Theme
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In a dark vision of the near
future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show
called the hunger games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.
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The
paragraph was actually on the back on the book cover. I chose to write this
on theme because I thought it showed the main theme excellent and it also gives
the reader a good impression and a short summary on what the theme and the
book is about.
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Setting
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The rules of the hunger games are
simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must
provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The
twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could
hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several
weeks, the competitors must fight to death. The last tribute standing wins.
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I
think this paragraph was great to fill in, in this coulmn. It showed how awful the hunger
games are and how mean the capitol is. How they control everything and
everyone. And how everyone do what they say or demand, because they are
scared of what the capitol might do if they protest.
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Plot
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“Maybe,” I say, because I can
hardly tell my mother to carry on if I’ve already given up myself. Besides,
it isn’t in my nature to go down without a fight, even when things seem
insurmountable. “Then we’d been as rich as Haymitch.” “I don’t care if we’re
rich. I just want you to come home. You will try, won’t you? Really, really
try?” asks Prim. “Really, really try. I swear it,” I say. And I know, because
of Prim, I’ll have to.
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I think this paragraph is just right in this column because it gives you an outline on what the
plan or plot is. Katniss believes she has got a death sentence when she volunteer to step in for her sister in the games. But she knows that she has to a least try to
survive for her sister and for her mother.So they will have the chance to become a family again.
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Character development
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The news sinks in. Two tributes
can win this year. If they’re from the same district. Both can live. Both of
us can live. Before I can stop myself, I call out Peeta’s name.
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Katniss
changes a lot from the start to the end of the book. The book starts with Katniss thinking she
is going to die. She is also a very suspicious person. She reads into everything,
looking for something that will make her not trust a person. But slowly she becomes more and more eager
to win and she slowly starts to trust her fellow tribute Peeta. I think this paragraph
show us that very good. How she turns from this girl who thinks she is going
to die and not trusting anyone to a girl partly in love thinking she can win.
When Katniss and Peeta start working together, they feel safer and they also
start thinking they might have a chance at coming home. Alive.
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My opinion of the book:
For some reason I didn’t have
so high expectations to the book. I don’t know why, because I had just read
great reviews on the book. All of my friends too, had told me it was a
fantastic book. Even though, I didn’t was interested enough to read it
myself or to see the movie. But when our teacher presented us which books we
could choose between, I immediately chose the hunger games. I am very happy
with that decision.
I started to read the book,
thinking I would use many weeks and actually force myself to read, because I
kind of thought it would be boring. But there I got myself a surprise. I had
problems to stop reading the book! I even started to imagine how things would
turn out and got surprised many times in the book because things turned out in
a whole different way than I expected. Also, I started hoping and kind of
cheering on how Katniss relationships with Gale and Peeta would turn out.
However, I got totally
surprised! I loved the book! And I started to read the second book as soon as I
finished the first book. I am finished with the second book, catching fire now,
and I have started the third book, mockingjay. I hope this book, the last one,
will have an ending I will be satisfied with. I have also seen the movie and it
was great. Now, I am just looking forward to the next movie, catching fire.
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| The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins |
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| Katniss Everdeen in the movie The Hunger Games, played by Jennifer Lawrence. |
