Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Catching Fire
I am currently reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins as my independent reading book. This book is so good and I just dont want to put it down! An interesting part is when the rich people living in the Capitol are having a victory feast for the winning tributes Peeta and Katniss while they are on their Victory Tour. There is so much food at the dinner that Katniss is afraid she won't get to taste it all. She spots these glasses filled with liquid on a table and says, "'You mean this will make me puke?' My prep team laughs hysterically. 'Of course, so you can keep eating,' says Octavia." I find this quote to be quite interesting because there are starving people back in the Districts and these snobby, rich people are just wasting food. I think it is extremely selfish of them to completely waste good food and turning it into vomit just for their pleasure, when that food could save someone back in the poor Districts from starvation.
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I completely agree with you Meg. That's just disturbing that they eat, throw up, then eat more food. It's so wrong that other districts don't even have enough food to feed their whole family one serving,let alone multiple servings per person. Also, this really shows how snotty and selfish people can be when they are rich and have everything they need. And, since other districts are starving, this means that people are dying of starvation and just bad living conditions. I think that the rich districts should help out the poorer districts and lend them some food and water.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think Suzanne Collins is saying about society today? does anything like this scenario exist anywhere in this world at this very moment?
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