The book I chose to read this week was “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. The first chapter is mainly about the author introducing the story to the reader. The first chapter explains the characters to the reader like Prim, who is Katniss’ little sister, Also, Katniss who hunts outside District with Gale, who is her best friend and her hunting partner. The story starts off with Gale and Katniss hunting outside of district and also talking about each other’s lives.
My personal reaction to this story is that the author did a very good job in setting the mood of the story and also introducing the story to the reader. Like when the author starts the conversation of Gale and Katniss about how they are the only hope for their family and how Gale wants to leave the District with Katniss and start a family, but Katniss strongly declines even though deep inside she has feelings for him.
I think that the author’s intent in this chapter was obviously introducing the theme and the story to the reader but to not make it so boring. The author wants the reader to keep reading and that’s why she doesn’t cram everything up in the first chapter, she spaces everything out throughout the story so the reader doesn’t get bored in the middle of it.
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