The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4/25/2014I just want to share my review of The Hunger Games a few years ago, posted on my other blog on April 14, 2011. A #throwback of some sort.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The
Hunger Games, a young-adult dystopian science fiction, is the first
installment to a trilogy (Book 2: Catching Fire and Book 3: Mockingjay)
by Suzanne Collins.
Set
in the ashes of what used to be North America, stood the country Panem
divided into 13 districts. The heroine 16-year old Katniss Everdeen
hails from district 12, the coal-rich district.
Each
year, as punishment to a previous unsuccessful rebellion, in each of
the remaining 12 districts they pick out a boy and a girl as "tributes"
for the annual Hunger Games, where 24 of the kids (12-18 years old) kill
each other until one becomes the victor.
What
gives a strong message with this story is the power and the down-fall.
How preserving oneself can get you through all the madness. Courage and
toughness to do whatever it is for the people that matter to you. I
guess that was why Katniss survived. She didn't play for the glory and
the blood lust but so she could get back to Prim and her mother.
For
a story that is as violent as this, it is surprising that actually a
big factor that makes the story just wonderful (an understatement) is
that it was all out of love. Katniss volunteered to be tribute out of
her love for Prim. Gale took care of Katniss's family because he loved
her and cared deeply for her family. Peeta teamed up with the career
tributes to protect Katniss out of love. Katniss's mother got sick, got
deeply depressed when her father died because of pure love, and how she
described the way her mom looked at her dad. How Peeta's father pointed
to him, shamelessly, the love of his life which was Katniss's mom and
there Peeta also found his own love of his life. Haymitch incessantly
drinks to forget the horror of the hunger games and the memory of his
family who perished in President Snow's hand because he loved them too
much... Even President Snow show a form of love, the love for power.
I
guess that's how we relate to this story. We have our own battles, and
we conquer them if we are brave enough, we have our own objects of love
and devotion, family, friends, or other people.
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