The Hunger Games Trilogy
Suzanne Collins
One character who represents a character archetype in this story is President Snow. He's the shadow. He lurks behind every single problem Katniss is confronted with. In a way, he's untouchable. If you were to try and expose his crimes to the public, you'd be dead within an hour. Every time you try to catch him he flits out of your grasp.
"His quarters. I have tresspassed into his home, the way he slithered into mine last year, hissing threats with his bloody, rosy breath. This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favourite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. But now it's part of his prison. That's why the guards halted me. And that's why Paylor let me in." (Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay 355)
Tuesday 8 November 2011
Sunday 6 November 2011
Classics
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 2
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What is a classic? I think a classic is a story that can remain popular through time because it can still relate to us even four hundred years after it was written. Like Shakespeare.
The book I'm currently reading is a classic. It was written in the 1800's, but people still read it today, and I think it's still going to be popular 200 years from now. The stories are timeless because the idea of a detective who can solve anything is so appealing. I mean, what TV show hasn't done a spoof on Sherlock Holmes? Even his personality is appealing, because he's kind of a misfit, even though he's so brilliant, and he needs some one to kind of keep an eye on him so he doesn't drive himself crazy. The language is different, though, and that makes it a bit hard to read for people in our generation. But other than that, there's no reason to think that it won't go on being popular for a long time.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What is a classic? I think a classic is a story that can remain popular through time because it can still relate to us even four hundred years after it was written. Like Shakespeare.
The book I'm currently reading is a classic. It was written in the 1800's, but people still read it today, and I think it's still going to be popular 200 years from now. The stories are timeless because the idea of a detective who can solve anything is so appealing. I mean, what TV show hasn't done a spoof on Sherlock Holmes? Even his personality is appealing, because he's kind of a misfit, even though he's so brilliant, and he needs some one to kind of keep an eye on him so he doesn't drive himself crazy. The language is different, though, and that makes it a bit hard to read for people in our generation. But other than that, there's no reason to think that it won't go on being popular for a long time.
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