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Summary of The Hunger Games

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Suzanne Collins novel, “The Hunger Games,” is one of my all-time favorite books. I was “forced” to read it my sophomore year in high school. The reason I say “forced” is because the second I read the first chapter, I was hooked and no one was able to tell me to put the book down. The book had such amazing details and was inspiring to see the lengths a young girl would take to protect her sister. That is why I dislike the movie that was made for the first book of the trilogy. Suzanne Collins book and the movie they made from the book were so very different. It left out a lot of main points and basically romanticized a book that wasn’t all about romance. The differences start from the very beginning, the movie starts with Katniss, the main character, consoling her sister, Prim. The book starts with Katniss waking up to find her sister sleeping in her mom’s bed. This change wasn’t extreme but it was still agitating because, since it is one of my favorite books, I wanted it to be perfect. The second thing that I didn’t like was the fact that the movie wasn’t narrating her thoughts. They only showed all the events and didn’t show how Katniss was feeling. An example I have of that is when she blew up the careers supplies in the actual hunger games. Since Katniss was too close to the bomb, she lost her hearing in her right ear for a couple hours and in her left ear until they got her out of the games. The movie only plays a ringing sound and doesn’t explain to anyone what it means and it only plays for a short amount of time. Another thing that really upset me about the movie was how they did the tribute interviews. In the book all of the tributes were outside and they walked up one by one but all shown. This is important because it was supposed to show the way Katniss reacted Peeta's declaration of love to all of the audience. In the movie all the tributes are behind stage and no one sees Katniss’ face. The movie

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