Feeding Your Soul

Visually spectacular. That is how I would describe Catching Fire, the second installment in the Hunger Games movies.  From the “ruins” of the districts to the Capital parties to the 75 th Hunger Games arena the movie was visually a masterpiece.  Everything was just as I had pictured in the book. Catching Fire picks up a few months after the 74 th Hunger Games where Peeta and Katniss won in the first time 2 people became victors.  Katniss is finding it hard to keep her thoughts together and questions everything, especially her relationship with Gale and Peeta.  After a disturbing visit from President Snow, Katniss tries to make the best of the Victory Tour and convince everyone that she and Peeta are madly and happily in love.  It doesn’t work and for that the 75 th Hunger Games – the Quarter Quell – will reap (choose) from the existing pool of victors. By process of elimination, Katniss will go back into the arena as she is the only female victor from ...

Since I finished the book I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a solid explanation why Roth ended the series the way she did.  Is it to teach everyone that no matter what happens the human race will mend each other? Is it to show us that no matter what someone does to you family will always come first? Or is it to show that no matter what bad things happen?  I fear that I will never know the answer to why she ended it the way she did. All I know is I do not like it and that is the choice I make. Allegiant picks up a few days after the end of Insurgent – Tris and her friends are being held in Erudite headquarters after the display of a video explaining that the world they live in not reality.  The world they live in was concocted as a way to save human kind from itself. War broke out generations ago and the only way to save everyone was to create their world. Once the level of special people – aka the Divergent – was high enough they would know to go ...