Collins, S. (2008). The Hunger Games. New York:
Scholastic Press.
The Hunger Games has become one of the most popular
books in recent years and has also been made into a movie. The author
does an amazing job with the details and allows the reader to paint a picture
of the world the writer wants to share. The plot of the books over the entire
series is amazing and follows a complex pattern of ups and downs. The story also includes flashbacks. These flashbacks are used to explain past events such as what happened to her father. In the
books, the author also creates three different conflicts. The first is man
versus nature. Katniss, the protagonist, is pitted against the arena and
its many dangers. The second is man versus man. Katniss is in
conflict with all of the other tributes in the arena and has to fight to
survive. The third is man versus himself. Katniss struggles
throughout the series to find out what is “real” and what is false. She
also struggles with who she wants to have a relationship with and with trying
to help everyone. All of this is impressive; however, the most impressive
is how dynamic the characters are. Whereas some books do not change the
characters as the story progresses with the events (static), characters should
be changed by the life altering events that occur (dynamic). Without
spoilers, these books have plenty of these life altering events and the
characters justly changed. Katniss at the end of the books is virtually
unrecognizable from the beginning of the books. She has been changed so
much by all of the “conflicts” that her character has evolved. Not only
that, many of the other characters experience similar, drastic changes.
The author does a wonderful job creating her characters and changing them with
the story.
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