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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is written by Suzanne Collins. The book is about a TV show called the Hunger Games. In the show there are choosen 12 boys and 12 girls. The boys and girls are choosen from the districts. There are 12 districts and every dipstrict there will choose one boy and one girl. The chosen ones are forced to play the game. The game has only one rule: kill or be killed. Katniss Everdeen is the main character of the book. From district 12 the chosen one was Primrose Everdeen who was Katniss’s little sister. Katniss didn’t want her sister in the game, so she volunteered to the game.  Peeta Mellark was also chosen to the game from district 12. The chosen ones were called tributes. The tributes were taken to Capitol, where they were introduced to the world. When the game started the 24 tributes started to compete against each other. Only one can survival and the others have to die. Every time someone died, there was a sound, a cannon shot. At the end of the game the inventor changed the rules of the game, so that there can be two winners, but they must be from the same district. Eventually Katniss and Peeta won the game and went home.

The book was good but little sad. The beginning of the book really showed what it felt to live poor. When Katniss goes to the game, it shows that humans are like animals and they will do anything to stay alive. The ending was very good and touching. Because when the producers said that there can be only one winner, both Katniss and Peeta agreed that they would kill themselves with toxic berries. Then the producers said there can be two winners and they went home and they were happy that they were alive.

Reading the book was hard at times because I didn’t understand some of the words but they survived the context. The book was good and Suzanne Collins has written two sequels to the Hunger Games series, Catching fire and Monkingjay.

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the fault in our stars

The fault in our stars is popular romantic movie. The movie is based on the book The fault in our stars by John Green, which was published year 2012. It is an american movie about a boy and a girl  who fell in love. They both have cancer so the movie is current.  Cancer is the main point of the movie and the movie represents their everyday life. The girl has allways breathing apparatus with her. And the boy keeps cigarette between his lips as a metaphor. The boy and the girl went to see a famous writer who was really rude to them.  The movies environment is typical American city.

I think that the movie was good and really romantic. The movie was romantic but a little sad  in my opinion. Almost everybody else cried but me and my friends laughed because we thought it was funny. The sadest part was when the boy had only few days until he would die and the girl read her speach to the boy. In my opinion there was lots of sadness and misfornute in the movie. But it showed the true life of one who had a cancer untill the girl met the boy and it came like their own fary tale.

The movie was filmed really good and the movie felt real. The actors were really into the character. In my opinion the movie was almost same as the book and the choracter too. In my opinion the ending of the movie was better than the ending of the book because in the movie the writer who was rude to them went to give the letter himself but in the book his secretary delivered it. I think it was more respectful that the author delivered the letter himself to the girl. It honoured the dead boy who had writen the letter.

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