Book+Review

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Determination and persistence are essential traits needed to accomplish goals. Suzanne Collins demonstrates how much a person can accomplish if these traits are present in her book, The Hunger Games. Her main character, Katniss Everdeen is placed in a life threatening situation when she volunteers to participate in her town’s annual Hunger Games in place of her 12 year old sister, Prim. She is aware of the fact that only one person comes out alive, but has faith in her self and makes her sister her motivation to stay alive. She promises she will come back alive and she is determined to keep that promise.

This book is overall great, but one of its best features is its first person point of view. Since it is written in first person, it focuses on one specific person who in this book was Katniss. All of her thoughts and feelings where known allowing people to connect with her and analyze her situation. When some of the other tributes where near there was no need to wonder what she was feeling or thinking, everything was found within the book. All of the things that went through her head and how much fear she carried within her was described in great detail. Not only did they describe her fear however, they also made her feelings for her district’s male tribute Peeta clear as well. It made me feel like I was the one in her position being in fear and desperation. When she was hunting for food, or in need of water I had a visual of what she was surrounded by and everything she heard and saw. I knew what her thoughts where abut staying alive and how many times she thought about her promise to Prim. Her feelings about the promise where expressed which made me realized why she was so determined to win.

The entire book does not revolve around just Katniss, yes she is the narrator, but she comes in contact with several other people through the story that impact her in more than one way. The author of the book Suzanne Collins did a decent job introducing every person the main character interacted with. She gave a brief description of the other tributes that surely effected Katniss in the games. All of the characters that where introduced in any part of the story had a great importance in the story some for negative and others for positive reasons.

Action, romance, and suspense is what this book contains. It is a definite page turner that surely anyone can enjoy regardless of their age. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes to hooked onto a story. This book is written in great detail which makes it all that better. It is a remarkable story of how far determination and persistence can get a person.