Blog Assignment 1 - Silent Reading Book Introduction

                                    Blog Assignment 1 - Silent Reading Book Introduction
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1. The book I am using for my silent reading assignment is Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins has written a number of books ranging from children's books like Gregor the Overlander, to more advanced fictions like Catching Fire and its prequel, The Hunger Games. But before that, she was a writer for children's television shows. Collins lives in Connecticut with her family and 3 feral kittens that she found on the street.




2. Catching Fire is an awesome book about North America in the future and how one city called The Capitol rules over 12 districts with an iron fist and uses The Hunger Games to keep fear fresh in the district’s hearts. Each year the hunger games are held and all twelve districts must send two unwilling teenagers to fight to the death on live TV for the capitol’s amusement. Now usually only one person can survive the games but this year Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Milark from district twelve have both cheated there way out of the hunger games, both surviving what was thought un-survivable. The president of the capitol is furious because there actions where rebellious to the capitol causing; as the year went by, some of the other districts started to rebel too. The president wants them dead, so the next year he makes the next theme of the 75th hunger games special, so that all of the previous winners have to go back and fight again! Will Katniss and Peeta survive yet again? Or will they both die at the hands of the cold-blooded killers that won the previous years? Read the book and see!



3. The setting of this story is a post-nuclear war North America. You can feel the death and despair that plagues the twelve districts as they have to work for the Capitol because they lost this horrible war. The districts are poverty filled communities that are completely controlled by the Capitol with them having to give all of their goods away to better the Capitol's economy they have hardly anything to keep themselves alive!When you read this book you can really sense the hopelessness the people that live in the districts feel. Most houses are falling apart while the people who live in theses houses only really use them to sleep because the Capitol works them like mules. The people in the capitol, however, live in a utopian society and don’t have to work for anything. All of these things make the world of catching fire all the more hopeless and dismal.



4. The protagonist of this story is Katniss Everdeen. She lives in the twelfth district and has just won the Hunger Games along with Peeta Milark. Two personality traits I’d give her are empowered and positive. First of, Katniss lives with her little sister and her mother. Since her father had died, she had provided for the family because her mother was sick of depression from his death which kind of made her the leader of the family. Something else that makes her empowered is her hunting ability. She is quite skilled with a bow and arrow because throughout her life, she has had to hunt and trap animals to help feed her family. This helped her a lot in the games because she could spot someone in hiding and take someone down with a bow and arrow easily. I also think that because of her hunting, she was not only physically strong, but years of gutting animals meant that her mind could handle a lot of disturbing things. This brings me to my second trait for Katniss. Though all of her horrible injuries like killer bee stings, terrible burns and even psychological torture, Katniss remained determined to survive the games. She held on to her sanity through everything the Capitol threw at her and came out alive. Even in the first book The Hunger Games when her father died she could have ended up like her mom and wilted away but she pushed through those hard years and kept her and her family alive, that’s positive.



5. I’d say Catching fire is one of my favourite books of all time but I strongly suggest that you read the first book in the trilogy, The Hunger Games. This is also a book is also very well written and the plot will make alot more sense if you read it first like it was intended to be read. I just love the action suspense and thrills that both of these books deliver and think they are both amazing. So what are you waiting for? Buy those books NOW!