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The Hunger Games Chapter 9-15 Pages 133-207

To what age group is the novel aimed? The age group this novel is aimed is around 12-16 years old. This is right age group because this book has some bloody parts and parts that might not be suitable for younger kids. For example, a 8 year old might not want to read a book that has kids killing each other is a gladiators match. Also, this book is not really for an adult because it doesn't have right elements in it and that this book is overall a good adventruous novel.

What new things are added to the original problem as the novel progresses? The new thing that added to the original problem is that Peeta follows Haymitch's plans and pretends that he is in love with Katniss so that they would get more sponsers and to have the fans supporting them. Another aspect of this plan that the game makers will not be to hard on the pair of them during the Hunger Games and maybe be a little nice by helping them by giving them supplies.

Is the language in the novel difficult or easy? The language in the novel is fairly easy to read. Most of the things they talk about in this novel are things they we can relate right now. For example, they have coal miners, they use elavators, and they use trains to get from districts to districts. Also, they novel does not use confusing language and not a whole lot of made up words such as the book Eragon. This book is pretty easy to read and is a little bit similar to our society.

Plot Chapter 9 starts out with with Katniss disappointed and feeling betrayed about Peeta wanting private lessons. That night all the tributes went on a televised show hosted by the Gamemakers where every tribute is aked a bunch of questions and tells everyone what they plan to do if they win the games. When Peeta was asked what he is going to do if he wins and if any girl likes him, he says he does like one girl and that girl is Katniss. This imedieatly caused everyone to be surprised including Katniss, but she realizes this is just Haymitch's plan to give them more support and to get the other tributes to go easy on them. Then, the Hunger Games began and the tributes were released into a huge wilderness. Weapons and supplies are scattered around the starting the area and the career tributes created a truce to kill all the others first before dueling it out. So, Katniss ran away deep into the forrest and went into hiding. Everynight all the tributes that died that day are displayed in a huge screen that appears out of nowhere and cannons are fired representing each death. On this day, 11 tributes died including one career tribute and now there are 13 tributes left to play. Peeta survived the first which surprised Katniss and is really happy about it because if she died she would want Peeta to win and that would benefit her family. Katniss slept though the day and next day she woke up hearing a group of people laughing and killing some girl. She hid in a tree and saw the whole incident, but she was astonished when she saw that Peeta was part of the career's group. Next day, she feels like she is going to die because she got no water and haven't ate anything in the last few days. However, she screams for Haymitch to give her something from her sponsers because knows that every tributes' moves are watched by everyone on national t.v. Haymitch doesn't answer her and the next thing that happens is that the gamemakers feel that the deaths are not going fast enough so they set fire through out the wilderness driving the tributes together. Katniss ran for the lake, but as she go there, she was injured badly and her calf is totally messed up so she hides up in a tree. Next, the career group found Katniss and starts shooting, but they get bored and they go away. She sees another tribute called Rue who became her friend and realizes that there is a wasp nest by the trees. These wasps are some mutated wasps that can easily kill people. Katniss uses a knife to cut the wasp nest down which ended up by the careers' camp and started to attack them. Two careers die on the way and the rest ran to the lake. Katniss saw the bow and arrow and jumped to get them when Peeta came back. He saw that Cato, a career tribute was also coming and pushed Katniss away telling her to get out of there saving her life. She leaves the area knowing that Peeta saved her life and then she meets Rue after she ran away. They decide to make a truce and Rue heals her because she is from the agriculture district. Chapter 15 ends with Rue and Katniss planning to strike back against the career group and to get some supplies.

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