By Cade
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The Hunger
Games,
a globally popular novel from the previously unknown author Suzanne Collins, is
a riveting adventure about a young girl who must do the impossible for the
people she loves.
Katniss
Everdeen lives with her younger sister Prim and her hard-working mother in a
small home in District 12 in the nation known as Panem.
Living
in a world where the cruel Capitol reigns and controls thirteen different
districts. In Panem, the dangerous and primal Hunger Games are held annually.
Each
year, two tributes--a girl and boy--from each district are randomly chosen to
participate in the deadliest event of the year.
Twenty
Four tributes are sent out into the Arena, where they must kill every other
tribute there is. There can only be one left living at the end.
Any
one between the ages of 12 and 18 years old can be selected at random to
participate in this event.
The
selected boys and girls from each district must kill the others to try to win.
They will even have to kill the other chosen person from their own
district, whether they are family, friends, or just a neighbor.
The
last one surviving: wins.
In
the game the arena changes every year. It could be an island, a desert, a
jungle, or any type of geographical design you could imagine.
The
winner will be famous and become very wealthy. Their family will have
easy lives for the rest of their days after their victory. That is if
they can survive and bring themselves to kill other kids their own age.
When
Prim is chosen to become a tribute, a distraught Katniss volunteers to take her
place. She knows her little sister would be helpless in the games and can not
let her go.
So,
Katniss finds herself in the Hunger Games where she must become a ruthless killer
and a survivalist the second she steps foot into the game if she wishes to see
her family again.
The
novel became a hit almost immediately.
Avid
readers all across the nation dropped their books to enter into the world of
Katniss Everdeen.
The
fascination for the book grew immensely, word about it reaching every ear.
It
was released not too long ago, on the date of September 14th, 2008. Since
then, Suzanne Collins has written and published two other books to complete the
trilogy. The second book is titled Catching
Fire and the third and final book is titled Mocking Jay.
Suzanne
Collins trilogy became an overnight hit. People of all ages around the
world fell in love with Collins’s books and she became a top selling author
very quickly.
Suzanne
Collins started a new popular trend. Many authors are now writing their
own dystopian world novels due to the huge success of Collins’s trilogy.
Readers
all over now love these books and the genre has become very popular among teens
and adults throughout the world.
Suzanne’s
trilogy has become so popular that her books are now in every book isle of
every store.
She
currently sells Hunger Games merchandise, including t-shirts, wristbands,
necklaces, pins, posters, etc.
With
all this success though, the biggest moment has yet to come.
On
March 23rd, 2012, The Hunger Games Movie will hit theatres.
The
movie for this book is expected to be a huge box office success and expected to
win numerous awards. Word says a sequel movie is to be released November
22nd, 2013, and has excited the fans of The Hunger Games trilogy even
more.
The Hunger
Games
movie is a widely anticipated film.
The
cast for the movie features Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Willow
Shields as Katniss’s sister Primrose “Prim”, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Josh
Hutcherson as Peeta, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, Donald Sutherland as
President Snow, and Lenny Kravitz as Cinna.
The
soundtrack will include a song that Taylor Swift wrote for the movie called
“Safe and Sound”, which hit number 1 on iTunes top selling charts after 12
hours of its release as a single, as well as a number of other songs by various
artists. Jennifer Lawrence will be singing one of these songs, titled
“Rue’s Lullaby”.
The
movie is being directed by Gary Ross.
