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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are only seven original plots within the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is usually mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we've got Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your Home of the Scorpion—and now, following a long tradition of Brave New Worlds, The Hunger Games. Collins hasn't tied her future to a specific date, or weighted it down with excessive finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is a gripping story set in a very postapocalyptic world where a replacement for that United States demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to be used as gladiators inside a televised fight to the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to consider the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, she actually is entirely centered on survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the significance of holding onto 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 but still likable. She has the attributes being a winner, where Peeta has got the grace to get 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. Their State of Panem—which needs to keep its tributaries subdued and it is citizens complacent—may have created the Games, but mindless television may be the real danger, the means through which society pacifies its citizens and punishes people who 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 on 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 many types of our sentences will end while using same rise as questions. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked looking at them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that we're no longer self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order to not hate these creatures that are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn't really only the contestants who risk the loss of the humanity. It is perhaps all who watch. Katniss struggles to win not merely the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this really is the first book in the series, not everything is resolved, and what exactly is left unanswered will be the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We know what she gets given around survive, although not perhaps the price was too high. Readers will wait eagerly to learn more.
Megan Whalen Turner could be the author of the Newbery Honor book The Thief and its particular sequels, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia. The next book inside series will probably be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United states of america of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, being replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all of citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son from the town baker who seems to own all of the fighting skills of your lump of bread dough, will likely be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives that have trained just for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic while they form alliances and friendships inside the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book considered one of a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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