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."

answer: no

explanation:

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.