The Hunger games

The Hunger Games

In the fictional thriller The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins we see the strictly controlled lives of the people in the 12 districts of the country Panem which lies on the ruins of North America.  Their over controlling capitol makes them live under harsh laws and threatens to punish them by death if they refuse to obey.  Every year the capitol forces each district to give one boy and one girl during the Reaping between the age of 12 and 18 to be brought to an arena and fight to the death to entertain the people of the capitol.  But it is also supposed to remind the districts of the “Dark Days” when they tried to overthrow the capitol and district 13 was destroyed.

    The story follows the life of 16-year-old  Katniss Everdeen who lives in District 12 which is in the Appalachian mountains and is known for coal mining and she has no respect for the law.  She illegally hunts everyday because she has to provide for her little sister Prim and mother ever since her father died in a coal mining accident.  She hunts with her best friend Gale Hawthorn everyday whose father died in the same mining accident and had to take up providing for his family at a young age.  
    At this years Reaping, Prim Everdeen was chosen to be a tribute, but her older sister Katniss bravely takes her place to be put into the arena.  Then, for the boy tribute Peeta Mellark is chosen, who is the baker’s son.  Peeta was very strong and broad from all of his years working in the bakery lifting heavy baking pans and carrying wood to the fires for the ovens.
    After the reaping Katniss and Peeta were brought into the Capitol building where their family and friends could come to say goodbye.  Then they were loaded onto a train that brought them to the capitol which is just on the west side of the rocky mountains.  It is a several days journey to the capitol and while aboard the train Katniss has to be cleaned and beautified for the public.
    Once Katniss and Peeta got to the capitol they immediately began training in a gym.  There were different stations where you could practice different skills such as, archery, survival, camouflage and others that would help benefit you in the arena.  But they could also have private training lessons with their training instructor who won the games about 25 years ago.
    Peeta and Katniss do choose to train together and they remain this way all the way up to the beginning of the games.  After a few days of training the tributes have to meet privately with the game makers to show them their skills and then they rate them from 1 to 12 with 12 being the best.  Katniss ends shooting an arrow up into the balcony of the game makers because they were all drunk and not paying attention to her.  She shot an arrow straight through an apple and pinned it to the wall and it actually ended up impressing the game makers and she got an 11.
    Then the games began and Katniss ended up getting a bag from the center of the arena where they put everything so the tributes have to fight violently and almost half of the tributes die right in the beginning . After days of running and hiding in the woods the game makers announce to the players that you can team up with your district partner and both can win.
    But when Katniss finds Peeta he is badly wounded but he finally got better and they end up being in the last three tributes along with a fierce boy named Cato.  So then they go in search of him and kill him but then after he is dead the game makers announce that their rules have changed and only one tribute can win.  But you’ll have to read the book to find out how it ends.
Critique:  I really enjoyed the book because it was an easy read but it was also a really good story line.  I would suggest this book for you to read, it is always action packed and very hard to put down.  I can guarantee that you would enjoy this book .  It is a very strange but intents story and keeps you engaged throughout the whole story.

Taken in Broad day light

       “I'm going on a walk!,” Bryan yelled to his Mom who was sitting downstairs on the couch as he threw on shoes and jacket and stumbled out the door.  He wasn't sure where he was going, he just needed to get out of the house after being cooped up in it for the past three hours playing video games.
       After contemplating on where to go, he started down towards the grocery store thinking that he might buy himself a pop or something.  He was just strolling down the street humming to himself when he heard a voice whisper from behind a nearby car say “GO”.  Suddenly two large men jumped from behind the car and smashed its front wind shield with a giant brick.  Then they suddenly grabbed him and then forced him to take some brief case by shoving it into his hands,They pulled a brief case that was identical to the one that they handed him out of the passenger seat of the car.  They violently threw Bryan into the car along with the case they forced him to take, and before he knew it they were in a yellow corvette. 
       Just as they were speeding away three men in black suits came sprinting up and two of them started shooting at the tail end of the corvette.  The third one came and grabbed Bryan and said to the others “Don't worry, they didn't get it” as he held up the brief case in his hands.  The other two men came up and held him up between them as the other man came up to him and said “You shouldn't of gotten yourself into all this.” He took his gun and clubbed Bryan over the head with the handle.  Then Bryan fell too the ground unconscious, then the three men dragged his limp body into a nearby van.
   Then the leader of the three men, who had knocked Bryan out, said “Let me see the case”.  As he opened it he cussed and said “ This was a decoy case, it’s empty you morons I can’t believe I brought you two along on this job. Do you know what this means?, My boss will have all of us killed if we don't get that back!”  “Let’s bring him to the warehouse and wait until he wakes up.”
       So they drove up to a big warehouse and drove the van around back and then dragged Bryan's limp body out of the back and then locked him into an old shipping crate.  After a couple of hours Bryan dragged himself off of the floor and held his throbbing head trying to recall what had happened.  Just then he heard voices outside, “The boss said that he must of been planting the decoy when we drove up, and when his partners realized that we were there, they took off without him.
       Bryan then realized that he was mistaken to be one of the thiefs and that was why they were holding him captive. The two men opened the crates doors and said, “Somebody wants to see you,” they dragged him into the building and to a small room into the basement that was dimly lit with one bulb.  They tied him into a chair as the shadow of a man came out of one of the shadowy corners.  “Answer all of our questions and well let you go free, now where did your partners go?” 
    “This is a mistake” Bryan responded frantically.   “I wasn't with those men, I was just on a walk when they suddenly jumped out and they used me as bait i swear!”  “Just cooperate and this will be easy now tell me where did they go!” 
    “I'm telling the truth” Bryan yelled “I don't even know what was in the case I was just walking down to buy a drink when this all happened I swear.”
     ”Ya right kid how much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut? Well its not enough cause well get you to tell us, bring him to the crate we’ll get information from him no matter what it takes!” the man angrily barked.
    So then the two grabbed him and drug him to the crate and locked it shut.  After a couple of hours of sitting there Bryan heard the men coming back.  Suddenly the door slammed opened and all three men entered and the leader had a pistol which he held out in one hand and yelled, “Now tell me where they went or I’ll kill you!”  “I was just on a walk when I got caught up in all of this I swear” Bryan screamed.  the man then man slowly pulled back the trigger and then there was a loud bang, and a thud could be heard outside the crate of Bryan's lifeless body falling to the ground. After that the men took a small plane that they had in the warehouse and flew away to a small island in the Pacific Ocean and were never seen again.  Several day later the police found the body but they could solve the mystery and Bryan's family remained clueless to what had happened for the rest of their days.