(In other districts, wealthier ones, children are raised for the opportunity to participate in the Games. Those who are well-to-do have fewer entries, with some only responsible for one entry. The entries compound each year, so there are children with dozens of entries in the mix. Thus, the poorer you are the more likely it is that you have dozens of entries in the mix.
Families can buy more food and supplies for the year if they purchase additional entries into the games.
The competitors are chosen via a lottery system. Each district is required to supply one male and one female child between the ages of 12 and 18 for the annual event. The Hunger Games are a like a combination of American Idol and Survivor, with Roman gladiator games tossed into the mix. Their trump card is the annual Hunger Games, which are held to ensure that no district makes an attempt at a rebellion or uprising.
The capital is bent on reminding the districts who is boss and does this by withholding food, supplies, and other necessities. Starvation is a way of life and ever since Katniss’ father died in a mining accident, she has been in charge of caring for her mother and 12 year old sister, Prim. District 12 is in charge of mining coal and as the last district they are exceedingly poor. The closer you are to the Capital, the better off your district is. Katniss lives in District 12, the last district, in what we call as the Appalachian Mountains. The capital of this new nation, Panem, is in the Rocky Mountains and the remaining districts (1-12) are spread in descending order throughout the continent.
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Now you can read the book on Windows Phone for free!In a future world, North America as we know it has been destroyed and the continent is now divided into 12 regions. New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games, Book 1 of The Hunger Games Trilogy.
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