The Hunger Games: Book Review #2

1. For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)
2. How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style?

     After finishing The Hunger Games, I thought that it was a very great book. It got very intense and exciting to read near the middle of the book. Its like you can not stop flipping the pages. This was really a great book, it taught me alot about how government runs when it takes control of the people. This book is intended to tell people about this kind of government system; warning the possibility that out government system might turn out this way.

     I think the audience this book is intended to are people that care about out government systems and how they function. I can tell because this book's theme is about how our government can manipulate the citizens. The tactics that they come up with to make the people in the game kill eat other. Indeed the government can become very cruel when they have too much power. This book can be given to anyone that is interested to knowing how governments function. Because twenty four people are participating in the games, this show that if we don't step up to make the change happen, or if they don't do anything to change the rules, they will never rise up against the government and stay forever controlled. I would recommend this book to people that are interested to knowing more about government systems. This book explains it in a different way to explain its theme. The story is also really good, so that it would not be as boring.


     I would describe the author's style of writing as using descriptive language through most of the book. She had good use of descriptive language and bad uses of descriptive language. Some of it wasn't really necessary and it was too much so it made it a but boring. The beginning of the book was boring to start with because it was too descriptive, but as it headed towards the middle, it got more interesting. My opinions of her style was good. Her descriptions helped me have a picture in my mind about what is happening in the story. It gave me a image of what is going on and what is happening about the surroundings. 


One example of a  bad description would be:

 "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you- the tributes of District Twelve!" (Collins 345).  

Another example of a good description would be:

 "When food is scarce, the game makers will invite players to a banquet, somewhere none to all like the cornucopia, as an inducement to gather and fight" (244).  

The first one wasn't good because they didn't put much description in it and it didn't really show lots of meaning in the line. It did not describe how they won and their victory. For the second quote it shows a meaning of the games. It shows that the government have control over the people and they can plan anything on the players since they are weaker. The stronger ones have a bigger advantage.