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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5.0
This is a tale of hope, bravery and survival told in first person narration by our 16 year old protagonist, Katniss Everdeen. She is one fiesty, brave, strong, compassionate, stubborn but resilient young adult. I'm in awe of her.
The book is divide into 3 parts and from page 1 my blood pumped faster through my veins rushing the adrenaline as the story moved in a fast paced tone. Collins has told us our reality through a fiction book, using the story as a metaphor to the real world.
On the surface, it is a love story between not only two individuals but three who have to survive The Hunger Games and its effect. But deeper meanings are hidden underneath all that: how civilization could crumble with the way things are going on today. How our world is falling apart by the greed for power in the hands of those in power. How we are taking food for granted and misusing freedom.
It's is a slight book but it packs heavy themes: Poverty, power, war, starvation, manipulation, struggle, death, violence/cruelty , injustice, identity crisis, love, family, friendship, music, food, oppression.
The writing style is excellent & I naturally wanted more. Read "The woods became our saviour, and each day I went a bit farther into its arms. " The woods and dandelion are used as symbols of hope while Katniss bombards us with plentiful of rhetorical questions that leaves me thinking deeply. Vivid flashbacks filled us in more on the back stories of our characters thus adding weight.
'The Hunger Games' is a symbol of the fight for freedom over oppression for many people around the world.
In the final words that dawned upon Katniss once "as long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve."
The book is divide into 3 parts and from page 1 my blood pumped faster through my veins rushing the adrenaline as the story moved in a fast paced tone. Collins has told us our reality through a fiction book, using the story as a metaphor to the real world.
On the surface, it is a love story between not only two individuals but three who have to survive The Hunger Games and its effect. But deeper meanings are hidden underneath all that: how civilization could crumble with the way things are going on today. How our world is falling apart by the greed for power in the hands of those in power. How we are taking food for granted and misusing freedom.
It's is a slight book but it packs heavy themes: Poverty, power, war, starvation, manipulation, struggle, death, violence/cruelty , injustice, identity crisis, love, family, friendship, music, food, oppression.
The writing style is excellent & I naturally wanted more. Read "The woods became our saviour, and each day I went a bit farther into its arms. " The woods and dandelion are used as symbols of hope while Katniss bombards us with plentiful of rhetorical questions that leaves me thinking deeply. Vivid flashbacks filled us in more on the back stories of our characters thus adding weight.
'The Hunger Games' is a symbol of the fight for freedom over oppression for many people around the world.
In the final words that dawned upon Katniss once "as long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve."