The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins tells a depressing tale of humans, so consumed by power that they send children, from there own districts, 12-18 to fight to the death in an intricate and complicated arena. Katniss Evergreen, a teenage girl in district 12, lives her life as usual, helps provide for her family and hunts with her friend Gale. Then, as every year, the reaping comes. This is the time in which the contestants in the games get chosen by random. By the most unbelievably unluckiest stroke of luck Katniss's little sister Prim gets chosen in the reaping. When Katniss volunteers to take her spot as the female contestant she realizes that survival in the games is very unlikely. There can only be one winner, one who survives. The Hunger Games is brilliantly worded and perfectly paced, the reader never knows what to expect. Haymitch, Peeta and Katniss's advisor in the Games, plays a seemingly small role yet none the less important. He represents what Katniss and Peeta would seem to turn in to if they continue to let the Capitol do as they please, he won the games when he was a child yet it brought no happines. He lives alone and is an alcholic, this character alone tells the reader they have to do something about the government.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, 2009. Print 2 BOOKS
With all the odds against her Katniss Evergreen, an extremely poor teenage girl sucked into an intense battle for the entertainment of a corrupt government, has won The Hunger Games. The only problem came at the end of the games when Katniss and Peeta, Katniss's partner in the games, decided to commit suicide therefore killing the last two contestants in the games in order to "stick it" to the capitol, they could't live without a winner. Without knowing it Katniss sparked a revolution. President Snow, leader of the Country, commanded Katniss to win over the country, saying she only did the stunt with the berries because she was madly in love with Peeta. She fails at this soon enough and finds out that, again, she has been called into the games, this time a Quarter Quell, which said that all the contestants were to be drawn from the pool of victors in previous games. This novel is a perfect sequel to the previous book. It acclimatizes but doesn't loose the plot. Katniss is the main character of Catching fire, she's also the spark that sets of a revolt against the Capitol, the people already have already more then enough reasons to rebel, they just need someone to set into motion. This book proves that no matter the numbers, people always need a leader.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print
Brave New World is a very unusual novel by Aldous Huxley, it tells of a the earth into the future were all humans are created like robots and Henry Ford is God. A man named Bernard decides to take a women named Liana to the savage reservoir. The savages are humans that weren't created, born like you and me. They view an unusual display of Indian people and meet a man named John, who they happened to know was his boss's son, a despicable act, to have a son in this time. The whole generation is caged by soma, a drug that flattens their emotions, of course John doesn't do the drugs as he is a savage. His body is free so he cries freedom and throws the soma out the window in one instance. The deepness of cloning, drugs, love and communism run extremely deep. John, the savage in the novel, can be paralleled to Jesus Christ, in that Jesus saved man and John attempts to save man threw crying out against soma. He no doubtingly represents us in that he wants freedom and emotion in life, not just a lifeless flat life that humans seem to be fine with in the future generation.
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