Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins~ Chapter 8-9.

1. Tell what like or dislike about the book and why.

I like how in chapter 9 (page 123-124) Katniss sings with Pollux, who is an avox- I believe, ‘The Hanging Tree’ and how she tells with a great amount of detail about how she sung that with her father, and how she was forbidden to sing it.

“Are you, are you                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Coming to the tree                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Wearing a necklace of rope, side by side with me.                                                                                                                                                                                                   Strange things did happen here                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        No stranger would it be                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.”

For an example, when Katniss sung that song with her father; Prim would make “rope” necklaces for Katniss and her family because she didn’t know what the song meant. Katniss’ mother was yelling, and in the end- the two girls were crying. The meaning of that paragraph is about a murdered man (three more paragraphs of the poem that I didn’t include in this question) who is waiting for his girlfriend to wear the rope necklace (AKA, the noose.. which is the hanging rope) and hang or kill herself to be with him, and get out of whatever trouble she was in! I didn’t dislike anything!

2. Tell about parts of your book that puzzled you or made you ask a question.

Well! First of all, I remembered when Snow gave Katniss the blood-odored rose, and when Katniss returned to her house (in the Victor’s Village, by the way) the rose was sitting on her dresser, and she said in the book; that it still smelled of blood roses, and Snow himself. Also, something that made me ask a question or confused me was when Pollux and Katniss, Boggs and the Insects (and others if I didn’t include them) were sitting and having the profound “picnic” situation, Pollux didn’t talk or say anything at all, so I was like~ “What the heck? This guy isn’t saying anything!” in my head,  but I’m pretty dang sure he is an Avox. POOR GUY !

3. Tell what you noticed about the characters, such as what made them act as they did or how they changed.

I didn’t really see this, as much as I did before, but Boggs got quite angered and stressed out in some pages when he was “included” in the story.

4. Write about something in the book that surprised you or that you found interesting.

Okay, something that I found VERY, VERY interesting was the song/poem that I included mostly in Question #1, about The Hanging Tree because it was very interesting to look at Katniss’ opinion about it and how she was forbidden to sing it and stuff, and how she sang it. I just absolutely loved the poem thing, it was amazing to listen to! Especially when Katniss explained the whole thing! I have 8 sticky notes about it on one page (using the front and the back page)!