The game makers announce that the rules have changed, and that the two tributes from a district can serve as co-victors. As she stays hidden, she learns that Peeta has allied himself with the “Career Tributes,” those tributes from the richer districts who train their entire lives for the Games. She sleeps in trees and hunts game.Įach night, faces of the dead are broadcast into the sky. When they begin, Katniss rushes away from the excitement of the initial bloodbath and uses her hunting/survival skills to develop a strategy. The Games are held in an arena in a forested area. Coming from the poorest district modeled after the coal mining era, where most people live in absolute poverty Peeta and Katniss are taken back by the surplus of luxury and wealth exhibited by the Capitol. On the train and in the capitol you can see the apparent culture shock in the face of the 2 district 12 contestants. After the tributes are selected they are taken by train to the Capitol. “The Hunger Games” are treated as just that, games, they are televised in the Capitol and all 12 Districts as people look on, the members of the Capitol cheering along the way and members of each District looking on in sadness as their children are murdered for the satisfaction of the oppressive government. Per the rules, only one or neither of these two combatants will ever return to District 12 alive. Her male counterpart is the baker’s son, Peeta Melark. During “The Reaping”, the “Tribute” selection comes to pass and is where Katniss ultimately volunteers to fight after her sister’s name is drawn from the fish bowl. This is the story of the 74th Hunger Games and at the center of it is Katniss Everdeen, a resident of the poorest of all the districts, District 12. Every year, each district must hold a raffle (known as the “reaping”) to choose one boy and one girl (ranging from age 12–18) to participate in the Hunger Games, a competition in which each of the twenty-four contestants (known as “tributes”) fight to the death in a televised arena until only one is left alive. After its crushing victory, the Capitol devised the Hunger Games as an annual reminder to the twelve districts of its authority, and as continuing punishment for the rebellion.

74 years ago, the poverty-stricken districts of Panem rebelled against the wealthy, controlling the Capitol. The nation of Panem has risen out of the ravaged ruins of what was once known as North America.

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