熱門文章

網頁

熱門文章

熱門文章

2011年11月16日 星期三

Suggestion of Book: The Hunger Games

Recently I have read the Hunger Games trilogy, and I find the first book, The Hunger Games, the best of all three.
It is about a reality TV show, which takes place in the near future, and where North America is situated now – that will be demolished by war and natural disasters. On its remains sits Panem, with it's Capitol and all 12 districts around it. Twelve boys and twelve girls, 2 from each district, will be drawn at a yearly "reaping" and they will be forced to compete in an event in the Capitol – The Hunger Games. There is only one rule at the Games: Kill or be killed. Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. Katniss Everdeen lives in District 12, the poorest district, in charge of Coal Mining. One year, at the reaping, her sister gets drawn. She volunteers to replace her, but she sees as a sure death.
The tension running through the book connects pieces that fall together at the end. Unlike most fiction books for pre-teens that include intervals of suspense, The Hunger Games creates a kind of force that attracts you to the book constantly until the end, which happens to make you yearn for the next one. The ending for series of books are actually pretty predictable: either it's like Harry Potter, in which the book ends after a major event, or it just breaks off in the middle of the most exciting part. Both don't fare very well – usually they just lose the reader's interest of the next book. But the Hunger Games ends with the Games ending and Katniss and Peeta, the protagonists returning home. But Katniss has just revealed a big secret that crushes Peeta, which makes the reader want to read on to find out more.
Collins speaks with a distinct, new, fresh voice that grabs your heart and never lets go. You get whipped into the whirlpool of Katniss' world immediately and immerses in it completely. Katniss is not perfect – she has human flaws and weaknesses, as long as being stubborn, headstrong, grumpy, ungrateful, but she is also courageous, strong and independent. She shaped the story to tell of war and tyranny, and to stay alive, she will have to start making choices to weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
I think these are the things that strike me the most about this book – it significantly makes you addicted. And the movie's going to come out in early 2012 – I can hardly wait.

1 則留言: