The_Hunger_Games饥饿游戏 英文书评(book review)
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A Report on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008, e-book edition) is written by Suzanne Collins. The centralrulingcity,namedtheCapitol,holdsthehungergames,inwhichtributesfrom12subordinatedistricts fight against each other.The games won’t stop until there’s only one tribute in the arena. Inthis book, Suzanne Collins fully conveys a message that domination causes miseries, and that weakerpeople should not yield to that dominating power. The Hunger Games story is about how the girl Katniss volunteers to play in the game for heryounger sister, moves forward with faith, and finally wins both love and the hunger game. Katniss andPeeta are the tributes from district The book’s popularity is much linked to its fiction style, but that’s not the key point. The story,which is imaginative and dramatic, makes the book even more appealing. The games happen in abrand new world in the future. The games are played for a somehow strange reason, by boys and girlschosen at random. The background presents readers with many possibilities, which start ourimagination. Who will win the game? Generally thinking, the winner should be a cruel, muscular guy.During my reading, I find the story more and more interesting because I see increasing hope of a girlbeing the winner of such a physical game. Katniss is not an average girl: she“sometimes managed toshoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew” (51). Yet that can onlyshow she may not die too early. Later,Katniss gets the highest score in the traing: “Then they’reflashing the number eleven on the screen.Eleven!” (108)Throughout the game, there are several times when she nearly dies. For example, sheencounters a water cris: “There’s no danger of tears now, I couldn’t produce one to save my life” 1 / 3 (167). But she gets over every time. Each up and down can lead to an emotional wave on readers.Finally, Katniss wins, not the strong boys, not even the Careers.“The berries have just passed my lipswhen the trumpets begin to blare” (339).The final victory of Katniss and Peeta drops the curtain ofthis dramatic and touching story. In my opinion, the Hunger Games is written mainly against domination. On the one hand, thehunger games are the product of domination. They are bloody and cruel as readers can see, muchmore frustrating and miserable for residents in the districts. The reason why the games can becreatedis because of the unbalanced power: “As our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must neverbe repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games” (19). The Capitol is much stronger, and it makes thegames of deaths a TV show. Mere entertainment as they are for the Capitol, they are nightmare forthe districts. Domination causes miseries—23 are killed in violence while one survives. In reality,Egypt emperors rest quietly in the solid pyramids, which thousands of slaves work to death during theconstruction. Nowadays, there are still undemocratic governments exerting strong power uponpeople. On the other hand, the author’s opinion about the ruling Capitol can be seenclearly from thecharacters Katniss and Peeta. “I want to die as myself…I could think of a way to show the Capitol theydon’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games” (140), says Peeta. Although theCapitol can easily take tributes’ lives, Katniss doesn’t have a shadow of fear. The Capitol wants all the12 districts to learn their lesson from the games, but it fails to bring Katniss at its feet: “I want to dosomething, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitolthat whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own.” (233) Thenshe decorates Rue’s body. The Capitol only increases Katniss’s hatred and anger through the game: 2 / 3 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/d50251fe3868011ca300a6c30c2259010202f3ae.html