The Hunger Games: District 12, The Capitol, And The Arena

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In The Hunger Games, just like every other novel, has multiple settings and themes. From district to district describing their differences. Mainly District 12. Multiple of the most different personalities you could think of collide in these places. The poorest of the districts - District 12, The Capitol, and the Arena. This novel starts off with Katniss Everdeen and her sister waking up on the day of “the reaping. Primm is 12 years old so it is her first year being capable of being drafted. Katniss has been through this for the past few years. They are both scared for each other and themselves, where their mother doesn’t show much stress about it. The Everdeens live in District 12, the coal district, which is the poorest of all 12 districts. Picture a beyond dirty, less evolved, over-populated area where almost everyone works for close to nothing, but it doesn’t even really matter because even if they did make larger quantities, there is nothing to buy. This is District 12. …show more content…

The people from the capitol look far out of place, for they are in a gigantic transformation of setting. Now that all the teens are in line, the names are drawn. The lady whom draws the names (Effie Trinket) draws a piece of paper from a large bowl full of them. She reads “Primrose Everdeen”. Though it takes their family and friends a second to realize what had just happened, it does not take long for Katniss to volunteer as tribute. Effie then pulls a piece of paper out of the bowl with the boys names in it. She reads “Peta Mellark”, Katniss is still too shaken up to realize that she has known this boy since childhood and he had fed her and her family with bread from his family’s bakery, just one time, but that means a world of difference in this district than it would in real