Hunger Games Book to Movie Review: Warning Contains Spoilers

One of our Teen Advisory Group members wrote a review comparing the movie Hunger Games to the book. What was your take on the movie?




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review by Kendall L.


The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in a futuristic society with districts of Panem and their capitol. Every year they have a tournament called the Hunger Games. Each district has to give one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 and one boy to fight to the death with others from other districts. This year is her sister's first time going into the "reaping"(which is how the determine who is going into the games), and out of a million,on her first time joining the reaping, she gets chosen. Of course Katniss volunteers to take her place, and now she has to compete with 23 other people to return to her home in District 12.
 
The book was more in depth with descriptions and how everything "flowed" together compared to the movie, which left out a lot of things and had false information. In the book when Rue died ( a girl from District 11) she was in a net when Marvel ( a boy from District 1) shot a spear into her stomach, while in the the movie Katniss almost saved her when Marvel shot her. Also in the movie Rue pulled out the spear out of her stomach, and in the book her and Katniss left it. 
 
The book and the movie maybe slightly different but other than a few more mistakes it was a good movie. It was full of passion, action, and blood!!! But if you haven't read or watched it, I would recommend reading it first, then watching. Its just better imagining in your mind what everything looks like, then seeing what others think of it too. But they were both excellent and I would read and watch it over again!!!
 

Review: Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
• Publisher: Scholastic Press; Reprint edition (July 3, 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-0439023528
• Review by Kendall L.
• The Hunger Games is a book of strategy, suspense, and action starring the main character, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is an average 16 year-old girl living since birth in District 12. Every year the Capitol (the "control group") has a tournament called the Hunger Games (two children from each district have to compete in an organized fight and must kill to literally save their lives) and this year Katniss has to go. She enters with her opponent, Peeta Mellark, and something happens that no one ever expects...
• I really enjoyed this book. It was full of description, lots of drama, and all that fighting stuff that we teenagers like to see in a book. We crave for these kinds of books because it's appealing to the eye, which is almost like the vampire books everyone reads now, but luckily not vampires this time! There’s a cliff hanger at almost every chapter so it makes you want to read more. For example, the first time I read this book, it literally took me three days to finish it (including school in between)!!! 
• Day and night, this makes for a great escape when you want to get away from something, or just snuggle down with a good book, either way it's truly a fantastic book. In the end, I definitely recommend this book.