ALL OF THE ABOVE

I am choosing to write my blog about The Jungle, the visit to the slaughterhouse, and The Huger Games and maybe more too like our guest speaker!  First off, I give major props to everyone who went to the slaughterhouse and witnessed all that went on in there because I am pretty sure that I would not have lasted more than 5 minutes.  I can't stand terrible smells and all the blood would most likely have made me pass out (knowing my luck I would have passed out in the knife room and gotten slashed) so I dodged a bullet on that one.  I really enjoyed having the guest speaker (whose name I forgot) answer all of our questions and tell us his own person experiences/ views of working in the slaughterhouse.  Having a real person present and not just reading about it in a book really gives me a whole new perspective on slaughterhouses.  For example, S(the speaker) said that he loved working in the slaughterhouse because he was a good worker and was treated good.  Also, by working hard he was even able to get promoted all the way to supervisor and he knew how to do every job in the company.  The one thing that kind of made me wince was when he said he loved the smell of blood... I found that just a bit discomforting, but hey we are all different.  He also mentioned several things that were ironically similar to The Jungle especially since that book is like a bazillion years old, but yet still is somewhat accurate in today's time.

Are you ready to fight for your life for entertainment?  If not too bad because you will die quickly in the Hunger Games.  I just read this book last semester in another class so I am just going to mention a few things so hopefully I don't spoil it for anyone.  The Capitol got this messed up idea of the Hunger Games to help all the districts realize that they basically own them and not have a rebellion.  Katniss, her sister Prim, and her mother live in district 12 the cole miners district.  Her father died while working in the mines in a terrible accident.  Katniss then has no choice, but to step up to try and feed her family because her mother basically becomes docile for a while.  She becomes friends with Gale who helps her hunt and practice more with her bow.  Each district is part of a reaping in which one male and female of a certain age range (children) are chosen from each district.  That's all I am going to say for now.