Thursday, January 26, 2012

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.

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  1. All I can say is that I agree with all of your comments because im reading the book also

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