Jordyn Harsevoort

Mrs. Roskamp

LA, 8C

19 October 2016

Catching Fire

             In the book Catching Fire, there’s a lot of good detail. It has a really good story line, even though you would never want it to happen. The Hunger Games series are really good books, with a good lesson. From these books I take the fact that you never want your government to get out of control. When the people with power are bad people, bad things are going to happen. It made me mad when President Snow made people who already won the hunger Games go back in. It isn’t fair, first of all you shouldn’t have the games in the first place but if they win, why should they have to go back? But when the reaping came, Peeta volunteered for Haymitch.  Through this book I realized how much courage people had.

              Some of the conflicts made me worried. One conflict in the book is that President Snow doesn’t believe that Katniss and Peeta actually love each other. He can tell that it’s an act. I feel bad for them because they basically had to put on that act to stay alive, they did what they had to live. Although, in the end of the movie they actually do love each other, and it is not an act. I feel bad that they had to be put under all of the pressure to like each other when they just did it to live, that wouldn’t be what has to happen.

             Also, in the end of the book Peeta is taken by the capitol. There was a rebellion against the capitol. When Katniss shot the edge of the arena with a bow, there was an electric shock. The end of the book kind of leaves you at a cliff-hanger. The Capitol has taken Peeta with them, and Katniss doesn’t know it, but she is the one that started the idea of the rebellion. This goes with how bad the capitol is, the rebellion was going to try to change how evil the Capitol was and get rid of the Hunger Games.

             Through this book I realized how much courage people had. People were going to go up against the capitol. Even though they know that the Capitol is in control. Also, the people that had to go into the arena, they didn’t want to but they had courage about it. Peeta wouldn’t let Haymitch volunteer for him. Overall I liked this book a lot. The end was kind of confusing and had a lot going on, but it was really important. The Hunger Games series are probably my favorite book series. It’s not something that I ever hope will happen, but they are really good story lines.