The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Part 1)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a book that takes place in the ruins of a place once known as North America, in the nation of Panem, a Capitol surrounded by twelve districts. The Capitol is cruel and harsh and keeps the districts in line by making them send one boy and one girl from the ages between twelve and eighteen from every district to fight in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen is a girl who lives in district 12 and hunts everyday to feeds her 12-year-old sister and mom. Everyday Katniss goes to hunt with her partner Gale. Gale and Katniss get along well and share their food that they caught with each other for their family's. Soon the annual reaping arrives and it is time for each district to pick their boy and girl for the Hunger Games. That night when it is time to announce the girl from district 12 Prim named is called. Prim is Katniss' younger sister. Katniss is stunned and immediately volunteers to take her spot in the Hunger Games. The crowd is in shock, nobody from district 12 ever volunteers for the Hunger Games, you are basically dead. Katniss and the boy tribute Peta go through all of this training and special interviews. The Hunger Games are about to start when Katniss is in her final training and get mad at the trainers and shots an arrow at one of the trainers and it hits the apple he is eating. Katniss realizes what she has done and quickly runs out of the arena. Katniss has been hunting her whole life and survival, for her, is second nature. If she wants to win she will have to making choices of life and death.

By: Landon Shelley