The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

By: Timothy

            "The Hunger Games" started as a book and eventually they made a PG-13 movie and released it on March 23, 2012. The book is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen of age 16. She and her mother and her sister, Primrose Everdeen, age 12 is now allowed to have her name at the reaping. The reaping is like a raffle, except you don’t want to get picked because you’ll have to enter the Hunger Games.

            The Hunger Games contestants are chosen by the reaping. The reaping picks one boy and one girl from each district. And there are 12 districts. So the 24 contestants fight each other until one person remains. He/she wins and he/she wins food for her entire district, for life.

            Prim gets chosen for the reaping, but Katniss volunteers, meaning that she will take Prim’s place. And for the boy, Peeta Mellark gets chosen. On the day of the Games they go to where the games are held: the Capitol.

            When the games start, Katniss runs to the nearest backpack and starts running away. Then Clove tries to kill her by throwing a knife at her back. Luckily it hits the backpack and she takes it for herself. Then later on in the book, she finds a hive of tracker jackers, they are sort of like bees but deadlier. She hits the hive down and she gets stung by 3, while the others sting Peeta (because he is her enemy right now), Cato, Clove, and they killed the girl from District 3 and more. Then she runs stays in the tree. Later she runs away and meets a girl named Rue from District 11. Eventually a boy from District 3 stabs Rue with a spear and then Katniss shoots the boy with an arrow and kills him. Then she buries Rue. Later in the book Katniss finds Peeta camouflaged and they team up and hide in a cave, and Katniss tries to heal Peeta because Cato sliced Peeta with a sword from his thigh to his calf, and the gash was about an inch deep. Then she heals him as much as possible. Later there are only 3 tributes left: Cato, Katniss and Peeta. At night the game makers release wild dog mutations. So Katniss and Peeta run out of the forest and climb up a cliff so that the mutations couldn’t get there. Then they see Cato run out of the forest and climb the same cliff they were on. Then, Katniss shoots an arrow and then Cato falls off the cliff, but his armor protects him. While the mutations attack him, Katniss finishes him off with an arrow to the head.

            At the end, the Gamemakers lied about having the rule that you got to team up so they would have a good show. Then Katniss and Peeta want to suicide so the other would win. So they get the berries called nightlock, which kills you instantly and they put it in their mouths and when they are about to chew, the Gamemakers stop them and declare them the winners.