the Hunger Games: the girl who was on fire 705

Lucie Pascarosa          705               10/7/12      SPOILER ALERT!


          I am reading an interesting book, The Girl Who Was On Fire. The book is a collection of opinionated essays about the authors' opinion of The Hunger Games. There are multiple authors, and they all share their experiences with The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. They compare the trilogy to real life, and show how different yet similar the books are to real life. So far I think The Girl Who Was On Fire is a really good book.

          In The Girl Who Was On Fire, the most common topic with all of the authors is the rebellion. They try to decipher the meaning of the rebellion, by finding the symbols in the three books. One of the biggest topics in The Hunger Games is how the berries sparked the rebellion. Katniss holds out the berries and forces the game makers to let her and Peeta win, or as one author put it, the engineers gave in to the watched. In Catching Fire, she gets rescued from her second games and is brought her to district thirteen, or as I like to call it, the rebel district. This really gets the rebellion going and finally, in Mockingjay, Katniss kills Coin, her little sister is shelled, and Snow goes down. The authors show symbols that only authors can find, and show you the true meaning of The Hunger Games.

        In The Girl Who Was On Fire, I noticed that one author categorized people into sections. There were the watchers, or the people from the districts, they watch the games. there was the watched, or the tributes, who fight to the death. Then there were the engineers, as I said before, they were the game makers. The author explains that it is a cycle, or a food chain. The engineers make the games for the watchers, and the engineers have to keep the watchers entertained or they will go against the engineers, and the watched. The engineers help the watched to entertain the watchers. And the watched try to entertain the the watchers to get sponsors to save their life. See what I mean? It's a cycle.

      That is why I think The Girl Who Was On Fire is an excellent book so far, and I am glad that even though the authors write about the same things, it is interesting every time because each author has her own way of writing.