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The 76th Hunger Games: 'Catching Fire' By Suzanne Collins
Aidan Urbina
Eng/3rd Hour
IR essay quarter 1
10/31/11
The 76th Hunger Games
Catching Fire is an adventure filled with action and interesting, complex characters. Catching Fire was written by Suzanne Collins and published in 2006, and is about a girl named Katniss and her friend Petah who just won the Hunger Games and are now dealing with all sorts of problems with President Snow and people of other districts. Catching Fire is a book with all sorts of conflict, and some intense emotions. Catching fire is about Katniss and Petah’s struggles with the other districts and the president because they feel like they were outsmarted when they both won the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is where all the 13 districts come to compete by picking
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