Sunday, December 18, 2011

It's all fun and games until you have to kill someone from your district

Well that was very interesting.  Picking two kids from each District to go and fight til the death for glory and rewards so that the Capital can remind every who is in control. Sounds completely normal, oh but don't forget that the boy/girl standing next to you on stage who was just picked for your district as well will be trying to kill you before you kill them and apparently there is a chance you will become an alcoholic if you win.... Anyway, I am finally out of the expositional or background descriptions and am wondering about the future course of the plot.  Obviously, Katniss will be fighting in the Hunger Games with the dreamboat baker's son, but I am hoping she will be leading some kind of revolution and confront the capital somehow.  Collins has been alluding to past events of Katniss's life and then cutting away to something else and eventually coming back to the flashback.  This is one of my favorite techniques, and I feel it is one of the most effective.  Nothing keeps a reader reading like a little piece of something interesting and then cutting to something totally unrelated.

1 comment:

  1. want to hear what you think about this as YA fiction AND as a work of literature. I'm a big fan of dystopian lit, but still wondering why is is all the rage in YA right now...

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