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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are merely seven original plots inside the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is always mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the nice guy never is. Yet we have Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your House from the Scorpion—and now, following a lengthy tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future with a specific date, or weighted it down with a lot of finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is often a gripping story set in a postapocalyptic world where a replacement for that United States demands a tribute from each of the company's territories: two children to be used as gladiators inside a televised fight on the death.Katniss, from that which was once Appalachia, offers to take the host to her sister inside Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she actually is entirely focused on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the significance of holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a brand new Theseus, is cold, calculating yet still likable. She has got the attributes to be a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser.It's no accident why these games are presented as pop culture. Every generation projects its fear: runaway science, communism, overpopulation, nuclear wars and, now, reality TV. the State of Panem—which needs to help keep its tributaries subdued and it is citizens complacent—may have came up with Games, but mindless television may be the real danger, the means through which society pacifies its citizens and punishes people that fail to conform. Will its connection to reality TV, ubiquitous today, date the book? It might, but for now, it can make this the best book in the right time. What happens when we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be enthusiastic about grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences can easily with the same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to get made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked facing them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that we are no longer self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order never to hate these creatures who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It is not exactly the contestants who risk the loss of these humanity. It is all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not exactly the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this really is the first book in a very series, not everything is resolved, and what is left unanswered may be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We understand what she's got given around survive, however, not whether or otherwise the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to understand more.
Megan Whalen Turner may be the author with the Newbery Honor book The Thief and it is sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book inside series is gonna be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the Usa of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, being replaced by Panem, a country divided to the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to take part in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation in the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are made to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all of citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected because the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to adopt her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son in the town baker who seems to possess all the fighting skills of the lump of bread dough, is going to be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic because they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will surely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book certainly one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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