Author's Note: I thought that this topic was quite easy to right about. It is about point of view, so I did the Hunger Games because it only has one point of view which is Katniss's. But if it was changed to Peeta's everything would be totally different.
In The
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 16
year old Katniss Everdeen is the main care taker of the Everdeen family. During
the reaping her little sister is chosen to participate in a T.V. show known as
the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers for her and then is taken into Capital
custody. In the book the point of view is always from Katniss, she is the only
narrator of the book.
During the book everything
is from Katniss’s point of view. So you can’t tell what else is going on during
the games. Before the games Peeta decides to train on his own and even forms an
alliance with the careers. But the book is only from Katniss’s view. Katniss
believes then that he is doing all this to win. In the end it turns out that
Peeta was doing what was necessary to protect Katniss, I was even thinking that
Peeta was the bad guy. When Peeta formed an alliance it was suppose to help keep
Katniss safe. Peeta gets cut from Cato who is the main antagonist from the book. It seems like Peeta was suppose to get cut so
he can help keep the careers of Katniss’s trail. It also effects the way how
Thresh dies, in the book it says that he was killed by Cato. But in the movie
it shows that he was killed by the mutations. If it was in Cato’s point of view
then we would be able to tell what really happened.
If everything was in Peeta’s
point of view it would be totally different, the perspective of the games and
life in the seam would be totally different. We would be able to see and
understand what it was like to be as a baker’s son and help Katniss when she
was starving to death. In the reaping Katniss volunteered for her little
sister. Peeta unfortunately did have anyone volunteer for him. It would also be
different to have someone with a different personality and someone who doesn’t
go hunting everyday or even go to the black market and trade some game. Peeta
has a total different personality he is more friendly and risking to save his
life for Katniss. I’m sure he would see other tributes in a different way. Unlike
Katniss who would not even want to be with Peeta or even care about other
tributes because she would come to attached and then have to have him die in
order for her to win and go home back to Prim and her mom, even Gale.
I thought that the overall
point of view was good; it would be different to have it in someone else’s view
and not just Katniss’s. We would be able
to see and understand what happens in other places during the games and other
deaths. I am glad that it is only in one point of view if it wasn’t I think
things would get to complicated trying the figure out who was were and what was
going on. Katniss’s point of view is interesting and makes you wonder what else
is going on.
