The Hunger Games

I’ve just recently read the first book of the series, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I’ve found that when I started reading it by 6PM of the night I, couldn’t stop until at 3 or maybe 4AM the next day I’ve finished reading it. I kept saying to myself that, “Ok, after this chapter, I go to sleep,” but I kept saying that after every chapter I read so I decided to finish the remaining 3 or 4 chapters.

One of the factors that kept me reading was the fact that throughout the story, the main characters were all so tense and so I didn’t want to stop because there was the “what happens next?” feeling that pushes me farther to read more and more of the book. Also, there are parts in the book where I’m – in Filipino—kinikilig (to feel a thrill, to be thrilled, to have a shivering, exciting feeling) because of the parts that involve the main character and the other character who tries to woo her.

So let me give you a short synopsis of the book (warning: If you have not read this book yet there are spoilers ahead).

In a country called Panem where a Capitol rules and 12 very much poorer districts surround it, there lives a girl named Katniss Evergreen who strives to hunt in order to earn money for her family and also to feed them. She and her best friend Gale go to the woods and hunt there (which is illegal in District 12 where they both live).   

   

In every year every district sends one boy and one girl aged 12-18 known as tributes to a competition called The Hunger Games where every 24 tributes will fight each other to the death until one is left standing. This year, Katniss’ s sister’s name, Primrose, was drawn for the girl to be sent so Katniss immediately volunteers to replace her and both protect her because Primrose still is so young and the boy was Peeta Mellark.

The 2 tributes from District 12 saw their competition at the Training Center in the Capitol which, by the way, is so amazing with all the very large buildings there are unlike those back home. This intimidates them a little but both of the tributes leave a lasting impression on everyone before the Games start.

During the start of the game there was already blood-shed  and almost half of the 24 tributes died. The next days that went on were to help the tributes survive. When only 6 tributes were left, the rules suddenly changed and the 2 tributes from the same District were allowed to win as a team granted that they are both alive. This makes Katniss happy because she has Peeta to team up with instead of kill. As the 2 team up, Katniss tries to pretend she is madly in love with Peeta in order to get the sponsor s to bring them food for them to continue living. At the end, the 2 tributes from District 12 win the Hunger games and this is the first time in about 30 years that their District has won.

When Katniss and Peeta soon come home from the Capitol, they start slipping away from each other because Katniss is confused about her feelings for Peeta. That ends the 1st book.

This book is one that makes me think this thing happens next but then it doesn’t so for me this is one of the most unpredictable books I’ve ever read. As I read the book some endings form in my imagination like, the main character will be the only one left standing or that no one would win. What I was so disappointed about was when Katniss and Peeta ended their “relationship” (I don’t really know what they consider it) but still I enjoyed the book and now I can’t wait to borrow the next book, Catching Fire.

So here’s what I think of this book:

For every page that I read

More, is what I need

I keep going ahead and read on and on

And then find myself hooked on far too long

It’s a nice series I say

I can’t stop reading until the next day

I think of reading the next book soon

To feed more things to my brain with a spoon

It’s fun if you understand how it feels

Maybe spend on some books with your own bills

Coming soon is my blog on Catching Fire, the second book of the series.

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I'm Fair, You're Fair, Some Aren't

               Sometimes, you’re right but it’s not at all instances that you’re right so sometimes you’re wrong. You may win or you might lose. You may have given your best that may be better than what others could give or maybe not. The main point here is that whether you’re wrong or right, good or bad, short or tall, or whatever you may be, you should be treated fairly regardless of anything else about you. We are all equals and therefore we must treat each other equally.

 For the case of some people, it’s entirely different. These people have different standards like how rich one is, how handsome/beautiful someone is, how close he/she is to me, and so on and so forth. They take things to a different level, their level. Where they go ahead reject other’s thought and just start to take in only their own thoughts. They start to lock out the ideas of other people. They dwell in their very own little worlds where they think that they have all the power when in fact they don’t because they also forget that they are like us too, human; therefore, they are just as imperfect and flawed as everyone else.

Being unfair becomes the seed of many negative things. Like for example, a judge at a certain competition chooses to favor the school he came from and decides to make the school he had problems with be forgotten and put to last place when it is clear that the contestant that came last should have been first or at least got a better rank but instead got nothing because of that judge who was unfair. See how much negativity being unfair brings? Being unfair is like the wormhole of destruction that sucks in the happiness of the people who were treated unfairly.

People who think that being unfair makes them “stronger” than others think wrong because being fair makes one person much stronger than many of those who aren’t. It’s just some simple logic. If one does what’s good, one is better than others who do evil. Sometimes it’s hard to do what’s right because of being too pressured by other people but doing what is right is better than bringing someone down with oneself and stepping on other people’s egos before one could do what one is supposed to do. Wouldn’t it be nice if one does what is better for oneself and those around him? Yes it would be because one would be better than others who do wrong toward others by being unfair.

So let’s just all remember to be fair

And make others aware

That it’s always better to be right

Than be wrong and lose the fight

But be right by doing what is good

Not by being unfair and misunderstood

If others care and I’m sure they do

They’d be better by doing good too

Don’t bring anyone else down

So no one would frown

Do what’s best

Others will do the rest :D

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