{"id":4255,"date":"2012-02-03T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2012-04-07T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T03:11:33","slug":"the-hunger-games-has-become-a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=4255","title":{"rendered":"‘The Hunger Games’ has become must read"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newest book that has become popular among teenagers is The Hunger Games <\/em>by Suzanne Collins. The book is the first of a trilogy. \u00a0The Hunger Games <\/em>is so widely popular that a movie is being produced and is set to be released March 23, 2012. \u00a0This is part of the reason people have been reading it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The book is about a dystopian society where the government contains complete control over all 12 Districts. \u00a0The setting is in future America, and instead of states, the country is divided into districts. \u00a0Every year, the Capital chooses a boy and a girl over the age of thirteen and under the age of eighteen from each district to compete in The Hunger Games. \u00a0The Hunger Games are a yearly source of entertainment. \u00a0Some districts, the richer lower numbered districts, think of it as an honor to be chosen as the player of the games. \u00a0As the district number increases, so does the fear of being chosen as the player.<\/p>\n

Primrose Everdeen, thirteen years old, gets chosen to be the girl player for District 12. \u00a0Out of fear, her older sister Katniss Everdeen \u00a0volunteers to take her place. \u00a0Peeta Mellark was chosen for the male player. \u00a0 Haymitch, the only previous Hunger Games winner from District 12, is the players’ only source of training for the games. \u00a0Haymitch tells Katniss and Peeta to work their way through the games pretending to be lovers, so they would win the heart of the nation wide audience and, hopefully, the Capital. \u00a0Alliances are made and the final two people are Peeta and Katniss. \u00a0They both put poisonous berries in their mouth to convince the Capital to let them both win. \u00a0For the first time in the history of the Hunger Games, two winners defeated the games at the same time.<\/p>\n

This book was written from a very meticulous point of view. \u00a0The author must be a very creative and imaginative person to create a society with a system so \u00a0traumatizing and yet so honorable at the same time.<\/p>\n

I completely disagreed with the love triangle between Gale, Katniss, and Peeta. \u00a0From the beginning, I wanted Katniss and Peeta to be together. \u00a0Gale gets in the way. I did not like that the author assumed that we knew things that were not plainly described. \u00a0I wish more detail had been given. \u00a0The only other thing I did not like was the fact that the book ended.<\/p>\n

I liked the details of the arena, and the descriptions of the Capital. \u00a0The story line created a great read and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire story. \u00a0Through all the adventures Katniss and Peeta figure out the best way to beat the odds. \u00a0I loved the end of the book. \u00a0The ending of the book led to the second and the third book. \u00a0Making the Capital mad by tricking them into having two winners foreshadowed the third book especially.\u00a0The Hunger Games <\/em>was a great start to a great trilogy.<\/p>\n

I, along with other Hunger Games fans, anticipate the release of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest book that has become popular among teenagers is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The book is the first of a trilogy. \u00a0The Hunger Games is so widely popular that a movie is being produced and is set to be released March 23, 2012. \u00a0This is part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-opinion-and-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}