The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins and it’s about people every year being called up randomly to participate in these “Hunger Games” to try and survive. These games were made to try and keep order throughout the region. In the quotation below, someone named Rue has just died, a friend of the main character, Katniss.
Rue has rolled to her side, her body curved in and around the spear. I shove the boy away and pull out my knife, freeing her from the net. One look at the wound and I know it’s far beyond the capacity to heal. Beyond anyone’s probably. The spearhead is buried up to the shaft in her stomach. (p.233)
The sole reason I really like this book is because you can really vividly imagine the deaths, and, I didn’t show this because it would be a lot of quoting, but the entire chapter is all about Rue dying. All about how Katniss can’t think of anything for a while but her, her corpse laying there. She even goes out of her way to bury Rue while in the games! This quotation really offers details and the chapter itself really offers a great feeling of connection with the book and it’s characters. Suzanne Collins did something I’ve seen, she is able to make the characters and even the audience really feel drawn to the character even if they’ve only met for 3 2 to 3 chapters! This book is the first time I’ve felt bad for a characters death in a fight that I READ and didn’t even SEE. I’m really contemplating getting the second book just so I can really feel the emotions from this here series.