Author's Note: Catching Fire, is the sequel to the Hunger Games. If you want to know which book is better you will have to find out for yourself.
Why would she do that? What was she thinking? These questions kept bouncing around in my head while I was reading Suzanne Collins’, Catching Fire. Why would Katniss, a girl from District 12, the poorest district, who has always been short on money, clothes, food, water, and had very few nice things, want to sacrifice her life for someone; give up her life for this boy who had been nice to her one time? She was crazy. If I were offered a lifetime of luxuries for free, just for surviving a few days at the most, a week, in a place called an arena, I would for sure take that opportunity, as long as I didn’t have to kill anybody; I would just sit on the side and watch it all and do my best to survive because that is the point of the Games: to kill people. Collins teaches us that we need to be grateful for the things that we have, and that we can’t all have anything and everything at the drop of a hat.
Why would she do that? What was she thinking? These questions kept bouncing around in my head while I was reading Suzanne Collins’, Catching Fire. Why would Katniss, a girl from District 12, the poorest district, who has always been short on money, clothes, food, water, and had very few nice things, want to sacrifice her life for someone; give up her life for this boy who had been nice to her one time? She was crazy. If I were offered a lifetime of luxuries for free, just for surviving a few days at the most, a week, in a place called an arena, I would for sure take that opportunity, as long as I didn’t have to kill anybody; I would just sit on the side and watch it all and do my best to survive because that is the point of the Games: to kill people. Collins teaches us that we need to be grateful for the things that we have, and that we can’t all have anything and everything at the drop of a hat.
When we were younger our parents, sometimes our mothers, and sometime our fathers, taught us that we need to be polite, have manners, and be grateful. These are some of the few main things that we are taught and are not only encouraged, but it is expected that we do these things with the utmost respect. In this book: it’s obvious that President Snow was never taught these things. He has zero percent respects for all of the people he ‘rules’ over. While manners play a big part in our world, but sometimes power plays a bigger role.
Even though the Hunger Games, takes place in the distant future, these issues are still present in today’s world. In our time, according to the website Africanpress.me, Sudan’s leader, Omar al-Bashir is the worst dictator in our entire world out of the 70 countries that are ruled by dictators. We are very lucky to be able to live in a country where we are maybe not allowed to act upon our opinions necessarily, but we are at least allowed to have opinions.
Being grateful is important, although we can’t always have everything that we want, and Suzanne Collins does a spectacular job teaching this in Catching Fire. Now you need to remember and realize that it is not all about us and our needs, but about helping others and being thankful for what we are privileged enough to have.
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