Monday, April 18, 2011

Craft Analysis: Tension, Suspense, and The Hunger Games






  1. I haven't read the hunger games, but I keep finding people comment that the pacing was well done in the books, so it's interesting to see your reaction. I'm not so much a fan of the cliffhanger ending to a chapter. Once in while is fine, but too much is draining. Maybe book 2 is better because she fixed the issues she found in the first?

  2. @Tessa, hmmm, it will require re-reading, but I think that some of the difference may be that the first book depended on conflict that didn't really resolve with the end of a chapter. There might be sub-conflicts but they were part of the overall conflict and that they might not have been separated very well. In the second book, I'm beginning to think that there is more separation between the individual steps necessary to reach the goals.

  3. all of u shut up theyre both awesum

  4. I thought that all of the Hunger games books wer marvelous. My least favorite would have to be the third. All the deaths of the favorite characters really drained a lot out of me. I think Suzanne Collins was really trying to emphasize the damage that war causes. Great trilogy though!