The Hunger Games, By Suzzane Collins

Have you ever felt nervous before a chemistry test? Had there been fear of getting an F on the test? The feeling of fear is miserable and vulnerable. Fear refers to the feeling of losing a loved one and being afraid of dying. It is the feeling of standing alone, with nobody on one’s side. A book called The Hunger Games, written by Suzzane Collins, is about a girl named Katniss, who is forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, where she has to kill people without any choice. It is a story about a girl losing a loved one in the arena and being rebellious toward those who set up the Hunger Games, the Capitol. This novel is aimed at teenagers and young adults because it shows how society leads fearful lives. The importance of this novel

When the stress of fear takes over, a spark of hope is needed to keep on going. Katniss shows how hope is stronger than fear. In the book, Katniss realizes what it feels like to lose a loved one in front of her eyes, and how it feels to see them die. When Katniss makes a trusting friend named Rue who was only 12 years old, she felt attached to her because she reminded her so much of her little sister, Prim who was far away from Katniss as she was in the arena (Collins 200). That bond between Rue and Katniss became so strong that they would stick together all of the time, but that came crashing down when Rue was killed by a Career Tribute (Collins 233). The death of Rue filled Katniss with the fear of being all alone with nobody by her side, but that didn’t last long. A spark of hope took away the stress of fear from Katniss. When Rue died, the people from Rue’s district gave Katniss some bread to thank Katniss for taking care of Rue (People were allowed to give food/resources to whichever player they wanted if they wished to ). The piece of bread made Katniss feel a little better because she became hopeful that there are people who still care about her and that she is not alone. The message of hope is stronger than fear helped Katniss get through the games after Rue’s death and showed that fear can be gone if there is some hope. Hope came from the bread and fear came from Rue’s

When the Gamemakers announced that there can only be one winner between Katniss and Peeta, (Peeta is a boy from the same district as Katniss and they work together throughout the game because the Gamemakers announced that there can be two winners if they are from the same districts but last minute they changed it to only one winner) Katniss became fearful of losing Peeta because she didn’t want him to die. Instead, she threatened to commit suicide with poison berries and told Peeta to do the same because she knew that the Gamemakers won’t allow both of them to die (Collins 344). The fear of Peeta dying made Katniss overwhelmed so she decided to be smart and came up with a plan. She knew there had to be a victor so she decided to eat the berries with Peeta, as stated before and had hope that the Gamemakers would do something to let both of them win, and they did. They announced both Katniss and Peeta as the winners of the hunger games. The spark of hope that the Gamemakers would change their decisions made Katniss and Peeta both win the hunger games. If Katniss didn’t have hope that the Gamemakers would change their mind, one of them would’ve been dead. Collins’ suggestion that hope is stronger than fear in the book displayed that no matter how big the fear is, a tiny hint of hope can change everything. Although, after all of the trauma that Katniss faced in the