They comment on the media and where we are currently heading with all the social sites and reality TV. They aren't love stories or a fantasy land. These are serious books that deal with serious issues. More innocent people are killed, because the oppressed are starting to revolt. Threats are made in subtle conversations and the violence has escalated since the last book. In this sequel you can see that there is an obvious plot to kill the main character, Katniss. The tributes, or kids in the games, have to listen to the sounds of their loved ones being tortured, because of these birds. They can repeat any sound they hear, including someone being tortured. This is a bird that the Capitol engineered to repeat human voices as a way of finding out what the resistance in the old wars was up to. In this book the Jabber Jays play the psychological torture role. The Capitol, which is the oppressing government, utilizes technology to create monstrous creatures to make the games more exciting. Not only are they violent, but there are psychological undertones used against these children in the games. Do you look at your 10 year old or even 13 year old and say, 'Now that's a young adult?' These books are about kids from ages 12-18 violently killing each other while people cheer on, make bets, and the families watch in horror. YA stands for Young Adult, which most people assume YA novels are kids books and they are not. While this series is amazing- and I am going to talk about the entire series as a whole not just this book- it was not written for kids.

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