The biggest problem that the main character Katniss has is trying to stay alive.
Katniss is constantly faced with challenges that involve life or death situations, and how she handles them can win her the Hunger Games. When all the tributes were sent to the terrain, everybody was faced with life or death. You either run for the weapons and materials that could help you win the game and face everybody else that is trying to run for the same thing, or you run away and hide, and not have any materials that could help you survive.
When reading more into the book, Katniss is faced with more problems, and she finds out that Peeta had joined an alliance with other Districts. She is being shot down with fireballs, that are controlled by the Game makers, who lure tributes together to cause a fight. After being hit with one, she has a minor burn on her leg that is enough to put her in pain everytime she takes a step.
Katniss immediately climbed up a tree so that she could hide, and in the end the alliance found her. They could not reach her, they figured she wouldn't stay up there forever, so they set camp. Luckily Haymitch found sponsors to provide Katniss with a medicine to treat her burns, but now she is surrounded by tributes that want to take her life.
Katniss had found a nest of "Tracker Jackers" and they were sedated from all the smoke. The jackers were just waking up. She had a decision to make, either saw off the branch and risk being stung by the wasps, and have a chance of survival, or stay up there and have a small chance of survival. So she started to saw, and at the final moment the branch fell off, the wasps started to wake.
The nest hit the ground and the angry nest started to look for prey. The alliances started to run off, but two were not so lucky. When stung multiple times they started to twitch hysterically on the ground for a few minutes, and than they would start to swell, and ooze. Two tributes were killed, and the rest were stung only a few times, and survived.
Fortunately, Katniss was only stung 3 times, before the nest had crashed to the floor. She started to become woozy, and green liquid started to ooze out of the places that the stingers were. She started to enter a nightmare, she sees Prim die, reliving her fathers death, her body being ripped apart, ants begin to crawl out of the her blisters, and she is covered with them. This is the effect of the venom that the Tracker Jackers carry. To target the fear that lives in your brain.
So she was able to escape and survive, this was one of the biggest challenges that she faced, and she was able to overcome the problem, even though she was injured, and weak.
Do you think that you could ever survive in this type of game, being chased by tributes who want to kill you, being shot down, constantly hungry, thirsty, resting and not knowing if you will survive or not?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Characters
The main characters of the book are Katniss Everdeen, and Peeta Mallark. Katniss is only 16, but holds the responsibility of a fully grown adult. Katniss is strong willed, and courageous, she spends most of her time hunting and trading so that her mother and sister have food to eat.
She loves her little sister Primrose Everdeen, and would do anything for her. Katniss despises her mother sometimes, because after the father had died, the mother became sick and to Katniss it feels like she has given up.
Katniss has alot of emotions that she keeps bottled inside, she doesn't want everyone to see them so that she can appear strong. When she can't handle it, she'll run to her room and cry. Deep down, she always thinks about home, how her little sister is doing, her mother, and Gale.
During the ceremonies, she is very serious, no joking around, she try's to not let her emotions show, because it will make her look weak. She is constantly faced with challenges, being showcased to all the districts, having to treat the event as a positive event, even though she is fighting to the death.
Peeta Mallark, who was the male tribute of District 12 has feelings for Katniss . Peeta would do nice things for Katniss, and would look out for her. Katniss saw these acts as a way of tricking her to trust Peeta, and would in the end stab her in the back. So Katniss would not fall into trusting him, they were forced to walk together holding hands during the cermonies, and in the end Peeta announced his feelings for Katniss.
How would you feel if you were participating in this game, and if the partner who you will later have to kill, announced his/her love for you?
She loves her little sister Primrose Everdeen, and would do anything for her. Katniss despises her mother sometimes, because after the father had died, the mother became sick and to Katniss it feels like she has given up.
Katniss has alot of emotions that she keeps bottled inside, she doesn't want everyone to see them so that she can appear strong. When she can't handle it, she'll run to her room and cry. Deep down, she always thinks about home, how her little sister is doing, her mother, and Gale.
During the ceremonies, she is very serious, no joking around, she try's to not let her emotions show, because it will make her look weak. She is constantly faced with challenges, being showcased to all the districts, having to treat the event as a positive event, even though she is fighting to the death.
Peeta Mallark, who was the male tribute of District 12 has feelings for Katniss . Peeta would do nice things for Katniss, and would look out for her. Katniss saw these acts as a way of tricking her to trust Peeta, and would in the end stab her in the back. So Katniss would not fall into trusting him, they were forced to walk together holding hands during the cermonies, and in the end Peeta announced his feelings for Katniss.
How would you feel if you were participating in this game, and if the partner who you will later have to kill, announced his/her love for you?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Initial Reaction
When I first picked up the book, it immediately caught my attention as I read the author's summary. I normally do not read books at all. Like zero. This book has changed my mind, I enjoy reading the book, and its very interesting as the story progress.
The main characters of the book is Katniss Everdeen, the girl tribute of District 12, and the boy tribute is Peeta Mallark. In this world, there is no longer countries, but everything is divided into district's from 1 to 12. Every year, two tributes from each district, one boy and one girl, are sent to an island, and fight to the death. The fight is televised for everyone to watch, and the winner is showered with prizes and ease at home. Each district is ranked by there number, 1 is the richest district, and 12 would be the poorest district.
Katniss Everdeen family consists of a mother and a sister, her father was killed in a blast. Her mother was very sick, and after Katniss's father died, she was the only hope for the family's survival. So she learned how to hunt, and became very good at it. She killed squirrels, rabbits, and sometimes bigger animals, and would trade some of them at the market to different people, some for bread to Peeta Mallark father who was a baker, and some for household items that they may need. Katniss has a hunting partner named Gale, they have helped each other hunt for food, so that both their family's could have enough to eat.
Primrose Everdeen is the little sister of Katniss, she was originally the girl tribute of District 12, but at the age of only 12, Katniss could not bear the fact of her little sister fighting to the death. So Katniss volunteered to be the tribute to save her little sister.
During the cermonies which is before the fight, all the tributes are trying to impress everybody, so that they can win sponsors. If tributes win sponsors, the sponsors can provide the tribute with weapons and materials that can help the survival of the tribute.
If one of your family members were chosen to participate in a battle of death, where only one can survive, would you volunteer to take there place?
The main characters of the book is Katniss Everdeen, the girl tribute of District 12, and the boy tribute is Peeta Mallark. In this world, there is no longer countries, but everything is divided into district's from 1 to 12. Every year, two tributes from each district, one boy and one girl, are sent to an island, and fight to the death. The fight is televised for everyone to watch, and the winner is showered with prizes and ease at home. Each district is ranked by there number, 1 is the richest district, and 12 would be the poorest district.
Katniss Everdeen family consists of a mother and a sister, her father was killed in a blast. Her mother was very sick, and after Katniss's father died, she was the only hope for the family's survival. So she learned how to hunt, and became very good at it. She killed squirrels, rabbits, and sometimes bigger animals, and would trade some of them at the market to different people, some for bread to Peeta Mallark father who was a baker, and some for household items that they may need. Katniss has a hunting partner named Gale, they have helped each other hunt for food, so that both their family's could have enough to eat.
Primrose Everdeen is the little sister of Katniss, she was originally the girl tribute of District 12, but at the age of only 12, Katniss could not bear the fact of her little sister fighting to the death. So Katniss volunteered to be the tribute to save her little sister.
During the cermonies which is before the fight, all the tributes are trying to impress everybody, so that they can win sponsors. If tributes win sponsors, the sponsors can provide the tribute with weapons and materials that can help the survival of the tribute.
If one of your family members were chosen to participate in a battle of death, where only one can survive, would you volunteer to take there place?
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