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The Hunter Games by Suzanne Collins Pg 3-68 Chapters 1-4

The novel The Hunter Games is a very interesting novel that has a lot of cool ideas. I select this book because I read the back of the book and saw that it was very engaging. Also, this book has many positive reviews so I decided that this would be a good choice to read. I did not really need any information to read the book; however I prepared myself to read some futuristic things, but the turned out to have lots of modern objects. For example, people in the novel mined coal and some people used bows to hunt. The setting of the novel is very important because this everything about this book has to be in a specific environment. This novel could not take place in a different setting because this book is about North America being turned into 12 different areas with the areas acting like feudal Europe. The 12 different areas are united by a capital city called Capitol that controlled the 12 districts. Some districts were wealthy because they had the support of the Capitol, but the majority of the districts were poor like the one the main character comes from and have different ways for wealth. District 12 gets most of their wealth from coal mining and because of this, they are the least respected district almost like modern day. Weapons are banned and two kids from each district is forced to fight to the death at the Capitol as entertainment each year. This novel's setting is not something that can take place anywhere. It must have the requirements of a very mean society that only a few have an enjoyable life. The plot starts off with the main character Katniss waking up, she describes about the society she lives in and how her father died and now she has to support the family. The meets her friend Gale and they go hunting together in the wilderness outside of district twelve's high fence. This is illegal but both of them needs to hunt to survive. They manage to catch about a dozen fish and they use this to trade with different people back in the city for supplies like bread and salt. Once Katniss gets home, she changes into her best clothes because today was a special day. Today, is the picking for the annual gladiators fight at the Capitol and every kid's name is in a ballot box that is drawn. Katniss has her name in the ballot box almost twenty times because as you get older each year you will have to put an extra name in there, but the main problem is that she puts her name in there a few extra times for extra supplies. The law decree that you will get some grain and oil enough for one person if you put your name in for an extra time. She is worried that she might get drawn and that she will die on national tv with no one left to support her family. She is scared to go and fight because district has one the gladiators match twice out of 75, but just then her sister's name is drawn and is forced to go. However, Katniss volunteers to take her place and so she is now in the tournament. The partner for the gladiators is a guy called Peeta that actually gave her bread once. they are brought into the justice building and is prepared by a guy who once one the tournament. Peeta asks the guys a lot of questions about how to win and Katniss is now really scared about this because she now knows that Peeta will kill anyone who gets in his way to win. There is no second place because the only one that lives is first place and the other districts are very prepared because some of them prepared their whole lives for this.

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