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Plot:

In the beginning of The Hunger Games we meet numerous characters including Katniss Everdeen who was taught by her father how to hunt. The first day of the book was the reaping. The reaping is when one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 and 18 are drawn from each district to participate in the hunger games. Prim’s name is called, but Katniss volunteers herself to save Prim. "But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarley used gesture of our district, occasionaly seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means goodbye to someone you love" (24). Katniss and Peeta are then put on a train with Haymitch and Effie to go to the Capitol, where they would participate in the hunger games. Katniss and Peeta both receive stylists who will help them gain sponsors which will then help them through the hunger games. At the Capitol they eat, sleep, and train to prepare for the games. During training, Katniss focus’ mainly on bows and arrows. The sponsors are very impressed when she shoots an apple out of a dead pigs mouth.

Katniss gets an 11/10 and Peeta receives an 8/10 from the sponsors who had been watching. Katniss and Peeta then have to do an interview. Katniss’s interview goes well, then Peeta is interviewed and shares with the audience that he has a crush on Katniss. Katniss is embarrassed and mad that he would make her look like a fool. After a sleepless night, Katniss is taken to the arena where the hunger games officially began. After finding some food and heading toward the forest, she hears 11 cannons which meant 11 people were dead so far. Katniss finds Peeta who is injured, but still alive. She continues on her own searching for water because she had not had water in days. She finally finds water and drinks as much as she can. As Katniss is hunting she finds a nest of killer wasps known as “Tracker Jackers”. She used the wasps as a weapon to defend herself against the Career Tributes. Katniss finally receives a gift from her sponsors and in it was ointment for her stings that came from the wasps. Later on she discovers Rue and they form a strong alliance.

She teams up with Rue and they work together to watch out for each other and find weapons and supplies. Unfortunately Rue is captured and speared. Katniss kills for the first time. She shoots an arrow right through Rue’s killer. Katniss then decorates Rue’s body and the mockingjay sings, reassuring her that Rue is peaceful. With six people alive, the rules are changed to the last two survivors are able to live. Katniss and Peeta realize that their romantic relationship encourages people to send them supplies, so they make sure to show affection toward each other. Gale keeps popping into her mind though. She kept wondering "Gale's not my boyfriend, but would he be, if i opened that door? He talked about us running away together" (280). The book gets really intense when Katniss has a near death experience, but thankfully makes it out alive with the help of another player. At this point, Peeta and Katniss have paired up and are watching out for each other. Every night they listen to the anthem and hear who has been killed that day. Another surprise comes about in the arena. Wolves! The wolves tear Cato to bits, Katniss and Peeta hear him dying and shoot him with an arrow to put him out of his misery. The rules are changed again to only one survivor, "Stop! Stop! Laides and Gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victor(s) of the Seventy- fourth Hunger Games..." (345).