Literary Blog Number 4

The author Susan Collins writes in first-person in the novel Catching Fire. Susan writing balances well between informal and dialogue. The book is in the future, but they still talk the same. Her sentences vary from simple to compound. The author uses not too much detail but just enough to paint the scene for the audience. For an example, I'm going to quote what Susan wrote while explaining when Cinna (the stylist) turned Katniss' suit for the opening ceremonies "I look down, fascinated, as my ensemble slowly comes to life, first just with a soft golden light but gradually transforming to the orange-red of burning coal. I look as if I have been coated in glowing embers - no, that I am a glowing ember straight from our fireplace. The colours rise and fall, shift and blend, in exactly the way coals do." You can see everything that Katniss Everdeen thinks about, but when she talks to herself in her head, her thoughts go into italics. The book is split into three parts. Part one is entitled "The Spark". Part two is entitled "The Quell". Part three is entitled "The Enemy". There are 27 chapters, and each chapter ends with a cliff hanger making you want to read even further. This book's level of complexity would be suggestive for the seventh grade. Catching Fire is written in chronological order. The Hunger Games was the first book. Catching Fire picks up where The Hunger Games left off at. And Mockingjay is the continuation of Catching Fire.