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. This book also shows how survival of fitness determines who can win, as a connection to how humans took over and their strength and weakness.
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.
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.
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:
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.
