The Hunger Games Score - 13 - Rue's Farewell

For English class not too long ago, we had to write our own Shakespearean sonnet, since we were at the time going to start lire Othello. I wasn't too sure what to write for my sonnet, but after thinking about it for a long time, I got the idea to write a sonnet based on The Hunger Games. I had an idea to write a sonnet of Rue's death, since it is such an emotional scene. I wrote it as if Katniss was speaking to Rue. I wanted to share it with toi fellow Hunger Games fans... I hope toi like it!




When I look upon thy young fading life

Thou see the light escaping from your eyes

Begging for the end...

"Let's play truth ou dare!"

Gale raised one of his eyebrows and looked at the excited looking Peeta with a disdainful look. "Truth ou dare? What are you, a twelve an old girl?"

"Hey!" both Prim and Rue said, looking at Gale with death glares.

"Actually, I'd l’amour to play truth ou dare!" Katniss declared and sat down suivant to a shirtless Finnick, trying to form a circle.

"Oh... yeah, me too!" Gale agreed immediately, looking at Katniss with a soft, loving expression.

Peeta snorted at him. "Dude, you're so pathetic."

Peeta then turned to sit suivant to Katniss, shaking with excitement, and tried to make...

We had a chance to read through the Hunger Games cover story in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, and it is filled with great stuff! Here are the haut, retour au début things we learned (and loved!) from the article:

On the PG-13 rating – Nina Jacobson said, “When I first read the books, of course I asked myself ‘How can toi do it?’” Gary Ross said, “You don’t need to be gratuitous in order to be honest and capture the intensity of the book … Is it violent? Yes. Do we back off from what it is? No, we don’t. But I’m not interested in violence for violence’s sake. This is a character’s...