My Hunger Games Fan of the Week – Erin Kellerman
Erin Kellerman is this week’s Hunger Games Fan of the Week. She is 13 and from the United States. Here’s a bit more about Erin and why she loves The Hunger Games so much.
What is it about The Hunger Games you love so much?
I love the Hunger Games so much because it’s more than just a boy with a wand or a girl in love with a vampire, it is a story of survival, sacrifices, and humanity! Suzanne Collins has created a story that is so profound. She created a heroine who is brave and strong unlike the typical damsel in distress. She has created a surviver who has given me the courage to do things outside of my comfort zone and never take my situation for granted! Collins has created a page turner of a fantastic story of a girl fighting to survive through all odds. The Hunger Games made me feel happy, angry, and sad! It made me skip meals so I could keep reading! And even after I had finished the book I couldn’t stop thinking about it! How Katniss is extremely strong and brave and how I love Peeta but still feel compassion for Gale! The Hunger Games is a phenominal book because it makes me feel what the characters are feeling and makes me want to be apart of the story even though it isn’t rainbows and unicorns! This story does not have your happy ending or your perfect friendly protagonist it contains something more vital than that…this story is real.
Who is your favourite character in The Hunger Games?
My favorite character in the Hunger Games hands down is Katniss Everdeen. In the beginning of the Hunger Games it talks about how she lets Gale complain in the woods but she doesn’t complain because it doesn’t get food on the table if anything it scares off game and this really stuck with me. Through the whole story she is not complaining she is doing something about the problem. Instead of watching Prim die she does something about it and volunteers for her sister. Instead of sitting their and watch Peeta bleed to death she did something about and tricked him in order to save his life. She also is a survivor. Through everything she survives and isn’t that the hardest thing to do…live? Wouldn’t it be easiest if she died in the games and wouldn’t even have to worry about anything anymore but she doesn’t. She survives because she is a survivor.
What did you like/not like about The Hunger Games movie?
I knew going into The Hunger Games movie I was going to love it no matter what! I also knew that there were going to be some let downs which there were, such as the length of rue’s scene and the cave scene, the appearance of the cornucopia, and at the end, how they didn’t unfold the story of when Katniss tells Peeta her love was fake. All in all I loved the movie and was very pleased with the transformation! I thought the casting was fantastic and Jennifer Lawrence did an amazing portrayal of Katniss. My favorite scene I would have to say is the reaping because Gary Ross truly captures all of the emotions circling as this horrific event unfolds.
What is your favourite quote?
It’s near impossible for me to pick out one quote that is my favorite but one does come to mind and it’s not the typical real or not real quote all though that one is up there on my list but one that is sweet and describing a certain lullaby…
“but the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.”
This single quote says more than a thousand words ever could. It simply says hold out hope.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
When I first read the hunger games I realize the main things: Katniss’s love for her family, Peeta’s devotion, the gamemakers sadistic mind and I found an amazing story, but as I re read the books I uncovered more to the story. How in the first line of the book it talks about Katniss reaching out for Prim trying to protect her but coming up short just like in Mockingjay when she tries to save Prim but comes up empty handed when Prim is blown to death. Foreshadowing? Or how Suzanne Collins somehow gives us compassion to these characters but in reality they are all truly murders. This trilogy has many more hidden messages that most readers don’t pick up on. It contains everything a book should and this is why I have become obsessed! So if Peeta asked me If I was the biggest Hunger Games fan? Real or not real? Without missing a beat I would reply Real.
If you want to be featured as our fan of the week, check out our Fan of the Week Post to find out how to sumbit your details. We love hearing from fellow Hunger Games fans and would love to know what makes you such a huge fan.
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rude!^ Erin is a dedicated fan and i envy that!
Erin is awesome!!!! But natalie….. your not a true hunger games fan if your defending harry potter! And yah, it sort of is just a boy with wand…..sorry:)
“your not a true hunger games fan if your defending harry potter!” what’s up with you?? Ofc you can love both! And as Natalie said, you really should read the books before you say “just a boy with wand”. In that case you can call THG just some kids killing each other. I’ve read both and absolutely love and support both!
Well said, that’s like saying ‘Bananas are my favourite fruit, therefore I cannot also love apples’? Utter rubbish
i’m a way better fan than her!
Very well said!
Exactly, she didn’t have to insult HP! It’s waaaaaay more than just Harry and his wand :L
she not insulting him guy chill out!!!
She is really. If I said the hunger games was just a load of kids fighting then you would think that’s an insult but really its so much more (like harry potter)
Well said
Guys calm down!! the boy with the wand, its not that big of a deal that she calls it that. you guys are blowing this way out of porportion!!
I love thg, don’t get me wrong, I just show my dislike to the way she can make such a major thing, the queen, JK, and her wonderful creation of Harry potter which has inspired generations, including Collins to write thg, I feel she should respect HP, and like Sara mentioned, belittle HP into something it’s not, then maybe we should belittle thg into something its not?
Guys, get a grip! This isn’t about whether or not she likes or dislikes Harry Potter, in fact I didn’t even read that far down. How can some of you say she’s not a “true” fan? Yes, she is. She gets the whole point of the books: family love, protection, sacrifice, survival—the books aren’t a love story. The love in it is the background, which probably wouldn’t have turned into the idea of a love story in the first place if it weren’t for Peeta’s confession. But to me, it would always end up to be Katniss and Peeta in the end. Just something about the way it was all unfolding told me, “It’s Peeta. He’s the one.”
I can’t say if Harry Potter’s “just a boy and a wand” story or not because I haven’t read them or seen the movies—but in all honesty its fanbase is enough to make me detest it. What really irked me was when some idiot off YouTube said THG was an HP rip-off. I know it’s about wizards and a place called Hogwarts (don’t know if I spelled it right or not) but I know THG isn’t a rip-off of anything. Not even Battle Royale. Some people don’t understand that similarities do not mean same exact story and events and whatnot. But like I said before, this article is about a Hunger Games fan, nothing to do with Harry Potter despite her apparently mentioning it. There are no “true fans”. Anyone can be a fan in their own right—and if you ask me, she’s more of a fan than a lot of people who ravish the so-called “love story” when she mentions that she (Katniss) and Gale are best friends and hunting partners. Do what you will with the, “Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
And please quit trying to earn bragging rights, guys. All these “omg I’m the biggest fan, bigger than her!!!!” comments are totally immature, silly, and uncalled for. Reply to me with hate if you want, because since I said I didn’t like Harry Potter’s fans, I know someone will.
Okay I’m sorry I said some things like I’m a better fan then Erin.
I feel bad now but seriously I don’t think we need to be getting into fights over stupid things sorry but I don’t care much for HP but lets not curse of the Internet on the bottom of a website that only HG fans go to! Goodness gracious people come on!
i have read both series and i love them both. i dont see why these two fan groups are fighting you guys sholdnt be waisting time fighting with eachother. if anything you should be agreeing with each other how twilight is a bad series
Guys… I really don’t think she meant to insult the Harry Potter series AT ALL. I think she was just saying ‘a boy with a wand’ to generalize it. Not that she meant that that’s literally what it was, or that’s what she thinks it is. So I think we should all just try to put this one little comment behind us, because I think she honestly didn’t mean anything by it (:
I have deleted a bunch of comments as they got way too personal. I have going to closed the comments as I don’t think it’s fair for Erin to have to deal with a lot of personal stuff over one comment that you may or may not agree with in her attempt to explain why she loves The Hunger Games so much.
I appreciate that for Harry Potter fans, it seemed like an insult and I’m sure there’s lots of people out there that don’t see The Hunger Games in the same way that we do, but there’s no need to lash out.
I really don’t want to discourage anyone from hoping to be our Fan of the Week, and I really appreciate Erin taking the time to explain what it is about the books and the movie that she loves so much.
Jacqui