The Hunger Games

"May the odds be ever in your favor! -Effie Trinket, The Hunger Game

Book: The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Colllins

Main Characters:

Katniss Everdeen

Peeta Mellark

Pages:  374 

The Hunger Games is the first of Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games trilogy, in which a bleak futuristic setting is used as the basis of the Hunger Games that Katniss knows are not logical, but nevertheless, Katniss Everdeen watches every year---the tributes who are forced to fight for common necessities as a reminder of the rebellion of the no longer existing District 13.

Metamorphosis

Book: The Metamorphosis and other stories
By: Franz Kafka

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka was a writer whose work was mostly published after his death because many of his works were not entirely finished or to his expectations. The Metamorphosis  is quite possibly his most popular story and it is a thought provoking, introspective maze of Kafka's view of his role in his family through the use of allegories and symbolism.