Thursday, January 27, 2011

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.

1 comment:

  1. I just HAD to comment because the Hunger Games series is so good. I liked how you summed up what you already know and I am impressed because when I was at that point I was so confused. I did think that your ending could have been stronger, because I know Suzanne Collins uses many cliffhangers, and you've probably noticed that too.

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