reading log question 1

 The Hunger Games

by: Suzanne Collins

Write down your thoughts

a.) After the first chapter(s) of the book.
The reader gets a great sense of what the book is about and the divine way of writing. The first few chapters mixes the readers emotions to an extreme. You find yourself surprisingly happy to preform simple everyday tasks such as, choosing what you want for dinner or watching sports on TV, because in a country that doesn't exist, yet comes to your mind when learning about geography, if you can manage to get food on the table any time of the day, its a real win. Their type of entertainment is also extremely different. They "prefer" throwing children into an arena, making them murder each other and the only winner is the person who dies last. That´s the part that messes with your emotions the most. Knowing that if you lived in another country anyone you cared about including yourself, could be tossed into an arena and their every movement would be televised in front of the entire country. Only qualification needed is to be age 12-18. It makes you hug the people you care about a little harder.

b.) Do your thoughts change after reading half the book? in what way?
My thoughts stand untouched. However, the writing is different. Not much though.  In the very beginning it was introducing the characters, now it feels like you´re a part of the characters. Its to the point whereas if one of the main characters died you would die with them. I think is the way that the extraordinary author ( Suzanne Collins ) explains the characters feelings. She does it in a way that you´ve obviously felt that feeling. Perhaps you were born to feel that feeling. Or maybe in your last life you were that feeling. You really feel the characters presence, its a fabulous feeling that makes you enthused and hooked.

c.) Do you feel any differently after finishing the book?
I felt quite heroic and distressed. Heroic because of the fact that after 5 hours  of laughing, crying and big doses of ignorance towards the outside world, I finished the most astonishing book I´ve ever read. Then extreme sadness hit me, there was no more to read. No more exitment. It suddenly dawned upon me, it`s a series. Everything was back to normal.

d.) Would you read this book again?
I don´t think any of the times will be as delightful as the first. But yes, many, many times.

Nora