"It's time. There is no turning back. The games will begin. Taxes should go to the Arena and fight for survival.Fame and wealth means winning, losing means certain death ...To begin the Septuagint Rooms Hunger Games!A history of war has left the 12 districts that divide Panem under the tyrannical power of the "Capitol". Without freedom and poverty, no one can leave the confines of his district. Only a 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, dared to defy the rules for food. His prinicipios will be tested with "The Hunger Games", televised spectacle that organizes the Capitol to humiliate the population. Each year, 2 representatives from each district will be forced to survive in a hostile environment and fight to the death between them until a single survivor. When her younger sister is chosen to participate, Katniss does not hesitate to take its place, determined to demonstrate its firm and resolute, even in the most desperate situations there is room for love and respect."
Summary
A war for survival leaves America divided into 13 districts controlled by the Capitol, a place where you can have anything you want just by snapping his fingers. But came the dark days when districts fought for survival and out of the decay, the Capitol with advanced technology gets the submission of twelve districts and the annihilation of the thirteenth, and everyone remember the dark days should not repeat results in "The Hunger Games," a bloody contest in which a boy and a girl from each district must fight to the death, without rules: if you lose you die, if you win you will have the reputation of any and all Panem wealth imaginable.
Already past seventy-four years of the dark days of Panem people used to working till you drop and die, but a few brave fight and risk defying the Capitol, Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl through the fence every day twelve district to hunt in the woods, and sell the dams, the only way to survive.
At harvest of taxes for the seventieth quart Hunger Games is provided voluntarily to save his sister from certain death (her sister is only 12 years), she and her fellow district, Peeta Mellark, venture into an arena, where they could die in seconds, every red herring is an invitation to death. But everything changes when Peeta and Katniss are forced to feign love for the amusement of the Capitol, but in an act to be both survivors, are seen as icons of the rebels. Arriving at the arena the 24 competitors are involved in a struggle for survival where only one will survive.
In this arena are threatened primarily by tax district 1 and 2 each year who train for these games and volunteer. When the games start Katniss is hiding in a tree with only a backpack and stays there until the next day but the tributes of District 1 and 2 form a group to pursue and imprison her in a tree where he met Rue the District 11 tribute that suggests launching a honeycomb rastrevíspulas to flee. After fleeing Rue is tragically murdered after Peeta is injured and seeing the watchers believe this would be a good idea to create a teenage love and change the rule that where two taxes can win provided they are of the same district. What will happen when they find out they really only one can win?
Collins' career began in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. She was also the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby!
After meeting children's author James Proimos while working on the Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins was inspired to write children's books herself. Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester.
In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins. The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which allowed her to better understand poverty, starvation, and the effects of war. The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. The Hunger Games has been on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne.
As a result of the significant popularity of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010. In March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time Amazon also revealed that Collins had written 29 of the 100 most highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon list of recently highlighted passages, Collins had written 17 of the top 20.
Collins resides in Newtown, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children and two cats. Is a Roman Catholic
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Genre
Teen fiction.Inspiration and Origins
Collins says that the inspiration to write The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as the basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and that Roman gladiatorial games formed the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her father's service in the Vietnam War also affected the story, whose heroine lost her father at age eleven, five years before the story begins. Collins stated that the deaths of the young characters and other "dark passages" were the hardest parts of the book to write, but she had accepted she would be writing such scenes. She considered the moments where Katniss reflects on happier moments in her past to be the more enjoyable passages to write.Cover
The cover of The Hunger Games is black, featuring a gold mockingjay, a bird born from genetically engineered stock, with an arrow inscribed in a circle. This is an image of the pin given to Katniss by the District 12 mayor's daughter, Madge Undersee, which Katniss wears in the arena. The image matches the description of the pin that is given in the book, except for the arrow: "It's as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips."Suzanne Collins
Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the daughter of an Air Force officer who served in the Vietnam War. As the daughter of a military officer, she and her family were constantly moving. She spent her childhood in the eastern U.S. She attended high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where she was a Theater Arts major. She graduated from Indiana University with a double major in Drama and Telecommunications.
Collins' career began in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. She was also the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby!
After meeting children's author James Proimos while working on the Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins was inspired to write children's books herself. Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester.In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins. The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which allowed her to better understand poverty, starvation, and the effects of war. The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. The Hunger Games has been on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne.
As a result of the significant popularity of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010. In March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time Amazon also revealed that Collins had written 29 of the 100 most highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon list of recently highlighted passages, Collins had written 17 of the top 20.
Collins resides in Newtown, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children and two cats. Is a Roman Catholic
Awards
The Hunger Games received a number of awards and honors. It was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008 and a The New York Times "Notable Children's Book of 2008". It was the 2009 winner of the Golden Duck Award in the Young Adult Fiction Category. The Hunger Games was also a "2008 Cybil Winner" for fantasy and science-fiction books along with The Graveyard Book. It also one of School Library Journal's "Best Books 2008" and a "Booklist Editors' Choice" in 2008. In 2011, the book won the California Young Reader Medal. In the 2012 edition of Scholastic's Parent and Child magazine, The Hunger Games was listed as the 33rd best book for children, with the award for "Most Exciting Ending"Review
"I must admit I was a little fair about this book. Being so popular, and most belong to the teen fiction genre, I expected that the quality of the novel was well below what was the reality.The next book in the series - Catching Fire
The approach seemed very original. Suzanne Collins recreates a world in near future, that because of natural disasters, the territory of the USA is divided into sectors of economic specialization, 12 in total, all dominated from the Capitol. So we are in front of a dystopian world, as there is a suffocating climate of censorship, repression and violence.
Katniss lives in a state of great poverty, having to hunt wild animals and sell them on the black market to ensure the survival of his family. So we have a 16 year old is very capable of fending for itself and for 11 years has had to fend for themselves without waiting for assistance. Although there is not much depth in the psychology of the characters themselves that their evolution is noted throughout the book, and especially during the course of the games, which are an experience that would change anyone.
The other main character is Melark Peeta, the other tax district 12, Katniss barely knows, and that causes great confusion from the beginning. In fact, Peeta is quite mysterious. As the narrator is Katniss always, it is impossible to discern the true motives of Peeta, especially to see everything through the eyes of the girl desconfiantes.
The plot itself engages much, easily one plunges into the atmosphere created by Collins. It really is a book that is hard not to close, especially when the games start, it requires a mastery of the will to leave a party. What I mean is that there are a lot of action and the author, as Katniss, hardly gives you time to recuperate and rest.
But there must be a "but" I hope that in the following books in the series to develop more fully the world that the author has created. In the first book introduces the context in which the action unfolds, it briefly summarizes the history of the country and provides some data and description of the type of regime of terror in which they find themselves. Yet, by concentrating much of the novel in the development of games, not enough time to carry it further.
In conclusion, it is a book that is fine, ideal if you want to relax a bit and get away from the world around you and your everyday life. And undoubtedly, the book leaves you with a great desire to read the following. Of course, it remains fantasy literature for young adults, and, without underestimating the genre, there is some lack of depth and complexity, but this is precisely what makes reading so enjoyable and entertaining."
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