Jason Han

Period 4

02-12-2018

In my book, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The setting takes place in a tyrannical dictated city where it is heavily armed with military weapons. The people working in the capital use these military weapons to punish the civilians if they break a law. The people living in the capital are extremely wealthy and they throw away food as if its junk while the civilians struggle to get food on the dinner table. "Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. 'You mean this will make me puke?' My prep team laughs hysterically. 'Of course, so you can keep eating,' says Octavia" If they weren't this filthy rich, then they would be blessed to be able to eat food like this, but they're all spoiled. This seems to be in the future, but they use whips and they have primary job sectors used in more than 80% of the city. Katniss is part of a poor family and she has to put food on the dinner table. She won the Hunger Games and gained the privilege to be able to stay in the capital and eat luxurious food, but she doesn't feel comfortable staying there. She knows what they're like in the capital and she knows how evil they are, so she's secretly trying to destroy the capital from the inside. 

Jason Han

Period 4

01-26-2018

In the book Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the main character is Katniss Everdeen. She is very caring and she worries a lot for others. She took Prim’s spot in The Hunger Games because she couldn’t bear to see her die. Even though Katniss has a great personality and cares a lot for others, I would not want to be her friend due to the risk of dying. In the situation she is in right now, she is trying to run away from the capital to save her families and friends before President Snow makes everything worse. If I become her friend, that would mean I would also have to be on the run from the capital, and there’s a higher chance of dying than surviving. One of Katniss’ friends, Gale, got viciously whipped until he lost conscious, and although Katniss stepped in to stop the whipping, Gale still suffered a lot. For me personally, I am too scared to jump into action and get involved in another person’s business because I learned in middle school that drama always gets carried away and it ends up making you awful, so I don’t compare to Katniss at all. Katniss likes to hunt and she likes going on adventures, while I like being indoors and I don’t like being very active, so we do not have similar hobbies. If Katniss and I were friends, then it would fade away quickly due to our lack of connections. Although I am a caring person, I care to a certain extent, not to the point where I would put myself on the line to save someone else. Katniss is either all in or all out, which is why she is an amazing person. If I had the chance to spend time with Katniss Everdeen, then I would not take it because of our lack of similarities and connections. 

Book Response

Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (pg 86)
8 pages
Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games and they both survived only because everyone thinks they're in love, forcing them to show affection to each other to survive. As time goes by, Katniss starts to trust Peeta more and more.
I was thinking about changing books because when i read, i get confused and i start to read the same sentence more than 3 times to finally understand whats happening. This is because im a visual learner and i can't picture things in my head well, so im looking for a book with great vivid image details.