My Review On The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Written By Suzanne Collins.

Mockingjay is the Third and last installment of the Hunger Games Franchise. The start of the book returns to the cliffhanger of Catching Fire (Previous book) and the contents of the book has remotely changed from the first book as the story doesn’t revolve around The arena or the trials but the consequences and conclusions to the main protagonists actions. The heroin is called Katniss Everdeen and she is a near traumatized teen who has gone through physical and mental trauma to protect her family and friends.The world is a post-apocalyptic distopia in which citizens are very much like puppets with strings of fear controlling them. The puppet master is President Snow who’s appearance is of a retired Father Christmas with puffy lips and a single white rose tucked snug in his breast pocket. Katniss chooses to replace her younger sister Prim in the Arena where selected youths are chosen from each district to fight to the death and where one victor is allowed to survive. Throughout Katnisses time in the games she gives off gestures and signs of resistance. This is the first incentive that she will be the beacon of hope for Panem. The Mockingjay is figure or idol in which will free them from the clutches of the Capitol. A Mockinjay is a bird like creature created by the Capitol using the genes of  Jabberjays which were birds that the Capitol genetically engineered to be spies during the rebellion of the past 13 districts.The Jabberjays had collected the information for the capitol and had fulfilled their purpose so the laboratories were destroyed and the surviving subjects were left in the wilderness to die out. Eventually they had died out but not until they had passed on their genetic code to female Mockingbirds. The use of having the Mockingbird could have been a hint to the Harper Lee novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ as it shows pride. The book is written in order an essay 3rd person but from Katniss’s point of view which i also enjoy because the author is also a female so this helps the connection between the antagonist and the writer. Suzanne Collins even states that”Katniss is a wreck” This was a good pillar for the book because it doesn’t contain any stereotypes as the apocalyptic war had changed them. Her character is a tom-boy who hunts animals and sells them to feed her small family as her Father was killed in a mining accident when Katniss was younger and her mother was a doctor for the sick and starving community. This had made Katniss the man of the house and this had stripped her of her childhood. For female readers this was good because there are not many Female heroes in today’s novels and films as Katniss is independent and strong instead of a damsel in distress.The setting of the hunger games was based on  reality TV and coverage of the war in Iraq with child soldiers being killed and people watching it on TV. She was also influenced heavily by Greek Mythology. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur is a favorite story and she had used the children being sent to death in the arena with the Minotaur in her story being King Minos of Crete as President Snow and Athens is panem in which King Minos demands Athens to send him seven children every year. This had been the backbone for the famous franchise. This does not have many non fiction parts as it is an allegory like Animal Farm but for the distant future. This is very different and therefore unique as it explores the dark side of humanity. The few books that surround the Hunger Games are Divergent,Twilight and Maze runner.