They team up to get Haymitch, their drunken mentor, to stay sober enough to give them advice. Katniss and Peeta take a train to the Capitol, amazed by the luxury of their compartments. Madge gives Katniss a mockingjay pin to wear in the arena. Peeta’s father, the mayor’s daughter Madge, and Gale also come to say goodbye.

When it’s time to say goodbye to her family, Katniss promises Prim that she will try hard to win the Games and return. When Katniss’s father died in a mining accident, Peeta for some reason snuck some bread to her, and this generosity prevented her family from starving. Peeta Mellark is called as the male tribute, and Katniss is upset because she’s indebted to Peeta from years ago. Before Prim can mount the stage, however, Katniss rushes out and volunteers in her place.

To Katniss’s shock, Prim’s name is called despite the odds against it as the female tribute for District 12. As punishment, one girl and one boy are taken from each of the twelve districts every year and forced to fight to the death until there is only one winner left. The Hunger Games are meant as a punishment for the districts that once rebelled against the Capitol. She brings home a feast that will serve as a celebratory dinner after the reaping.Īt the reaping, the mayor reads a speech about the history of the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien.When Katniss wakes up on Prim’s first reaping day, she heads to the woods to hunt with Gale, her best friend and hunting partner. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's 'Best Books of the Year' in 2008. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. It was praised for its plot and character development. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. Reality television programs Juvenile fiction,

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