I finally relented to pop culture, at my daughter’s urging, and read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. My submission was more a response to her repeated requests and finally she checked the book from her school library and brought it to me. How could I reject this effort for us to connect? She also insisted that I couldn’t watch the movie until I’d read the book, echoing my own rules!
Over a long winter break weekend, I dove into the tween novel and finished it in a couple days, drawn into very good storytelling. While exciting and continually suspenseful, I can’t say that the book was entirely creative and it celebrated some of the worst attributes of humanity and Western society.
The world Collins created is unique, yet familiar. I found myself visualizing Mad Max movies with neon Nickelodeon colors and the bubbled force-field arena something like that place Aqua man lived in the old cartoons. It seemed that at each cliffhanger problem, the solution quickly came and almost too easily. Devices such as parachutes with gifts, frightening fireballs from the sky, near-miss attacks and rescues perpetuated throughout the story. I was infrequently allowed to fully grieve or celebrate characters and events because they were so predictable. Remembering Romeo and Juliette, I was hardly moved when the star-crossed lovers came to the brink of poisoned berries.
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Too much of the plot mirrored the power struggle of bullies in schools, politics and poverty, and even American Idol judges determining the fates of adolescent dreams. So much that we’ve come to consider normal was further legitimized, while taken to a not-so-unimaginable extreme of life and death. Ultimately, when the dust settled and the train takes the victors home, we are given the only yet-to-be-resolved problem representing the impetuousness of young love and the condition of marriage in our society where the protagonists is torn between having two loves and wanting them both. I was happy thinking she was going home to the comfort of love after such trials, so this last open ending helped me decide I don’t need to read further in the series. I’m sure there will be a quick fix anyway.
The Hunger Games gets 3 of 5 Sutterstars. What it lacks in quality literature, it brings in excitement and flow.