t have have enough you can’t accomplish what you want. This makes me think of the chicago bulls making it far in the playoffs. When they don’t have all their players healthy their hope overpowers their fear. That helps them win because a cohesive team can always beat a talented one
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When people have hope, its enough to keep them going, when they have a lot of hope, they can do lots of things with it. When people have both fear and hope, hope will always overpower it because with fear comes cowardness and with hope comes fearlessness. With President Snow and the Holocaust, Hitler knew that if he dehumanized the people of which he was attacking, slowly taking away their rights, their hope would decrease and they would no longer have any reason to go on and leave their homes more willingly. President Snow knew that if the tributes had hope as to get back home, they would try harder as to win the Hunger Games, and go back home.
ReplyDeleteSnow says hope is stronger than fear because if you have hope fear can go away. Hope makes a big difference,Fear just means that if you're scared and if you have hope it can change that.Hope relates to the Holocaust because many people didn’t survive the Holocaust because they didn't have hope.Everyone that had hope Had a better chance of surviving.They believed that if they would live through the Holocaust because they had hope. Hope led people in the Holocaust to survive because they believed that they would.
ReplyDeleteIt is saying that hope will defeat feat if you gave it in you. If fear will over power you then there will be no hope. The Green Bay Packers for example the had the hope on the Super Bowl against the Steelers.They did not let fear over power them even though their star players were out due to injuries. All that hope from the team let them game the win and the championship.
ReplyDeleteHope: I think that his idea of hope is bad. He feels that hope is what will bring him out of power. I think that he is like the Hitler of the society because he runs off of fear and thinks that hope is a bad thing and needs to be contained. This kind of reminded me of Unwind because the police in Unwind want to crush the hope of the unwinds. When he says a lot of hope is dangerous i think he means a lot of hope is bad against HIM.
ReplyDeleteHope: With hope of survival or gaining what you want you can complete the task without fear because you have hope that it can be done by you. Hope is more powerful than fear because hope allows people to do something without fear of failing, there is hope.
ReplyDeleteWhen people have hope and they have fear at the same time the hope is stronger. Hope will overpower the fear. With connecting this quote to the Holocaust the victims of the Holocaust had hope and fear. The hope had overpowered their fear at times and they had fought back and had found ways to survive. The witnesses and survivors all had hope that it will be over soon and they would just have to fight through it. Hitler knew that they had hope and he just kept making things worse so eventually the people had to much hope and eventually the fear took over because they were too hopeful.
ReplyDeleteHope can be stronger than fear when things are looking better. If something is going better than before you have more hope than fear because everything seems to be positive. Fear can be stronger than hope when things are going for the worse. If something is headed downhill you have more fear than hope because there is less of a chance that things will turn around. In relation to the Holocaust many people had hope that the war would end quickly and they believed that it would only last for a few months. They would give into fear and obey authority and oppression because they were afraid of higher people or afraid of the outcome.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that hope can be the most powerful thing because it can overpower many things that are bad but that is not always a good thing. It can have this effect because if you have so much hope then you are a very optimistic person. If you have too much hope, you are believing in things that may have a very high chance that they aren't going to happen. Too much hope can lead to many let downs. Hope is actually worse than fear because of all the things that you believed in that will let you down. In the holocaust many Jewish people probably had a lot of hope in the fact that things may have gotten better. They most likely lost the hope that they had after they were forced out of their homes and into the ghettos.
ReplyDeleteWith too much hope comes rebellions. Fear is always a powerful thing. Fear can drive people back into themselves. Hope can become more powerful than fear because with hope comes determination. If you hope enough, you believe it more and more until you eventually believe you can overcome any obstruction. Even with your rights taken away, you can hope and fight for what you believe. In order to fight you must have hope that you have a chance to succeed, and that chance is really what’s dangerous. During the Holocaust, everyone lived in fear. Both the Jews and the Nazzis feared Hitler. The victims of the Holocaust needed hope to survive, because without hope they would have just given up. And honestly, Hitler had hope for “the pure Aryan race” which obviously was dangerous. Fear brings leadership and followers.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that hope is something that can drive a nation or start a movement. It can get people’s hopes up, and give them that push to feel great; to fight what they believe in. So when he wants Seneca to “contain it” he wants the hope to die down so no one gets their sides favored or have the rights to your opinion. Connections with the holocaust are when they started making laws against the Jews, presenting the examples of rights taken away, and being tricked in some sort of way. The outside world has hope for people with illnesses, or example cancer. There is one girl named Talia that lives in Florida and has cancer, she makes makeup tutorials on YouTube and has many subscribers. This lead to her to get more donations and even appear many times on Ellen, who made her a Covergirl, covergirl. So the hope that people show effects on how people want to live and how they want life to work for them.
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that hope could help make a big chain reaction happen.The connections I could make is that president snow wanted to make a great society. In his orders president Snow wanted to make people to compete with each other in a bloody warfare. In his vision it was good but in others id was bad Hitler wanted to do the same thing but Hitlers was worse. this world in the hunger games is like it was in the world in unwind and Harrison Bergeron they are dull futures filled with a obscene set of rules.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that if there's to much hope it can do anything it can start anything if you really believe. For example Katniss they couldn't cantin her and she is the hope the everyone was waiting for and everything changed after her. And this is the same thing for the Holocaust because when someone was hoping and spoke out they would kill him or her. But also there was no hope in some ways. They killed them because he doesn't want anyone to over power Hitler or then everything would crumble on him.
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that hope is stronger than fear, because if you have more hope for something, then you will try your hardest to make it happen. But if you have more fear over something, then it most likely will not happen. Hope and Fear relate to the Hunger Games by having hope to win, and trying your best to do it, and fear by if you will win or not. How Hope and Fear relate to the Holocaust is that Hitler wanted no one to have hope, so then they became scared, but people still found out ways to do the right thing. Hope can over power fear by you having more hope than something, and you know that you could get the job done. Also Fear could over power hope by you being to afraid of something, and you could not do what had to be done.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because hope has a stronger connection than fear. If you have hope in something dangerous or deadly, (such as the Holocaust or the Hunger Games) you are dreaming of a better outcome, or you are holding on to the idea that you will make it out of that situation. When you have hope you believe that there is a way to get out, there is a reason for you to fight, so you do. If you fear something dangerous or deadly it consumes you, you do not think about the positive things, you do not hold on to the idea that you can make it out the situation you are in. When you fear the situation you are too afraid of what may happen if you rise against or if you fight back. This connects to people everywhere that have a deadly illness, If they fear death, or fear the pain they are going to go through, they feel that they will not overcome the sickness. If they have hope for the treatments and the procedures they believe that they will make it out alive and fighting.
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because if you have have hope in something you still believe in it. When you are fearing it you don't have hope anymore you don’t believe in it anymore you think you are done now. In sports once you are losing by a lot your fans and players all start to give up they have no more hope in you winning because they know the team is going to lose. Hitler wanted the Jews to lose hope because they don’t want them fighting back against them. People with illnesses they have hope because they know if they have hope in fighting against their illness they can beat it but if they fear it they won’t be able to fight back against it. Without hope you can’t fight back against what you are fighting for.
ReplyDeleteHe means that hope is stronger than fear because if you have hope you aren’t bothered by fear. Fear has nothing to do with you. One connection is that when hitler was in power he wanted the jews too lose hope. When you lose hope you are basically saying that you give up and you don't care anymore about the event that you lost it too. So Hitler was trying to get the Jews too lose hope so that meant that they don’t care anymore,so the Gestapo can kill them all in the death camps. But when fear comes to you and you have hope you don’t fear anything. But when you have more fear than hope than fear overrides hope and takes over and makes you give up.And when Kevin ware snapped his tibia in half they had a lot of hope and they still pushed forward and didn’t let that incident come to him
ReplyDeletePresident Snow means that `hope´ is stronger than fear because if people have hope they will keep on trying and trying. But if people get there hope taken away people will stop trying a giving in like people in the holocaust. Like in the video that we saw that snow says that to the other guy to take their hope away kinda like Hitler did to the Jews and other people. Also that people also had hope that it will get better in WWII and so fought back because they had hope.
ReplyDeleteHope being stronger than fear is a big thing because if this world there was no hope at all, people will be helpless because hope is help. The other thing that hope can mean is the power of believing in each other if there is no power of believing people won’t have the chance of succeeding in life that they will have ahead. The reason I think that hope is help and the power of believing because if someone who is helpless and doesn't believe in themselves there is always one person who has hope in them and helps them succeed
ReplyDeleteHope is stronger than fear because you keep saying and thinking something is going to turn out a certain way. Fear is weaker than hope because you accept what’s happening, and nothing is going to change because no one is standing up to change what they want to change. People that Hitler and his friends that weren't a ‘perfect race’, either had hope, and fought back, to have a better life while people with fear gave up and made life more miserable for them with the Nazi laws. This relates to President Snow from the hunger games because with hope will make you survive longer and end up winning the game, without hope and with fear, you are going to make the game miserable for you. Having a little hope is effective because you’re determined and want to do something, but having too much hope is thinking that something will happen, not keep on trying because not everything will turn out the way you want it to be.
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