Sixteen year old , Katniss Everdeen lives in a world named Panem , which exists in the ruins of place once known as North America . Panem is ruled by a beautiful city called the Capitol with twelve districts The Capitol is ruthless with the twelve districts in order to keep them at bay from revolting once again like in the past. There once was a time when all the thirteen districts of Panem went against the Capitol . The districts were defeated but district thirteen was completely obliterated . The remaining districts were given something to remind them that if they rebelled again they would be destroyed like district thirteen . The districts were give the Hunger Games ; each district had to give two tributes, a boy and girl, the tributes would then be taken to the Capitol to go through a series of "tests" and then be put into an arena where they would all fight to death for the amusement of the Capitol . The remaining tribute would be the winner and be presented with gifts for them and their district. The torture in this was that you got to watch your friends die and must treat the Hunger Games like a festivity .
Well besides worrying about this Katniss also had to worry about bringing home food everyday for both her sister Prim and her mother. the story begins with Katniss waking up in District Twelve , she then gets dressed and heads for the woods outside the perimeter of the district where she meets with her hunting partner/best friend Gale. Today is Reaping Day , the day they get chosen to be in the Hunger Games so they don't have much time to stay in the woods. As Gale and Katniss wait for game to pass by Gale brings up a conversation , about them running away and being able to survive and having kids but they(or rather Katniss) quickly dismiss the conversation . After they get all that hunted for , they go together to the Hob and trade a few of their supplies for necessary things . Gale and Katniss go to the mayor's house to sell some strawberries , and they meet Madge there (she's the mayor's daughter who somtetimes hangs around Katniss because she keeps to herself) and Gale compliment's her reaping clothess and replies by saying , " Well if I end up going to the Capitol I want to look nice". This enrages Gale because he knows that she won't be going because she has only five entries and he has forty. Katniss says good luck to Madge who also says good luck and then Katniss leaves accomponied by Gale . They depart to get ready for the reaping, at home KAtniss wears her one of her mothers dresses . Katniss is worried about her sister Prim because this is Prim's first reaping . Prim, Kqatniss, an their mother head for the square where the people that eligible for the Hunger GAmes go . They are divide into age groups 12-18.
In the square they chose the first contestant for the Hunger Games. Primrose Everdeen. Katniss does the only thing she can do to save her beloved sister, take her place as tribute. Then the boy tribute is chosen , Peeta Mellark the boy who gave Katniss hope and to whom she feels she owes a debt. So after they are chosen they go into a building to see people before they go to the Capitol . The last person to see Katniss is Gale who gives her advice and when is about to tell her something important but is ripped apart from her .
Katniss and Peeta go on board a train to the Capitol. When they get to the Capitol they are dressed and ride throughout the city where the steal the spotlight while holding hands. Then they enter the training center where their training for the Hunger Games begins. After a week of training once again Peeta and Katniss are dressed for their interview , there all of the other tributes are to have a 3 minute interview. Katniss gets interviewed, then Peeta who admits he is in love with her, ouch.
The next day they and the other tributes are put into the arena, where the fight to the death begins. When Katniss steps onto the arena there is a Cornucopia loaded with weapons, food, and etc. Even though Katniss was told not to join the bloodfest at the Cornucopia , she goes straight for it because on top is the most useful thing she will find in the arena ; a bow and arrows . Katniss fails to get the bow and arrows but gets an orange pack of food , a large plastic, and a knife.
As Katniss prepares for the first night in the arena the Careers(an alliance made by the strong tributes) begin to hunt down the weaker opponents. That's when she finds out that her "beloved" Peeta had joined the Careers in order to stay alive , this is no matter for Katniss because she just thinks it is another obstacle. By morning Katniss is dying of thirst ,and begins to wonder why Haymitch hadn'tsent her water , she finds water because Haymitch with held it and she also made a discovery; she can communicate with Haymitch by the way he gives her gifts while she's in the arena .
Katniss has found water and safety but that doesn't last long when suddenly there's a fire and she knows its the Gamemakwers trying to add excitement to the Hunger Games . Katniss gets some burns but that's the least of her worries because she now has to deal with the Careers theywere driven together because of the fire. To escape the Careers clutches Katniss climbs atree which can't be climbed because the Careers are to heavy. Si the Careers decide to wait for Katniss to come downand they all fall asleep. Here's when Rue (girl tribute for district 11)comes to the rescue she shows Katniss a tracker jacker (kind of like killer bees but harsher) hive , so Katniss cuts down the hive and drops it onto the Careers , but with getting a few stings herself.
As the Careers escape to the lake from the tracker jackers Katniss escapes but remembers that one of the Careers that had gotten badly stung (and died) had her bow and arrows . Thus Katniss returns to the tree where she had climbed to get the weapons , but a mysterious thing happens Peeta sees Katniss and she is already very weak from the tracker jacker stings she , he has the chance to kill her but instead pushes her to safety away from him.
In district 12 people say you can go delusional from tracker jacker stings and that's what happened to Katniss. She awoke and remembered that Peeta saved her but she wasn't sure . Anyway she got her bow and arrows she shot a couple of weird birds and found out she had a shadow, little Rue. After they shared a meal Rue and katniss make a small alliance. Then conjure a plan to destroy the careers supplies. So Katniss goes t where the Careers had their food stashed while Rue tricked them by lighting a fire and running away. That's when Katniss finds out that there is security system around the supplies a really good security system : mines.
Katniss uses 3 of her precious arrows to set off all the mines with the cost of hearing in left ear . But Katniss is worried about little Rue and sets out to find , only to find her in a net . As soon as Katniss catches sight of Rue a spear goes through Rue's stomach by the boy tribute of district 1 , without thinking Katniss kills the boy and sings to Rue as a last request. Then Rue dies , and is taken away . The next day there is an announcement , that if 2 tributes from the same district survive they can both live . Of course this means katniss needs to find Peeta. So she searches for him only to find him gravely injured . Katniss nurses him back to health by risking her life and since Peeta is " in love with her" she acts that way .
Their little get away doesn't last because they have one last opponent to face , Clato from district 3 . They meet at the lake , but when Peeta and Katniss see him he is being chased by mutts ( mutations) , wolf mutations . Now as the 2 lovebirds and Clato barely escape the wolf mutts , Katniss realizes that the mutts are the fallen tributes. Never the less Katniss and Peeta manage to kill Clato and the mutts, but they get an announcement that there can only be 1 winner , Katniss and Peeta act as if they are going to eat poison berries and are quickly announced the winners.
So Peeta and KAtniss return to the Capitol to face a few final things and leave the Capitol.That's when Katniss finds out that Peeta truly did love her but Peeta also found out that Katniss had faked her love for him. When they arrive in the station of District 12 there is a mob of people on the platform and that's when Peeta stretches out his hand and says " One more time for the audience". Katniss knows she's lost the bopy with the bread, the boy who gave her hope, so holds his hand tightly ready to face the crowd and dreading the moment she has to let go of him.
