Aug 8
I just finished Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins. It was an interesting expansion on President Snow and The Hunger Games plus a few other characters.
I wanted to start a new book, but the stress in my life is just too much right now.
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I just finished Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins. It was an interesting expansion on President Snow and The Hunger Games plus a few other characters.
I wanted to start a new book, but the stress in my life is just too much right now.
I never realized this before, but Suzanne Collins probably wrote THG in present tense because that's the tense scripts are written in.
My book-inspired version of Haymitch Abernathy from "The Hunger Games"
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I've been re-reading the first three books before I want to read "Sunrise on the Reaping" for the first time (before the movie comes out). So anyway, I'm super hooked on the story and its world again. So much even that I felt inspired to create my version of Haymitch who I think might actually be my favorite character from the whole series. Absolutely not perfect, but tragic and broken instead - just like I like my fictional men, lmao. Let's see if I'll render more characters in the future.
ᴺᵒ ᴬᴵ ᵘˢᵉᵈ. ³ᴰ ᵐᵒᵈᵉˡ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵉˡˢᵉ ᵘˢᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰⁱˢ ʳᵉⁿᵈᵉʳ ʷᵃˢ ᵖᵘʳᶜʰᵃˢᵉᵈ ᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᴰᵃᶻ ³ᴰ ˢᵗᵒʳᵉ.
no what you guys don't understand is that Katniss and Carl are the same.
both of these franchises talk about the same thing: the wealthy and privileged using their means to make vulnerable people an entertainment source.
The Capitol uses the Hunger Games not only as a way to control the population by fear, but also to keep their citizens desensitized to the horrors.
They do this by making the Tributes kill eachother and televise it, making them esentially a prop for their own narrative. And the Tributes don't have a say in it.
In the end, the Tributes are simply following orders. Orders that sometimes are explicit, and sometimes they're implicit "either do or die".
As explained by Katniss in Mockingjay:
Then, there's this parallel with Carl
Carl also recognizes that he's part of this TV show where his entire class is being wiped out. And the viewers love it. The only difference is that (in most cases) the crawlers don't kill each other, but they die facing the Dungeon (and even that changes from time to time, when the showrunners push for a certain narrative too).
What I'm saying is that Suzane Collins and Matt Dinniman are making the same point here:
When the wealthy are too wealthy to understand that people aren't toys, we must rise and remind them that we're not pawns.
3/3 the dandelion in the spring
Suzanne Collins is such an amazing writer cuz im reading BOSAS and sometimes i get bored and daze out bc it lacks emotion- Oh wait its in Snows perspective and he LITERALLY LACKS EMPATHY AND DOESNT KNOW HOW TO ACTUALLY FEEL ANY OF HIS EMOTIONS, Snow literally walks around genuinely believing he is on some higher level to them, like God or smth, so so so SO incredibly written!!!
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Suzanne Collins
“Ambition will fuel him.
Competition will drive him.
But power has its price.
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games.In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin.Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute… and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.”
Paperback
517 pages
American literature
Published 19 May 2020
Prequel 1 of the Hunger Games
