To give some background information of how she proposed her purpose she defines it by the game called the Hunger Games. In North America, it is divided in 12 districts, and each district has to sent out two teenagers from the age of 12-18 years old to compete in the games. From the two chosen, it has to include one boy and girl. The contestants are picked randomly and they would have to go to the hunger games located in the Capitol. In the game of 24 that were chosen, they have to fight for death and only one can survive, and the winning contestant will get food for their districts.
"The rules of the Hunger Games. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. [. . . ]To make it humiliating as well as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games as a festivity, a sporting event pitting every district against others." (Collins 18-19)This shows what the districts have to go through when the Capitol takes control of them. The tributes will have no choice but to fight for their own lives. This is when they can no longer trust anyone at all and must only use their own strength to survive. Without the help of others, by working independently it will take up lots of effort and time. This shows how the Capitol ruled over the districts to show how Collins explains her purpose.
She showed her purpose by putting the Capitol in total control and making the people fight each other for their lives. By this plot, it shows that we as individuals can't change what our government is doing when we are alone. The government is trying to make everyone go separate ways so that they could not be able to work together and over power them. The governments are weakening their skills. I think the purpose of this book is very important and it teaches us about the outcomes of our governments if they take total control over us.
I like the way you gave a background information about you idea of connecting The Hunger’s Game with reality. Also when you reconnected your idea with you last paragraph. “In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, her purpose of writing this book is to show us how the future will become if our government took total control of the people. This relates to how the citizens aren't able to speak up for themselves and follow the orders that were given without backing up. [...] The government is trying to make everyone go separate ways so that they could not be able to work together and over power them. The governments are weakening their skills. I think the purpose of this book is very important and it teaches us about the outcomes of our governments if they take total control over us.” Good job on connecting your ideas, similar to a sandwich.
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ReplyDeleteThis was a really good post. Me and you had a lot of similarities when it came to writing this book review. I like the way how you give a lot of background information about The Hunger Games. It's good to have it very detailed because that way, the reader will actually feel as if they're reading the book with you. Also, I like how you didn't just give a summary about the book, but instead, you related it back to real life: the future. I think the strongest part of this was your final paragraph because it reveals an insight on the book and the authors purpose. Overall, good job!
I like your post and I think this is a really good post. Compare to Vanessa's post, you focus more on your personal opinions to the book and kind of gave the audiences a clear summary. I also like the way that your CD and CM are reflecting back to your intro and conclusion. You use the examples to connect the relations to our life. Overall, I think this is a good starting of understanding your book.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was reading this reveiw I felt that you had captured the entire theme of the book an put it in your own words. I felt by reading your reveiw it gave a great sence of what the the hunger games was about and how tyranical the government was towards its own people. The way that you decided to describe what the author ment by the way she set up the plot deeply intrigued me to want to pick this book up myself an see why the author chose this style of writing. I thank you for describing this book for me and I am glad that you were able to put in you own veiw of what the author ment.
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