The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins. The book’s main character Katniss Everdeen is poor and goes hunting outside the barrier to survive . The next character Gale is a friend of Katniss and hunts with her out of the fence to eat. The next character Peeta is the son of the baker and one of the tributes who helps Katniss throughout the games. Haymitch is one of the only winners from district 12 and helps Katniss and Peeata train while drunk. Primrose is Katniss’ sister. The story takes place in District 12 which symbol is coal miners and where Katniss hunts, The Arena is where the games take place and is different every year. The story begins with Katniss who is getting ready to go hunting so she listens to see if the electric fence on and it’s silent soshe climb through the holes in the fence and finds her friend Gale and they try to find plants and animals to eat. Later after they went hunting the reaping began where they would draw names who would be a tribute but each district has to have 2 tributes one a boy one a girl and 12 year olds have to put their name once and progress by one by your age until you’re 19 then you are not eligible to compete. When the games began the tributes sprinted for stuff. The closer you got to the cornucopia in the center the better the stuff and near the outside the gear is worse. When the gong sounded they all sprinted for stuff Katniss grabbed an orange backpack and ran in to the nearby forest where a girl from a distance threw a knife at her and she used the backpack as cover and the kinfe hit the backpack and she ran in the forest. Later in the book she meets a girl named Rue who she teamed up with and they split up to find some more plants to eat and Katniss went one way and Rue the other. When Katniss found something to eat she heard Rue scream and she started to sprint towards her scream when she got there she saw Rue in a net and got stabbed with a spear by a District 1 guy and then Katniss shot him in the neck with a bow and arrow she got from the girl she dropped a tracker jacker nest on. Later she heard an announcement saying that if both people from the same district survive they both can win. She heard Cato one of the tributes with his group say that Peeta got cut from him and ran so Katniss tried to find him and so she walked down a small stream and found him camoflauge on the ground. She rinsed him in the stream and took him to a cave. When the last few tributes died so it was just three left so they go drawn to the cornucopia and then they got on top of the cornucopia and Cato fell off and werewolve forms of the tributes nearly killed him and then Katniss shot him upside down in the face.
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