The Hunger Games Book #1

By Sumeet S. 

Suzanne Collins, the author of the Underland Chronicles, is one of the very few  that are able to raise your eyebrows every second and raise your adrenaline after you read through a page of each of her books. Collins’s book, The Hunger Games, is an young adult fiction book about a 16 year old girl, Katniss Everdeen, who immediately volunteers herself for the gruesome and torturous Hunger Games competition so her little sister, Prim Everdeen, did not have to compete.

 

            Katniss Everdeen is a tough and resourceful girl that is fighting for her family for their survival. She has to illegally kill animals in order to serve her family. She lives in District 12, the poorest district out of the twelve. Every year, one boy and one girl are selected from each District to participate in the games and the 24 kids’ battle each other to the death and whoever is the last one standing gets unforeseeable riches for their lifetime.

            When she volunteered herself for the games, her whole family and she knew that this was basically a death sentence for her because no one from District 12 has ever won in decades. When District 12 got their two candidates, Katniss and Peeta, they never suspected how good they really were. Since Katniss’s intelligence about plants and hunting skills are so impressive, she had an advantage over the other stronger and healthier kids from the other districts. And Peter also had an advantage because of his strength and his resilience. As this competition continued, Katniss grew closer and closer to Peeta and created an alliance against the other competitors for their survival.

            Suzanne Collins’ writing was good, but not great; the words described the actions in the book, but that’s it. However what made this book very intriguing and intense was the incredibly complex, but spectacular Katniss Everdeen. This book also allows the readers to notice the stunning similarities between Katniss’s world and our world. In Panem, most people have to work for the people in the Capitol while US’s luxury depends on someone else’s poverty. Even though Collins did an amazing job of creating the character Katniss Everdeen, I feel like she should have involved Peeta more; he seemed as if he was a secondary character in the story and Collins should have put him in the story more often.

            I’m new to Collins’s writing and was intrigued to find out that she was about to release the sequel to The Hunger Games. So while I wait for his next book, I can read the Underland Chronicles to keep myself busy. You should totally check her out as well.