Book Summary: The Hunger Games

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In a futuristic time in the nation of Panem, which is located in North America contains twelve poor districts, and a wealthy and technologically advanced city called The Capitol, which rules over all the districts. Katniss, a 16-year old girl from District 12, the poorest among all the other districts, lives with her widowed mother and sister, Primrose Everdeen. Every year, two people, a boy and girl, are chosen from every district by lottery to participate in an event known as the Hunger Games to show the districts that the Capitol has absolute power over all the people, where people fight to death until only one remains standing, whom that person will be awarded riches while his/her district will be given food and supplies. During the choosing ceremony where the tributes will be chosen, Prim was chosen to participate in the event, but …show more content…

Katniss enters the arena where the twenty-three other participants are, and when the game starts, she quickly heads toward the supply area where she arms herself with a bow and plenty of arrows, knowing she is best at using a bow. After several days into the Hunger Games, she makes alliances with Rue, a 12-year old girl from District 11 when she helped her kill several people. Rue was soon killed a few days after by another tribute, and Katniss killed her killer and was emotionally saddened because Rue reminded her of Prim. When Rue died, her district rioted against the capitol when they saw that one of their tributes have been killed. Halfway through the game, Katniss finds Peeta and soon hears that there can be two tributes from the same district that can win if that event indeed does happen, which make the two decide to work as a team. The two tributes successfully kill all the remaining tributes, just to hear that the new rule has been canceled, and that only one person can be alive to end the