3.07: Chapter 2 Hunger Games Summary

The Hunger Games 

Chapter 2

          In the second chapter of The Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers as tribute to keep from having Primrose go to the games and possibly dying. She also hears who is called out as the male tribute, and it's Peetah Mellark, a boy who had once given her bread with which she fed the family when they were on the verge of starving.

          As a reader, I am falling more and more with this book. It has a thriller sense to it, with mystery of what could happen and fear of the world they live in. It even got me nervous, thinking about who the male tribute was going to, and I honestly thought it was going to be Gale, Katniss's best friend. The author is great with suspense. I, on personal opinion, feel extremely bad for both of them, but I would be lying if I said I didn't think Katniss is going to win. She's determined and forward, while he seems like he has to go around the bush to get things done, which might be a disadvantage at the Hunger Games. I believe the author's intent in this chapter is to get us pumped up about the rest of the book. She wants us to wonder about who's going to win those deadly battles, to see who, specially between Peetah and Katniss will end up alive and who'll end up dead. In this reading selection, I noticed several patterns of organization. Among them, the ones that truly stood out to me were cause and effect and chronological organizational patterns. Exampls of these are that, for example, Primrose gets chosen so Katniss has to volunteer that signalizes cause and effect, and chronological patterns which are shown through the fact that events are listed in an orderly maner as time passes by.

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         The Hunger Games

         Chapter 1: "The Tributes"


      This book has begun suspenseful and exciting, and I'm sure that's how it'll continue to be. This story is about a sixteen-year old girl named Katniss who is basically in charge of taking care of her sister and mom. They live in District 12 of the country Panem, which is a place where the one thing everyone wants and needs is food, and they literally have to fight to death to get it. Once you're twelve,your name gets put into a raffle to fight against 25 other people in a battle of death, from which the  winning district is rewarded with food. Katniss's name wil be put onto the reaffle twenty times this year, because she has needed to put it four times in every year ever since the age of twelve (the age you become eligible for the Hunger Games) because she needed to support herself, her mom, and her sister. She's hoping, just like everyone there, to not be picked. And she's no. Her sister, however, might be in some trouble. 

                  My personal reaction to this reading selection is that I'm intrigued. I really want to see what could and will happen, and how it will play out. I am surprised at the irony in this story, because in Panem there's people starving and the government knows, yet they don't do anything about it. This happens in real life as well, and that's why it's ironic. I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen to Primrose, will she be attending the Hunger Games? Will she survive? Will Gale be the male tribute?  

           For my reading's note taking, I used an outline because that is my preferred way of taking notes. I have been using it my whole life and grew accostumed to it.