The Hunger Games is a science fiction novel written by
Suzanne Collins. It focuses on the role of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen and her
life with her mother and sister in District 12. She is put into an arena with
23 other similarly aged people where they must fight each other to the death. She
spends her time during the novel pretending her and Peeta are the “star-crossed
lovers” that the Capitol wants.
This story accurately shows the
inner thoughts and feelings of Katniss. Katniss is the victim of many problems.
Her increasingly growing character traits present a strong, kind, character.
Katniss always favors others in place of herself and tries her best to help
others whenever she can. She is forever changed when her ally in the arena, Rue
is killed. Katniss is a very aware person because she is very skilled at
hunting with her friend Gale. Katniss is confronted with many problems such as
the other tributes in the arena with her. They all are forced to try and kill
each other but some team up and try and combat the many other tributes. She also has to survive in the forest and
ends up in many difficult situations. She also does not agree at all with the rules
of society that has been set in place by the greedy Capitol.
Katniss faces herself when she
is in the arena. She is constantly criticizing herself and her actions with
positive and negative outcomes. Katniss is very intelligent and can easily
figure out problems with ease. She takes control of people and can unite them
and do something great. When the reader reads this book he/she will be drawn
straight into the eyes of Katniss and see everything that she sees in detail.
Suzanne Collins brilliantly demonstrates the feeling of a post-apocalyptic
situation or if a terrible person came to be a world leader. The reader feels
so sympathetic for the characters when they are in situations of peril. Katniss
is very independent and will always solve her own problems. She is always ready
to help others and will try her hardest to help others even if it means
sacrificing herself.
Suzanne Collins, the author
brilliantly describes the vibrant and colorful settings of The Hunger Games and
the inner thoughts of Katniss. Being written in first-person makes this novel
seem even more absorbing. When the reader is reading this book they are almost
sucked in by it and will find it hard to find their way out. This book is
beautifully, and descriptively written.
Everything that happens in The
Hunger Games is entirely possible in this world because of all the tragedies
our world faces which makes me even more impacted by it. I am very changed by
this book because of the possibility of something similar actually happening. I
sincerely hope that nothing like what happens in this book will ever happen.
Dear Jacob,
ReplyDeleteAs you mentioned, Katniss is heart broken when Rue dies. How does this event change Katniss's emotions and goals? Does this event change the atmosphere of the book, if yes how?
Sincerely,
Sasha Jande
Dear Sasha,
DeleteThank you for commenting on my question, you are right, Katniss is heart broken that her only ally (at that time) and friend in the arena has died. She spends all of the rest of that day crying and mourning for her lost friend. When she eventually, tries to focus on staying alive and tries to put Rue and their friendship behind her and she finds some flowers in the meadows and puts them in Rue's hands, she then sings a song for her and lets her pass. When Katniss finds Peeta, injured and alone, she vows to not let him die. Katniss suddenly becomes much more thoughtful and before doing something, she always thinks it through first. Katniss is constantly thinking about Rue, whenever something reminds her of Rue. Rue’s death is a horror that will haunt Katniss’s living thoughts, as well as her dreams. Rue meant so much to her as an ally in the arena and she is so shocked that she dies that the horror never truly leaves her.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Hi Jacob,
ReplyDeleteThis was an amazing book review that very thoroughly described your book. I was wondering how characters like Peeta and Gale added and affected the theme of this book and helped the story progress? Also I was wondering what your opinion on the situation she was put in was.. I enjoyed reading your book review and look forward to your response.
Thanks, Bella.
Dear Bella,
DeleteThank you for commenting on my book review. You are right, Peeta and Gale did add an interesting aspect in the book because before the games, Gale was not in any way Katniss’s boyfriend. Katniss just simply thought of him as a friend. When Katniss is partnered up with Peeta for their shows for the Capitol as well as during the games she is anxious all the time about what Gale is thinking. She hopes he knows they are just putting on a show for the crowd and not actually in love. This allowed the book to have another layer of suspense (as well as many other suspense layers) for Katniss to think about and another thing for her to worry about. As for your second question, I do not agree with the situation that Katniss was put in, even though it allowed for an exciting, suspenseful story. The Hunger Games were created to ensure that the districts would fear the capitol and not cause another uprising against the Capitol as was in the past. I do agree with the capitol having some kind of precaution against an uprising but I do not agree with this method. The capitol could have had some kind of presentation every year to remind what an uprising could do to everyone in their world of Panem.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Hi Jacob,
ReplyDeleteI would like to know what perspective The Hunger Games was written in. Who was the narrator? What it Katniss, or was it someone else? If so, do you know who?
I already read the book, but it was a long time ago and I forgot what perspective it was in.
Thanks,
Lilia
Dear Lilia,
DeleteThank you for commenting on my book review. The Hunger Games was written in first person and it is very descriptive in terms of landscape and character’s emotions. Suzanne Collins describes landscape with so much detail that you are absorbed into it and will find it hard to come out of the memorization that occurs when you read this novel. Katniss is the narrator in this novel and this makes the book quite different than any other because you feel even more in sync with the character and their environment, feelings, and thoughts.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Dear Jacob,
ReplyDeleteYour Book Review was very well written and thought out. However you describe Katniss as a altruistic character, but don't elaborate on exactly when she showed this. Could you please provide more details on this topic. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Aidan
Dear Aidan,
DeleteThank you for commenting on my book review. Katniss is an altruistic character. She shows this in many different points during the novel such as, her volunteering for tribute instead of her small sister, when Rue dies, and when she vows to defend Peeta and not let him die. Katniss always thinks of her mother and sister and before the games, she always hunted food illegally for them, bought food for them, and cared for them. In fact, she was kind of like a mother to them. The reason why her mom didn’t do much to help their family is because, after Katniss’s father’s death, her mother never quite recovered and was since in a state of depression and sadness.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Dear Jacob,
ReplyDeleteYou wrote this review well but, you leave out the love between Peeta and Katniss.
Sincerely,
Jonah
Dear Jacob,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your book review and I thought you described the main
character very well. Throughout your review you showed that Katniss was a very skilled archer and an aware person. When rue died what kind of emotions do you think we're going through Katniss’s head. Very well thought out book review.
Sincerely, Kaia
Dear Kaia,
DeleteThank you for commenting on my book review. When Rue died Katniss was in a state of emotional shock. She was so attached to Rue and then suddenly, she had died in Katniss’s arms. Katniss was extremely shocked that her dear friend and only ally in the arena was gone forever, never to return. She was scared what would happen to her without the company of Rue. Katniss was so attached to Rue that I am sure that for the rest of her life, she had nightmares and saw the vision over and over again in them of Rue dying. For the rest of the book Katniss is not quite the same and shows this by vowing to never let Peeta die. She knows now how precious life is and how quickly it can be gone so fast. To try and get over this, Katniss got some flowers from a nearby meadow, she laid them in Rue’s hands with her hands covering the ghastly wound in her chest. She then sung a song for Rue, kissed her on the forehead, and left.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Dear Jacob,
ReplyDeleteYou described the settings as "colourful." Could you please elaborate?
Bryan