Mocking Jsy by Suzzane Collins

For my independent reading book for my English class I decided to read Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins. This book is the sequel to Catching Fire from the 3 book series of the Hunger Games. I talked about the novel Catching Fire a wild back on my blog. As you may have read on my blog about Catching Fire this book takes place in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, which used to be North America, also Panem is ruled by the Capitol and is surrounded by other 12 districts that provide for it. So as you may read in my post on Catching Fire in this book is about a girl Katniss that in the first book was chosen to fight to the death against 25 other kids between ages of 12 to 18. Since she had gone in the first book and survived with her lover pita, which wasn’t meant to happen because only one survives. This was much like the gladiators in Rome. The leaders of this horrible game took this as defiance, which was not good. She then is chosen again to fight in the next hunger games, because since the leaders took this as defiance the only way to try to kill her was to put her in the games. They did this by saying that all the winners of the past Hunger Games where chosen to participate again.

The 75^th Hunger Games take place and in the middle of the games a ship comes and takes some of the competitors which include Katniss. This ship happens to be from district 13 which was assumed to be destroyed. Since Katniss is rescued Katniss is convinced to become "the Mockingjay": a symbol of the rebellion against the ruling Capitol. As part of a deal, she demands that the leader of District 13, President Coin, grant immunity to all of the victors of the Hunger Games including Peeta. She also demands the right to kill President Snow, the leader of the Capitol, herself. But then when Peeta is rescued he was brainwashed by the Capitol and tries to kill Katniss when he sees her. Then slowly the rebellions take over the districts and plan to attack the Capitol. Well if you want to see what happens at the end you have to read the book. I highly recommend the trilogy and the book.