The Poisonous Berries.

Authors note:

The cause and effect on Katniss and Peetas decision to trick the council at the end of the 74^th hunger games had many different outcomes for both of them. And if the circumstances were different the Hunger Games trilogy would be very different.  

            The new bestselling trilogy in America is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. What if you were in the hunger games and the rules were changed at the last minute and you knew only one of you could get out alive. Katniss and Peeta were in the hunger games and at the last seconds of the game they announced that only one of them could get out alive. Katniss and Peeta just stood in the arena looking at each other trying to decide who should die. Instead of both dyeing they tricked the Council with a deadly berry so in the end they both got out alive. But that wasn’t the end for them.

            Although Peeta and Katniss won the hunger games the president Snow was still not pleased. Snow was not ok with the fact that they tricked the council. Katniss knew what she was doing by threatening the council with the poisonous berry. She just didn’t know that this was going to affect the rest of her life. If she and Peeta hadn’t rebelled the 75^th hunger games wouldn’t have been where they bring back all the previous winners. That was the council’s way of hiding that they want Katniss and Peeta dead for pulling the move with the berry.  

            Sadly, the 74^th hunger games affected a lot of people’s lives. The war killed hundreds of innocent people. Especially Katniss, she lost her sister because she was trying to kill snow and survive. This affected her relationship with Gale in a bad way because he was the one who thought of the idea to blow up the area where Prim was. Even though it killed people and relationships, it brought Katniss and Peeta together.

            Many things in this triliogy were big moves that affected the rest of the book but this move with the berry was the move that led to war. And then things that happened during the war led to more, but it all started with the last minute in the 74^th hunger games. Now, you might be thinking if they never got called for the hunger games then it wouldn’t have happened. That is not true because one of them could have died and it would have been fine. If Katniss took her life Peeta would have been extremely depressed. Maybe would have gone mad only this time because of losing Katniss. Or if Peeta took his life Katniss would have probably ended up with Gale and would have regretted for the rest of her life for letting Peeta die. But that didn’t happen. They both lived, Snow was not OK with it, and there was war, people died, and Katniss ended up with Peeta.

            Even in real life we make decision that end up affecting the rest of our life. One decision that you don’t think that long and hard about change a lot in your life. Not all decisions are for the bad. Some think about something and when they take action it affects their life in a good way. Just like Katniss and Peeta they made a decision that affected them and others life greatly and terribly.