Heading North (an excerpt) by Listeria Calvin

Elisa sat in a vinyl chair next to her mother and waited for Ms. Everett, the principal, to hang up the phone and emerge from her office to sign the documents that would finalize Elisa's transfer into the school. Elisa's mother pointed to the coat rack next to the door. Elisa knew that her mother wanted her to hang up her coat, but Elisa still felt cold—she had been barely able to contain her shivering since they arrived in this sleepy little Pennsylvania town. But Elisa obeyed her mother's wishes and hung her down-filled jacket on a hook…

Leaving her happy life in Sarasota was not easy for Elisa, who at first dug in her heels. She cried and pleaded with her mother to look for work in Florida. But she was no longer a little girl and realized that she had to accept her mother's decision because it was in their best interest. Elisa's mother had been out of work for a while and the job she had been offered was a good one. And Elisa also knew that there was more to her mother's decision than finances. Her elderly grandparents lived alone and were now at an age where they needed family nearby. They were no longer able to drive and depended on buses to take them where they needed to go, which was not always convenient or even possible. And there were tasks that they just couldn't do anymore, like shoveling snow and carrying heavy bags of groceries into the house.

Explanation:

I love that!!!

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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