Steven Became More Mature... My Holiday Blog Post

The book, Girls, Drums, and Dangerous Pie tells a story about a thirteen year-old boy named Steven Alper, and his five year-old brother named Jeffrey, who has leukemia. Leukemia is a type of blood cancer, which happens in a person’s bone marrow. In the story, Jeffrey’s cancer is detected after an incident which included him falling off a chair. But before cancer, Steven despised his brother. Now, after cancer, Steven becomes more mature.

            At first, when the news about his brother gets to him, Steven gives up on everything. He was bitter, he was depressed, and he kept everything bottled up inside of him. But after seeing himself fail, his big-time crush, Renee Albert, has to tutor him for his exam. While Steven waits, his parents tell him to keep anyone or anything with disease away from Jeffrey, or else it will affect his cancer. When Renee shows up during a bad weather, with a flu, Steven kicks her out. This a big self sacrifice, which makes him more mature.

            Another act Steven does is he shaves his head off clean. He does this because Jeffrey became bald from the extremeness of radiation, caused by chemotherapy. Everyone realizes that Jeffrey is bald, but he thinks that no one else can see it but him. So one night, Steven finds Jeffrey crying in bed. Jeffrey was crying because some kid in his class told him he was bald. So after Steven settles Jeffrey, he goes to the bathroom, and takes a razor, then shaves his own head. On the spot. Clean. I think that this sacrifice took him a lot of love and courage. Therefore, he became more mature.

            But I think the most selfless sacrifice was when Steven passed up on his opportunity to shine in the spotlight. You see, at the start of the book, Steven’s music teacher, Mr. Watras, tells him that he can play a big role in the school concert. Steven is so excited, when his moment comes. But at the middle of his performance, Jeffrey gets sick and throws up. So Steven is left to decide on whether he should stay at concert, or go with his parents to take Jeffrey to the hospital. Steven was confused. But a friend of his, Samantha, another leukemia patient, tells Steven to go. Steven is still confused, but then he makes up his mind. He takes Jeffrey to the hospital. Steven has officially become mature.

            The next day, Steven is at Jeffrey’s hospital. He had stayed with his brother all night. The doctors notified Steven and his parents that Jeffrey just had an ear infection. Now, Steven was heading over to Samantha’s room, but he found it vacant. He gets scared, and asks a doctor about what happened to Samantha. Unfortunately, she died, with her mother by her side. Steven gets scared once more and asks if her sister was by her side as well. The answer was no. Steven realizes how much he loves his brother, and how sad it would be if anything horrid happened to him, if Steven wasn’t by his side. Steven becomes more mature than the self absorbed Steven we saw at the beginning of the story.

Always Running, Chapter 2-3

So far, in the story, Luis is involved in a bunch of arrests, shooting, drinking, and drug use. Luis's mother hates him, and kicks him out, after he tried commit suicide at age 13. He tried to cut his wrist with a razor. One night, his friend Clavo was shot. So, he was on wheelchairs, and after he came out the hospital, their gang decided to take a trip to the "white beach." Since's he's Mexican, it was restricted for him. So there, he has love affairs, and gets caught using mescaline, by some police officers.

The Twilight Saga vs The Hunger Games Trilogy... which is better?

If you ask me which series I like better, "The Hunger Games Trilogy," or "The Twilight Saga," I would choose "The Hunger Games," because Katniss has a want. Bella on the other hand does not have a want, which doesn't make anything interesting. She's just like, "I don't know who I should choose. Will it be Edward or Jacob?" Katniss has a want. She wants to be free from the Capitol's custody.

In Twilight, you meet Bella's dad who's living in Forks, Washington. Then you meet all the other characters at a high school lunch table. There's another table. That's where the Cullens( the secret vampires) sit. Over the course of the book, Bella and Edward get closer, due to Edward saving her life several times. But at the end, when a vampire is hunting Bella down for her blood, and has drained her, Edward revives Bella. So... yeah, it's your basic vampire-teen romance novel. It's cliched

The Hunger Games is unique. It's inspired by ancient Rome, and an ancient saying, "Panem et Circenses." The saying means, "Bread and Circuses." That's what runs the dystopian country. Literally. There's a Capitol ringed by once 13, now 12 districts. The Districts provide bread, symbolizing human wants and necessities, and circuses, which represent, entertainment. The story follows Katniss, a girl who lives in the poverty of District 12. But annually the capitol makes all the districts offer 1 girl and 1 boy tribute to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Teenagers between the ages of 12-18 are forced enter their names in the giant glass ball for the reaping. When her sister, Prim's, name is reaped, Katniss bravely volunteers as tribute. She fights to death againts the 23 other people, and wins with the boy from her district, Peeta, which is irregular, because only one tribute is supposed to win.

Twilight continues into three other books, just describin her confusion between Edward and Jacob. I mean, come on! Really? It's been used a billion times.

The Hunger Games continues, expressing Katniss's will to destroy everything, her growing hate, her want, the Capitol's reign of torture, and becoming the Mockingjay.

Always Running... Chapter 1

Always Running is a childhood autobiography written by Luis J. Rodriguez. Luis talks about his time being new to Los Angeles... new to the U.S. Luis arrived in Los Angeles in the 1950s, so everyone was racist and cruel to Mexicans, who they called spics. His family were very poor, and could not speak in English very well. One time, they went to the park to rest on the benches, and a Caucasian woman with three children yelled at them to get off, telling them that they didn't belong, it wasn't their country. I felt bad for them. Wherever this woman is now, she must be feeling really guilty, because if she isn't then there is something wrong with her. Mexicans are as equal as her. No one can dominate another person.

Another time, he talks about going to a Caucasian area with his brother, when he was six, and his brother was nine, to do groceries. Everything had gone well in the start. But when they left with their purchases, a couple of teenagers showed up. They said, "Well, well, well, look at who dared to come into the white side of town. Two spics." They knocked the groceries to the floor. One teenager held Luis up, and the other two threw his brother to the floor. They slapped him, kicked him, cut his skin, and punched his stomach until he vomited. They all took turns beating Rano. Luis was forced to watch. The teenagers left, laughing. Rano cried a lot. And that was the start of Luis's violent childhood. As the blurb says, he has experienced violence,  shootings, arrests, drugs, murder, saw suicide, attempted slow suicide, and gang culture.

Anya's Ghost

Anya's ghost may seem like an inappropriate (too young) book for seventh graders, but it's just the right thing... but if you read it too much, your skills will fall behind. It's a graphic novel about a girl named Anya, of course. She was teased when she first moved to the U.S. She was falled fat and ugly, and everyone laughed at her Russian accent. So she turns her back on her religion, culture, and family. She HATES people from her country and is ashamed of her last name,  Borzakovskaya.

But one day, she falls in a hole, and finds a girl named Emily Reilly. Emily is a ghost. At the beginning, she's very dainty, and kind, and helpful. But then, she gets involved in Anya's social life. And Emily becomes controlling, by making Anya go after a boy who broke her heart. And when Anya refuses to do this, Emily starts terrorizing the whole family.

But Anya finds out Emily's secret. Tha's when everything becomes a lie. Anya finds out that Emily died of a broken heart, and wants Anya to live her life for her. At the end, Emily fades away with a sad and broken heart.

I Might Be Too Old for This, but I Certainly Don't Feel Like It

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Third Wheel...

I will read all these books by Jeff Kinney. It's hilarious and I'll never stop reading it. Is it my favorite series? No. That's The Hunger Games. But in the story, reading about Greg Heffley (the protagonist) makes you realize how smart you are a person. It's a sweet ambition, and I'm pretty sure me and everyone else has this too, Greg wants to grow up and be famous. He believes it too. But he says it like if you can just clap your hand, then you can be famous. You actually have to run a few miles to be famous, everyone knows that. Meanwhile, Greg justs sits back, acts lazy, fails, and keeps going on with his middle school obsessions.

In the Third Wheel, there's a Valentine's Day Dance at his school, and he wants a date. He tries really stupid and pointless things to get one, but at the end, he's stuck going to the dance as part of a group. His group includes a girl named Abigail Brown, his best friend Rowley, and himself. But Greg keeps failing at his chances with Abigail. Instead, Abigail starts paying more attention to Rowley.

I won't say more except Greg has an okay ending for himself. After all, he is a wimpy kid.

The Lucky Kind

I didn't finish this book yet, but I'm reading The Lucky Kind. The story is told in first person bya really perverted Jewish boy that gets drunk on weekends and smokes cigarettes on roofs. The horrible part is that he's only a teen. But it seems that all the time, he is lucky. He got away with smoking and drinking, when his parents knew. They seemed upset for like two seconds in the book, it suddenly turned into another topic.

But he finds out that he isn't the only one into dirt. His father was too, like about thirty years ago. He finds out that he is his mother's first-bron, but not his father's. His father had another son who's 29. He now starts to rethink all he thought about father, because his father is hiding things from him.

Sarah's Key

Nowadays, you just can't find a book without all the teenage dirt in it. So, I just took a historical fiction by random, it is just great! Great with no sarcasm. In Sarah's Key, it shows a family in France during the beginning of the Holocaust. The police went door to door, just before dawn, arresting Jewish families. Sarah's father is hiding in their cellar, and when the police shows up at their door, she hides her little brother in the cupboard, and locks him up, telling him that she'll come back. When police have Sarah and her mother, they search for her father. And they find him.

Fifty years later, an American woman, her French husband, and their eleven year-old daughter, become involved with Sarah and her history with her little brother. Bertrand, the husband, disagrees with this idea. The woman collects files, research, sources, and travels around Europe and North America, to find Sarah.

It turns out that she never told anyone about her brother, her religion, or her past. Her son didn't even know!

And in the end, there is no Sarah. There was, but not anymore.

After... A Really Creepy and Suspenseful Story

Okay, so I read After by author, Francine Prose. It was so creepy, suspenseful, not really scary, but very mysterious, it just makes you think really deeply. It makes you ask this question: What if all the adults turned into a different person? What if they were out to find away to make us disappear and kill us? Us as in us kids. Where would we go? What would ever be safe? But these questions are probably confusing you. I'll explain it. I'll explain the story.

At the beginning of the book, there is a shooting in a nearby high school called Pleasant Valley. Only, the culprits were students of the school. SPOILER ALERT The school was incredibly cliquey and the three culprits "didn't belong," so they decided to get high on some drugs and then bring guns to the school gym and shoot people. Well, they did, but a lot kids and teachers lost their lives. Including the shooters because they shot themselves. End of the alert.

So every school in Massachussetts gets a new grief and crisis counseler. And everyday, ever since the shooting, there has been a daily assembly, and new rules. The parents are getting billions of e-mails each day about these from school. Most of the parents are reading them too. The protagonist, Tom, gets annoyed by this. Good thing his dad isn't reading the e-mails, because Tom hates being bugged about the new rules. One by one, kids are starting to disappear. One day, Tom's best friend gets busted for smoking weed, and taking maruajana. So, the counseler, Dr. Willner talks to his parents, and pretty soon, Tom's friend, Silas, is being sent away to a concentration camp for kids. Dr. Willner, I'm lucky I live in Brooklyn. I'd have a case about this as soon as possible, you know, if I was older, and this was in real life. Good thing it's not... and I'm hoping no one's planning for it.

Whenever I read a book, I feel as if I'm in there. That leaves me all tense, and I'm dying to finish it. I finished it on the bus. Anyways, more and more kids disappear. Tom's goody-goody girlfriend, Becca is caught graffitying on school property about where the missing children were. Then they get busted... by the worst dude out there, Dr. Willner! Becca and Tom manage to escape him. Then the next day, they all run away with their family, and a friend named Brian. Nothing and nowhere is safe anymore. Tom's dad's girlfriend drives, to anywhere... just where nothing has ever changed and where children are safe. Who knows what will happen After?

What I Saw and How I Lied

I think the book, What I Saw and How I Lied is meant to be a mystery. It seemed suspenseful, but not that suspenseful to me. The book takes place in the late 1940s, right after the period of World War II. I think the book is about not trying to grow up too fast. In the story, the main character Evelyn, or Evie, wants to be like her, and be all grown up, but she winds up in a situation that is not pleasant to hear, but it hurts her feelings and changes her thoughts about her mother and Joe. I think that the author did a great job explaining the main idea.

Inside the story, Evie wants to grow up and be able to be like her mother. Her mother was her role model in the beginning of the book. Then one day, Evie's stepfather, Joe Spooner, returns from serving in the military. He decides to take Evie and her mother to Miami, Florida. So when they arrived there, all the hotels were closed. They found one hotel that was open. The very next night, Evie could not sleep. Her mother was out with another hotel guest, and her father was hanging out with the guest's husband. There is a high school dance in the hotel. Evie wants to go, so she puts her mother's long dress on. Then, her mother returns with her friend from the hotel. They dress her up, and prep her for the dance. And when Evie goes there, she meets Peter Coleridge. He is who she thinks is a handsome man in his early twenties. Evie is fifteen. But she puts her age away, and falls in love with Peter. But is Peter really in love with her?

Over the next few days, Peter and Evie get closer, and Evie finds out that Peter is a veteran from the military, and that he served with Joe. Peter also gets to know her family. Joe isn't very happy seeing Peter. He adds sarcasm to words meant for excitement. Evie manages to overlook that for a while. But she notices Joe's every move. Peter on Evie go on a few "dates," but her mother is a "chaperone" at all times. One day, Peter and Evie decide to catch a movie, but Evie's mom comes along. They get to a point where they all want snacks. Evie's mom sends her to get the food, but Peter volounteers. Evie's mom argues that Evie knows her favorite type of flavor. Evie gets up from her seat between her mom and Peter. When she returns, Peter has moved over next to her mom. Evie just ignores that. Peter drops Evie off at her hotel, and her mom goes to a store by herself? Why would she just be driven home, and then decide to go the store?

Another time, Evie gets up at dawn, and searches for Peter all over the neighborhood. And finally, she finds him, all dressed up, waiting at a table for Evie? At first, he talked to her like she was an adult. Then, for some reason, he stopped talking like that.  Her mother shows up, dressed up all beautifully, but angry, with tears in her eyes. She grabs Evie, and takes her back to the hotel. I think her mom loves herself, and she was just getting ready for Peter to notice her looks.

The next day, her dad takes Peter and her mom on a fishing trip. There is supposed be hurricane on that day. The next thing you know, Peter is missing. and when they do find him, they say that they found his body. Over the next couple of days, Evie finds out a dirty secret. She and Peter never had anything together. It was really with her mother. She was just the cover. Her mother and Peter were flirting at the movie theater. And when her mother went to the store, Peter followed her and bought her a vase. Evie, her mother, and Joe had to lie. They had to cover up the secret relationship between her mother and Peter. Evie's feelings changed about her mother and Joe.

Mostly her mother. She realized that she will never ever want to grow up so fast. Her mother was no longer her role model. I think that the author explained it well. Not that you should deny your mother, but that there are consequences to try being grown up. It can really hurt her. She should pleased with herself, but not brag about it. Evie should stay who she is, and not try to grow up so fast. Lesson learned.

This I Believe

People everywhere have their own thing to do. Some draw, some sing, some dance, some do magic acts, or dream. No matter what, everyone has a hobby. Everyone has something he or she enjoy doing. It relaxes their mind. And no matter what, the person will always be creative with it. I believe that creativity is very important.

When I’m bored, I like to write, crochet, and do magic tricks. I’ll just turn on my laptop, and I’ll have a story. I have to write constantly, or else I’ll lose my imagination for the piece. And when I crochet, I try to imagine how my piece will look like. I even create my own strategies to make certain items. And magic tricks? At first, I started to learn from my family members. Then, I went on the internet and learned over twenty different magic tricks. Now, I create my own tricks. I don’t post it on the internet, but I do teach my friends and family. What I enjoy from all this is that I can be creative with it.

When you’re creative with something, you use your imagination. Just like how I improv in the black box, in drama. Improv take creativity. That’s why most kids enjoy their talent. It is a way for them to express themselves, be creative, and do what they do best. When I’m in drama, it feels like I can create my own world. Because I can. When people are doing their own thing, they go off to a place where they can be anything. They can make their own world. That takes creativity to form.

I believe that creativity is very important. Without it you can never become what you want to become. And creativity takes you on many adventures. Just by doing what you love, and following your passion, you can explore your own world, a place no one has ever been before. It’s only unlocked for you, and what you create in there. I believe in creativity.

The Hunger Games

Ladies and Gentlemen, let the 74th annual Hunger Games begin! said Effie Trinket, in the book, The Hunger Games. Although I've read it before, I am reading it again, because I must be one of the biggest fans of the entire series. I have done a previous entry on Mockingjay, the third and final book of the series. But nothing would make sense without a post of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, the second book of the series. This my post about The Hunger Games.

The book starts off with Katniss, the female protagonist, and her best friend Gale. They are escaping to the woods to hunt for their family's survival. You see, they live in District 12 of Panem, the poorest district of all. Distict 12 doesn't have much food to feed its starving. As Katniss says, starvation is not an uncommon cause of death, here in District 12. Katniss and Gale are from one of the many starving families in the district. That is why they must hunt for their families. When they are eating breakfast, Gale offers to runaway from Panem's control. Katniss has high doubts that they could. We couldn't even make 5 miles, she says. SPOILER ALERT: Gale's offer really becomes true, but in the final book, Mockingjay.

All this happens on reaping day. That is when one male and one female tribute between the ages of 12-18 is reaped to participate in the annual Hunger Games. When it is time for the reaping, Effie Trinket, an escort from the Capitol of Panem reaches into the glass bowl which contains female names. She grabs one from the very top and she says... Primrose Everdeen. Katniss's little 12-year-old sister slowly walks to the stage to take her place as tribute. Then, Katniss screams out, PRIM! PRIM! NO! I VOLOUNTEER! I VOLOUNTER AS TRIBUTE! And there, Katniss takes her sister's place as tribute. I think that is very caring, considering what sort of dystopian world they live in.

Then, a male tribute is reaped. His name is Peeta Mellark. The boy with the bread. Katniss says that when she and her family was on the verge of dying, Peeta was kind enough to throw her a loaf of bread. Peeta was the reason Katniss survived. And now, one of them, or even both of them were going to die. That would be a tragedy.

When Katniss is in the tribute parade, she and Peeta are wearing costumes that respresent their district. Their district mines coal, and their stylists want to burn it. So Katniss and Peeta are on fire! And during their interviews, Katniss Everdeen becomes known as The Girl on Fire. And Peeta introduces a love for Katniss. They become known as the Starcrossed Lovers.

When they compete in the Games, Katniss learns that Peeta was trying to protect her. Tributes start to die one by one. But around the end of the Games, it is announced that two tributes can win if they are from the same district. Katniss protects Peeta, nurses him, and feeds him. When they become the last two standing, their is an announcement that only one tribute can win. Peeta throws all his weapons to a pond. Katniss had her arrow pointed at Peeta's heart, before she knew that she couldn't go back to her district without Peeta. So Katniss takes out some poisonous berries, and gives half of them to Peeta. They decide to eat it on the count of three. When the berries touch their mouths, the announcer, Claudius Templesmith says, that two tributes can win the 74th annual Hunger Games. I  felt so happy at this change. When they were about to eat the berries, I felt as if I were there, and my heart racing, saying no, no, no! But it did give a happy ending!

But maybe the happiness is temporary. After all, death is something very common. The Capitol won't care. Maybe there are more to come. Maybe someone will swallow the berries later. But until then, May the odds be ever in your favor.

Anne of Green Gables

This summer, I wanted to try a classic, because I have never read a classic before. I went to the library and found all sorts of classics in the "Assignment" section. I found Anne of Green Gables, a book lots of my friends requested. When I read the first chapter, I immediately found the book interesting. I read on and on. I loved it!

Anne is the most believable character I have ever read about. She has a certain charm that helps her win everyone over. The first person she wins over is Matthew Cuthbert, her adopted father. She wins Matthew over so fast, you don't have time to just say, "wait, what?" Anne wins Matthew over because on the ride to Green Gables, the Cuthbert Farm and household, Anne is spilling out all of her history, her life, her dreams, and her imaginations. Matthew just can't help liking her. As they head towards Green Gables, Anne sees beautiful places, which she renames with the help of her own imagination. At that part I really knew that everyone would end up loving Anne, of Green Gables.

As the story goes farther, Anne makes many mistakes, and with each mistake, comes a lesson. As Anne tells her adopted mother, Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew's sister, she never makes the same mistake twice. And she doesn't. But one day, her mistake goes too far. Anne starts school in Avonlea, the town where she lives in. There is a fourteen year-old boy named Gilbert Blythe in her class. He makes fun of Anne's bright red hair, which she hates. Anne gets so mad, that she loses control, and breaks a slate in half on Gilbert's head! Ouch!

Another time, she really goes overboard. Anne buys a permanent hair dye, which was said to turn her hair to a nice raven black. But instead, her hair turned green. Anne cried and cried, and thought her life was over. Marilla was surprised about this.  She tried to wash the dye off Anne's hair.  Nothing worked. Marilla had to do the last thing she could. Cut Anne's hair short. Anne looked in the mirror and said that she was ugly, very ugly. And she learned her lesson of being vain. Anne was never again vain.

One day, Anne and her friends were playing pretend. Anne was walking over a pond on a bridge. Suddenly, a screw became loose, and the bridge started sinking. Anne's friends ran for help. Anne was all alone. She was almost down, when Gilbert came rowing a canoe. He told Anne to hop on, and once they reached land, he asked Anne if she could forgive him of his old fault. Anne was so stubborn, she said no. A big no! I felt bad for Gilbert. I wished Anne would've said yes. That would have been way better.

As Anne grows older, she tries to get a scholarship for a college. I felt really happy when Anne got the scholarship. I felt happy for Gilbert too, when he got the job of teaching in the Avonlea school. But then, something tragic happens. Matthew Cuthbert passes away! Anne cries the whole night. Anne knows that she will miss Matthew. I know I will too.

Then, Marilla starts to get headaches. She visits a doctor about it and he tells her that if she does anything like crocheting or knitting, she'll go blind. So Anne stays at Green Gables and gives up her scholarship. She decides that she wants to help Marilla at Green Gables. I think that is very sweet of Anne.

Then, the word is out that Gilbert gave up his teaching job, so Anne could have a job and teach at the Avonlea school. Everyone thought that it was so sweet. I do too. So Anne forgives Gilbert of everything in the past, and they start fresh. Anne is an amazing character. She really does win everyone over at the end. Of course, she is, Anne of Green Gables, her charming self. That is what makes her so important.

Mockingjay

In the dystopian world of Panem, a nation in the that is located where Canada and the United States once were, there is a Mockingjay. A Mockingjay that means your work is done, a Mockingjay that means someone is safe, a Mockingjay that means war. Not war like when you fight with another country, this war is one where more than half the country rebels against the government, and they end up fighting harshly among themselves.  This is the time of Katniss Everdeen. She was a contestant in The Hunger Games, she is a victor of the Games, she is a soldier, she is a rebel, she is The Girl on Fire. But there is one more thing. Katniss Everdeen is the Mockingjay.

 

After escaping her second Hunger Games, which is known as the 75th annual Hunger Games, or the Third Quarter Quell, Katniss is transported from District 12 to District 13. Everyone thought that District 13 didn't have any human life in it for 75 years, because before that time, District 13 rebelled, and Panem's Capitol launched toxic grenades and other sorts highly dangerous bombs to destroy all life there. And they did.  When Katniss arrives, she is treated with great respect, but hates it there. She still has her mom, her little sister, Prim, her best friend, Gale, and her intoxicated mentor, Haymitch, but she is missing someone. Peeta Mellark. Katniss is missing Peeta Mellark, her ally in all two Hunger Games, her partner, and her admirer. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol when the Quarter Quell Arena was exploding. The Capitol brainwashed him. They used poisonous venom to turn all his memories of Katniss into a very scary and scarring one. They made Peeta think Katniss was an evil mutt created by the Capitol, out to destroy everyone. The Capitol destroyed his love into hate. I wouldn't want to live in a world like that. Children, teens, adults, and the elderly are mistreated and tortured. The Capitol is cruel and does not believe in anything that has to do with humanity. I am so glad that I live in 2012.

As Peeta broadcasts his hate on the Capitol television, Katniss broadcasts her strength, her ability to fight, and her hate for the Capitol. Katniss also broadcasts a response to Peeta's want for a cease-fire. Which Beetee, another victor of a previous Hunger Games, and a contestant in the Quarter Quell (who escaped with Katniss), uses to show the Capitol, cutting from a talkshow that includes Peeta. When President Snow, and Peeta sees this, they get angry. Suddenly, Peeta says, "Katniss... you... dead by morning." The camera goes to the floor, Peeta screams, and blood splatters the floor. Once again, the Capitol does not believe in humanity. Children and teens abused all the time. President Snow is someone who holds a black heart. As long as he gets his resources, money, and a good show, he has no worry about anything he does. Even if he destroys the life of millions.

The rebels break Peeta out of the Capitol, and brings him to District 13. When he first sees Katniss there, he chokes her. As Peeta and Katniss both heal, they are sent to fight in the Capitol. When they are hiding in the underground Capitol, they hear scary, hissing voices, that says Katniss. Then, they see those mutts. They look like half lizards, and half human. They eat anything. They ate many members were sent out with Katniss and Peeta. I feel horrible for everyone. How did President Snow even get elected? He's nothing but evil.

As the book ends, the Capitol surrenders, and President Snow dies. Peeta is 99% healed. Although Katniss does say that sometimes he clings on to chairs with the Capitol-manipulated memories. But everything turns out well. I think it is a beautiful thing to end the book with the lullaby Katniss sang to an ally in her first Hunger Games, as she died. The ending is beautiful, but as Katniss says, "But there are more games to play."