Book 1 Project

My idea to create a fan experience for Mockingjay and the rest of The Hunger Games Trilogy is to have a side story of what happened to Gale. At the end of the trilogy, the guy Katniss spends the rest of her life with is Peeta, “The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that” (Collins 388). With Gale on the other hand, it says he got a special job in District 2, but it doesn’t mention what exactly he did or what happened to him after he got the job, “I  have to remind myself that Gal’s in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips” (Collins 385). Also, did Gale suffer any physical injuries, “Gale, who took two bullets in an escape attempt” (Collins 361), that disabled him years after the war and/or suffer from PTSD (Post traumatic Stress Disorder)? From all of these unanswered questions, I was thinking that another story about what happened to Gale would be a good idea to end my curiosity. I think people would enjoy it because it reminds me of the whole Team Edward/Team Jacob debate from the Twilight Saga. For the idea of the story for Gale,  a Mad Lib is what might work. Plus, it gives the people a chance to come up with their own ending to Gale’s fate.

In a Mad Lib, the author/ reader is allowed to come up with his/her own twists to the given plot. In the packet of plot outlines, there can be many adventures that Gale goes on after the war. For example, one could be about his special job while another can be about him making a visit to District 12 twenty years after the war to see how Katniss and Peeta are doing. The author-writer can make the story as dramatic or cut to the chase as they want, as serious or as goofy as they want it.

Gale’s life after the story doesn’t have to be the only way to bring out a fan experience. A video game of the war itself can attract fans of the trilogy to play it. In the game, you could be playing as one of the main characters such as Boggs, Gale, Katniss, etc. and fight on the front lines of the war in each district or go on the secret mission to liberate the previous Hunger Games victors that the Capitol took prisoner like they did in Mockingjay.  As a special feature in the game, you could compete in the Hunger Games itself or go hunting in the woods as they did in The Hunger Games or Catching Fire.

I think people would want to buy the game because they want another way to live out the trilogy and a video game would do the trick. It’s kind of like how every action movie that has come out recently. For example take Batman; he started off as a character in a series of comics. Twenty years later or so, they make a Batman TV show. Another 15 years past and they continue to expand the Batman franchise with the production of movies and that continues on today with The Dark Knight Rises when it was released in July 2012. They expanded the franchise even further, they made the Batman series of video games that still are being made today with the release of Batman Arkham Origins when it was released in October 2013.

                People like to experience the ways of characters that they read about or see in a movie. The only way people would want to continue to pretend that they are these characters is by means of trendy items. Today, people like to fill out Mad Libs and play video games. Using these two items that people flock to is a great way in my mind to expand not only the book I read in Mockingjay, but The Hunger Games Trilogy as well.