Coby Nyland

Mrs. Roskamp

LA, 8A

19 October, 2015

My book is The Mockingjay and the author is Suzanne Collins. The book is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen that has to protect her family by being the mockingjay. They are at war with the capital. They are in the bunker of 13 which they thought the capitol destroyed a long time ago. Some of the book was about how they made propaganda to go against the capital. They finally got peeta back but he went crazy because they tortured him with a weird poison. After that they went to war with the capital. They finally won but Katniss lost her sister and Gale left her to. Her mom just tried to ignore her. My thesis is there’s a price to war.

I saw my thesis when Katniss’s district got bombed. She lost almost everything besides her family and a couple friends. The capital bombed her district after she wrecked the hunger games by shooting a electric arrow into the top of the stadium. Before they actually bombed her capital she was saved by her friends in a hovercraft. She lost all of her memories and pictures and personal items in the bombing. This was the start of the actually war not just a conspiracy.

Another time I saw my thesis is when Katniss lost her sister at the end of the book. When the war was about done the capital put all of their children in the square and the rebels dropped a bomb on them. They expected the people of the capital to come and save their children but instead the rebels doctors came to help them. Katniss’s sister was a nurse in training but I guess they were short in people so they sent her out. The rebels then dropped another bomb on their own people. Katniss was not in the blast zone but she watched her sister die in the front of her own eyes.

I also saw my thesis when Katniss lost her best friend Gale after the war. Gale was her best friend from the start. They hunted together and played together. But once the war started Katniss became obsessed with beating capital so she became very distant with gale. Gale was also incharge of the bombs that blew up her sister so that didn’t help either. But once Katniss shot President Coin instead of President Snow Gale just left and never came back. He got a big city job and left Katniss forever.

Just a reminder my thesis is there’s a price to war. My opinion on the book is that the book itself was very interesting and it had a lot of action. But also their was a lot of lessons to be learned and their was alot themes to be thought about. Overall I think this was a great book and it had a lot of great lessons and great themes.