The Girl Who Was on Fire (Movie Edition) - Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

Zusatztext The Girl Who Was on Fire is a MUST read for any Hunger Games fan. This anthology is as touching and thought provoking as the series itself. The essays included will challenge you to think of aspects of the trilogy in a new and deeper way . . . The Hunger Games may be over, but thanks to The Girl Who was on Fire , the discussion continues. ?Down With the Capital (Hunger Games fansite) My copy is completely highlighted, underlined, written in the margins, and dog-eared. You don't know how many times while I was reading it I said emphatically to myself, "Yes!!" as I underlined or highlighted a quote or passage. ?Book Nerds Across America A fascinating collection of essays about the Hunger Games series ? This book is LEGIT. All of the essays are thought-provoking and they really get into the heart and soul of the series. In fact, I'll even bet you that you'll come away from this book liking the series more than you did already. ?Forever Young Adult Informationen zum Autor Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in Culture and Modern Fiction and is currently Editor-in-Chief, Smart Pop, at BenBella Books. She lives in Cambridge, Mass. Klappentext Katniss Everdeen's adventures may have come to an end, but her story continues--especially with the highly anticipated March release of the film version of "The Hunger Games," starring Jennifer Lawrence. Here, 13 YA authors take fans back to Panem with moving, dark, and funny pieces on Katniss, the Games, Gale and Peeta, reality TV, survival, and more. Leseprobe Introduction You could call the Hunger Games a series that is?like its heroine?on fire. But its popularity, in itself, is nothing new. We live in an era of blockbuster young adult book series: Harry Potter, Twilight, now the Hunger Games. It’s more unusual these days for there not to be a YA series sweeping the nation. All of these series have certain things in common: compelling characters; complex worlds you want to spend time exploring; a focus on family and community. But the Hunger Games is, by far, the darkest of the three. In Twilight, love conquers all; Bella ends the series bound eternally to Edward and mother to Renesmee, without having to give up her human family or Jacob in the process. In Harry Potter, though there is loss, the world is returned to familiar stability after Voldemort’s defeat, and before we leave them, we see all of the main characters happily married, raising the next generation of witches and wizards. In the Hunger Games, while Katniss may conclude the series similarly married and a mother, the ending is much more bittersweet. Her sister and Gale are both lost to her in different but equally insurmountable ways. The world is better than it was, but there are hints that this improvement is only temporary?that the kind of inhumanity we saw in the districts under Capitol rule is the true status quo, and that the current peace is ephemeral, precious, something toward which Panem will always have to struggle. In other words, the Hunger Games ends in a way that feels surprisingly adult ?bleak, realistic, as far from wish fulfillment as one can imagine. Such a conclusion only emphasizes something YA readers have known for years: that there is serious, engaging, transformative work going on in YA literature. The Hunger Games is more than Gale versus Peeta; there’s so much more at stake in this series than love (and so much more at stake in loving, here, as well). The series takes on themes of power and propaganda, trauma and recovery, war and compassion. It’s about not just learning one’s power, but learning the limits of one’s power as well. Because at its core, the Hunger Games is a coming-of-age story, and not just for Katniss?it’s a coming-of-age story for Panem, and in a way, for us, its readers, as well. The series pushes us to grow...

Product details

• Authors: Brent Hartinger, Diana Peterfreund, Leah Wilson
• Assisted by: Leah Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Benbella Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2012
• EAN: 9781936661589
• ISBN: 978-1-936661-58-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools