Are they actually in love? What do you think is the cruelest part of the Hunger Games? What kind of people would devise this spectacle for the entertainment of their populace? Can you see parallels between these Games and the society that condones them, and other related events and cultures in the history of the world?
In , Karl Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto , "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Do you believe there is any chance to eradicate class struggles in the future? Discuss this phenomenon with respect to The Hunger Games. What other aspects of our popular culture do you see reflected in this story?
Discuss the differences between the Games in the first volume and the second the training sessions, the interviews, the set-up of the Arena, the strategies that Katniss and Peeta use. How is each of them changed by the time they spend in the Arena? What are the forces that contribute to the rebellion in Catching Fire?
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But Prim begged, and Katniss gave in—now Katniss is glad she kept Buttercup alive for the comfort the cat offers to Prim. Katniss clearly struggles enough to support the human members of the family without the addition of a pet. Active Themes. Love, Loyalty, and Compassion. Katniss rises from bed and gets dressed.
She grabs her forage bag and retrieves a piece of goat cheese that Prim has left for her under a bowl, and then Katniss steps outside.
Katniss still listens for a telltale electric hum, however, before she crawls beneath a gap in the fence. In theory, it prevents people and animals from coming in and out. However, the electricity almost never works—another sign of the economic difficulties in District 12—so Katniss is able to crawl under. Division and Control. Related Quotes with Explanations.
In the woods, Katniss retrieves a bow and a sheath of arrows from their hiding spot in a log. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister, Prim short for Primrose , asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. They are at the edge of the district, which is enclosed by a high fence, and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside, where she forages and hunts.
Her father taught her these skills before his death in a mine explosion when she was eleven years old, and she uses a bow he made. Though trespassing in the woods and poaching are illegal, nobody pays attention, and Katniss even sells meat to the Peacekeepers who are supposed to enforce the laws. She meets her friend Gale in the woods. They discuss running away, but both are the caretakers of their families.
Poor people often need tesserae to survive, so the children of the poor end up having their names entered numerous times. Katniss, who is sixteen, will have her name in twenty times, and Gale, who is eighteen, will have his in forty-two times. Katniss returns home, and after she gets ready, goes with her mother and Prim to the town square.
In the square, the mayor gives a speech that provides the history of the Hunger Games. Struck by droughts, storms, rising seas, and other natural problems, North America essentially dissolved, and the country of Panem rose up in its place. Panem was formed of a Capitol and thirteen districts, but the districts eventually rebelled. The Capitol defeated the districts, with the thirteenth being so badly destroyed that it ceased to exist.
Haymitch Abernathy , one of only two people from District 12 to win the Hunger Games and the only one still living, comes out on stage. Effie Trinket then draws the name of the first tribute: Primrose Everdeen. As Prim walks up to the stage, Katniss, in a panic, rushes forward and shouts that she is volunteering as tribute. A volunteer is allowed to take the place of the person whose name is drawn, but this never happens in District Katniss and Prim embrace, and Gale has to pull Prim away from Katniss.
Effie Trinket asks for a round of applause, but the crowd remains silent and offers only a gesture of respect to Katniss. Haymitch falls off the stage while offering his congratulations. Katniss thinks about her interaction with Peeta years earlier. Her father had just died, and her mother fell into severe depression.
They had run out of money and food—starvation is common in District 12, she says—and Katniss had wandered into the lane behind the shops of the wealthier townspeople. She searched the trash bins but found nothing. Suddenly a woman was screaming at her to leave from the back door of the bakery. There was a commotion, then Peeta returned with two burned loaves of bread, his mother yelling behind him to feed them to the pigs.
They head to the square for the reaping and the children are herded off, divided by sex, the lines up by age oldest in the front. One boy and one girl will be chosen as tributes. The reaping begins, and the mayor reads the history of Panem-the droughts and devastation and war, followed by the peace brought by the Capital to the nation, then the rebellion and eventual destruction of District The Hunger Games pit each tribute against each other in the wild-a fight to the death.
The last one standing wins. The winner receives enormous amounts of food and treats even sugar for their district. Each year the Capital sends an official to conduct the Reaping, Effie Trinket. And may the odds be ever in your favor! If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
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