Book Summary: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Tanner Rodrigues
Mr. Hyde
English II Pre-AP, Period 4
Date: 3/9/2015
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
SETTING
The Hunger Games is set in a future North America, and is called Panem. Panem contains twelve districts, and every district produces a resource to give to the people, and the Capitol. In the book, the real Hunger Games are held in an arena in Panem.
PLOT
The book starts with the main character, Katniss Everdeen, waking up on the day people are chosen to be in the Hunger Games. Sleeping close to Katniss, are her sister, Prim, and her mother. The father of Prim, and Katniss, perished in a mining explosion years before the story starts. At the reaping ceremony that night, district twelve’s mayor delivers a speech about how North America

In front of her is the Cornucopia, which contains a large amount of supplies. Instead of fighting with the other tributes to get supplies, Katniss flees away from it. She spends the whole day hiking and then makes her camp. That night, someone in close proximity to Katniss, starts a fire. Then a group of Career Tributes shows up to the fire, and murders the tribute. In the group of Career Tributes is Peeta Mellark, which suprises Katniss. The next morning, Katniss goes exploring for water. After hours of searching she collapses, but finds a stream. That night she awakes to a large fire moving towards her. She runs away, but is grazed by a fireball, which injures her leg. Later that night, Katniss, while hiding in a tree, spots Rue, a girl from District Eleven, in a close-by tree. Rue spots a nest of wasps that are engineered by the Capitol to be deadly, called Tracker Jackers, directly above Katniss’s head. Katniss slices the branch that the nest is mounted on, and it falls onto the Careers. The Careers disperse, but two of them perished. Katniss also got stung, and while she is fleeing, she recalls that one of the females that were killed possessed a bow and arrows. Katniss, being very experienced with hunting with this weapon, turns around to get it. As she is grabbing it, Peeta shows up, and screams at Katniss to run, because Cato, a dangerous Career

After her father died, her mother became so depressed that she stopped caring, which forced Katniss to gather food from hunting. She had little interest in boys before the games, and focused on supporting her family, but during the games she develops feelings for Peeta, and uncovers feelings for Gale, but still romance is not a main issue for her. Throughout the story she keeps her sense of identity and integrity. Peeta Mellark is the male tribute from District twelve. Throughout the story we see his strong love for Katniss, giving her bread, fighting Cato to save her, and almost killing himself with her. He is a very thoughtful, and kind boy. He does kind things without a motive, and just wants to be nice. He is also very artistic, and we see that when he uses the skills he learned decorating cakes at the bakery, to camouflage himself.
Haymitch Abernathy is the only surviving winner of the Games from District Twelve. He is the mentor and coach to Katniss and Peeta for the games. He is inebriated for a large percent of the book, however he is able to create and execute intricate plans to help Katniss and Peeta win.