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Starred Review. Reviewed by Megan Whalen Turner
If there really are just seven original plots in the world, it's odd that boy meets girl is definitely mentioned, and society goes bad and attacks the great guy never is. Yet we've Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, Your House in 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 excessive finger wagging. Rather less 1984 and rather more Death Race 2000, hers is often a gripping story set inside a postapocalyptic world the place where a replacement for that Usa demands a tribute from each of its territories: two children to become used as gladiators in a televised fight towards the death.Katniss, from what was once Appalachia, offers to take the place of her sister within the Hunger Games, but after this ultimate sacrifice, jane is entirely dedicated to survival at any cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the value of holding onto one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new Theseus, is cold, calculating but still likable. She has got the attributes to get a winner, where Peeta gets the grace to get a great loser.It's no accident 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 maintain its tributaries subdued and its citizens complacent—may have came up with Games, but mindless television could be the real danger, the means by 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 obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and our sentences can easily using the same rise as questions. When Katniss is distributed to stylists to become made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked facing them, strangely unembarrassed. They're so unlike people that i am no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet, she thinks. In order to never hate these creatures who're sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. It isn't really the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. It is who watch. Katniss struggles to win not just the Games but the inherent contest for audience approval. Because this is the first book in a very series, not things are resolved, and what is left unanswered is the central question. Has she sacrificed too much? We understand what she's got given up to survive, but not if 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 in the series will likely be published by Greenwillow in 2010.
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Grade 7 Up -In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to become replaced by Panem, a country divided in to the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to engage in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation from the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem because the 24 participants are instructed to eliminate their competitors, literally, wonderful 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 look at her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son from the town baker who seems to have all of the fighting skills of your lump of bread dough, will probably be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained because of this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic while they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will surely resonate using the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book among a planned trilogy.Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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