Month: November 2015

God said seven things before he died and was crucified. What I learned form this was that you need to give hope to the hopeless through little things in your day. We need to feel  for other people when they are hurting. We need to Trust in God all the time and always remember that God is in control of your life everyday. We need to have compassion on others and care for them and their needs, whatever they may be. We need to preserver to compete that goals that God has set for us.

This weekend I was God in the sunset. I went hunting with my dad this weekend and when we were sitting in the tree stand I was bored so I watched the sunset. I was amazed at how fast the sun goes down when you just stare at it behind the trees.

The book I chose is “The Hunger Games.” The book “The Hunger Games” was written by Suzanne Collins. “The Hunger Games” is a book about twelve districts that are very poor. They struggle to have a good home and feed their families. The capital is in charge of all the districts and to show their power every year they have a reaping in each of the districts.They call out one name of a boy and one of a girl from ages twelve through thirteen. They take the  kids to the capital where they train to go into the hunger games arena. In the arena the kids from all the districts fight to the death until there is only one left. The games are shown on tv and everyone watches it like a game show. “The Hunger Games” is a great book about determination and bravery of a young girl who cares for the freedom of her people.

One theme in the book is bravery. When Katniss goes to the reaping for her last year because that was the year was eighteen, her younger sister goes for her first time. They are both very nervous and scared that they might get picked to go into the hunger games. At the reaping Katniss sister Primrose is crying a lot and Katniss does a great job of hiding her fear to comfort her sister. At the reaping they line up all the kids in order of their age so Katniss and Primrose are at very far apart from each other and that makes Primrose much more nervous. They first call out the girl’s name and Effie Trinket, the woman who picks and call the names, calls out for Primrose Everdeen. But instead her sister Katniss volunteers as tribute for her sister. That shows bravery because she now has to survive in the place where the people in the districts fear the most and fight to the death in an epic battle instead of her sister.

Katniss’s strength is another in the book. While she is in training at the Capitol with her male partner from her district, Peeta Mellark, she shows off her strength to the capitol and her other competitors. She gets scored highest over all the other twenty-three kids from other districts for her very accurate aim with the bow and arrow. She can get a perfect shot every time. Another way that she shows her strength is that she never cries. She keeps herself together at all times and is very calm in the situation. Even though she is scared she is making herself look tough by not showing her emotions.

Another theme in the book is friendship. While they are in the arena Katniss makes friends with a girl her sister’s age named Rue. They stick together throughout the whole game and help each other set up traps to sabotage the other group of competitors that have formed an alliance. Katniss was friends with her because she reminded her of her sister and she felt a need to protect her. They stuck together throughout the game until Rue died with a sphere to her heart. Katniss was really sad after this happened and placed many flowers around her and did the rebellion sign to the camera which is taking the three middle fingers on your left hand and then pressing them against your lips and then hold them out to the people is is done towards. She did this to symbolize respect for Rue. This sparked an uprising in Rue’s district, district eleven.       

“The Hunger Games” is a great book about determination and bravery of a young girl who cares for the freedom of her people. I like this book because it has a lot of action which is fun to watch. It also has many good things to it that we can learn from and apply to our lives. Even though we don’t have a hunger games where we have to fight to the death in a brutal arena. We still should have courage, bravery, strength, and fight for what is right. Nobody is ever in control of you and can force you to do things that are not safe. Katniss shows this well in the book. Also it is okay to have an opinion and to show others what you believe. If something isn’t right you should do what you have to do to make it right.