Reading Log 1
Catching Fire – Hunger Games (Book 2)
Today while I was reading my book I pictured many different images in my head. One of the images that made me feel in a way scared and made the book even more interesting than it already is was when Katniss the main character is walking around with the “star crossed lover boy”, Peeta, and they see a big crowd in the District center, so they go over and Peeta pushes her back and says to go home but she refuses and pushes her way through to see her best friend and the guy who she loved being whipped, she jumps in front of the guy whipping Gabe and she gets hit with the whip across her face. This was one part in my book that I could picture.
The character I connect most with in my book I would say is Gabe. He lives in District 12 and I’m guessing he’s feeling sad and depressed because the girl he loves, Katniss, has left and all he can think is she could die at any point during the games. I can connect with him because my best friend since second grade left to New York on my birthday and I haven’t seen her since last year.
The part where I’m having most difficulty with is at the end of the book. It confused me and made no sense to me because it was talking about her in the games and getting hit by her friends and being picked up by an aircraft, which altogether confused me.
I haven’t done anything that’s similar to what I’ve read in the book. It is a very different kind of book compared to others so there isn’t really much to connect with.
In the book I am reading, the literary features are mostly foreshadowing, metaphors, characterization and personification. There aren’t that many literary features in the book.
The plot of my book is not realistic at all; some parts of it have realistic type scenarios but other than those it is not realistic.
I would like to have Peeta as a friend because he’s caring and from what they show in the book he would seem like a very good friend to have. He seems like one of those people where if I were to be injured and I couldn’t walk he would carry me.
Nothing in this book is really similar to any other books, its different, but I guess you can connect some of the parts where she talks about loving Gabe and Peeta but other than that there is nothing else.
I think what’s going to happen in the next section I read is they are going to get caught from escaping to District 13 and have some sort of punishment that could require death.
If I were to jump into my book right now I would help Katniss and force her to stay in the hospital bed so she doesn’t damage anything else in her body.
The part of the book that I am reading right now that I can visualize that best is when Katniss is walking around with Peeta, and they see a big crowd in the District center, so they go over and Peeta pushes her back and says to go home but she refuses and pushes her way through to see her best friend and the guy who she loves, Gabe, being whipped, she jumps in front of the guy whipping Gabe and she gets hit with the whip across her face. That is that part that I can visualize the best.
