The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Notes on the First Quarter

Introduction to a new world in comparison with others: city (Capitol) controlling other smaller (districts) and imposing its supremacy over them in many ways
Poor family- hunts and trades illegally to stay alive
Hunger games- 24 adolescents (2 from each districts) from 12 to 18 years are forced in an arena to kill each other and there is only one victor
Lots of description in comparison with the action
There is some action at the end of the first quarter when they go in the gymnasium of the Capitol and exercise in all ways of survival (from killing to the use of plants to traps)
Themes: friendship, family, survival and brutality

Notes on the Second Quarter

Very strong difference between the districts and the capitol
Capitol has very advanced high-technology and people are all strange with every type of surgery on their skin
Capitol citizens are all sadistic- they enjoy watching the kids of the districts kill each other
Lot of action the real hunger games begin
The Game makers need to give a grade respect to the level of strength of the person: the main character isn't given the attention she wants so she shoots in their direction fixing with an arrow the apple that was in the mouth of the pork to the wall behind leaving them all in disbelief and flabbergasted- she scene is very amusing and funny
Themes: friendship, brutality, death, action

Notes on the Third Quarter

Lots of deaths
Lots of action
Tributes are transported in a land full of trees and full of strange animals like mockingjays that if you sing well enough they sing your tune back; there are also hostile animals like tracker jackers that are wasps that kill you with stings or drive you to madness with the venom; there are also strange plants like nightlocks that are blueberries that kill you instantly when you eat them

Notes on the Last Quarter

Hunger games are different this year they have two victors that both come from the same district
The victors go home
More description as they leave the arena and go home
The action becomes lesser and lesser
There will be another two books because the hunger games is a trilogy: catching fire, mockingjay