The Hunger Games Cntd.

So I haven't had lots of time to read much of the hunger games but I have gotten further into the book. So Katniss and her family are waiting for the mayor to announce who is being sacrificed and they find out that her little sister, Primrose will have to fight. In the heat of the moment Katniss freezes and watches her sister slowly walk to the stage and right before she starts walking up the steps Katniss comes back to earth (so to speak) and stops her sister from walking to the stage and as her sister tries to fight it she is grabbed by. What surprised me the most is how calm about it but she says it's because she doesn't want the other contestants to think that she is weak. I think that Katniss isn't scared so much about the fact that she might die as much as the fact that even if she did win what fighting might do to her. This is because a former contestant from district 12 that won the games many years ago, attended the ceremony as a special guest and she describes him as a person that doesn't take good care of himself and intoxicates himself with alcohol a lot. I am excited to continue reading especially because I want to find out what boy from district 12 is participating.

~ Sydney Benjamin ~

2nd Blog Post ~ The Hunger Games

On Monday I started reading a book called the hunger games and it really got me interested because a wide variety of people did book reports on them so I figured I would check it out. So within the first couple of pages I became very interested, even though I'm not through with the first chapter I learned a lot. So this girl named Katnis lives in an area known as the Panem and this is where North America was before a war. Katnis lives with her mother and sister and before her father died he taught her how to hunt and enter the woods without getting caught. Katniss goes hunting daily with her best friend Peeta who gave her family food while they were starving. The hunger games is a way that the Capitol controls people of the districts (Katniss lives in the 12th district). Because people tried to rebel, every year each district has to "sacrifice" a boy and a girl between 12 and 18 to fight in an arena until death. Katniss holds a grudge against her mother because after her father died her mother became depressed and stopped being a mother and forced Katniss to take care of her mother, her sister, Primrose, and herself so now Primrose is the only person she is certain she loves.