The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Author

Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962. Her father was a military officer. She has
three siblings and she was the youngest of the four. Since her father was a military
officer, they moved a lot and spent her childhood in the United States. She graduated
from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her Master of Fine Arts in dramatic
writing.

Collins began her career in 1991. She started writing for children television shows on
Nickelodeon. After meeting children's author James Proimos, she was inspired to write
books herself. She finished the five books in the Underland Chronicles between 2003 to
2007. In September 2008, The Hunger Games was Published. Her inspiration was her
father’s career in the Air Force.

She was awarded a lot of awards too! Such as NAIBA Children's Novel Award in 2004, A
Book List Editor's Choice in 2008, A Horn Book Fanfare, and lots more. She was Famous
for her two series The Under-land Chronicles and The Hunger Games.

Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaption of
The Hunger Games. In 2010, Suzanne Collins was named one of the time
magazines most influential people.
Characters

Katniss Everdeen is a town girl in District Twelve. She has a sister,

Primrose, and a mother. Her father died in the mine accident. Yes, District twelve is the
mining district. Every year there will be a Hunger Games held by the Capitol. After her sister
was reaped to participate in the 74 th Hunger Games. Katniss volunteered to take her place as
the female tribute from District Twelve. She was also nicknamed “star-crossed lovers” with
Peeta Mellark since he confessed that he had liked her since they were kids .

Peeta Mellark, a baker’s son in District Twelve. He is a very people

person and is good with words. He has been in love with Katniss Everdeen since the age of 5
but never confessed his feelings until he was reaped alongside her for the 74 th Hunger
Games.  He and Katniss play out a romance in the arena to get sponsors and manage to both
become victors by tricking the Gamemakers.

Haymitch Abernathy is the only living victor in District Twelve. He

became a mentor for District Twelve’s tributes since then. Although he is a mentor, he is also
an alcoholic. Still, Katniss and Peets survived the Hunger Games.
 Gale Hawthorne was Katniss Everdeen’s best friend and hunting partner. He
kept Katniss’s Family alive while she was in the arena fighting. He is forced to watch her
volunteer for the 74th Hunger Games in the place of her sister and fakes a romance with
Peeta Mellark to stay alive.

Effie Trinket is the escort of the District Twelve tributes and is also an advisor to
the pair. She loves people to have table manners. She appears to be very posh as the capitol
people at the very first but then she realizes the Capitol’s mistakes.

Coriolanus Snow is the president of Panem. He is home is the Capitol

where the idea of Hunger Games was created. He is also the one who willingly continue this
deadly tradition.

Primrose Everdeen, Katniss’s sister who was reaped in the 74 th Hunger Games,
who had a talent for healing, just like her mother.
Summary
This is about the 74th Hunger Games. Each year a pair of tributes, a boy, and a girl, will be
luckily drawn by their escort to join the hunger games. The Hunger Games is created by
the Capitol. This game is to force tributes to kill themselves and the last one alive is the
victor. This game lets everyone knows that with a snap of the Capitol’s finger people
could die or suffer.

This year in District 12, Prim was reaped in the reaping. Katniss, her sister, was afraid she
could die and took her place herself. Peeta was reaped too. Their mentor was the
alcoholic, Haymitch, the person who won one of the Hunger Games by figuring out a
Gamemakers trick.

The Hunger Games started with an opening ceremony. Followed by training and
interviews. Effie their escort helped them with the interviews, Peeta and Katniss worked
hard on their talents, drawing, and shooting with a bow and arrows. And for Haymitch,
being a drunken alcoholic, found the pair tons of sponsors.

At the interview, Peeta confused to the public that he had a crush on Katniss since he
was five. Then the pair were called “star-crossed lovers”. So that is how they survived
the Hunger Games, pretending to be madly in love. They fought with each other, and till
the end, Katniss thought of a clever plan when she called what Peeta said in his mind,”
Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to show that the Capitol they don’t own me.
That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” She thought of a clever idea to
embarrass the Capitol, by eating the poisonous berries at the same time, so there were
no survivors.

As she thought, the Gamemakers announce that there could be two survivors before
they could even swallow the berries and then announcing that Katniss and Peeta won.
They made it back home safely and they now live in the Victors Village with loads of
money.

But there was only a problem they knew they both faked in the Arena to be madly in
love and started up-rises in the Districts. They knew the Capitol hated them. The only
problem was they did not like each other anymore but had to pretend to show the
people that they still loved each other, and it was worth it, so the Capitol will not be
mad. But how long would it last before the people notice it and start another uprising?
My Favorite Character
My favorite character is Katniss Everdeen.

She is brave, ambitious, and cunning. She is brave since she protected her sister from
entering the Hunger Games, and by fighting to be alive. Also, she is cunning of her
idea to embarrass the Gamemakers. By eating the poisonous berries in the Arena
with Peeta so there would be no survivors. She is also ambitious to fight against the
Capitol because it is what she believes. The capitol is so wrong and is harming people
with the Hunger Games. She acts as a rebel to fight the Capitol and risk her life to
make justice and hope to change everyone’s life.

I was struck by how she was required to look pretty and act charming so she could
gain sympathy, and how she was forced into becoming a symbol while simply trying
to survive. Despite all the pressure and difficulties she faced, she never once willingly
gave up her independence. That was not always a good thing, as she often shut
herself down emotionally and dismissed the people trying to help her. But it also
made her more than just an empowered and trusting character. It made her human,
real and alive, which is not something female characters get to be in fiction.

I learnt from her that if you believe, then go for it. Because nobody is here to stop
you. And think about consequences before you act. Also, to be prepared because
anything can happen to you any moment whether it is good or not.