For my second book review I read the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I felt this book carried on very well from the first. when i first read the first book i didn't see how Suzanne Collins could carry on the story but she hits her audience with shock and awe when its announced what Katniss Everdinn and Peeta Mellark must do next.
The Second book , in my opinion is just as heart racing and fast moving as the last. Its names "Catching Fire " as the book elaborates on katniss everdinn "the girl on fire" thanks to her stylist Cinna.
After causing rebellion in district 11 the mayor of Panem isn't happy with Katniss' act of fury at the end of the first Hunger games book, so he warns her to be careful which boy she chooses , as the capitol will only be happy with Peeta , not Gale .
He also shows a severe lack of heart for Katniss and this is when she realises that the mayor will get her back for what she did. In this book it is the 75th Hunger Games , which is also known as the "Quarter Quell" . Each Quarter Quell throughout the years have had a twist on them different from the other games. The twist that the mayor picks out from a box of envelopes on live TV over panem is sure to make peeta and Katniss pay, and it certainly does .
As Katniss must set off again , she wishes she has never had success in the previous games . "I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in…"
She must leave Gale behind in order to keep him and her family from danger , as new peace keepers move in to district 12 , they are allot stricter on rules, and use violence to get their way . Gales pays for trespassing over to the woods, and this is when everything in Panem changes.
With a huge twist at the end of this book , i was absolutly hooked. i literally couldn't put it down!
"…any girl who goes to such lengths to preserve her life isn’t going to be interested in throwing it away with both hands."
"If my holding out those berries was an act of insanity, then these people will embrace insanity, too. "
On Friday the Tys and LCVP 5th years set off to swim plenty of miles to raise money for the cancer ward and barretstown.
I swam half a mile with Leah , which is 32 lenghts each.. it seems small but it was hard! its allot tougher than it looks!
Well done to the 8 girls who swam a mile each , that was incredible! Our year beat the record of 25 miles swam by one school with 42 MILES.
http://swimamile.webnode.com/
tomorrow we have the Ian daly swim a mile . everyones excited and nervous. im swimming half a mile (32 lenghts) and Leah is swimming the other half :)
wish us luck!
For my book review I chose to read "The Hunger Games" written by Suzanne Collins. The Book is part of a trilogy. The books are written in the voice of a 16 year old girl called Katniss Everdeen trough her hard life living in a poor town and trying to fend for her family , in Panem.
The hunger games was incredibly written and thought out. South America is split into 12 districts or towns , Katniss lives in number 12 , the poorest district that produces coal. The capitol rules over all the 12 districts and to remind them of a horrible rebellion in district 13 that killed everyone who lived there, they host the hunger games.
The games are purely for the capitols enjoyment but the president claims its to remind everyone to follow the wealthy capitol and that they are on the districts sides.
The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle in which only one person can survive.
on "Reaping day" primrose , katniss' sister, is called to be part of the games. Katniss volunteers, and a boy Peeta Mellark in chosen to join her in her fate in the arena.
The book is full of surprises and is constantly moving at an exciting pace. Things get hard for katniss when Peeta expresses his love for her on live television in front of all of Panem. The two must help each other trough the arena , with the help of wealthy sponsors sending them food and medicine ,while overcoming some of the strongest districts along the way.
The Book is Fast, Fierce, upsetting and sometimes humorous , and the trilogy is an incredible series of books , following life after the Games, or so everyone thinks , until you start the second and third book. The books and story keep shocking me , with its originality and suspense .
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
I Would rate The Hunger Games ( Book 1) 5 stars, because I loved every moment on the book , and it was always exciting and never failed to grab my attention!
Tonight is the Music Night. Its been busy getting ready for it . The TY Classes Banba and Eriu are singing Shake it out by florence and the machine , I am playing piano for that , which is fun but for some reason i feel alot of pressure, because i have to give everyone notes to sing on Que and stuff, scary. Then the choir is singing I feel pretty, and by the end of each rehersal im fit to pass out from the high notes! And then ive offered to be backstage because ,well, ill be there all night, might as well make myself usefull!
Music night in our school is coming up , and being in TY gives me the opertunity to by involved in it :)
Eriu and Banba are preforming "Shake it out" by the fabulous Florence Welch , andwe all have our own part in it. Im on Piano or should i say organ , girls are playing drums , there are solos, and the rest of the girls sing the whole song. Its coming together really well! We have practiced a few times , and theres a few problems , but its fun , espicially for people who love music and music class :)
Then this year i joined Choir because lunch time isnt as valuble to me , as it was last year ! So we are Singing "I feel pretty" , which we all find hilarious,because we have to sing it with "confidence" so we all have some fun with it.
We were given two talks in the last few days, one on Internet safety and the other on female engineers at Intel.
The First talk really opened every ones eyes to the type of things that can happen on the Internet and on face book. The man who spoke with us was so down to the point and really got across how dangerous some people are and how careful you should be. He told us things to do and not to do and the impact his talk had on the seniors in our school was incredible. everyone acted on it straight away . people were checking their friends on face book to make sure they know everyone , and unhooking web cams and so on . I'm so happy we got it, because i would not have known half the things that people can do to someones life over the Internet , it was truly shocking.
The talk about Intel was also really interesting. Female workers came to tell us to work at Intel and why and to be honest , if I didn't have an idea of career already i would have been sold! the work that goes into all those tiny chips that let us use computers and phones incredible! They use robots , which obviously caught our attention , but not robots that we were all imagining. They girls were really great and all told us about their degrees.
