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Book Summary: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
Keri Momon Period 3 English

Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Type of literary material: science fiction- adventure, action, suspense, drama
Setting: time-future, place- Panem (the future untied states)
Main Character: A. Katniss Everdeen- she is the very main character in the story B. Peeta Mellark-he is the bakers son C. Haymitch-he is the town drunk
Point of View- first person because the main character is telling the whole story. Conflicts- man vs. man Man vs. himself Man vs. the supernatural/ the unnatural
Plot –
Introduction- in district 12 in the country of Panem lives Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and Haymitch
Narrative Hook- Primrose Everdeen (Katniss little sister) is called as a tribute for the hunger games. Katniss panics to the thought of her little sister being in the hunger games and volunteers as tribute so her sister won’t have to go.
Rising Action-
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As she’s running she thinks to herself that this fire must be the game makers doing. She runs and takes cover on a stone to catch her breath. Then suddenly a fire ball hits right where she was lying. She jumped right before it could hit her. Katniss keeps running until a fireball almost hits her but she dodges it but not soon enough. Her calf is screaming with pain. After a while of wondering the pack of careers spot her. She climbs the tree and wakes for them to kill her. But when of then try to climb the tree he falls. She realizes that they are too heavy to climb the tree. In response she starts to mock and tease them. After a while they make a fire and sleep around the tree. When night time falls Katniss sees a pair of eyes looking at her. First she thinks it’s an animal but she takes a closer look then sees it’s the little girl from district 11. It was Rue looking at her. And she’s pointing at something above Katniss’s

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