The Hunger Games Summary
Adam Riopelle
English II period 1
Mrs. Smith
12 November 2011
THE HUNGER GAMES
The book “The Hunger Games” is in year 3026 in an almost post-apocalyptical North America also in a new nation called Panem. It consists of a rich capitol and 13 overpopulated districts, but District 12 is where the book starts with the main character, Katniss Everdeen.
75 years prior to the current setting of the book, there was a mass rebellion of the people from District 13, located in far north-east modern day America. When the rebellion started, the capitol decided to completely nuke District 13, turning it into an uninhabitable toxic-filled land, along with killing the people and animals in, and around District 13. The capitol decides that in order to keep the other districts in their place, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each District are chosen by the cast of lots, or votes, and are forced to participate in the Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games is a nationally televised event in which the tributes must fight to the death in an entirely man-made outdoor arena, completely and remotely controlled by the Capitol, until there is one tribute left standing. Katniss and her mother and little sister are living in a small town in District 12 surviving off of the little rations the capitol gives them and their neighbors. The boy participating in the Hunger Games from District 12 is Peeta, a baker-in-training, who has saved Katniss’s family multiple times from starvation.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, with all of their opposition, other districts tributes, where their personal mentor, Haymitch, a former Hunger Games winner himself, instructs them on techniques on staying alive and observing the other tributes for weaknesses, and also to advertise their presence and abilities to possible sponsors. After a certain period of time training with each other and with Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta are sent to the beginning ring of the Hunger
English II period 1
Mrs. Smith
12 November 2011
THE HUNGER GAMES
The book “The Hunger Games” is in year 3026 in an almost post-apocalyptical North America also in a new nation called Panem. It consists of a rich capitol and 13 overpopulated districts, but District 12 is where the book starts with the main character, Katniss Everdeen.
75 years prior to the current setting of the book, there was a mass rebellion of the people from District 13, located in far north-east modern day America. When the rebellion started, the capitol decided to completely nuke District 13, turning it into an uninhabitable toxic-filled land, along with killing the people and animals in, and around District 13. The capitol decides that in order to keep the other districts in their place, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each District are chosen by the cast of lots, or votes, and are forced to participate in the Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games is a nationally televised event in which the tributes must fight to the death in an entirely man-made outdoor arena, completely and remotely controlled by the Capitol, until there is one tribute left standing. Katniss and her mother and little sister are living in a small town in District 12 surviving off of the little rations the capitol gives them and their neighbors. The boy participating in the Hunger Games from District 12 is Peeta, a baker-in-training, who has saved Katniss’s family multiple times from starvation.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, with all of their opposition, other districts tributes, where their personal mentor, Haymitch, a former Hunger Games winner himself, instructs them on techniques on staying alive and observing the other tributes for weaknesses, and also to advertise their presence and abilities to possible sponsors. After a certain period of time training with each other and with Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta are sent to the beginning ring of the Hunger