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Book Report
-----The Hunger Games
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About The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is a book written by Suzanne Collins, one of the New York Times bestselling authors. I watched the movie first, and then I read the book. I have to say The Hunger Games is a book worth reading. I strongly recommend the book, because it is an extraordinary one in its implied meanings, and also a good book for fun.
The event is set to be happened under this circumstance: “In penance of their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and female between the age of 12 and 18 at a public ?reaping?. These tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the capital. And then transferred to a public arena where they will fight to death.” Henceforth and forever this pageant tribute parade shall be known as The Hunger Games.
At first, it shows the scene of Prim, the little sister of the heroine Katniss, horrified by the dream of been chosen to be the tribute, which means death. After she woke up threatened by the nightmare, Katniss sang a beautiful song and let her younger sister fall into sleep again. She was living in a poor condition, in fact, almost all the villagers were. Luckily, she was a good shooter, she can exchange the animals for food, but not enough food to raise the whole family, after all, she was at a bad time. On the special day for choosing tributes, Prim was chosen, and Katniss volunteered to be the female tribute instead of her little sister. And the male tribute from her district is Peeta Mellark, the boy who once fed her when she fainted at the bakery yard. Then they were on their way to the parade.
The manager President Snow thought the hunger games was a way to heal wounds, it was a price people need to pay for the rebellion, and it would unite people together. But I don?t see it like that; maybe I?m just too stupid to see the meaning of the Game. He said “hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective.
A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it?s contained.” His aim was to control people, from their action to mind. It?s cruel. He required his subordinates to do it, to give a little hope to the ordinary, and contain them. One of his subordinate was a mustache man, who liked Katniss, and helped her a lot during the hunger games when she was at the sideline between life and death. He changed the games rules several times, from President Snow?s eyes, he betrayed his superior by helping Katniss survive, and at the end, Katniss survived with her partner Peeta, while the mustache man was forced to suicide by eating a dish of poisonous blue fruits. Here I want to say, at that time, a good man may not get reward all the time, instead, he will be regarded as a pest to the exits rules. It happened in the past, and sometimes it also happens even in the modern society. I wish it will not happen in the future.
Now I would like to talk about Peeta. He seemed weaker than Katniss at the first sight, because he looked so gentle, and harmless. He did not know how to shoot or kill somebody by sword or whatever. He was a nice guy who would have lived a happy life if he was in a more humanized world. But unfortunately, destiny chose him to be the male tribute of district 12. He used to be a happy bakery, I mean that time he
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did not need to worry about surviving. After been told the cruelness of the hunger games, he wanted to survive after the ridiculous games. So he kept trying to find ways to succeed, during that period, he might had lost his nature, his personality by trying to figure out how to kill others and let himself survive. But he was born to be a nice man, so he gave up harming people, instead he just concentrated on hiding himself so no one can find him, leave alone harm him. That?s why he ran far away while others were busy at fighting with each other for supplies. But he did not have enough time to hide, so he was caught by a group of men and women. He was threatened to tell them the location of Katniss, if he resists, they would kill him, but on the other hand, he loved Katniss, from the very first look at her in the school, it was Katniss who never noticed the boy and didn?t know that he is the one who saved her life when she was starving. Anyway, he would never betray her. So he showed them the wrong direction. Obviously, the group was not made of fools, he was taken with them. And Katniss was found; Peeta did all he can do for Kat, and been hurt by the group badly. He then decorated himself as the appearance of moss. Kat knew and found him; they were into each other then, and joined together. Finally, they succeeded, but suddenly, the rule changed; only one of them was allowed to survive. Peeta wanted Kat to live, but Kat chose to die together. At the point of killing themselves, the mustache man changed the rule again, let them survive, him sacrifice for changing the rule and gave too much hope to people, which was not allowed by the President Snow.
I cannot tell whether the end is happy or sad, Kat and Peeta survived, but the mustache man died. The book makes me to think more than the plot. We will think about the system of that society and of the society we live in now. You will like the book once you read it. And it will make you think things in a deep way.
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第二篇：饥饿游戏英文读后感(hunger games personal response)
A writer and friend at IFC recently saw The Hunger Games . As a diehard fan of Potter and someone who’s up onher Twilight , she believes it’s the best adaptation of the three!
Below are a few highlights from their editorial :
“The Hunger Games,” on the other hand, stands on its own as a movie. Itdeviates from the source material in a way that is honest to Suzanne Collins’ book, and also often strengthens the story. Much like HBO’s adaptation of “Game of Thrones,” every additional scene in the movie adds something that should have been there to begin with.
That’s not to say that “The HungerGames” is without its flaws. Every movie has them. But that’s the key word right there. “The Hunger Games” is a movie in its own right whereas both “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” were chained at the hips to their source material.
By contrast, “The Hunger Games” isn’t constrained by the book’s story. Collins’ novels offer hints that a larger saga is taking place, and the film shows us that. And its strength lies in that component of the movie.
The argument can be made that “The Hunger Games” was always going to be best served as a movie. The action-packed and dramatic story was constantly constricted by Katniss’s first-person perspective while it was always obvious that the tale being told was much bigger than jus/t her. Without that restraint, the film was able to set the stage for the future “Hunger Games” films while also allowing the world of Panem to be fully developed.
We’re not surprised that the adaptation is so well done. Author Suzanne Collins herself is a screenwriter and was closely involved
【影片简介】
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games.
A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
未来的北美大陆一片废墟，在这片如今被称为“帕纳姆”的国度里，邪恶首都凯匹特强迫帝国其他12个区每年进贡一对少男少女参加饥饿游戏。这是对以前其他区起义的惩罚，同时也是现政府实施控制的手段。饥饿游戏是全国直播的真人秀，规则是所有“贡品”必须战斗到底、直到剩最后一人胜出。为了战胜那些一生都在为饥饿游戏做准备的强有力竞争者，主角凯特尼斯必须依靠自己超群的直觉，和酒鬼前游戏赢家黑密契的指点。想要回到12区的家，她必须在这舞台上，在生存与人性、生命与爱之间做出残酷的选择。