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The main character is Katniss Everdeen who is a 16 year old girl. She lives with her mom who is a nurse and her younger sister Primrose. Katniss and Gale go outside of their district and by climbing through in the whole of the fence that’s supposed to keep everyone inside their district. When they go out into the woods they go hunting to provide food for their families and talk about how life would be if they ran away from the district. It’s the day of reaping, which is the process of anyone over 12 years old has to enter their name to enter the hunger games. The hunger games is a fight to the death between two selected kids, a boy and girl, from each district. District 12’s drawing took place and in the drawing primrose’s name was drawn, however Katniss volunteered in her place. The boy tribute from district 12 is Peeta Mellark. Peeta Mellark is a town boy who is a baker. Katniss and Peeta have only met once and that was when Katniss and her family were on the brink of starving to death. Peeta purposely burnt loaves of bread and gave them to Katniss to feed her family. 

3.     The style of writing that Suzanne uses is first person. We see the very depressing life of the post-apocalyptic world through Katniss Everdeen’s eyes. In her writing Suzanne Collins uses sympathy by showing that Katniss lives in the slums and does everything she can to support her family. Collins alludes to famous examples of self-sacrifice such as the Titanic by having Katniss say “I volunteer as tribute!” and having her take Prim’s place. The Hunger Games is a young adult literature novel so the diction is very simple which helps Katniss’s character as an uneducated person.

 

abrueggenjohann[Andrew Brueggenjohann]. “Novel Blog #1.” Padlet, https://padlet.com/abrueggenjohann/dzqv4rwym5e1. Accessed 16 November 2017