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A Report on The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008, e-book edition) is written by Suzanne Collins. The central ruling city, named the Capitol, holds the hunger games, in which tributes from 12 subordinate districts fight against each other. The games won’t stop until there’s only one tribute in the arena. In this book, Suzanne Collins fully conveys a message that domination causes miseries, and that weaker people should not yield to that dominating power.

The Hunger Games story is about how the girl Katniss volunteers to play in the game for her younger sister, moves forward with faith, and finally wins both love and the hunger game. Katniss and Peeta are the tributes from district 12. Their main threat is the Careers, who are professional killers. In the vast arena, Katniss stays far away from other tributes. But after she gets the bow and arrows, Katniss begins attacking. She allies with Rue, who is killed later. She then finds Peeta, and they become lovers. Acting as a whole, Katniss and Peeta survive to the end. But there can only be one winner. They decide to commit suicide together, in hope that there can be 2 winners. Finally, they succeed and return home.

The book’s popularity is much linked to its fiction style, but that’s not the key point. The story, which is imaginative and dramatic, makes the book even more appealing. The games happen in a brand new world in the future. The games are played for a somehow strange reason, by boys and girls chosen at random. The background presents readers with many possibilities, which start our

imagination. Who will win the game? Generally thinking, the winner should be a cruel, muscular guy. During my reading, I find the story more and more interesting because I see increasing hope of a girl being the winner of such a physical game. Katniss is not an average girl: she “sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew” (51). Yet that can only show she may not die too early. Later,

Katniss gets the highest score in the training: “Then they’re flashing the number eleven on the screen. Eleven!” (108) Throughout the game, there are several times when she nearly dies. For example, she encounters a water crisis: “There’s no danger of tears now, I couldn’t produce one to save my life” (167). But she gets over every time. Each up and down can lead to an emotional wave on readers. Finally, Katniss wins, not the strong boys, not even the Careers. “The berries have just passed my lips when the trumpets begin to blare” (339). The final victory of Katniss and Peeta drops the curtain of this dramatic and touching story.

In my opinion, the Hunger Games is written mainly against domination. On the one hand, the hunger games are the product of domination. They are bloody and cruel as readers can see, much more frustrating and miserable for residents in the districts. The reason why the games can be

created is because of the unbalanced power: “As our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games” (19). The Capitol is much stronger, and it makes the games of deaths a TV show. Mere entertainment as they are for the Capitol, they are nightmare for the districts. Domination causes miseries—23 are killed in violence while one survives. In reality,

Egypt emperors rest quietly in the solid pyramids, which thousands of slaves work to death during the construction. Nowadays, there are still undemocratic governments exerting strong power upon

people. On the other hand, the author’s opinion about the ruling Capitol can be seen clearly from the characters Katniss and Peeta. “I want to die as myself…I could think of a way to show the Capitol they

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don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games” (140), says Peeta. Although the

Capitol can easily take tributes’ lives, Katniss doesn’t have a shadow of fear. The Capitol wants all the 12 districts to learn their lesson from the games, but it fails to bring Katniss at its feet: “I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own.” (233) Then she decorates Rue’s body. The Capitol only increases Katniss’s hatred and anger through the game: “Rue’s death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us.” (233) Collins shows that the Capitol can never dominate people’s mind. She is against such domination.

I also learn something about hope from the story. Katniss moves all the way forward with hope. She tells Peeta in the arena, “If we win, we’ll each get a house in the part of town reserved for Hunger Games’ victors” (300). She doesn’t give up but does everything she can to increase the

possibility of survival. As young adults, we should also have faith in our future. Ups and downs as we may face, none of them is challenging enough compared with the death threat Katniss encounters. Katniss never lose hope. Neither should we.

The Hunger Games presents a splendid story. The story tells us that although the strong side can rule the weak side by power, it can not rule people’s mind. Katniss is at the weak side, but she bravely makes her protest against the Capitol, and defeats all the strong Careers. Katniss wins, because of her strong mind and determination to win. I admire Katniss’s spirits. Life is a game, and we should struggle to win.

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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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