The Hunger Games (Final Blog)

This year I read The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins, book one in the Hunger Games Trilogy. This book was intense, suspenseful, but also had a deeper meaning to it. The Hunger Games is about a civilization with a scarred, rebellious past, that now has to pay the consequences. Each year a boy and a girl from each 12 districts are drawn at random to compete in a game of survival. They are put in the forest with the only resources being the ones they can find, and fight till the death for peoples' entertainment. This is the punishment for their rebellion. In The Hunger Games, a girl named Katniss from district 12 volunteers to be in the Hunger Games because if not her younger sister Prim would have to go but Katniss has been like her mother because their real mother is too weak and sick to get food and care for them. Katniss meets a new friend on the way and shows how friendship, and persistence can help you achieve what you want.
        I think all teachers should teach this book in their curriculum because its an easy book to read, understand, and grasp the concept. I expecially like this book because of the futuristic civilization setting. I also love how Suzanne Collins contrasted what right and whats wrong in The Hunger Games and whats right and wrong in the real world. In the world Katniss lives in, its still wrong to steal and disobey the law, but apparently not wrong to send kids into a deathmatch like ancient Romans. This was a fairly short book and shows the reader to hold on to what you can, and fight for what you can't.