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I am going to evaluate The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for this journal assignment. With the movie rendition of the book being made and come to theaters relatively soon, the book series has become increasingly popular among younger readers. This book could be classified as a post-apocalyptic adventure book because it takes place sometime after a terrible tragedy hit the whole world and the book is primarily action based. It could be compared to other books or movies that have similar themes of gladiator based fighting and a post-apocalyptic setting. Some examples would be Gladiator, The Matrix and The City of Ember. The book doesn’t really offer anything else other than an entertaining story because it is a fictional story.

For evaluating this book, my first criterion will be whether or not the characters develop as the story progresses or whether they just remain static and the same. Another aspect I’m going to look at is the reality of the events happening in the book. Since it is a fiction novel, this may be hard to say if some of the technologies are realistic but the main part I would focus on with this aspect is the descriptions that don’t have to do with the futuristic technologies. Another criterion I would evaluate the piece on would be if the book was actually written well. If a book doesn’t flow or doesn’t make sense to the reader then it’s not a very good book. One criterion that may be subjective is how invested the reader is able to get with the writing. This is subjective because someone may be turned off from it while someone else may love it to death. Either way it is still a good way to evaluate the book. My final way that I would evaluate this book is the plotline. If a book has a good plotline then more often than not the book will be good. You can mess it up by having terrible characters or make it flow poorly, but if the core idea behind a book is original and compelling, odds are the rest of the book will be as well.