Mocking Jay

Mocking Jay is the third book in the trilogy of The Hunger Games, by Suzzane Collins. This book was the book that let out all the answers that the lovers of this series want to know. After Katniss blew up the force field and was captured by the rebels of thirteen (including Haymitch). She learns that everybody in her prep team and everybody who had been helping her in her journey throughout the Hunger Games had known that they would capture her at the end of the quarter quell.

           

IN this book, Katniss has experience the ultimate losses. The captital got to Peeta before she could, and they hijacked this brain, so that every living memory that he has with Katniss, is a bad one. Many people die. People who are close to her, and people who she might’ve killed herself. A war had now raged through all the districts, and everybody is looking towards the mocking jay for help in these hard times. All she has to do is play the part, and stay alive.

I think that this book was amazing. Everybody who I've talked to, have hated the book. I can se why, but I don't think that it was the worst. It was a little slow moving, and some thing happened a little too much. I personally think that Suzanne Collins killed off too many characters. She killed Boggs, Finnick, Cinna, and even Prim. I think that all these characters who were most important to Katniss, and she just killed them . IN the end, the only person that she had left was Peeta. 

I think that there is a theme in this story. You don't want somebody to decide your fate for you, you want to make sure you can decide your fate. For example, in the end in the execution of President Snow, Katniss decides to kill Coin instead. Coin had been playing her from the beginning and was going to kill her the next chance she got.  I think this is important because you want to make decisions for yourself, not let anybody make them for you. You want to be able to be your own person, just like Katniss wanted to be. 

Am I Blue?

In this short story "Am I Blue" by, Bruce Coville the author is trying to make a very big point. The main character, Vince is being discriminated by the people in his community because he might be gay. Bruce Coville shows that in this short story that if your repressing yourself from who you truly are inside because you are being discriminated by someone, you don't get to live life at the fullest because you're not being true to yourself.

An example that supports this statement is when Melvin tell's Vince about how he died. The exact quote is, "It's how i met my maker, so to speak. I was walking down the street one day last year, minding my own business, when three bruisers dragged me into alley, shouting, 'We'll teach you faggot'  They never did explain what it is they were going to teach me. Last thing I remember from life on earth was coming face to face with an tire iron. Next thing I knew, I was knocking at the Pearly Gates." This quote is directly saying that you should always be who you are because you never know how long life is going to end up being. You always should be who you truly are.

Another example of discrimination is when Melvin tells Vince, "If a guy asks a girl for a date, the worst thing that can happen is that she laughs at him. If he asks another guy he might get his face punched in. This line is very meaningful. It's talking about the way society is. I know many people don't want to think this, but most people only accept opposite sexes together. Most people don't accept people being homo-sexual. So since thats the way society is, people are obligated to feel like gay people are different, therefore making the homo-sexual people feel uncomfortable in their postions. Even what society tells you, you should always be who you are inside.

In conclusion, I still think that you should be true to yourself no matter what other people say. You won't enjoy your life if you don't live it in the best way that you can. I think that living life in the best way possible is always the best. I think that the author makes very good points in this book. I think that he's trying to tell all of his readers that it's okay to be different. Everybody is different. You should always stay true to yourself no matter what.