Final Project Book 3

The Hunger Games was supposed to be a suspenseful action filled romance. The Hunger Games was not only all of that, but much more. The first thing that I loved about the book were the characters that the author Suzanne Collins put into the story. I love how she made them all so different and unique then any other book that I have ever read. I would have never thought to make the people in the Capital have crazy hair and there voices and hair styles are so unique to this book. Also how she describes everyone you can clearly picture how each character is. This is an example of the author describing Effie Trinket, “Her pink hair must be a wig because her curls have shifted slightly off center since her encounter with Haymitch.” You can completely picture what Effie Trinket looks from just one of her sentences. Another thing that was really good in this book was the plot and general idea for this book. It is not often that you see authors with such creative ideas and can also put them on paper. The idea that there are 12 districts and every year have the annual Hunger Games that they put kids in to kill each other isn’t a very common idea that writers have. It is amazing that she could even think to come up with such a creative plot for this book, it is even better that she could take this idea and manipulate it and put it on paper as well as she did. Suzanne Collins did a very good job not doing a very common plot or the same route that all these other authors are taking when writing their books. She went out of her way and developed a great idea and she did a great job making that idea in to an awesome book. Another thing that was great about The Hunger Games is the writing style that she incorporates into the book. She writes with so much character and so much detail that you feel like you can picture and imagine every single scene. When you read it you feel like you could make a picture book of the book because you were given so much detail for each scene and character. Suzanne Collins has a way of adding so much description and using complex metaphors, or language in the book yet it is so easy to understand and read and your not caught up on every sentence wondering what she means. An example of her writing craft is when she says, “And then I see her, the blood drained from her face, hands clenched in fists at her sides, walking with stiff, small steps toward the stage, passing me, and I see the back of her blouse has become untucked and hangs out over her skirt.” This sentence gives so much detail about Prim walking up and you can imagine everything she is writing because it is written so clearly, but with so much personality and craft. I feel that the quality of this novel is excellent. There are great characters, story line, and everything is up to par. Some strengths of this book was that she was able to make everything so that you could understand it and picture it, her characters were unique the plot was unique, great writing craft. Some weaknesses for this book were that some parts were stretched a little to long when they didn’t need to be and that sometimes things were so broken down it didn’t even make sense anymore. That didn’t happen to often, but it was something that I noticed. I give this book a 4.5 out 5 stars because the characters, plot, writing craft was great and she really did a nice job writing the book, but some parts I didn’t feel the adrenaline because we took too much time on it and also some parts just didn’t make sense when I was reading it.