The Hunger Games

In The Hunger Games, written as an adventure book by Suzanne Collins, was first published on September 14, 2008. Panem, a country built in the ruins of America sends both a male and female child between the ages of 12 and 18 to the major city, the Capitol, to fight to their death. This year Prim Rose Everdeen is called, but her older sister Katniss steps in to protect her. Throughout the book Katniss has to fight off tributes from other districts if she wants to make it home, while also battling her feelings about the other tribute from her district, Peeta. There are many themes inside the book, including the ones about unfair treatment for amusement and the unfairness between the rich and poor.

The point of view is the perspective of Katniss Everdeen. It shows her feelings to all of the unfair treatment that goes on in her country. The story is told in a way that makes the reader go through everything that Katniss is going through. The book starts off with the reaping where Katniss unexpectedly volunteers for her younger sister in the games. Then it tells all about the way they lead up to the Hunger Games, followed by the games. The intended audience is for middle schoolers because the content is a little too harsh for elementary school students, but the writing is rather easy for high schoolers. Since the genre is action-adventure, the book fits in quite nicely since most of the book has to do with Katniss' adventures. The author keeps you interested by always adding  more action when things seem to be dying down. This also shows the author's style. She seems to be interested in entertaining the reader and making sure they feel the emotion of the characters.

Throughout the book I would get the chills from reading about how awful life was for Katniss in the games and at home before she got called at the reaping. At the beginning of the book Katniss described her hard life in her district where she lives, and that allowed me to have the same view about the Capital through the whole book. In real life I don't like it when the government gets too involved or when people die, so this book hit close to home in both of those cases. The Capital government pretty much controls the people of Panem's lives. Also people have to kill each other in order to survive.

The Hunger Games is like no other book I have read. It is an amazing story about the future in America. I was hooked on to it as soon as I started, and couldn't stop until the very end. When the end came, I was sad to let the book go.

Julia
12.12.13
2,000/5