The Hunger Games

I own The Hunger Games, Catching Fire

and am awaiting to buy Mockingjay by 

Suzzane Collins.

Hunger Games. These two words can make me talk for hours and by hours I am not joking, I mean HOURS. If you don’t believe me ask Aaryama Somayaji, she got so bothered with me talking about it, she got it for my birthday to shut me up. So, now I am a proud owner of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire (the second book in the trilogy) and I am thinking of buying Mockingjay (the third book in the trilogy). It’s really hard to write about your favorite book especially for me because the only thing I am really good at is criticizing them. 

The Hunger Games:

North America has long been destroyed and a new government called The Capitol has been formed, its even changed its name, its called Panem. Years have passed since District 13 had fought for a revolution, it was suppressed by the dictatorship of The Capitol. Out of vengeance, District 13 was abolished, since then only 12 remain. To suppress all the districts The Capitol controls its citizens by The Hunger Games.    

12 Districts, 24 Teenagers, 1 survivor. As a tradition two teenagers (one boy and one girl) between the age of 12 and 18 are selected by an annual lottery drawing for the “Hunger Games”, played in the form of a reality television show. All the participants also knows as the tributes have to kill each other until only one remains. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen from District 12, is struggling to feed her younger sister, Prim and her mother after the death of her father in a mining accident. When Prim is selected as the female Tribute for District 12, Katniss volunteers immediately to take her place along with male tribute Peeta, the bakers son. She promises to fulfill Prim's wish, she has to come back home, even if it means killing the boy with the bread, Peeta. 

My History/Opinion:

Katniss Everdeen, protagonaist of The Hunger Games and 

Peeta Mellark, her fellow tribute of District 12.

If you had a choice what would you pick? Hunger Games, a depressing dystopian novel or a vampire flick like House of Night. I chose Hunger Games, because basically it was recommended by Rick Riordan (author of the Percy Jackson series). The beginning was slow paced that’s why I chucked it out and started reading my other option House of Night. I don’t want to really get into House of night, because if I utter another word about it I am sure I will cause much distress to its fans. Concluding about House of Night, I regret wasting my entire two weeks trying to complete the entire series. Period. Which brings us back on The Hunger Games, if you ever try to read it don’t get bored urge yourself to get through Part I because after that your in for a ride. Putting the book down, believe me, is unstoppable, you get horrified with the killings, you laugh at Haymitch and most of all you sulk for Peeta’s and Katniss’s future. This book makes you think the future of our world  bringing up doubts and questions never imagined before.

  

For a good message, deep characters and for Suzzane Collins making a world totally unimaginable.

Additional Information:

12 Districts (Dah Dah!), 24 Teenagers (Dah! Dah!) Only 1 destined to survive (feet running in the forest crunching the leaves-in the video) – I can bet you that the future trailer of The Hunger Games, would have to resemble this. In fact, the I’m not really sure if I really want to see the movie, at all. The script is written by Suzanne Collins and she had planned before hand to make this book into a movie even before writing it. I don’t enjoy movies that are made into books, they ruin my imagination of the characters. But that wont really stop me from watching the film, which releases next year in March 23, 2012.  

Caution:  If you are wondering how Katniss will look like in the movie, please click on the link below. I really don’t want to ruin your imagination and I sincerely  hope they dye her hair black. http://bit.ly/eOfZBE

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