The Hunger Games

THE HUNGER GAMES

By

Suzanne Collins

Chapter 1 summary

Chapter 1 starts off with the main character waking up on the side of the bed. The main character realizes that today is the day of reaping. Before I go any further lets give some background information this story takes place after North America got destroyed  in a 2^nd  civil war and the result of this war is the separation  into 13 districts one of which got completely annihilated so to “celebrate that day”. The Hunger Games are held to control mass population and the competitors are raged from 12 yrs-18 yrs and from the age 12 when u get 1 slip it doubles for the next 6 years and u can add your name more and more for food and oil. So technically the government officials are lining kids up from 12 yrs-18 yrs lined up like cows getting ready for the slaughter. Now the thing with the slips it’s a entry form the more you have the more of a chance you will have to getting accepted into the competition and this competition is a fight to the death. Alright  now back to the main character after waking up she gets dressed and heads to the forest to hunt and meet this boy named Gale so the main character is going through the forest and eventually after getting some game as in hunted animals strawberries etc. as well as Gale bagged some game so when the main character and Gale meet up the talk for a bit and then eat some bread and cheese after there snack they go to the black market to sell half of they bagged during hunting after this the main character and Gale part ways. Once the main character reaches home she sees her mom and little sister Prim all dressed up and a dress laid out for her so she takes a bath and gets dressed after she gets dressed the head for the town square. Then the drawing for the Hunger Games commences the mayor talks about the 72 history of the Hunger games then to the main character’s horror her 12 year old sister get picked…

  My personal reaction to this chapter was more on the sentimental level because how the main character fear that her little sister about being picked to participate in the hunger games and I could feel her worry and how scared she was for her sister.

   I think the author of this story was trying to get you to feel the fear and sorrow the main character was feeling toward the fact her little sister may be selected to partake in the hunger games  and if Suzanne Collins intended this to be what she was trying to get the reader to feel then she succeeded.

                  Chapter 2 Around the Campfire

Oaths sworn…

        Loyalties tested…

                Forces collide.

This Chapter is about Eragon and his Cousin at helgrand MT. to comfront the Ra’zac. This chapter begins with Eragon and Roran around a campfire with coals compared to the  heart of some huge beast. Then Eragon Flashes to the battle of the burning plains at the end of the second book. Eragon recounts the events so vividly and he loses himself in the flash back remembering him face to face with another dragon rider with a bright crimson dragon. During the fight between this rider with the crimson dragon and Eragon on his dragon named Saphira(sa-FEAR-uh) Eragon manages to take off the other riders helm and finds out that its his close friend murtagh. (mur-tag) And in the shock of discovering Murtagh has sworn allegiance to the evil king Gallbatorix(gal-buh-TOR-icks) Murtagh manages to pin Eragon down at sword point cutting into his flesh and During this time Murtagh tells Eragon that he and Eragon are brothers. At first Eragon doesn’t believe him but then he told him in  the Ancient language which you can not lie in that they are brothers and that there dad is Morzan the person who destroyed the riders and that his mothers name was Selena . Then Saphira cuts into his thoughts and snaps him back into the present. After this Roran asked if Eragon could teach him how to use magic so Eragon agrees by trying to teach Roran the first spell Brom had taught him which was Stenr ! or stone rise! Roran fails at this. Then Eragon and Roran shows each other there scars and then Eragon see’s the wound inflicted to his cousin from the Ra’zac and he heals them. Then eragon and roran falls asleep for the night for a early rising and to raid Helgrand MT. to rescue Rorans to be wife.

     My person reflection on this chapter and what I think Christopher Paolini intened to make his reader feel after reading this. To me this chapter was entertaining I could feel the shock eragon felt about finding discovering his heritage etc. and I think the authors intent was just that to make u feel the shock of finding his out his friend Murtagh who he thought dead now works for Gallbatorix and is his brother on top of that discovering his dad was Morzan the person who was responsible for the fall of the riders. Paolini did a great job on this chapter and i can't wait to keep reading this book.

Chapter 19 Eragon

The Eragon is a book about a boy named Eragon who finds a dragon’s egg in a forest in the mountains. He takes the role as a Dragon Rider because he wants revenge on the people who killed his uncle and destroyed his farm.

     This chapter is about Eragon and his guardian Brom who goes into a village named Yazuac to get fresh supplies water, food etc. But when they reach the main village its seems abandoned so Eragon goes to the center of the village to see that all of it’s inhabitants has been brutally massacred and Eragon sees a new born child impaled on a spear at this sight Eragon gets sickened by the sight of such cruelty and such evil. At this moment Brom comes in and inspects the area surrounding the bodies and Brom said the people they are looking for didn’t do that but a clan of monsters named urgals which look like muscular pig bulls  did then he exclaimed to Eragon RUN!! There are still urgals in the town and at this moment two urgals shows up one punches Eragon right off his horse and slams into a wall crumpled in a daze Eragon stands up but the urgal is about to pin him down then he sees that Brom got knocked off his horse blood trickling down his head at this sight Eragon shots an arrow at the urgal to draw his attention away from Brom which he did but ends up getting trapped at a dead end during this moment Eragon gets filled with immense anger and he refused to die there so he notched an arrow and yelled Brisingr!! (Fire) at this command his arrow in flames and contacts with one Urgal and incinerated both of them after this Eragon feels very tired and weak then he collapses.

     My personal reaction was I could feel Eragons anger from seeing what he did especially a new born baby impaled on the end of a spear if I saw that I would feel exactly like Eragon a combination of anger, disgust, and sorrow .

    I believe the authors intent was to get u to feel the anger the disgust and the sorrow Eragon did in this chapter the organizational pattern was cause and effect because from Eragon seeing all the dead bodies cause him to feel anger, disgust and sorrow and by utilizing these feelings he killed the two urgals and saved himself and Brom.

chapter 1 of unwind summary

The book unwind is about where there was a second civil war and there was a bill of life passed. Which says that a parent could choose to unwind there child from 13-18 which is the process of taking out the organs of the person and giving them to another person so the child could live on in another body.

   The first chapter is about a kid named Connor  who’s 16 and his parents signed the wager form for him to be unwind. Conner find this document signed in his dads study and he tell his friend Arianna about what his parents plan to do and she’s very sad about it so they discuss a plan to run away with each other. When Conner gets home he sees his  dad sitting down at the fireplace  and he looks very troubled but who wouldn’t be he technically should his son’s soul to the grim reaper his dad tells him his mom has dinner for him in the microwave but he doesn’t go to eat instead he goes to his room and pretends he asleep till he runs away. so a little skip further in the chapter he goes to Ariannas house and tries to see if she was ready to leave but she decided not to go with him. So he travels to a trucker stop and sees two police cars patrolling the truck stop so he hides and waits for a place to hide he sees a trucker leave a room in the truck and he leaves the door ajar so he runs in there but then the trucker  walks back to his truck and sees him so he lets him stay in there till morning. But the trucker gets pulled over and arrested but Conner bolts in to a road and runs inside a taxi.
     My personal reaction to this reading selection was disgusted because why would parents even do that like to me its just murder, killing your own child and giving his organs away the whole concept of unwinding is just sickening but it was an interesting read though.
      if i was to create notes to help me remeber the most important point from this read i would choose lists because when i write a list i tend to remeber the material better. When i take notes i usually put them in lists because i tend to be able to learn/understand the material better.

Fiction is my favorite genre. I like to escape when i read books, i enjoy stories that tells me something other than my normal life. As long as it is its up my alley.
   Speculative fiction is my second favorite genre I like to get as far away from reality when I read books. I enjoy escaping into a world completely different from my own
   
    I did my blog about The Son of Neptune because it is a carry on from my favorite series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This book was so brilliant because the way the story was written it pulled you in and u didn’t want to stop reading and put the book down. The Rick Riordan was able to carry on from the Percy Jackson series from Greek to Roman mythology was brilliant and I love how he mixed ancient mythology with modern times was so brilliant. If I was to rate this book out of 1-5 stars I would rate it a 5 out of 5