Although “young adult fiction” is not usually my cup of tea,I have enjoyed the wildly best-selling The Hunger Games, by SuzanneCollins. I was predicting it was goingto become a movie, and apparently it will be. The story is about a young girl in a desolate future who participates ina state-mandated annual contest. Thecontest is composed of randomly selected children, and ends when all but one ofthem are killed. It is a riveting, albeit depressing, concept, and Collins does a great job painting apicture of a disturbing future through the eyes of a teenage girl.
Maybe it’s because I have a teenaged girl of my own now thatI found the book compelling. But most likely it’sthe reason I like every good story—because it contains elements of the GrandStory. I have had this theory that anygood story (despite the medium—movie, book, spoken, etc.) is good because ithas borrowed off of the story that resonates within all of our hearts. It happens to be the same story that wecelebrate at Christmastime, the love of God poured out sacrificially throughhis son Jesus. It is the story ofCreation, fall, redemption and restoration. It is the story that has a birth, a life, a death, a resurrection, andtransformation. If you look closeenough, you can see these threads woven into any story that has ever capturedyour imagination, and that's because God put them there.
What’s the best story you have read or watched recently?
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