Catching Fire

I'm still reading the second hunger games book "Catching Fire". The basic plot of the book is that Katniss has recently won the hunger games with her "boyfriend" Peeta. She thinks life will go back to usual, but it never will. The president Snow tells Katniss that she will start another uprising against the capitol with what she did in the arena because there is always one victor in the Hunger games but Her and peeta were gonna eat poisonous fruit and die so no one won because they refused to fight each other, so they let them both win. This has shown rebellion in that is basically says "The capitol does not own me". The president tells her that he will kill her friends and family unless she shows the nation that she is loyal to the capitol. But it doesn't work out, behind her back people rebel and she is their leader, her mocking jay pin is the symbol. One by one the capitol hurts her best friend, and her friend Cinna. An uprising in district 8 occurs. As punishment the president sends the most recent victors of all the hunger games back in.

That's what i read so far. The issue of government and anarchy come up allot. Her government is evil, anyone who goes up against them is secretly killed, they force people to work in the districts for low wages and unsafe conditions. As Katniss likes to say "District 12 where you can starve in safety." The hunger games itself was created as a punishment of 75 years ago when the district rebelled against Panem's capitol because of it's unfair so called "democracy", instead of listening to what their people have to say they decide to bomb district 13 to nothing and create the hunger games. citzens feel that they should rather have control of their own district then being controled by this force of evil.

Social Awareness (LATE)

I'm doing my picture book on Cancer. I got into this topic by Sako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes it's a book about a girl in the 50's in Japan. It's been about 10 years after the bombing in Japan. Sako is an up beat and active little girl who joins a race at her school, she begins to feel strange and something heavey on her chestm She is taken to a hospital and it turns out she got radioactive poisinig from the bombing which means she has cancer. Her friend tells her that if you make 1,000 paper crnes the gods will grant you health. Sako ends at 600 before she dies in her bed with her family around her. I cried for too long, still writing this i'm crying (for real).  Felt that now i needed to write a book on having cancer. This topic is too importnat for me to ignore.

Blankets

I finished re-reading one of my favorite books of all time. "Blankets" by Craig Thomson. I don't want to give too much away so here's a summary. Craig, his little brother Phil, mother and father live in a small farm town in Wisconsin. They are poor but get by, Craig is very religious just like his father and deeply believes in God. At school he is bullied by the other boy because of his social class and the way he looks. He feels like a failure to God because he doesn't look after his brother even when he gets into a dangerous situation, he doesn't do well in school, he's not strong or athletic or social. His only gift is he is a natural born artist. When Craig is 17he goes to a Church winter camp for a week during his three week winter break, this is where he meets the love of his life Raina. For two weeks and gets a window into Raina's stressful life. When he has to go he never see's Raina again.

This book has some really interesting themes one of them is religion. During the book Craig goes through a religious war with in. hen he is young his parents drill religion in his head, they make him believe that god is the lord of the universe, that there is only one god, that Jesus s the son of god and died for our sin. He takes this very seriously, he even burns all his drawings claiming that they took away from his Bible studies. But when he meets Raina they talk about God, Raina doesn't believe in Heaven or Hell, she doesn't believe in Adam and Eve, and once Craig leaves his house and goes to new york city he realizes he doesn't believe at all, he realizes the bible doesn't make since and that people like his mother depended to much on made up stories, don't get me wrong Jesus was real, Joseph was real and some other biblical prophets were real people but lost there real meaning in exaggeration, to the point where the myth and truth merged into the same thing.

Catching fire Thesis

thesis: in [Catching Fire] the goverment there is a lot like the goverment in many diffrent nations we have today. They try to cover up to the public serious problems that could concern them and anyone who tries to speak out will die.