Zachari Spassatempo

Mrs. Johnston

Blog #2

11/1/15

Blog 2

            So far I’ve read about half the book of The Hunger Games. The only things that really happened in this part of the book is Katniss has received a pin with a mocking bird on it and she had volunteered to compete in the hunger games. Originally you picked by a raffle in the hunger games but she had volunteered to save her sister from competing.  The Hunger Games is a game for the last person standing. They get a car package once a day and they have to hunt each other for survival. You are put on a team with a person of the opposite sex from your district at first but once the games start it’s a free for all. One thing that I kept thinking back on was why she received a mockingbird pin. Is the mockingbird supposed to represent her, because I thing she would best represented by a lone wolf. So far she’s been alone most of the time besides meeting a friend named Rue who was a small little girl from district 11. She was the only person who’s been helping Katniss. All of the others have been teaming up in different groups to take down the other and especially Katniss. Also Katniss has the ability to stalk and hunt a prey. To learn to attack from different place. She has the ability to kill and smartly attack the people by the group one by one using her arrows. Her arrows represent each teeth a wolf has. Razor sharp and can tear through flesh like its nothing. She has the brains to know when to attack and when to wait. To hide in the trees and not been seen by other predators.

            If I was put into the story I don’t think I would’ve made it to the end. The first thing I would’ve done would probably starve. At the very beginning of the games I would’ve ran and hid until I was the 2nd to last person standing but I would’ve starved to death by then. My survival skills aren’t the greatest. I have no idea how to start a fire to keep warm or to hunt for food. To be able to find clean water to drink. My fighting and hand to hand combat are terrible. I couldn’t hurt a fly let alone kill anyone. I wouldn’t know what weapon to use to find other than my hands. I have no idea how to use a bow and a sword I just think it’s all about swinging and thrashing. So I think I would be one of the last ones out because I would run and hide.

            So far I would rate this book a 7. It has its up and downs in the plot but it’s a book that has most of my attention, and I don’t like to read at all. People are just panicking and worrying about being picked instead of preparing for it. But the plot is big and I think it’s something that might happen to this world except the whole fighting to death. But I think that the rich will rule the world and that the people will be put into different groups to do different things.  I would recommend this book to a person who likes violence but likes it for a reason. I don’t think pacifists should read it because the book is all about fighting and surviving. It wouldn’t fit well with them.