The Hunger Games

By:Suzanne Collins

Raphael Guieb

Reading- Miss Roche

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May 6, 2012

Author Biography

My author’s name is Suzzane Collins. She was born August 10, 1962. Her family has many people who have served in the army. She currently is 47 years old, lives in Connecticut, is married, and has two children. At first, she wrote children’s television shows. The Hunger Games trilogy has changed her life and became very popular the year it came out. Another series she has written are The Underland Chronicles. She is well known for being a creative, descriptive, and innovative writer.

http://suzannecollins.org/biography/

SummaryThe Hunger Games is about a young teen, Katniss

Everdeen, whose life is changed in such short time. Katniss has helped her family survive thought starvation with her bestfriend, Gale, who is a lot of help to her. The country she lives in forces two people from each of the twelve districts to go into a battlefield and fight to the death. Unfortunately, her younger sister, Primrose, was chosen which lead to Katniss volunteering to take her place. The other person who is chosen to go with her is Peeta Mellark, a boy who does not have any experience in battle but is very strong. The games begin and are very cruel. Many have made allies and enemies. Who will win you ask? Read the book and find out.

CharactersMain Characters

• Katniss Everdeen- a brave, fearless, tough, independent, and caring young teen. She is a great hunter and is courageous in time of need.

• Peeta Mellark- a stong,fearless boy who loves Katniss but tries not to show it.

• Rue- a young, independent, and stealthy girl who form an alliance with Katniss

Supporting Characters

• Haymitch Abernathy- an alcoholic but serious in time of need. He is Katniss and Peeta’s advisor.

• Cinna – He is Katniss’s dresser who grows to be a good friend with Katniss. He gives Katniss very good advise along the way.

Plot• INTRODUCTION

- Meet Katniss and Prim

- Setting Panem

• Rising Action

-Katniss and Prim go to the Reapings and Prim gets chosen as tribute to fight to the death.

-Katniss volunteers for Prim

-Peeta Mellark is chosen as the other tribute

-Katniss and Peeta train with Haymitch, their advisor.

-Katniss gets her score and it is an eleven

-The Games begin and Katniss grabs a backpack with a sleeping bag and an empty water bottle

-Katniss sleeps in a tree for a few nights

-Katniss sees that Peeta has made an alliance with other tributes.

-Katniss cuts a nest a hive off a tree and they sting Peeta and his allies.

-Katniss forms an alliance with Rue, another tribute

-Katniss and her become friends.

-Katniss sabotages Peeta and his alliies fort.

Plot Continued- Katniss kills some of the people against her

-Peeta’s allies betrayed him and left him injured

Climax

-The capitol tells that people in the same district were able to team up

• Falling Action

-Katniss finds Peeta and they team up

-Katniss tends to Peeta’s wounds

-They together kill other tributes

-They camp in a cave to heal

-They build a friendship surviving together.

-They kill the last tribute

• Conclusion

-They get the news that only now one tribute could survive and they decide to kill themselves but the announcer takes back what he said.

-They say their goodbyes to the people that helped them.

Vocabulary1.Acquisition- the learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality

“Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food.” page 311.

2.Grotesque- comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

“Most of the stylists they interview on television are so dyed, stenciled, and surgically altered they’re grotesque.” page 63

3. dissipate-disperse or scatter.

“ I’ve had about him dissipate because if either of us took the other’s life now we’d be pariahs when we returned to District 12.” page 247

4.pariahs- an outcast

“I’ve had about him dissipate because if either of us took the other’s life now we’d be pariahs when we returned to District 12.” page 247

5.tesserae-a token worth one year supply of grain for one person

“Prim is not to take any tesserae” page 34

Starring Actors

Katniss Everdeen as

Alexandra Daddario

Starring Actors

Cinna as

Will Smith Haymitch asRobert Downey Jr.

Starring Actors

Peeta as

Lucas Till

Soundtrack TunesA scene when Prim is chosen as tribute and Katniss volunteers for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAMpQId5QI

RatingI gave the Hunger Games a rating of

4 out of 5 stars

I very much enjoyed the book becuause it was so full of action. It always made you wonder what would happen next and just draw you in. Sometimes the book could be slow but the action packed parts made up for it. I recommend this book to people that like action and suspense filled books