The Hunger Games book review
1. Find
one conflict in the novel. How does it play out?
In the beginning of the book, Katniss gets in to a huge problem and she have to
make probably the biggest decision in her life.
First you should know that this book takes place in the future. Every year
twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the
hunger games. They’re stuck in a big area and the only rule in this game is to
kill or be killed. Therefore, of twenty-four people only one comes out alive.
A few days before the games begins the queen travel around the country and have
a lottery in every district that’s decide who’s going to the game. This year
when the lottery takes place, Katniss and her family gets in a big chock. It’s
Katniss little sister Primrose name that shows up.
In this lottery there is no free options, if you’re name is on the little white
paper then you have to participate in the Hunger games. But you have one change
to get out of it and that’s if someone are willing to take your place. For
about 10 seconds Katniss have to decide if she let her little sister to the
game or if she’s willing to offer her own life for Primrose. In this case,
Katniss freaks out and steps forward to take her sisters place.
This is one of many problems in this book. Katniss has been close to death
before and for her, survival is second nature. Even dough she does think she’s
going to die, she will do this for her family.
2.
Choose five sentences from different parts of the book that you find important.
Write them out and explain why you think they are important. ‘’Katniss, the girl who was on fire’’ I
think this sentence is important for the book because that’s almost why Katniss
wins the game in the end. In the beginning of the games, she get up dressed in
a dress made of fire, which get her all the attention and many people want to
see her get out alive.
“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I
say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of
my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.” I remember this
sentence because it made me think. Think what she really wanted to say with
these words. I think what’s really means is that Katniss isn’t a brutal
murderer. She got in to this game because she protected her sister and she will
do whatever to stay alive. But in this scene of the book, she has to either
kill the boy who’s live in the same town as she do and also he is totally in
love with her. She isn’t going to let this boy to die because if she do, well
maybe she survive the game but for the rest of the life she’s going to see
herself as the one who killed the boy who’s in love with her.
“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make
it.” I choose this sentence because I think almost everyone have had this
thought sometime in his or her life. Just leave everything behind, run away and
start a new life. And in this
case, if Katniss would have done this, she’ll never would have gone to the
Hunger games, but on the other side her little sister would. And she hadn’t had
the change to stop it.
“I realize, for the first time, how very
lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human
being can be.” This is a sentence that’s been saying right after Katniss
meets this boy, Peeta, from her own district and both of them decides to work
together inside the area. I think this is very important for the book because
without their cooperation, they will never survive this thing.
“We had to save you because you're the mocking
jay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.”
This last sentence I have to write down because this is the scene when Katniss
wins over all king and queens. Every year there is just one person who scurvies
the Hunger games. But this year, Katniss were able to get both her and her
friend Peeta out of the area alive. Because of some poisoned berries, she
tricked the whole community and made the ’’boss’’ let both of the out, because
otherwise, no one would get out.
3. What is the message of the book?
It’s quiet a hard question to answer about this book because there
really isn’t a clear message. Not all books have secret message like that. But I think that the message of the hunger games, not necessarily the whole
book but just the games themselves is all about war. The main thought about
this games were that the big rebellion that the districts had against each
other would disappear by taking their children once a year and make them kill each
other. But as you can hear, this sounds really like a bad thing to do so of
course this just lead an even bigger war (witch you can see in the following
books). And also you keep thinking through the book how the government is able
to do this. Just go around the country, pick up children and young boys and
girls and force them to either kill or get killed, while they’re on live TV. That’s
just disturbed. And maybe you can see this in the real world in some countries
where to government have to much power to do whatever they want.
The Hunger games, is the best book a ever read and also the film is excellent,
it’s a very good story and much entertainment. But when you think a little bit
deeper and think about the actually message of the book you realize it’s
totally sick, I mean what if this would be real? It would start a war.
