Author’s Note: This is the essay that I wrote for my Spring District Writing Assessment however, I felt like I learned a lesson in the writing process of it all. All types of battles are battles. The way you handle it is your choice. Are the odds in your favor?
Envision being thrown into an arena with twenty-three other humans, fighting to the death until one comes out victorious. Wondering how you would do it would remain a mystery to yourself and the rest of the crowd watching until the end. Somehow, you would have to push through the on-going struggles and pain. The Hunger Games, authored by Suzanne Collins, was written it to make it clear that life has battles that you have to fight. Her message shows readers that even through love and violence, emotional, physical, and mental battles can still be won.
Being chosen to compete in the games requires that you have to leave your family, friends, and home. When Katniss Everdeen, one of the main characters in the story, has to leave home, she remains strong and poised on the outside, not letting the pressure show from what she felt on the inside. Originally, Katniss’s little sister Prim was chosen to compete in the games, but Katniss deeply loves her sister and stepped up to take her sister’s place, leaving Prim back home. Frequently worrying about her sister, Katniss promised Prim that she would attempt to win for her and that Prim should not be so distraught. This is the emotional battling; the game makers challenging how she can handle leaving everything she has behind. Prim’s panicking would make Katniss be even more worried about what is to come, throwing her off her chances of being successful.
Everyone knows that leaving home is arduous, but ultimately being put in an arena to kill one another off is even more taxing. Essentially, the tributes, people who are chosen to compete in the games, are forced to kill one another until a single victor is still standing. Katniss and the other tributes faced physically demanding burdens in the arena. Out-running a wall of fire, trying to find food and water, and facing extreme temperature changes are just some of the obstacles they had to conquer. Because of the size and age difference among the tributes, there was an unfair physical advantage as to who would be likely to be successful in the games. In addition to the physical aspects, imagine the guilt that one would feel after killing someone for a crowd’s gratification. It would be simply appalling. These are the physically battles; pushing what Katniss to her limit.
Though there is nothing worse than being or watching someone be murdered, falling in love with a game player from your district may be slightly more perilous. Peeta Mellark is the male tribute from District 12 that was also chosen to take part in The Hunger Games with Katniss. However, this part has a twist. He has liked Katniss since he first laid eyes on her when they were five; now they must take actions in attempting to kill each other. Katniss had never known about Peeta’s liking her until the games because he told her as he was being interviewed in front of the entire country. This is an example of mental battling; seeing how much drama Katniss can take before she loses focus on staying alive. It seems almost as if Peeta made this announcement purposefully, to make Katniss seem vulnerable and weak to the audience. Throughout the games, she was having difficulty trying to figure out if she should trust, love, hate, or kill Peeta.
Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games, wrote a physically, mentally, and emotionally intense drama, explaining that life has battles that you have to fight. The reader feels enraged because none of the characters in the book should have been expected to kill somebody or even have the thought of being eradicated themselves. Similar to The Hunger Games, life has numerous physical, mental, and emotional challenges that that have to be faced. Katniss is a strong example of persevering through seriously tough times. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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