Twenty-Four Tributes In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

When you're taken away from your family, your life, the people you love to unwillingly fight for your life, you need to be ready for anything, ready to do anything, ready to fight whoever you may cross on your path. That is the Hunger Games. A novel by Suzanne Collins. In this novel, twenty-four tributes from twelve different districts are pulled out of their average lives to try to survive in the 74th annual Hunger Games. This story tells Katniss Everdeen's perspective on the Hunger Games, accompanied by Peeta Malard, who is also from District 12. These teenagers fight for their lives to survive, because only one tribute can survive. A theme in the Hunger Games is the value of life, and people either value or devalue human life.

Every year, twenty four children are nominated to compete in the Hunger Games, and in the end, only one child survives. Katniss is worrying about living while eating at the table. He is realizing that in the end, only one is going to live. “Did it give them hope, or simply add to their terror when they saw the reality of twenty-four tributes circled together, knowing only one could live?” (pg. 87) In the text, it explains that there are twenty four tributes total now, but once the games are finished, only one will survive. Everyone around the table wants the same ending. They all want to go back to their

They also may be required to work as children, causing them to possibly be forced to be absent at school. Rue says that she and Katniss are currently in a tree after just making an alliance with Rue. They are talking about their district. “Not during the harvest. Everyone works then.” (pg. 203) The quote shows that even the children have to work during harvest, leaving them absent at school sometimes, or when they arrive home from school. This example shows that even when there is school, the children still have to sometimes be absent from school to work for their