Wednesday
Sep092015
A Tribute to The Hunger Games Trilogy - The Books
Molly Wed, September 9, 2015 ;)
Our 100 days of Mockingjay celebration burns on! This week we're honoring the place where it all began: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games book trilogy.
Suzanne Collins created The Hunger Games from an idea born of late night channel surfing between real war coverage and reality television. Suzanne, the daughter of a career military man and Vietnam Veteran, has said that she wanted to write an age-appropriate war story for every age group. The Hunger Games is her war story for young adults. The trilogy's themes of poverty, socio-economic disparity, government corruption, propaganda, revolution, redemption, and the consequences of war mirror events in our current society.
The Hunger Games means different things to different people. For some, Katniss Everdeen is a strong and inspiring female role model, and for some she inspires as a survivor of poverty and PTSD. She's complicated, imperfect, damaged and an incredibly compelling lead character.
Some people adore the love stories. Suzanne wrote interesting, complex relationships without a typical fairytale ending in the lot: Katniss and Peeta, Katniss and Gale, Finnick and Annie, even Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen.
As we've seen throughout this 100 Days of MJ project, The Hunger Games means much more to people than a series of novels or a movie franchise. Seven of the ten most highlighted Kindle passages ever are from The Hunger Games trilogy, and The Hunger Games is the third most highlighted book OF ALL TIME, eclipsed only by The Bible and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
How You Can Participate This Week:
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Suzanne's words are compelling and powerful, meaningful and resonant. We want to honor those words this week by asking you to share your favorite Hunger Games book quote or passage in a visual way. Take a quote that has made an impact on you and make an edit, write it out, take a photo – the possibilities are endless. Let your imagination run wild. Just feature the words of THG in a visual way and use the hashtag #THGTrilogy to share it on social media.
We are partnering with our friends at Everlarked & Always (who made the beautiful edit above) this week. They'll also be sharing some of your tagged work on their Tumblr blog Everlarked & Always, so be sure to follow.
GIVEAWAY:
We can't have a new theme without a new giveaway. This week (Wed, Sept 9 - Tues, Sept 14th) ONE winner will receive:
A boxed set of The Hunger Games trilogy foil editions
A set of 5 Mockingjay pins: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, the new Mockingjay Part 2 pin that was given away at Comic-Con and a black Mockingjay pin (5 pins in total).
A boxed set of The Hunger Games trilogy foil editions
A set of 5 Mockingjay pins: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, the new Mockingjay Part 2 pin that was given away at Comic-Con and a black Mockingjay pin (5 pins in total).
Enter the giveaway through the widget below. Sharing a photo on social media is not required to enter, nor does it count as an entry BUT it sure is fun, and we can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
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Reader Comments (222)
Hard choice.. Probably Mockingjay. such a powerful book.
My favourite book might be Mockingjay. But it's so difficult to pick one only !! However I liked the feeling of completion I got while reading this book, and thus finishing the series.
My favourite book was definitely The Hunger Games, because that was the one that sucked me into the series and what started the whole thing.
I loved the three books. Each one has it beauty. The Hunger Games is rude, fierce, brutal and real. It makes you realize our society it´s not so different to Panem´s. Catching Fire is sad. Makes you realize the scars the Games created on Katniss. She doesn´t wan´t revolution, she just wants her family to be safe. That´s totally logical, but sad too. And Mockingjay. Mockingjay it´s definitely strong. Crude. Makes you see the consequences of war. The pain that leaves. And the three of them, try to tell you that you can change this. We can fight and try that that reality is never ours. I am from Argentina so my english it´s pretty bad, sorry :(
I think my favorite book is Mockingjay. I loved every single chapter of the book and every unexpected plot twist; and I also suffered with each of them.
But what I loved the most, was the characters' developement. Specially, Katniss' character. From being a broken girl scared of facing the war, because she was practically forced to be the face of the rebellion, to a fighter who finally brought peace and justice to the districts.
I was so pleased with the ending of this wonderful trilogy, because in spite of all the deaths, loss and pain, finally justice won, and our girl on fire finally found her safe place.
My favorite quote from the Hunger Games series is "You love me. Real or not real? - Real." It's my favorite quote because it's somehow a special moment between Katniss and Peeta and this quote means so much because Katniss realizes that she only loves Peeta and no one else.
My favorite book of the trilogy is Catching Fire. Because it shows life after the games, the horror of coming back to the arena and the start of the rebellion.
My favorite book is Catching Fire because there Katniss realises that she loves Peeta. Another reason is that Finnick and Johanna appear the first time and like both of them. Because they're in the arena the second time the whole atmosphere is different and I also like it, that so many things happen in this book. While reading you didn't know what came next and you always wanted to read on. Also I find admirable that Suzanne Collins could invent an arena in the shape of a clock.
My favorite book is Catching Fire.
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My favorite book in the trilogy would have to be Catching Fire. The way things drastically changed for Peeta and Katniss, the poverty to the rich, then being chosen for the games a second time, and how the events in those games were so action-packed and distinct from the first games.. just made this book more intriguing than the others.
Mockingjay!! I love it!! You learn so much and you feel so much with Katniss
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My favourite book is mockingjay! I loved the description of destroyed 12!
I love all three books with all my heart, but i think Mockingjay is my favorite! I'm rereading it in English at the moment, and I still get shivers sometimes. I JUST LOVE THAT
Mockingjay for me.
My favourite book is Mockingjay because it's great to see more of some Districts. And don't forget the Capitol. It was also nice to meet a few new characters. Coin and Cressida are amazing!
Mocking jay, because it was the rebellion we were all waiting for and I thought the ending was a great way to end it.
Probably Mockingjay because we finally get to see the real rebellion.
I completely died reading and then watching Catching Fire. Its all smile in one page and then its me crying on the next one. Its almost a pure story, a part of the story that is real and i feel that its happening somewhere in this earth. Fight not only on the arena but even in Katniss' heart to choose options. I really really really fall in love with Catching Fire. 😊😆😉
I completely died reading and then watching Catching Fire. Its all smile in one page and then its me crying on the next one. Its almost a pure story, a part of the story that is real and i feel that its happening somewhere in this earth. Fight not only on the arena but even in Katniss' heart to choose options. I really really really fall in love with Catching Fire. 😊😆😉
My favourite book is "Catching fire" because we meet new awesome characters.
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!! I'm actual so excited for Mockingjay pt 2 but I'm also very upset! THG has been such a massive part of my life for so long, I'm not sure what I'm going to do? 😢
I love the second one book 😍😍😍😍
my favorite book in the trilogy would be The Hunger Games because it's where it all began! the moment Katniss volunteered for her sister, the Mockingjay was born. 👍🏻