tabo ceman blog 12/11/13

In the book Catching Fire by Sussan Cohen, I find that there is one great flaw. The missing POV. The book catching fire catches eyes right and left. With its famous author and even more famous prequel. The one main flaw in this great book is the missing POV.

In the book, the main POV is from Katniss, as she is the main character. This may be an author’s choice and it does fine in depicting the needs and wants of the rebelling group, but it does not show presidents snows views. This flaw makes it hard to understand all the characters in a substantial way. Why kill Katniss? Why not Peeta? These questions could easily be answered with some like a chapter intro that is in snows view. One book that does this marvelously is Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Each chapter has an intro that is in col. Graff’s POV. This strategy helps depict a larger and better picture then the one we see. Another example is the movie, which has many scenes with president snow talking and explaining his motives.

All in all this great book in a personal opinion could have been better with a little more explanation and expansive background on its characters.