The Hunger Games [Kindle Edition]

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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are merely seven original plots inside the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we've got Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The Home in the Scorpion—and now, following a good tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future with a specific date, or weighted it down with too much finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping story set inside a postapocalyptic world when a replacement for your United states of america demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to get used as gladiators in the televised fight towards the death.Katniss, from the thing that was once Appalachia, offers to take the host to her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, jane is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of holding to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a fresh Theseus, is cold, calculating but still likable. She has got the attributes to become a winner, where Peeta has got the grace to get a good loser.It's no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. Their State of Panem—which needs to hold its tributaries subdued and it is citizens complacent—may have created the Games, but mindless television will be the real danger, the means where society pacifies its citizens and punishes people who fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it can make this the correct book in the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences can easily with all the same rise as questions. When Katniss is distributed to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that I'm no longer self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order to not hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It's not exactly the contestants who risk the loss with their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not just the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because that is the first book in the series, not things are resolved, and what exactly is left unanswered will be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she's given approximately survive, although not whether the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to master more.
Megan Whalen Turner could be the author in the Newbery Honor book The Thief and it is sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book inside the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to get replaced by Panem, a country divided in to the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to engage in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation with the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem because the 24 participants are made to eliminate their competitors, literally, wonderful citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to adopt her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to get all of the fighting skills of the lump of bread dough, is gonna be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained because of this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships inside face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will certainly resonate with all the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book considered one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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