The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. The nation of Panem, formed from a post- apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 1. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 1. Capitol resulted in its destruction and the creation of an annual televised event known as the Hunger Games. In punishment, and as a reminder of the power and grace of the Capitol, each district must yield one boy and one girl between the ages of 1. The 'tributes' are chosen during the annual Reaping and are forced to fight to the death, leaving only one survivor to claim victory. When 1. 6- year- old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as District 1. Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives, some of whom have trained for this their whole lives. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. The first Hunger Games movie hit theaters on March 23, 2012. It was the dawn of a new moment. The Harry Potter movie franchise had just ended. One final. The Hunger Games has 3,922,020 ratings and 145,239 reviews. Dija said: My Epic Book Recipe Checklist for The Hunger Games: 1. A sharp and intelligent. Complete summary of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Hunger Games. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games) (9. Suzanne Collins: Books. This was a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy. I can only compare it to "Ender's Game" - and that is extremely high praise, indeed. When I first closed the book last night, I felt shattered, empty, and drained. And that was the point, I think. I'm glad I waited to review the book because I'm not sure what my review would have been. For the first two books, I think most of us readers have all been laboring under the assumption that Katniss Everdeen would eventually choose one of the two terrific men in her life: Gale, her childhood companion or Peeta, the one who accompanied her to the Hunger Games twice. She'd pick one of them and live happily ever after with him, surrounded by friends and family. Somehow, along the way, Katniss would get rid of the awful President Snow and stop the evil Hunger Games. How one teenage girl would do all that, we weren't too sure, but we all had faith and hope that she would."Mockingjay" relentlessly strips aside those feelings of faith and hope - much as District 1. Katniss. Katniss realizes that she is just as much a pawn for District 1. Colony and that evil can exist in places outside of the Colony.
Episode 63 of Hunger Games! Join me, Blitz & Athix as we play some Hunger Games on the HiveMC server! Blitz makes some sneaky fat jokes which doesn't make. And that's when the reader realizes that this will be a very different journey. And that maybe the first two books were a setup for a very different ride. That, at its heart, this wasn't a story about Katniss making her romantic decisions set against a backdrop of war. This is a story of war. And what it means to be a volunteer and yet still be a pawn. We have an entirely volunteer military now that is spread entirely too thin for the tasks we ask of it. The burden we place upon it is great.
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