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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are only seven original plots inside world, it's odd that boy meets girl is usually mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the nice guy never is. Yet we've got Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The Home with the Scorpion—and now, following a good tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with a lot of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping story set inside a postapocalyptic world when a replacement for the United states of america demands a tribute from each of the company's territories: two children being used as gladiators in the televised fight to the death.Katniss, from the thing that was once Appalachia, offers to look at the host to her sister inside the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she's entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the significance of holding to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a fresh Theseus, is cold, calculating but still likable. She has the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace being an excellent loser.It's no accident that these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. Hawaii of Panem—which needs to help keep its tributaries subdued and its particular citizens complacent—may have came up with Games, but mindless television may be the real danger, the means through which society pacifies its citizens and punishes those who neglect to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it makes this the best book with the right time. What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be enthusiastic about grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences will end while using same rise as questions. When Katniss is shipped to stylists to get made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked looking at them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that i am forget about self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order to not hate these creatures who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It is not exactly the contestants who risk the loss with their humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not merely the Games though the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this really is the first book in a series, not things are resolved, and what's left unanswered could be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she's got given around survive, but not perhaps the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to understand more.
Megan Whalen Turner will be the author from the Newbery Honor book The Thief and it is sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The subsequent book in the series will be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to get replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are expected to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all of citizens needed to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected because the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to look at her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all of the fighting skills of the lump of bread dough, will probably be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who've trained just for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic because they form alliances and friendships within the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will surely resonate using the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book considered one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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