Eventhough, we still do

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...

People look at reality, then you can change it.

- James Baldwin

domingo, 6 de mayo de 2012

English books: The Hunger Games

Guys! I've been waiting to write about this book the whole afternoon! (Since I finished the book at mid-day ;).
Well, let's talk about it!
"The Hunger Games", a novel by Suzanne Collins, New York Times Bestselling Author.
I don't know where to start! Let's see, perhaps from the beginning?
This novel is about Katniss Everdeen, a girl who lives in District 12 in the nation of Panem.
Panem is ruled by a Capitol, the one rules over twelve different districts.
The Capitol (as the book well says) is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them to send each year a boy and a girl between twelve and eighteen to be the tributes representing their district in the Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games are a fight to death between the twenty four tributes (each player from the districts) in the ones there can be just one winner. Furthermore it's a TV program, televised to every people in the districts.
The Hunger Games are always feared by people, as the parents fear that their children will be selected in the reaping and leaded to the bloodiest fight to death.
In district twelve, the poorest of them all, Katniss Everdeen, a girl of sixteen which takes care of Prim (his sister of twelve) and his mother, presents herself as volunteer for tribute in an attempt to save her sister Prim who's been selected at their reaping.
She will go to the Capitol with Peeta Mellark, the boy tribute from her district and she will get prepared for the games. What will happen with them? Will she survive and be the one winner of these Seventy-fourth Hunger Games?
Discover it by reading this amazing and astonishing book!
It reads like this:

Once I'm on my feet, I realize escape might not be so simple.
Panic begins to set in. I can't stay here. Flight is essential.
But I can't let my fear show.

WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE. LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH. THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN...

I leave you it's information for you to find it:
Title: The Hunger Games
Printer: Scholastic Press
Author: Suzanne Collins
Cover design: Phil Falco
Collection design: Scholastic Press
Parts of the book: 3 (and there are two books more)
Pages of the story: 374

I read one part of the book per day, it was so interesting I couldn't stop myself!
You may feel the same, enjoy it!

Miriam

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