Suzanne Collins was born in 1967 (47) in Connecticut. Suzanne has been writing children's stories since 1991 (wow) and children cartoons from Nickelodeon. She published her famous book in 2008 which is the novels "the hunger games" series; b
ooks that has all the characteristics of a perfect book that would keep you in the edge of your seats.
THE FIRST NOVEL OF "THE HUNGER GAMES" SERIES
It'll keep you to the edge of your seat as I say and so it begins with our most important character Katniss Everdeen who is a 16 year old girl who has the responsibility of taking care of her family after her fathers tragic death, All she has left is her sister Primrose (prim) and her mother and a utterly disgusting cat name Buttercup in which Katniss despises. Katniss became the family provider since she was 11 and prim was 7, Imagine yourself in that spot of responsibility, That person whose being counted on so her family would be alive.
"Panem" is where they say they live (somewhere in "North America"), "A place where you can starve to death in safety" some says, Panem, District 12 is surrounded by an electricity fence where you can get electrocuted any time of day, People say its on 24/7 but Katniss seems to prove them wrong, How? you may ask, well everyday Katniss goes out to the woods with her Bow and Arrow to hunt food for her family. There was originally 13 districts but the 13th district rebelled and Panem and the Capitol had to destroy it, and a result to prevent this rebellion to happen again they created the worst thing possible The Hunger Games. There is now 12 districts in which Katniss and her love ones lives in,and the 12th district is far worse than any district compared to others.
Every district must give 2 tributes, 1 boy and 1 girl, in total 24 tributes will be "lucky" to play. more like Risk there lives. and out of those 24 one will remain and be triumphant. What about the others you might ask? well death has come for them. Do you know whose going to be chosen in district 12?drum role please, well our very own Primrose Everdeen! but guess what?, when Katniss heard Effie announce she felt like fainting, i mean wouldn't you? if you found out that your younger sister or brother gets chosen to fight to the death?!?!?! anyways Katniss volunteered to take her place, bravery comes in hand considering shes the family provider she needs to protect her. The hunger games or the reaping is celebrated like a festival to take away the frightful thought of some parents kids going to fight.
Now hmmmmmmmmmm. Who may the male tribute be? Peeta Mellark (to know infooo look at our second post) you see Katniss already knows him and Peeta has a secret love for her but throughout games he protests his love towards her. If you think about it the love that Peeta has for her is very useful for Katniss, you see peeta cares for her and so he does his best to keep her alive in the games even if he has to get alliances to protect her...(aawwweeee. . how sweet).
ALLIANCES
As i talked about before this paragraph Peeta has formed an Alliance with the "rich" part of the districts 1-5... Katniss also already formed an alliances with a little girl named Rue who is 12 years old and why did she form an alliance with her? because Rue resembles her sister Prim who she miss so much, but sadly Rue didn't make it, she was speared to her death, and Katniss was caring enough to put flowers on around her till her spirits gone. (i bet Rues parents her devastated).
(devastated sigh) the love of Peeta has been more and more revealed to Katniss and they got to know each other more. But theres a TWIST to this now they have to fight each other!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! HOLY CHEESE AND CRACKERS!!. now I'm (sheanica) going to leave the rest to my wonderful group member John Paul to continue this exciting review. (our first thought was to make a main idea for each chapter but it was too much so we decided to highlight on the key points.)
very descriptive. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteCool fact about Suzanne Collins wrote cartoons for Nickelodeon TV! I'm a fan of Nick TV too!
ReplyDeleteIt's also interesting how this Hunger Games blog has section headings like "Alliances". This reminds me of games like Battleship and Axis and Allies where strategy is an important component to winning the contest.
As you mentioned it was sad that Rue was killed during the Hunger Games. Katniss and Rue seemed to be "allies" during some scenes. Then, when Rue was suddenly killed by the spear Katniss became alone again until being reunited with her District 12 companion, Peeta.
The bonds that you've shown between characters makes me think this is a story of friendships. I like how you've used your personality in writing the blog to show the different themes of the Hunger Games. What do you think makes a good friend? Is Peeta Mellark a true friend or is he just trying to stay alive in "The Games"?