Book Review

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.