The Hunger Games is a science fiction tale of a young teenage girl living in a post-apocalyptic world, taking on an annual tournament called The Hunger Games. To survive and win the tournament, she must kill twenty four other contestants, including her new friend from her own hometown. Suzanne Collins's thrilling trilogy tells of how a girl alone will become greater than what she seems and does what she can to survive: kill or be killed....
In my opinion, The Hunger Games is intended for young adults, ranging from ages 11-16. However, I think if you are a pretty advanced reader, I would think around fourth-fifth grade is when you can read the book with not many problems on the vocabulary. There is also the fact there are some slow readers that have trouble of the vocabulary and would take a longer amount of time to finish the book, so this shows the ranges vary to other readers' views. I would describe it as an 'average' book, can be difficult, can be easy. It is a science fiction, so for those who love fiction and some twist of science, this book is definitely for you. However, it has more fiction in itself and new technology, mutations, and some other varieties tying with science. The novel creates suspense, contains philosophy,adventure,and romance. The combination of these beings you in the book, knowing exactly what the main character is thinking, feeling, and acting. I for one, did not expect there would be any romance because of its suspense and adventure, to think there would be romance seems surprising. For those who think there would be some intense romance bond between the characters within the story, I'm disappointed to say, the romance is pretty bleak. I like the fact there is somewhat a love triangle between, a best friend, the main character, and her 'star-crossed lover.' I hope there might be more complexity among the love triangle, such as new character in the next book to strained them.The combination of suspense and adventure of this novel grabs the reader's attention, so much that they might even finish the book in less than a day! I personally recommend this book to everyone so much that I can guarantee, with finishing up The Hunger Games, you'll be yearning for more to read.
Of course, the character is the main character, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is a sixteen year old girl who is given birth from her father, a coal miner, and her mother,a daughter from a middle class family. She attends a secondary school somewhere in Appalachia, known in the book as District 12 the mining sector. She has a quiet nature, prefers to stay away from the gossip group. Katniss appears to be slender with black hair, gray eyes and olive skin and can be her best friend and hunting partner, Gale's sister because of their similarities.She is well known among the district for her ability to provide highly prized and illegal game to the community and supporting her family when they are at a brink from death from starvation. She is also an remarkable archer, gatherer, and trapper, coming from her father. She is very protective to her little twelve year old sister, Prim and would do anything to ensure her sister. Unfortunately, she cannot save Prim from the reaping, but volunteer in her place in the Hunger Games. Katniss resents her mother because due to her father's death from a mine explosion, her mother's depression affected her parenting, resulting to them in brink of starvation. She also resents the Capitol for their treatment towards her district, developing a strong political sense. What I admire about Katniss is how she faces her problems head on without regrets. The problems she faced that she had a hard time deciding was on her life and her family. This shows that she is still human, having mistakes and doesn't always do what she wanted or planned to do. I can see how Gale and Peeta fell in love with her, but she is pretty dense when it comes to love, so the romance was somewhat a disappointment.
Collins's style in writing is very active, drawing the reader into the story itself. I also think it seems somewhat like J.K. Rowling's writing style. Both shows both the main character's emotions and actions, but Collin's main character, Katniss, is narrating the story instead of third person point of view. Collin's style in writing deals with the situations from both suspense and romance,so it shows a mixture of emotions for Katniss. J,K Rowlng's style is like that, for both have a lot of descriptions on the scenery is like, giving off a visionary for the reader and to in a somewhat drawing trance of the their fictional world. Every word, every sentence, every dialogue propels the story forward and all we can do is hold on. Just enough back story is layered with some unusual technology that we do not have to day such as mockingjays or force fields. With a touch of science, it displays a somewhat difference with J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. With the vague descriptions of how the survival game is intact, I enjoy how the exact it will be if you were in in a tournament like Katniss was in. I assume Collins's well written survival game is probably well researched and what the characters' future actions could be like with the similarities of the real survival game. Also, I admire Collin's creation of her fictional post-apocalyptic world. However, I do wonder whether or not Collins's ideas were in a somewhat based on Rowling's Harry Potter, but I still love reading this book. There are other people who might have done a similar plot line like Rowling's, but there are some originality qualities to it to make their plot unique in its special way. If I have to pick between these two fantastic authors, I think I won't able to because of their remarkably similar writing style.
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