Mockingjay Book Report

Mockingjay, the concluding book in the Hunger Games trilogy, is a science fiction novel written by an American author, Suzanne Collins. It was published by Scholastic on the 24th of August, 2010.

This novel continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, a seventeen year old girl, who has survived the Hunger Games twice. Even though she is out of the arena, she is still not safe. Katniss moves to District 13 and agrees to become the Mockingjay, the face of the rebellion. Her job is to unify the districts of Panem and go against the Capitol. President Snow, who is in charge of the capitol, is not very happy. He wants revenge. He kidnaps Peeta and hijacks him, a process in which they put tracker jacker venom in his body to make him hate Katniss. This makes him try to kill Katniss but it was not successful. Over time, he retains some memory but he still

The rules in these Games are different because more than one person can survive and Snow is a player as well.

There are many themes and issues associated with Mockingjay. Throughout the novel, Collins depicts the true horrors of war and talks about human tragedy. It also mentions what we will do to each other in the name of preventing the same thing from being done either to ourselves or someone we love. This particularly painful decision is emphasised across all three of these books. Katniss demonstrates this the most when she is torn between harming people to achieve important objectives and allowing herself to be damaged in order to save others.

The main character in this trilogy is Katniss Everdeen. All three of the books is written on her perspective. She is the Capitol’s greatest enemy, serving as the face for the rebels after defying the Capitol in the Hunger Games with Peeta, using the night lock berries to allow them both to live and then again in the Quarter Quell when she shot out the force