In addition to your "reaction," include a clip or link to a song, music video, movie clip, television segment, work of art, poem, blog entry, (etc, just one link), that you feel in some way "connects" to or further "illustrates" the events in this novel.
Once I started reading Hunger Games, I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but after finishing it, I really enjoyed the book. I couldn't put it down half the time because I wanted to know what would happen and if Katniss survived. I was on the edge of my seat half the time reading and reading to know how the ending played out. After finishing Hunger Games, it makes me want to get the second book and read that just to know what happens with Katniss after winning the games. Then there is also the fact of what will happen to her now between Peeta and Gale. So in all, I found the book entertaining and very interesting. It made me think about us as viewers now and why we like to watch tv and certain reality shows. As I was reading, I found myself responding to Katniss and Peeta. I just kept asking myself why would Peeta join forces with the other tributes, did he really just go against Katniss or did he really fall in love with Katniss. I kept reading to also know if they ended up together and if they had to kill one another.
In a way, I think Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in a way relates to the Hunger Games beacuse in the movie, Harry and a bunch of chosen students play in these games against each other to win. They have to win against each other, out play eachother to win the a cup. In a way the movie is similar in that they are just teenagers playing for their lives and need to outplay to win. They get interviewed and everything, become stars and the entire student body watches to see what happens. They cheer them on and influence them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMj2wgN5UY ..... here's one video about the first task, they have to battle dragons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIQPoRc5Pd0&feature=related .......... heres the third task, they have to save friends of theirs and out swim, outsmart their opponents to win. They create alliances and help each other. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0DOZentoM&feature=related .... and here was the last task they had to do, a life or death situation they had to beat their opponents. So in a way it is similar to to The Hunger Games being chosen to play games against each other and be put in life or death situations. And the entire school watching and wizard world knowing who is winning and who died.
I think that other novels we've read so far, Feed, Culture Jam and 1984, I guess in a way they are working "in conversation" with each other in that this is what our culture has come down too. In Culture Jam is all about our culture aspects on life and the reality aspects of how our cutlure reacts in certain situations. In Hunger Games, it's just a story about how people react towards television and how much satisfaction and joy we get from watching tv, especially reality shows. We find it entertaining to watch people in real life on tv doing stupid stuff or participating in games for money. In a way, these books relate in that it is about how our culture is acting and how we are losing our "nature of the world". Some people sit at home night after night, week after week, watching reality television just for enjoyment and entertainment.
Which just a little comment, I don't know if you know but in 2012, there will be a movie based on the book releasing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szX6ClpNrA the trailer......
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