Hunger Games question 4: focus on the first 3 paragraphs of this extract, from "sixty seconds" to "meant for me".
a student said, the writer manages to convey a sense of urgency in this extract.
To what extent do you agree (20 marks)
in your response you could:
- write about your impressions of this moments
- evaluate how the writer creates a sense of drama
- support your opinions with reference to the text

In this extract, the writer definitely manages to convey a sense of urgency.

Explanation:

   This moment in the book puts too much tension on us readers, as well as on the main character, Katniss.

Sixty seconds is all the time she has to plan how to get weapons, food, and at the same time watch that no one kills her in the attempt. Time is so little, and it is so incredible that it even repeats it more than once to give emphasis.

The drama is present since the protagonist could die at that exact moment, and also because she really needs that bow and arrow with which she is so good. They are weapons she needs to avoid dying later.

 In this way, we can agree with the student's statement that "the writer manages to convey a sense of urgency in this extract."

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,