Why I have chosen this book?

The reason why I have chosen this book is because that I wanted to continue to read the book series. Before I've read Catching Fire, I had chosen The Hunger Games, which is the first book of the series. I really wanted to know what happened in this book, because one of my friends spoiled a bit for me about the Games in a tropical beach and I was determined to read it. I also wanted to know how Katniss will cope the pressure of the Capitol and her memories from her Games. And last but not least, I wanted to read the romance between Peeta, Katniss and Gale...

Reading Log No.7

Katniss entering the arena in the new movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(This is a GIF, this counts as a picture.)

- I have less than a minute to get my bearings. Then the gong will sound and the tributes will be free to move off their metal plates. But move where? I can't think straight. The image of Cinna, beaten and bloody consumes me. Where is he now?... ( Katniss is terrified of what happened to Cinna).

I think that it's really unfair of President Snow by torturing Cinna before Katniss enters the Games, which make her scared. After all he did to her, I don't think that Katniss will forgive Snow. I think it's really intense how she comes up to the arena, as I said in the earlier posts, the book describes really good which gives me the adrenaline which Katniss is having. I think I know how Snow was thinking, I think that if he torture Cinna in front of Katniss, she will die quicker. I really wish that Katniss will have her revenge...

Reading Log No.6

- I am going back into the arena. (Katniss thinking about Snow's announcement of the 75th Hunger Games.

The author of this book really knows how to shock a person to death. I feel really sorry for Katniss, because it was only a year ago when she fought really hard in the Games and now being forced to go back in. I think that Snow's problem hasn't been solve and that the only way to have it his way is to take her off, by sending her to the arena, with the other previous victors. But, if she gets killed in the Arena, wouldn't it make it alot worse? I mean, people sees her as the face of a revolution, if you suddenly take her off, wouldn't the people go to war with the Capitol. What Snow is doing is like poking a beehive with a stick...

Favourite Characters

My favourite characters in this book is Katniss and Cinna. First of all, when I read this book, I can feel her emotions and it's like if I was in her position. I see that Katniss is lost when everyone is relying to do the "right" thing, when she only wants to protect her family. I really love how Katniss show her courage when she gets furious, she's the spark which is left to be a inferno.

Cinna is the most friendliest person in this book, he makes one of a kind costume for Katniss which she describes beautifully and before the Games started, both Katniss and Cinna had a moment for their selves and that he is betting on her to win. Of all the characters in books I have read, I think these two characters are the best.

Reading Log No.5

The Mockingjay pin from the movie, The Hunger Games.

- At the sight of it I realize I never got a full explanation of the bird on the cracker and what it signifies. (Katniss thinking about the women she met in the woods, Bonnie and Twill, both from District 8).

 I never knew that a small pin could mean something big within the districts and is the code for the rebellion group. At first, Katniss wanted to take the pin with her into the Game, as her remembrance of her people in her district. But, this pin also won Rue's trust for Katniss and they made an alliance together, but when she dies, Katniss puts flowers around her to show everyone that she isn't a piece of their Games. When everyone was watching this, I think that the people gave it's meaning that the one who has the mockingjay sign, is against the Capitol, that's what I think...

Reading Log No.4

- Did I do it? Was it enough? Was giving everything over to you keeping up in the game, promising to marry Peeta enough? In answer, he gives an almost imperceptible shake of his head. (Katniss at the President's mansion)

 Well I think that he is insane, if she didn't get any help from President Snow, then of course her mission to persuade the districts will fail. I really want to know why he has done that, if he asks Katniss to help him calm down the districts, why won't he help her? He has actually the power of everything. It's like if he want her to fail...

Reading Log No.3

- I nod. He means there's only one future, if I want to keep those I love alive and stay alive myself. I'll have to marry Peeta. (Katniss and Haymitch, her mentor during the Games, having a conversation about Snow's threat).

I think that Katniss made a mistake here, I really understand why she has done chosen to do this but I don't think this will solve anything. This is because that, if Peeta and Katniss were to marry each other, only the Capitol will fall for it but not the districts. This news isn't that big them, but when Katniss pulled out those berries, that's what made them convinced that there is still hope for freedom. I think that this will make a big problem later in the book...

Reading Log No.2

 This is a video when Rue dies in the movie, The Hunger Games.

-"But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in the yellow flowers that grow in the Meadow by my house. I see her in the mockingjays that sing in the trees. But most of all, I see her in my sister, Prim." (Katniss having her speech in District 11 on her Victory tour).

I became so speechless, but to be honest even if my eyes couldn't speak, the tears were like words. I can't blame her on what happened in The Games or the meeting with President Snow, but Rue's family and District 11 deserved that speech and if I were to say how people in the districts look at her, I can say that she's the miracle that can defy the Capitol and their Games. I certainally love Katniss' rage for the Capitol, she dare to do something, which others can't. This makes me to read even further...

 

Reading Log No.1

-"Convince me, " he says. He drops the napkin and retrieves his book. (President Snow talking to Katniss.)

 The reason why I chose this quote is because that I reacted when President Snow threatened to kill Katniss' family and friends, I think that it is wrong of President Snow that he is blaming Katniss for the uprisings in the districts, because she was not the one that made The Games. It was already his problem from the start, Katniss just showed, in the Games where she took out the berries to save both herself and Peeta in the Games, that someday this will eventually end. But, President Snow claims that her act of love to Peeta wasn't real for the people in the districts and he demands that she has to do everything to change that.

The Main Character

In the book which I'm reading, the main character is called Katniss Everdeen. She is a 17-year-old girl, who lives in a place called District 12 with her mother and sister. She has recently won The 74th Hunger Games, with her fellow lover, Peeta Mellark, and now they are about to do the victory tour between the other districts. Katniss has a excellent skill in archery and it is because she has got taught by her father, who is to be dead now. Ever since her father died, her mother went into depression and she took the role as the family provider, in order to do that she goes beyond District 12, which is not allowed, and go hunt with her long-time friend Gale.

In the last book, The Hunger Games, the author gives us some hints about Gale who has feelings for her, but he got hurt afterwards when Peeta and Katniss had confess their love to the Capitol. After The Games, Katniss thought that after she returned to District 12, she would try to forget want happened in The Games and that she thought that everything would go back to normal, which it didn't...