Recommendation

I the book The hunger Games, the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins. This book is so good, you have to read it!  The Hunger Games is about a girl, yes, a strong, smart and complex girl! She’s 16 year old Katniss Everdeen who lives in the mythical land of Panem which, is ruled by an oppressive government. Every year the government forces two teenagers from each of the 12 districts to compete in the Hunger Games  a battle to the death which the whole country watches on television. I’m going to stop there because i don’t want to give away anything! Author Suzanne Collins does such an amazing job creating unique and heart-wrenching characters. I would Recommend this book to people who love books that have a mix of some action and love story.

Theme

Katniss: the girl who cannot love. Katniss has spent her whole life just trying to survive and because of that she does not, repeat, does not get attached to people. There is this one boy, though, named Gale that she kinda sorta likes. Then there's Peeta who she's just pretending to be in love with. Right? Hm. Sounds like it could get complicated. Sure, but we also learn that in the Hunger Games romance can be a really great way to survive on the battlefield. By snogging on her co-tribute Peeta, Katniss is able to score support and gifts from her sponsors. Unfortunately, none of this helps Katniss figure out how she really feels.

Theme

Before the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen was a hunter and gatherer in District 12 in the country of Panem. She didn’t much like cats, though she loved her sister very much. Her main goal was always the survival of her family. After being put in front of the Hunger Games’ cameras, though, things get kind of complicated. Katniss must craft a persona that will sell herself to the audiences at home – and to potential sponsors. Thrown into a world where image is everything, she has to play a whole new (boy crazy) Katniss on camera. But will this brand new Katniss last? Is this really her? What identity awaits her when she returns to District 12?

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Characterization

When Peeta Mellark is selected as the tribute for District 12, all we really know about him is that he's a baker's son, a little bit emotional. Over the course of the novel, though, we learn that he played a large part in helping Katniss's family survive after her father's death. For this, Katniss feels deeply indebted to him. Peeta is also totally and completely in love with Katniss Everdeen. Peeta's character serves, at times, as a contrast to Katniss's. Whereas she is a provider and a survivor, Peeta is just the opposite: he's not much of an outdoorsman, is in touch with his soft side, and comes from a world very different from Katniss's. (His family, while they end up eating stale bread, never goes hungry: they are of the more privileged merchant class.) As such, Peeta's character helps develop many of the novel's major themes: love, hope, class, and identity.

Text to World

As mentioned previously the book series takes place in the ruins of North America a place that we currently call home. To the characters in the book, the history of the place where they live is commonly referred to as the Dark Days a time when civilians rebelled against the Capitol leaving them with the harsh lifestyle that they currently live in.While  the citizens in each of the twelve districts live tough lives being hungry most of their lives and commonly see people die of starvation, the citizens int he Capitol live lavish lives full of unnecessary wants and needs.These two types of extremes remind me of the united States int eh current economic situations. There are rich people who live life like there is nothing wrong with the economy buying and spending unnecessarily, and then there are people who were once middle class and now are homeless and barley making ends meet. I hope that our country never ends up in such a bad situation as portrayed by Collins.

Theme

In the Hunger Games, each candidate has his or her own set of skills and strengths. There's Cato, who has a crazy temper and can snap someone's neck with his bare hands. There's Foxface, the craftiest girl in the whole game. Oh, and let's not forget little Rue who can jump from tree to tree. And, of course, Peeta is a master of camouflage. Then there's our heroine, Katniss, who is amazing with a bow and arrow. She also has a rebellious streak a mile wide, one that impresses the Gamemakers during training. Just like in life, everyone has some kind of strength or skill all their own. What combination of strengths and skills will it take to win the Hunger Games? What is it that really makes someone strong inside of the arena and out?

Theme

The Hunger Games is a novel about the "haves" and the "have nots", that is, the people who have money and the people who don't. The Capitol has money. Gobs of it. While the Capitol is wealthier than all of the districts, some districts are more privileged than others, so they can train their tributes to do well in the Hunger Games – a competition they see as a way to gain glory and fame. The poor districts? Well, not much of an advantage there. District 12, Katniss's district, is an impoverished coal mining region that never stands a chance in the Games. They view the Games as a punishment that must be endured, something that robs them of their children. The novel asks you, then, to think about how money can change things for you, and change how you see the world.

Summary

Katniss goes hunting for Peeta and eventually finds him. He is wounded and camouflaged in the muddy bank of a stream. She nurses him back to health and realizes that by playing up the romance angle, they can get gifts from sponsors. Eventually, Katniss and Peeta must face off with Cato, the only other surviving tribute, but before that they are all pursued by wild dogs which are actually genetically mutated killing machines. Finally, Katniss shoots Cato and he falls into the pack. They've won, right? Wrong. An announcer comes back on and says the rules have changed back: only one winner allowed. Katniss and Peeta can't kill each other, so they make a show of taking poisonous berries in an act of double suicide. Fortunately, the announcer comes back on before they can kill themselves, and says that they win. Woo-hoo! They defeated the Hunger Games! Or wait…did they?Katniss and Peeta keep up the star-crossed lovers routine for the post-games reunion and interview, knowing that this is the only way to keep from being punished by the Capitol for the rebellious trick with the poisonous berries. Eventually Katniss figures out that Peeta really is in love with her, he wasn't acting at all, and he figures out that she wasn't ever in love with him. Oops. As the train pulls into District 12, they put on a happy face for the camera, take each other's hands and step onto the platform.

Summary

  The scond day of the game Katniss hunts and gets a rabbit. She cooks it in the coals of the girl who was killed the night before. Then a giant wall of fire chases her. She runs threw the forest, but the flames are already upon her. The back of her jacket gets burned. She falls and fireballs are launched at her. Finally she finds a lake and jumps in, but with in a few minutes the careers are coming at her. In seconds she's in a tree. They suround her and try to get her out of the tree, but their to heavy the branches break.  Katniss finds a nest of tracker Jackers, Mutant hornets, and plans to drop it on the careers camp, under the tree. She gets up there, drops it and leaves as fast as she can. Two girl tributes die and thats when Katniss sees her chance to grab the bow one had held on to. When she goes to get it, she sees Peeta, who had just joined the careers to save Katniss, fighting one of the bigger Careers. The theme of the story is the inequality between the rich and the poor. The poor had to go in to the hunger games and the rich watched the poor people kill other people so that their district can have food.

Text to Midia

The hunger game remindes me of the death race because in the hunger game the kids or teens had to fight to survie and in the death race the people had to drive and kill outher people to get out of prison and they both had to do with killing people.

Setting

The setting of the Hunger game is mostly in the woods which is controlled by the people that own the hunger game stadium, mostly it is in the woods. The setting reminded me of the woods behind my friends back yard, like in the wods there were trees that was easy to clime and also there was a good sniping place like Katniss had with her bow and arrow. There were lakes that were deep enough to swim in deep inside the wood.. Also int the woods we had an air-soft war which reminded me of the hunger game because just like in the book the people had to kill people without knowing where they are and the have no teams, but the only difference is that we didn't kill anyone but just got bruises.

Text to person

While reading the hunger game the character Peeta reminded me of my neighbors son who always thinks that when ever we play COD that he is going to loss in the game. And Peeta from hunger game had low hopes for him to survive the challenges that was faced towards him.

Text to person

While I was reading the book Hunger Game the main character in the story (Katniss) seemed like a girl who loves her sister and would do anything for her. This reminded me of my friends relationship with his brother. My friend has a brother with autism and he loves his brother so much that he beat up a kid who was saying mean stuff about his brother. So the the relationship of Katniss and he sister Prim reminded me of my friends relationship with his brother.

The Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins

The Book that i am reading is the Hunger Game, I choose this book because all of my friends have read the book and told me that the book was amazing. So I wanted to give it a try. Since I've watched the movie of The Hunger Game I was also curious to see if the movie had all the conflicts in the book. 

I've read a coupe of chapters from the book and in those couple of chapters I've noticed that the book goes more into details about Katniss and the district that she lives in than it did in the movie. We obviously get introduced to Katniss and the district that she lives in we get to know that her dad had died in the mine while he was working there. 
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