The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
“May the odds be ever in your favour.”
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.
Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
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This series is very impressive!! I could not put down the books and found myself reading as I walked through my house doing chores.
There are a few themes at work in the novels including the obvious: survival. Not just physical animal-like survival but survival of humanity’s moral code:empathy toward other humans. Fear, struggle and death play prominently in these novels and are ongoing as is perseverance in the face of extreme and agonizing adversity for the sake of shallow hollow entertainment.
These novels will make you laugh, get angry, cry, and sit on the edge of your comfortable seat!
Invasive adversity is another theme here with the classic tyrant controlled wealthy group who prefer to be ignorant to their reliance on the slaves of their society. It is interesting how the author uses mass manipulation though media for propaganda purposes much like our present day gullible love, fascination and belief of all things presented via media. What is real vs what is not harkens to the reality TV shows that are popular in today’s society. Just how difficult is it to ‘spin’ a falsehood through propaganda? Our history has proved it to be quite possible.
It is not hard to miss the parallels between the novel’s Capitol and our 1st world wealthy societies who have grown accustomed to the convenient and pretty trinkets and baubles created on the backs of 3rd world societies where people struggle to maintain the basics to survive:sweat shops, etc. This series can stand as a warning to our present populations/societies where the very few control the basics and the majority suffer miserably.
This series may make you think differently about fashion and entertainment! And who’s really in control of you?
I love this book, it’s the best nominated by far, there is a few other good books that I like but not love (Twilight,Percy Jackson: The Lightining Theif). Though I think ‘The Hunger Games’ makes people show more emotion, like crying and stuff.
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its werid, when i first heard of this book i didnt really want to read it but then this awards came out and i made it my live goal to read all of them!! (i havent read crank or to kill a mockingbird) and i have to say this one has to be my fav (aside from harry potter of course
) its amazing and i love romance novels so this was a good one!!
i tried to read this book but couldnt get into it
this was the best book i ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!