The_Hunger_Games饥饿游戏 英文书评(book review)

A Report on The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008, e-book edition) is written by Suzanne Collins. The central ruling city, named the Capitol, holds the hunger games, in which tributes from 12 subordinate districts fight against each other. The games won’t stop until there’s only one tribute in the arena. In this book, Suzanne Collins fully conveys a message that domination causes miseries, and that weaker people should not yield to that dominating power.

The Hunger Games story is about how the girl Katniss volunteers to play in the game for her younger sister, moves forward with faith, and finally wins both love and the hunger game. Katniss and Peeta are the tributes from district 12. Their main threat is the Careers, who are professional killers. In the vast arena, Katniss stays far away from other tributes. But after she gets the bow and arrows, Katniss begins attacking. She allies with Rue, who is killed later. She then finds Peeta, and they become lovers. Acting as a whole, Katniss and Peeta survive to the end. But there can only be one winner. They decide to commit suicide together, in hope that there can be 2 winners. Finally, they succeed and return home.

The book’s popularity is much linked to its fiction style, but that’s not the k ey point. The story, which is imaginative and dramatic, makes the book even more appealing. The games happen in a brand new world in the future. The games are played for a somehow strange reason, by boys and girls chosen at random. The background presents readers with many possibilities, which start our imagination. 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 girl being the winner of such a physical game. Katniss is not an average girl: she “sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew” (51). Y et that can only show she may not die too early. Later, Katniss gets the highest score in the training: “Then they’re flashing the number eleven on the screen. Eleven!” (108) Throughout the game, there are several times when she nearly dies. For example, she encounters a water crisis: “There’s no danger of tears now, I couldn’t produce one to save my life” (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 lips when the trumpets begin to blare” (339). The final victory of Katniss and Peeta drops the curtain of this dramatic and touching story.

In my opinion, the Hunger Games is written mainly against domination. On the one hand, the hunger games are the product of domination. They are bloody and cruel as readers can see, much more frustrating and miserable for residents in the districts. The reason why the games can be created is because of the unbalanced power: “A s our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games” (19). The Capitol is mu ch stronger, and it makes the games of deaths a TV show. Mere entertainment as they are for the Capitol, they are nightmare for the 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 the construction. Nowadays, there are still undemocratic governments exerting strong power upon people. On the other hand, the author’s opinion about the ruling Capitol can be seen clearly from the characters Katniss and Peeta. “I want to die as myself…I could think of a way to show the Capitol they