42 students are brought to an inhabited island for one single reason- to kill each other. It's a type of program where a class of students are chosen just for the purpose of killing each other. During this book, it's said to be going on for about 50 years. Shuya's class has been chosen for the program. 42 students first came to the school and even before the "game" started, two students were already killed, right before their peers' eyes. One of the killed happened to be Shuya's childhood friend Yoshitoki- who was killed after protesting of the game.
The game starts right when the students get out of the school. Already, one by one, students are falling, the number of survivors decreasing unsteadily. Shuya and his friend Noriko escape right away from the school top avoid being killed. Right before however, someone was trying to kill them.
I'm not far into the book, but I can already grasp the main summary and theme of the book. I would highly, highly recommend that you shouldn't read this book if you get sick easily (triggered to violence and blood maybe?) And also, avoid all possible spoilers if you are. I don't care if they're little hints of events happening just please don't. Everything gets ruined for me because of spoilers, and I mean everything.
Right, onto the main points of the book. at the beginning, our main character Shuya is introduced and a bus with his fellow classmates. During the middle of their study trip, some weird drowsiness gas forces all of the students to become unconscious. Moving on, Shuya is the first to wake up in a classroom surrounded by his classmates in desks still sleeping. He notices collars on the students' necks and realizes that he now has a collar of his own. Shortly after, a man by the name of Sakamochi arrives through glass doors. (I think I forgot to mention this book was actually translated from Japanese, my bad.) Sakamochi explains the rules of the program to the students and Yoshitoki protests in outrage. This is his mistake for speaking out because he was shot dead right after.
Alright, I don't think I should say anything else about this amazing book, I have to go anyways. See you next blog post!
UPDATE: Well, it turns out that I'm also going to put the theme in here as well. My thematic statement for Battle Royale is cherish the people you spend time with the most because they may be gone quicker than you think. Textual evidence to support this is "we had a good laugh...Yoshitoki and I were always together. It was a fact. He was with me. So how could he be...gone now?" (Takami 39)
The quote supports my statement because his childhood friend was shot dead so quickly, Shauya didn't even think about him when he did. This is why you should cherish the people you are so close to because you'd never know what could happen to them.
Ok, Now I'm really done!
-Amanda.
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