Book Summary: The Hunger Games

Peeta and Katniss had dinner at Mayor Undersee’s house in District 12. Katniss was happy that everyone in the entire district will fill their empty growling tummies. She accidently saw on the mayor's office television a news report that there is an uprising in District 8. Instantly, Katniss realized that this that is what President Snow was afraid of. Afterward, Katniss met Bonnie and Twill who have escaped district 8. They are heading for district 13, the main center for nuclear weaponry that was once destroyed by the first rebellion, is now functioning and accepting refuges.

Both reside in District 12, the poorest district in Panem, while Katniss and her family live in The Seam, the most impoverished section or District 12. This is especially difficult for Katniss as her father has died and she must support her impoverished family on her own as a result, by illegally poaching animals in the woods. However, after being reaped into the 74th Annual Hunger Games, both Katniss and Peeta feel the true burden of their place in a dystopian world as their lives change drastically. Firstly, the protagonists face the hardship of talking to each other again after the incident where Peeta had thrown bread at Katniss. This is exacerbated when during the Interviews, Caesar Flickerman encourages Peeta to win the Games to attract his love interest, but this is revealed to be Katniss when Peeta says, "she came here, with me". Their relationship is strained further when Peeta and the Career Tributes travel in a group; Katniss is infuriated by this. Both characters both have their own personal revelations on the effects of the Capitol’s dictatorship and cruelty, Katniss’ realises after grieving the death of Rue, her new friend and a competitor in the Hunger Games, "It’s the Capitol I hate, for doing this to all of us. Rue’s death has

Throughout the whole story of The Hunger Games, the author Suzanne Collins’ personal story plays a major role in the events of the annual hunger games, and is a great influence on the personality and development of the two tributes from District 12 and their struggle to survive in the cruel, harsh arena.

The main problem/conflict throughout the novel is the struggle to survive. The 24 contestants in the Hunger Games must kill each other and be the last one remaining. Another conflict is the conflict that Katniss has with herself. She battles with herself, unable to decide whether she loves Gale or if she loves Peeta. For all of the contestants, they must decide who to befriend, betray, or kill.

The boy tribute that is from her district is Peeta Mellark who she knew from long ago. Peeta confessed to the public that he loves her and that begins their friendship. Throughout the games, she watches as tributes are killed and a young girl named Rue is murdered. When this happens, Katniss kills Rue’s attacker. This is the first time that she has ever killed a person, so she takes it very hard. Rue was not only Katniss’s ally but her friend, she was Prim’s age and reminded her of her sister. So, when Rue was killed it struck Katniss deeply. By the end of the games she has come to love Peeta back and it comes down to the two of them. They refuse to kill each other, so they decided to eat berries that are poisonous but the capitol has to have a victor, so the capitol announces that they are both victors. When she did this, it was a direct punch to the capitol and it ignited a spark in the people, that began the process of a revolution. After she returns home, she realizes what her actions caused and that is the real reason that she went there. She was destined to be the Mockingjay, or the leader of the revolution against the capitol. She realizes that she is the only way that the people will unite and fight to

at the start of this part, Katniss is very ill and misses Peeta very much.President Coin,the president of district 13,asks her to be the Mockingjay,the face of the rebellion.As District 12 was destroyed ,few people who survived the attack including Prim and their mother and Gale and his family,now live in 13.Katniss agrees to become Mockingjay on some conditions like she and Gale will go alteast an hour for hunting,Peeta's and other tributes's immunity,the permission to keep their cat,Buttercup.When she becomes Mockingjay,she has to prepare for propos.She normally thinks that Peeta is or will be dead by now.Then a Capitol programme airs in which Peeta is interviewed.Katniss is happy to see that Peeta is alive.Then she has to go to different

Peeta helps Katniss later on in the games after the members of his alliance are killed. They fake their love for each other in order for both of them to survive. Rue shows Katniss how to get rid of the people camped below her. After Katniss gets stung by very dangerous bees she passes out and Rue helps heal the bee stings. Katniss leaves District 12, her home, and travels to the capital. After her training for the Hunger Games is done she is sent into the arena. Characters that try to prevent her from staying alive are the Game Makers. They will try to steer the competitors away from the edge of the arena with bizarre

In the beginning, Katniss is living the hard life of her district. She goes to school and hunts so that her family has food. She has a younger sister named Prim and a mother, however it is time for the reaping which is when the Capitol picks names out of a bucket for one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to participate in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death tournament where the winner gets fame and fortune. Prim gets chosen to participate in the games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place(22). A boy from their district named Peeta also gets chosen and Katniss realizes that he had given her bread when she didn’t have food for her family. They go to the Capitol and meet their mentor, Haymitch(56), who helps them train, then they go into the arena and battle. Peeta joins up with some Careers, children that trained for the Hunger Games all their lives, and tries to win but then he betrays them. The Gamemakers make a rule change and say that two tributes from the same district can win together so Katniss finds Peeta and helps him because he has been injured. After they are the only two people left the Gamemakers change the rule back to force Katniss and Peeta to fight each other, rather than fight, Katniss takes some poisonous berries, called Nightlock, she found in the arena and gives half of

In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins expresses two themes. The first one is that we can’t let the government use their power to treat, and use people like they want, they are oppressing them. “At one o’clock, we head of the square. Attendance is mandatory unless you are on deaths door. This evening, officials will come around and check to see if this is the case. If not you will be imprisoned.” (Collins, 16) we can see that the Capitol forces the people to participate in the reaping by threatening them. “When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. Eventually I understood this would only lead us to

On to the actual Games themselves. Twenty-four tributes (strangers at that), two from each district, released onto a battlefield for a televised fight to the death for the entertainment and enjoyment of the Capitol. These Games went on for weeks, with several tributes dying each day. From the beginning alliances were made to kill off the remaining participants and have the rest of the Games to themselves, and sadly Katniss was one of the targets. Yet she was determined to stay alive and to keep Peeta alive, even though he aligned himself with the majority group for a short while. As the Games progressed, even before the Games began, a story developed between Katniss and Peeta: a love story. A love story that spread across Panem like wildfire, so much that the two were dubbed “star-crossed lovers.” This had everyone rooting for Katniss and Peeta, for one of them to be the winner of the Hunger Games. Whether it was real or fake for Katniss, she was not sure at the time; she just wanted to make it out alive and take Peeta with her.

Before the games start, we find out that Peeta – the male tribute from District 12, has long ago developed romantic feelings for Katniss. They’re advised by their mentor to play along with that outburst, in order to gain more wealthy sponsors. Their story gains a big amount of attention and the Capitol portrays them

Through the events of the book , Katniss steps up to fulfill the role of the Mockingjay , the ultimate symbol of rebellion . Following Gale's whipping , Katniss rationalizes that both of them have always been rebellious .' Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods"(130) are but few examples of Katniss rebellious actions even before setting foot in the arena . This rebelliousness continues to be a character trait , publicly exhibited in the arena as she threatens to commit suicide along with Peeta to deprive the Capitol from its victors . Katniss' brief romance with Gale is also a sign of her defiance and of her refusal to be Snow's pawn , Katniss deduces that she has chosen Gale instead of Peeta because " and a

He killed my sister. Now I will kill him. And then the hunger games will be over.''' This quote gives and understanding on how much she hates President snow if you take a close look and ready it from the main character's perspective and it shows that she will end the hunger game herself and end something thing that had been going on for a very long time that had brought nothing but darkness and despair to people who have been segregated in districts and brought nothing but hate and anger and starvation. Also, as you slightly continue Katniss vaguely describes how her sister dies she says this "'… I watched my sister become human a human torch.''' (352)

I did my book report on The Hunger games, because it is suspenseful, adventurous, and has tons of action. This is about Katness, Peeta, Haymitch, Effie, and the Games.

In The Hunger Games, there are many significant plots show Katniss and Peeta try hard to overcome many difficulties. To begin, Katniss has a big conflict with Career Tributes who