Are we there yet?

      The Hunger Games is a young adult novel set in a future world where mankind has reverted to a very basic “tribal like” format. These different districts all have a certain job to do to help support the growth and development of the Capital and Panem. Every year an event called the Hunger Games occurs where one male and one female from all the districts muse compete. Now these games aren’t just any games, it’s not like a simple battle of the wits and we have a winner. It’s a fight to the death. Where many people, even children, will enter and only one can leave. These games are watched by everyone in Panem and there has to be a winner. On the bright side the winning district gets more supplies for the year, which gives everyone a reason to cheer on their representative. This is a young adult novel so there has to be a voice. We find our protagonist as a young girl from district 12, a coal mining town, and her name is Katniss. Katniss has just recently won the Hunger Games, and the intro to this book puts us right where she wants to be, back at home. Now the districts have a very strict rule on travel, and we find out that Katniss doesn’t obey this rule. Although she won the Games and has plenty of food and supplies, because now she is treated like a celebrity. She still leaves the district to hunt for food for one of her best friends Gale. So no drama yet right? It’s a young adult novel there always has to be drama! I might have forgot to mention that Katniss wasn’t the only winner in the last Hunger Games. Since the creation of the Hunger Games there has only been one winner. Boy number two, I mean Peeta was the other winner in the Hunger Games. Katniss and Peeta where the last to survivors of the games, and they threated suicide if they both didn’t win. Luckily the Capital allowed them both to live. See after every Hunger Games the winner, or winners, go on a tour throughout all twelve districts and have a gathering at the Capital. The drama starts to kick in when Katniss is told by the president himself that she has be in love with Peeta or else everyone she loves will be killed. Including Gale, her long time “friend”. This novels name is called “Catching Fire” this is very symbolic to what is happening in the text. People are starting to rise up against the government and see through their lies and tricks. Katniss is one of the primary key to keep order in Panem, if she misses up we can see a total downwards spiral of the whoel area of Panem.