Hunger Games Book Review #2

What was the author's purpose(s) in writing this book, and how can you tell? How well was this purpose achieved?

As I had said previously, I still think that the authors purpose in writing this book was to talk about what might happen in the world if the government had too much power over their people, and what happens when the governments has absolute and unquestioned control over the citizens of their country. This book may also show what may happen when there are TOO many scientific breakthroughs in life, such as in genetic engineering and genetic modification,

It also shows the government is manipulative, and how cruel they can be just to put on a show to their citizens, and to prove their superiority over others.

When food is scarce, the game makers will invite players to a banquet, somewhere known to all like the cornucopia, as an inducement to gather and fight. (Pg. 244)

The game makers purposefully go make an even where they try an gather people and make them fight, just to produce more fights or to produce more deaths and meaningless suffering. There is no other reason for them to do this except to prove their superiority to the citizens of the country, and to remind them of the fact that this could happen to every single one of them if they misbehaved.

This is a dictatorial government, and it is nothing like the government that we have presently. This book could also have been written to talk about the government that we have right now, the US government. The author could be implying that, even though our government may not be perfect, at least it is not like the government in the book, at least we still have the right to vote our officials into office and they do not rule our county with an iron fist.

The news sinks in. Two tributes can win this year. If they;re both from the same district. Both can live. Both of us can live. Before i can stop myself, I call out Peeta’s name. (Pg. 244)

This part shows how the Capitol, the government, manipulates the emotions of people just to try and make their point. This was when they changed the rules to draw out more love and other emotions from Katniss, but later on, they try to reverse this rule when it is furfilled. THey try to crush the hopes of Katniss trying to go back home with her “boyfried”, and then, they suddenly have to kill each other. They purposly make new rules up and go back on them just to draw a reaction out of the crowd, and to crush any hopes of escaping together and to destroy the spirit of Katniss and Peeta.