The author & author's style

The author of Catching Fire is Suzanne Collins and she is an American author born August 10th 1962 in Connecticut.

Her career started in 1991 as an author for the kids channel, Nickelodeon. She worked on many different series for Nickelodeon such as Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear and Oswald. 

She also wrote a lot of books for children. One of them was The Underland Chronicle which became a New York Times best seller. The book was inspired from Alice In Wonderland.

Suzanne Collins became really popular after she released the first book in her first trilogy, The Hunger Games in 2008. All three of the books got a lot of recognition and they became best sellers.

Suzanne Collins style of writing is kind of unusual. The speaking in the book is in present and not past tense.

For example, instead of writing "I ran up the hill as fast as I could" she would write "I run up the hill as fast as I can".

Even though it was an unusual style of writing, I think it is a really addicting way of writing. She knows how to make the reader want to read more.

Point of view & Conflict

The narrator of the book is Katniss, the main character.

When you read the book you see that everything is written in the first person, "I" point of view. This book is for example different from the first book where the author was the narrator.

I would say that the conflict is the tension between the Capitol and the districts. The Capitol treats the districts really badly and they don't care if people die because of poverty.

I think this is related to the main character Katniss. because she is from the poorest district and she grew up in an environment where people were treated badly.

Theme

The main theme in the book is survival. Not only trying to survive through the Hunger Games itself, but survival in a daily life is something people on the different districts come across. The Capitol only cares about themselves and they don't care about how the life is on the other districts, if they starve or not, if they need help or not.

Another important theme in the book, I would say is government control. This theme is not only an important theme in this book, but through the whole trilogy. The Capitol establishes new rules in order to control the citizens lives.

Some other themes you come across in the book are love, redemption, obedience and sacrifice.

Plot & Turning Point

After winning the Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss returns to District 12, which is the poorest district of them all. 6 months after they return to District 12 they have to go on a Victory Tour, and the day that this tour starts Katniss gets a surprise visit from President Snow and he is telling her that she has to convince him that she really loves Peeta by the end of the tour. She wont tell Peeta this because they haven’t really spoken since the return and she wants to handle it herself.

On the tour they are supposed to hold speeches in every district and when they come to the first district they are supposed to visit, which is District 11, they see how horrible they have it. Rue came from this district so an elderly man shows the sign and whistle the tones that Katniss did in the first Hunger Games. This makes the guards angry and they execute the man and two others.

When President Snow is announcing the 75^th Hunger Games he tells everybody that because it is a Quarter Quell they have different rules. This year previous winners have to go back in to the arena and fight again. And because District 12 only have 3 winners and Katniss is the only girl she has to go back in to the arena. I would consider this as the turning point in the book.