Book Response: The Hunger Games

Author's Note: In this piece of writing I am trying to update you on the most recent chapter I read in My book, The Hunger Games. I am using an informal voice in this piece. Currently I am working on transitions, if you could give me some feedback, that would be great.

In the latest part in the book Katniss decides the only way she can win is if she destroyed the career’s food, because they don’t know what it is like to have to hunt for food, because they just depended on there parents to bring home food unlike the poor people who know how to hunt.

First, Katniss find the career’s base camp when her ally, Rue, sets off a fire so the career’s can go and kill whoever started the fire. Before Katniss can go attack the camp Foxface, one of the tributes left, walks in and has basically the same idea, but the camp is mined with bombs. Still she makes it away safely. When Katniss tries it sets of a chain reaction and destroys the camp.

The new rule is that if you are in the same district you can both win. So Katniss sets out to find Peeta who is badly wounded. With Peeta as her ally can she win? You will find out when I read more.

Book Response for "The Hunger Games

Author’s note: When you read this, it might not make sense to you, because it is later in the book. If you scroll down and read my first response about the beginning of the book, so if you read that you can get a feel of what the book is about. Also in this response I am trying to work on transitions.

In my latest chapter Katniss (main character) has just entered the games. Just so you know what the hungers games are, every year everyone goes to the capitol building in their district, there are 12 districts, and you put your name in a box and the more you put your name in the box the more food you get (which is vital, because everyone who lives in district 12 is poor), but if your name gets called, one boy and one girl, has to go to the hunger games. 

Right when she enters the games she sees the table with all the weapons in front of her, the lake to the left of her, and piney woods to the right of her. She always hunts back home, not with guns but with a bow and arrow, so she got lucky, because the game makers can throw you into any kind of environment, from a frozen wasteland to piney woods.

In the book she just found water from a nearby lake. When she finds herself in the middle of a game makers Forrest fire (the game makers can do anything to make the game more interesting, because it is televised). Once she is out of the fire, she is being stalked by other tributes. She climbs up in a tree and camps there for the night, even though she knows that they know she is up there, but they wait until morning. When she finds a tracker jacker nest right above her (tracker jackers are special types of wasps that the military used, they have venom in their sting so they can kill on contact). So she cuts the branch they are hanging from and drops it on the other tributes.

She meets Rue, a tribute from district 11, and even though it is a free for all some tributes still team up, but then turn on each later in the games. While the games started there were 24 tributes and there are only 10 now. I will keep while I get farther in the book.

Solar Energy

January 26, 2011

Dear Mr. President
Hi, My name is Matt Derzay, I am 12 years old, and I am in 7th grade. I live in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. I just want to talk about maybe a more efficient energy. It’s a way that could help our country. Also it could make life a little more worry-free.

Things that lots people worry about are the bills and usually the biggest bill is the light bill, since now so many things use electricity these days. I think a good way to go is for everyone to get solar shingles. Yes, it will cost a lot, but then people won’t have worry about a light bill. Also people that live in places with more severe weather, like hail, a large impenetrable piece of glass would cover the shingles, so they don’t get smashed, but clear so the light can still get through.

When you think of it, it seems like it would cause a lot of people that work at electric company to lose their jobs, but who says they can’t switch over to be a solar powered electric company. They could sell the solar shingles and the glass that protects is and if anyone wants it they could have back-up service if they want, just in case.

Also something everyone can carry around is extra batteries. I am not talking about just the regular types of batteries, but we could make some that were all the same so every handheld device would take these kinds of batteries and you just charge them, instead of keep having to buy new batteries over and over again.

That could help with all the wiring and batteries. It could make the country a cleaner, more eco-friendly place. It may lose some jobs, but it could create a lot more. It could eliminate the light bill and make life a little more worry-free.

Sincerely,                                                                                                                                     Matt Derzay

Sydney, Australia

Author’s Note: This is a content essay, and I am trying to work on my transitions, vocabulary, and conventions. If you see anything good or if you see mistakes and you would if you like to make any suggestions. I would love some feedback.

Sydney, Australia is a hugely populous, most populous city in Australia, with a population of 4.2 million people. The people in Sydney are called Sydneysiders. Sydney is far south-east on the border of Australia. Sydney is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. In Sydney they speak English just like us. Sydney is a very beautiful place and with many cites to see.

One of Sydney’s most beautiful places is the Sydney Harbour Bridge (you may think it is spelled wrong, but this certain harbor is spelled that way). It was opened in 1932, and according to the Guinness world record book, it is the widest long-span bridge in the world. It is made out steel and is sometimes called “The Coat Hanger,”   because of its arch-based design. The Sydney Habour Bridge carries trains, motor vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles. It goes straight over the harbor.

Also reaching right into the harbor is the Sydney Opera House. You may have not known this was an opera house, but it is the most famous building in Australia. It is white and it looks like clamshells layered on top each other (It is difficult to describe).  It has only been open since 1973. Its first piece was The Australian Opera's production of “War and Peace” by Prokofiev. The Opera House was very expensive to build. The original construction cost $7 million, but the final cost was $102 million.

Sydney is a very beautiful place. It is a very populous city, but still very clean. Also is nice is that if you go there you don’t have to learn another language to speak to the people. So many cites to see and it only takes 20 hours to get thereJ.  Sydney is a place where I definitely want to go sometime in my life.   

The Hunger Games

The latest book I am reading, The Hunger Games. This book takes place in the future. When you think of it you think you expect it to be all high tech. NOPE!! After all the natural disasters and wars they basically had to start over. This book is a page-turner and it is hard to put down. Fast-paced and action packed. In the book everyone is poor and all the money is in the capital. They don't want them to take over the capitol, because they could. I will write again when I am done.