Catching Fire

English: A map of the fictional nation of Panem from Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Title: Catching Fire
Author: Suzanne Collins

Main Characters : Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale, Rim Everdeen, Hazelle, Haymitch, Linna, Octavia, Portia, Finnick, Mags, Johanna, Beetee, Wiress, Darius, Thread, Careers and President Snow.

Descriptin of one of the main characters: Finnick Odair is one of the participant of the Hunger Games, this year. He has already participated in the Hunger Games when he was 14 and also won it. He is the youngest boy to have won the games in the age of 14. His mentor is a lady named Mags. He is very brave. He is skilled in using swords and tridents. He is from District 4.

Whom I like and why: I like Darius. He becomes an Avox because he steps forward to save Gale from Thread. He is very brave. He serves for Katniss during the Hunger Games. An Avox is a person whose tongue has been cut by the Capitol so that they can never talk. This is a kind of punishment the Capitol gives to people who oppose the Capitol and its rules.

Whom I dislike and why: I dislike President Snow. He wants Peeta and Katniss dead. He is very selfish. He is the President of the whole Panem.  He has the power to alter laws and rules in Panem. He is heartless. He gives extra liberty to the Capitol of Parem. He likes to see the Hunger Games every year.

Setting/theme of the story: Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen get lots of money and a big house in the Victor’s village. They tour the village together. In this year of Hunger Games, Katniss and Haymitch get selected. Peeta volunteers for Haymitch, so, Peeta and Katniss participate again. They form allies with Johanna, Beetee, Wiress, Mags and Finnick. Meanwhile the people who oppose the Capitol decide to rebel against the Capitol. They use Katniss’s pin, the Mocking jay, as their symbol. Cinna, Katniss’s stylist in the Hunger Games, is also a one of those who oppose the Capitol. So, he channels his emotion into Katniss’s dress by making the outfit like a Mockingjay’s feathers. By this, he tells the people that he is a part of the rebellion. He is punished by the Capitol for this. They all go into the arena and the seventy-fifth Hunger Games begins. Mags, Finnick, Beetee, Wireess, Peeta, Johanna and Katniss stay together. Meanwhile in Capitol, Haymitch and Peutarch, another mentor of District 4, plan to blow up the arena and get out all the victors alive without the Capitol knowing about it. The Victor tributes from Districts 3,4,6,7,8 and 11 have varying degrees of knowledge about it. Only Peeta and Katniss do not know about the plan. Most of the districts in Panem are in full scale rebellion. In the arena, most of them die.  Wiress gets picked up in a hovercraft. Beetee using his wire ties to make a hole in the forcefield. The arena gets picked up in a hole in the forcefield. The arena gets blowed up. Mags dies. Katniss, Finnick and Beetee are saved by Haymitch and the people who rebel against the Capitol. Peeta and Johanna are taken away by the Capitol people. Haymitch explains to her that they saved her first instead of Peeta as she was the Mocking jay, the symbol of the rebellion. As long as she was safe, the rebellion will continue and they can win over the Capitol. Katniss falls asleep. When she wakes up she sees Gale, her friend, who is supposed to be in District 12. He explains to her that after the Games, the Capitol sent in planes and dropped fire-bombs. There is no District 12 anymore. He also tells her that he saved Prim and her mother just in time. That’s the end of Catching fire.

Part I like the most: I enjoyed the part when Cinna cleverly signals to the people that he will be a part of the rebellion by dressing Katniss as a Mocking Jay. The Capitol kills him for that.

Mocking Jay

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Title: Mocking Jay

Author : Suzanne Collins

Main Characters : Gale, Prim, Katniss, Haymitch, Coin, Pultarch, Delly, Boggs, Johanna, Jackson Katniss’s Mother, Snow and Finnick.

Description of one of the main characters: Coin is the President of District 13. Though District 13 was destroyed, the rebels went and lived in the underground. Coin wants to kill President Snow and take the place herself. She wants to be the President of Panem. She accepts Katniss as the Mocking Jay, the symbol of the rebels and the rebellion itself.

Whom I like and why: I like Johanna. She is very brave. She is from District Seven. She is athletic. She is kind. She doesn’t like people who tell false things. She is very helpful and fights very well. She was part of the last year’s Hunger Games. She was one of Katniss’s allies. She was the one who brought Beetee and Wiress to Katniss.

Whom I dislike and why: I dislike President Snow. He always tries to doom Katniss. He supports only for Capitol. He leaves messages to Katniss by keeping cold, white roses wherever Katniss goes. At last Katniss kills him. His grand daughter goes into the final Hunger games.

Setting/ theme of the story: Katnisss Everdeen accepts to be the Mocking Jay. She gives speeches and encourages everyone to keep fighting for freedom. Meanwhile the Capitol tries to destroy all the districts. They force Peeta and erase all his memories and fill him with memories like Katniss trying to kill him. Gale, Jackson, Boggs and the others save and bring them back to District 13. After treatments by Beetee, Peeta becomes normal. During one of the attacks, Boggs and Katniss’s sister Prim die. Katniss kills Snow. Coin also dies. There is just one more Hunger Games but all of  them came back alive from the arena. It is all happy. Katniss has won freedom for the people of Panem!

Part I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when Gale saves Peeta from the Capitol. I also enjoyed the part when Katniss kills Snow.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Title: The Hunger Games

Author : Suzanne Collins

Main Charaacters : Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale, Prim, Cato, Clove, Rue, Thresh, Effie, Haymitch, Cinna, Portia and Madge.

Description of one of the characters: Peeta Mellart is a son of a baker in District 12. He gets selected in the reaping to participate in the Hunger games in the Capitol, the capital of Panem (which was once called as the America). He is brave. He once saves Katniss from dying by giving her bread to eat while she was starving. He is very kind.

Whom I like and why: I like Gale vey much. He is very good at hunting. He is Katniss Everdeen’s friend. He is two years older than Katniss. He takes care of Prim and Katniss’s mother while Katniss goes to the Hunger games. He is very brave and kind.

Whom I dislike and why: I dislike Cato and Clove, the Careers. They are participants of the Hunger Games. They try to make Peeta as their ally but fail to. They do not hesitate to kill anyone during the games. Clove gets killed by Thersh and Cato dies on his own, leaving Peeta and Katniss to be the winners.

Setting/theme of the story: During the reaping, Prim Everdeen, Katniss’s sister gets selected to participate in The Hunger Games, a fight for survival against all odds, held in the Capitol every year for the whole country of Parem to enjoy. Katniss Everdeen volunteers and participates instead of Prim. Another boy named Peeta Mellark also gets selected from the same district as Katnisses. They both train under Haymitch, who had been a Victor of District 12 long before. They  go for the games and it starts after the opening  ceremony. Usually there can be only one Victor in the Hunger Games but this year, they amend the rules and the rule becomes that two people can win if they are from the same district. So, Peeta and Katniss decide to win. Rue, a girl from district 2 reminds Katniss of her own sister, Prim, so she takes care of Rue in the arena. One day a boy from District 1 shoots her and Rue dies. One by one all the participants die due to the worse weather. Thresh kills Clove. Cato kills Thresh. At last only Cato, Peeta and Katniss are left. Cato dies due to bad weather on his own. Peeta and Katniss are winners. But no one comes to take them back from the arena. So Katniss acts as if she is doing suicide and at that moment a plane arrives to take them back safely. Katniss’s act has angered all the people of Capitol, but it makes the other Districts people happy. That’s the end of Hunger Games.

Part I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when Katniss actes as if she is going to suicide to make the Capitol people come to take them away from the arena.