A catching book!

 

my reading experience with "The Hunger Games"

 

Flying over the summary from the novel THE HUNGER GAMES for the first time I thought myself: Okay, I hope it gets better than supposed, otherwise I'll need years to finish it! - But my doubts we're luckily baseless. It's such a great affecting, dramatic book dealing with problematical issues. Reading THE HUNGER GAMES in Englishclass  has been really amusing to me. Actually, I already knew the story and the German books before. Besides that the novel hasn't been the first book that I've been reading in English and it was easy to understand. While reading I tried not to  translate every single word into German, it's enough to understand the general meaning of the text.
The things I like the most about THE HUNGER GAMES are

• the scenes where Peeta and Katniss talked honestly about there feelings and
• when Katniss showed resistance against the capitol by decorating Rue's dead body or pretending suicide with Peeta and not to forget
• the scene when they're in the cave because it's just so affecting how they treat each other even provided to be part of a terrible engagement.

One thing that I personally disliked a bit has been that there was an influence of a fantasystory. I am definitely not a fan of fantasystories and so the mutations or the fake fire made by the people seemed a little weird to me.
In class I would be very interested in talking about the social situation in Panem, but also how they imagine the situation in the rest of the world because I've been asking that question to myself all the time when I read the book, didn't you too?
I've been thinking really often about the people living in Panem and their situation. I could not imagine to live in a country where poverty is such a big issue and where you are forced to kill other people when you're still nearly a child just to get reminded on the power of the government. Could you imagine that? If you can't, read the book!!! and try to understand the characters' feelings and acts, you won't regret it! I'm very interested in hear your opinion, CU LK :)