Yesterday I showed my brother the hunger games.
It was the first time he ever saw it and he didn’t know much about the story line so I was sort of explaining the book to him while he was watching it.
Then he asked if a brother and sister could both get picked. #mindblown
I literally never asked myself that question.
I dont remember that ever being mentioned in the book.idk maybe it was I dont remember.
Just thought that was interesting.
Cheers
Okay so I’m kind of re-entering my hunger games phase. I think its because I’m going through some hard times right now and its a nice distraction from reality. Last night I was pretty damn bored and felt like doing some creative writing. I have come up with a concept for a story I want to write but when it came time to actually writing it I became frustrated with where and how I wanted to start. SO as a result I felt like looking through some other creative writing I’ve done that I haven’t finished… and came across my old hunger games fan fiction. I started reading it all over again and after a year of not reading it I surprisingly liked what I read.
My fan fiction was based on what would have happened after the third book Mockingjay. I wasn’t happy with the way S.G. ended the series… It seemed so sudden and rushed. I got a sense like she didn’t feel like writing two other books so she wrapped it in a bow and said Peeta and Katniss fall and love and have babies… the end. well I thought that was lame.
I always wanted to know HOW Peeta and Katniss finally fell in love… and didn’t find it believable that Katniss would SUDDENLY decide thats it for Gale. She had professed or love for him! COMON LOLL anyways needless to say I wanted to literally make whole other book.
Anyways needless to say I like getting lost in my own little world. It mentally keeps me from going insane with stress so I decided I want to finish my fan fiction ha.
and to become (re)acquainted with the series I decided to watch the boot leg Hunger Games Dvd Lauren got me from NYC.
I’m glad I watched it because it gave me ideas for what I want to write and (re)interested in Hunger Games….
BUT
It literally gave me nightmares! I kept dreaming that I was IN the hunger games…. walking around with what I guess was an alliance I made. But this alliance I was in was with people I went to school with… Like literally some people were people I went to elementary school with, some from middle school… PEOPLE I HAVENT THOUGHT OF IN AGES.
It was too weird. Anyways we were walking around and then suddenly this huge fire started from behind us and fire balls started getting shot at us. One hit me in the back and in the leg. I remember feeling like I was in really bad pain.
Initially I was bothered by my dream but now in retrospect I think that was pretty funny. In fact I remember when I was watching the movie last night that I was telling my mom that I wished I was Katniss playing in the hunger games.
Be careful what you wish for I guess :P
My college classes are starting again on MONDAY and I am soooo excited. I seriously am, I’m just a better person over all when I’m busy and pressed for time. Its when I’m most creative…Originally I thought I would spend this summer writing fan fiction or reviews but I feel ZERO creativity when I have a lot of time to spare.
I was only influenced to write or have interest in my fangirl things when I was in school balancing 783998438 things at once. SO I’m like this —-> :D right now.
In other news… I’m not a fan of Sam Claflin … based on my tumblr dashboard I feel like I’m somewhat alone in this thought because it seems like a lot of HG fans are excited about him playing Finnick. I’ll give him a chance but I’m just not feeling him as Finnick, like at all.
Lastly, I have found my next YA book to read! :) The the mortal instruments series … I think I want to start with the City of lost souls, next I really want to read Percy Jackson series… that book has been on my to read list for a while.
I love being in a school girl/fangirl status <3
Sooo… Hunger Games has been my obsession for the past several months but I had been desperately searching for a replacement series and while on my vacation to Texas my Aunt recommended the book DIVERGENT…. and it is really good. I would say its similar to the Hunger Games, but theres definitely a difference. I’m almost done with book one!
I’m currently watching the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. I must have seen this movie about a billion times but even then, it never gets old. The proof that this story never gets old for me is that every time I revisit this story I still find myself getting emotionally involved. I get worked up every time I see Catherine deny Heathcliff despite the fact that he loves her with such a passion that it literally drives him mad. These feelings began to make me think about two other stories in particular that make me feel the same way: Twilight and the Hunger Games. Before I begin I want to say that I am a huge fan of Emily Bronte, and her story Wuthering Heights. I am also A HUGE fan of the Hunger Games and even of the Twilight series. However, I will be criticizing all the books mentioned. The theme I’ll be concentrating on is; main characters that do not appreciate the ones who deeply love them. The stories I have an easier time reading are the ones where the main character- who doesn’t realize a good thing when its right in front of them eventually comes to their senses, and falls in love with the under appreciated character. In the movie “A Walk to Remember” Shane West’s character is rude and under appreciative to Mandy Moore’s character but by the end they fall in love and get married… and that’s an example of a main character coming to their senses. Being that as it may, the thing that Wuthering Heights, Hunger Games, and Twilight all have in common is that the “falling in love” with the under appreciated character …never happens. I am so passionate about these stories that yes, I do literally get upset haha. Kind of crazy I know but this has been a theme that has bugged me for years. I need to get it all out of my system, and vent. Hopefully I can just come to peace with this haha. The Links to the specific book reviews are here: Hunger Games Twilight Series Wuthering Heights
The theme is; main characters that do not appreciate the ones who deeply love them. What, Wuthering Heights, Hunger Games, and Twilight all have in common is that the whole falling in love and staying together with the under appreciated character …never happens. (Links to other two stories below)
TWILIGHT SERIES: OVERVIEW JACOB
Bella lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend-Phil. After a while Bella decides that her mother should have time alone to live with Phil, it is then that Bella moves Forks, Washington to live with her father. According to the book series Bella and Jacob briefly knew each other as children and briefly become reacquainted with each other in the book Twilight. Jacob does not have that strong of a presence in the first book it’s mostly concentrated on her development with Edward. However, Bella does seem to be at least somewhat aware of Jacob’s interest in her. It wasn’t until book two: New Moon, that Jacob’s character begins to evolve.
In the beginning of New Moon, Edward decides to end his relationship with Bella and leaves Forks, hoping that it will give Bella will the chance to live the life he feels she deserves. Meanwhile, Bella sinks into a grave depression unable to fill the emptiness Edward has left her with. When her depression worsens she decides that she should try to move on and socialize with friends. Bella’s connection with her friends at school was never really that strong so she makes an arrangement to spend time with Jacob and finds that she enjoys spending time with him. She says, “I’d forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black… I was enjoying myself-how strange.” After Bella realizes that she begins to feel better with Jacob she starts to increase the time they spend together, and slowly grows an attachment to him. She didn’t enjoy being away from him because she would worry about her feelings of depression returning in his absence. “I waited for the memory to hit-to open the gaping hole. But, as it so often did, Jacob’s presence kept me whole.”
Why doesn’t it work out?
Although Jacob was helping Bella feel somewhat recovered she was still very much in love with Edward. No matter how much time Jacob and Bella spent together she knew it would never fully be enough to change how she feels.
There were times when she considered giving Jacob a chance but when Bella discovers Edward’s suicide plan she goes to Edward side to save him, and goes back to being in a relationship with Edward.
Why does she piss me off?
FIRST OF ALL out of all the books I like BUT have problems with the main character, Bella is right there on TOP. This is simply just one small aspect of how she upsets me. I could write a full essay on why she’s a bad character to lead a series of books that are so popular. But I’m just focusing on this one topic… for now. Anyways…
Bella is basically a jerk that straight up just uses Jacob, “He thought time and patience would change me, and, though I knew he was dead wrong, I also knew that I would let him try.”… “It was so wrong to encourage Jacob. Pure selfishness. It didn’t matter that I’d tried to make my position clear. If he felt any hope at all that this could turn into something other than friendship, then I hadn’t been clear enough.”
Honestly, I just think it’s awful in real life when people use people like that. I’ve seen it first hand and have personally experienced it. It’s hard for me to have ANY sympathy for a person who’s a user… and this is THE MAIN CHARACTER. I basically disliked her through out all the books.
Could it be that she loved him but wasn’t IN love with him? : I think the obvious answer to say is she loved him but wasn’t in love. She herself even says this, “He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.”
Overall I would at least say it could be up for interpretation. I will say that some of her had to be IN love with him, obviously not all of her probably not even half of her but still… It seemed that she had almost decided to just try to give Jacob a chance, “Would it be so wrong to try to make Jacob happy? Even if the love I felt for him was no more than a weak echo of what I was capable of, even if my heart was far away, wandering and grieving after my fickle Romeo, would it be so very wrong?”
Not to mention in Eclipse she talks about kissing him and getting an image of her future with him and kids…. Mmm I don’t know about you but I don’t get those types of thoughts with people who are my friends.
Could it have worked out? : I’m going to say it’s a big MAYBE. I mean she had really started to get attach to Jacob and admiring his physical beauty and what not. I know she acts like a huge baby and people don’t like to believe it but time DOES heal all wounds. I know people don’t like to initially hear that because its not encouraging and usually you’re too caught up in feeling depressed that you can’t imagine feeling better. Maybe it takes a longer time for others but you’ll get over it, I am willing to say that maybe depending on the situation you’ll heal 90% but there’s 10% that will kind of always be there. BUT Jacob was after all; able to help her progress even in few months they spent together. I don’t think she would have ever loved him as much as he loves her so who knows if it could have worked out.
I don’t like Bella she could have stayed depressed for all I care… Holler!
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The theme is; main characters that do not appreciate the ones who deeply love them. What, Wuthering Heights, Hunger Games, and Twilight all have in common is that the whole falling in love and staying together with the under appreciated character …never happens. (Links to other two stories below)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS OVERVIEW Heathcliff
Heathcliff and Catherine enter each other’s life at a young age. Heathcliff is an orphan who is found by Catherine’s father. Heathcliff is then unofficially adopted by Catherine’s father and is raised as another son to the family. Even at a young age, Catherine and Heathcliff have an instant connection and as they grow older their connection progresses into a deep love for one another.
Why doesn’t work out? : The time setting of Wuthering Heights takes place in a time when a persons status played a crucial role in picking a husband or wife. It was also very important that you received blessing and permission from your family.
Unfortunately after the death of Catherine’s father, Heathcliff becomes a servant in the household due to Catherine’s brother distaste and jealousy for Heathcliff. Catherine’s family was from wealth, and it would have been considered an outrage for her to marry Heathcliff.
Why does she piss me off? : I actually do give Catherine the benefit of the doubt in the case of why she can’t marry Heathcliff… the part that upsets me is the way she treats him.
Catherine and Heathcliff were out far from Wuthering Heights spying on the family that lived in the house closest to Wuthering Heights. They were having a good laugh, spying on the family and their strange antics, when they’re suddenly discovered. They try to run away but Catherine slips and attacked by one of the dogs chasing them.
Catherine is taken in by the family to recoup and ends up staying there for three months while Heathcliff is back at Wuthering Heights waiting for Catherine’s return. Upon her arrival back to Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff notices a change in Catherine. She is treating him differently and begins to act just as snobby as the others and this is where I begin to get pissed. Granted, I understand that Catherine couldn’t marry Heathcliff because of his status but did she have to act like a jerk towards him?
Could it be that she loved him but wasn’t IN love with him? : HELL NO. Catherine was utterly in love with Heathcliff. There is a part of the story were Catherine is confiding in one of the female servants at the house. Catherine is discussing her wedding engagement to Mr. Edgar. It was then that she confesses her feelings for Heathcliff. She explains that if Heathcliff was a man of good status and wealth that she would marry him. That her love for Heathcliff is, “like the eternal rocks beneath. A source of literal visible delight…but necessary. I am Heathcliff.” I am Heathcliff she’s explaining him as if they were one person. Catherine and Heathcliff were bonded since childhood and eventually were in a relationship and spent practically every hour of the day together. It wasn’t until Mr. Edgar comes around that she decides to concentrate on becoming a woman of continued status and wealth.
Could it have really worked out? : YES. If I were Catherine, I would have expressed my concerns to Heathcliff about not being able to marry him because of his status and what’s to be expected of me. IF she had expressed this to him they might have actually ended up together! Once Heathcliff figures that he has no chance with Catherine… Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights for two years, and returns a wealthy man. He was hoping to prove that he could be a man deserving of Catherine. But in the time that Heathcliff was gone, Catherine marries Mr. Edgar and Heathcliff is yet again S.O.L. If Heathcliff and Catherine would have had some communication they could have made a plan. Catherine could have waited for Heathcliff in the time he was away; he does after all return a wealthy man. Two years is not a long time in the scheme of things. However, I am also willing to say that its hard to put your faith in something that you’re not 100% sure that it’ll work. I mean even if they had discussed a plan there still was no guarantee that it would work. Its not like they had Facebook and cell phones back then to get regular updates on a person. If you love a person as much as Catherine expressed her love for Heathcliff I think its safe to say that, that person is worth taking that scary leap of faith for… again maybe she would have realized that if they would have discussed things.
So in the end I think it boiled down to a lack of communication. Okay fine… yes, Heathcliff could have talked to Catherine and tell her his plan about leaving to try to become wealthy. But would you have wanted to talk to her when she was acting like nothing but a jerk to you? No, it’s easier to just prove her wrong by your actions instead of your words. Anyone can talk a big game but it’s another thing to actually go out and pursue your plans.
I blame Catherine, next time speak up betch.
Here’s a link to the other two stories:
