The Hunger Games: Free: E.C.

While reading The Hunger Games I felt many different emotions. I felt excitement, fear, and joy, just to name a few. The book itself was very exciting, obviously, because it is about children between the ages of twelve and eighteen killing each other for food. During the reading process, though, it did not seem like that sort of book. It was as if I was just reading another action/adventure/romance type book. The excitement was not dulled down by this quality though. In a few parts of the book I felt fear. Fear that Katniss would get caught and that Peeta would not make it. I felt fearful for Gale when he had to watch Katniss battle and when he had to watch her pretend to love someone else. Katniss was good, yes, but that does not mean that she was the best in the Games. She did end up winning, but most of the time she spent during the Games she was hiding. When she found Peeta and his leg was so infected, I thought for sure he was dead. I remember thinking, “I was just starting to like him and now he’s going to die???” I was scared that he would die and the plot would not go the way I expected it to. I also put myself in Gale’s shoes. To like a girl and to have to watch her love someone else must have been an ordeal. I was fearful that he would hate her and then Katniss would be all alone when the Capitol came after her. I was joyful when both Peeta and Katniss made it out of the Games. I thought for sure the book was over when they were both going to swallow the berries and that the second book would be about different people, but they made it through. I would encourage everyone to read The Hunger Games and see which emotions the text stirs up within them.