The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has been an amazing book that I cannot stop reading. I got the book during the Black Friday weekend, and in between stores while my family and I were shopping, I would immediately pull out the book and start to read. After reading it once, I realized that I was going to read it again, and this time, I would have to analyze it. I thought it would be difficult, thinking that the story was more a book that was for enjoyment than to analyze, but there is so much more to the book than meets the eye.
There was a slight connection to history between Panem and their original thirteen districts, and how America once started with thirteen colonies, and grew to fifty states, making up the United States of America. In Panem though, the thirteenth colony was wiped out due to war and a nuclear explosion, so it is just a land of ruins. Panen and the US (as the thirteen colonies) were controlled by a strong power, for Panem and the thirteen districts, it was the Captiol, a place where people lived extravagantly and never had a shortage of food or entertainment, and for the US, it was England, who tried to keep them in control, and if anyone broke their rules, they would have strict laws to punish them. They stressed the idea that they had power over their people, and made sure that the people never crossed them without big consequences behind them.
The mockingjay pin that Madge gave to Katniss to wear to the games was a symbol of rebellion. The Capitol originally created jabberjays, birds that could listen to an entire conversation and deliver it to the Capitol, in their labs, so they could monitor what the people were talking about in their Districts, to make sure that no talk of rebellion could come about. The Capitol's plans backfired though, when the jabberjays began to mate with mockingbirds, creating mockingjays, birds that were able to hear a tune and repeat it. Slowly, the jabberjays died off, and the mockingjays were left in their midst to remind the Capitol of their failure.
A question I have burning in the back of my mind to get answered, is what would have happened between Gale and Katniss if Katniss didn't have to leave for the Hunger Games? Would something have started between them?
I found many things about Peeta and Katniss strange and interesting especially their relationship. I'm curious about what would've happened between Peeta and Katniss if they hadn't been chosen for the games. Would Katniss ever have gotten the chance and taken it to thank Peeta for the sacrifice he made to help her years ago? Katniss continously looses trust in Peeta and starts to believe that whatever kind actions he is taking to help her out are all a plan to make her trust him, then he would turn against her, although she is reminded constantly about that night years ago... eventually, at the end of the first part, Collins throws a curveball at the readers, completely changing the relationship between Peeta and Katniss, but I don't want to give that away.
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