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Preschool View Sample. Elementary School View Sample. Privacy Policy. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of th I find reading the I have read The Hunger Games book one and I thought that was really good.
I think that this is just as good! The ending for this book really made me w Very uncomfortable. At the same time, this book is very difficult to put down. I was looking for a book to keep my year-old reading This website uses cookies. These are a televised annual event in which the Capitol randomly selects a boy and a girl-known as tributes-between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve districts that comprise Panem, pitting them against each other in a contest to the death from which only one may emerge victorious.
The book is told from the perspective of the female Tribute from District 12, Katniss Everdeen. In the second book of the trilogy-Catching Fire-, once again we follow the story of Katniss Everdeen, now 17 years old, who must deal with the fallout from her act of defiance during the ending of the Hunger Games. The main characters from the trilogy are:. She is a skilled hunter with a bow and often goes off to do so outside the borders of District 12 in order to feed her family, although to do so is illegal.
Her hair is long, dark, and worn in a single braid down her back most of the time; her skin is olive, and her eyes gray.
Her best friend is Gale Hawthorne. She lives with her mother and sister in the Seam, a run-down sector within her district. Peeta is portrayed as charming, a cunning strategist, and selfless. His hair is blonde and his eyes blue, much unlike the other residents of the Seam who are referred to as mostly dark-haired.
Gale is also her constant hunting partner in the woods outside of District He was the victor of the 50th Hunger Games, which occurred 24 years before the events of the first book. Dangerous and cunning, he sleeps with a knife in his hand. He promised to sober up to train Katniss and Peeta for the Hunger Games and helped them get sponsors during the competition.
Manners are important to her as well as keeping a tight schedule, values which she unsuccessfully attempts to pass onto her wards.
She war in charge of picking the Tributes for the 74th Hunger Games, which occur in the first book. Cinna: He is the stylist assigned to Katniss during the Hunger Games as well as her close confidant. He is smart and supportive. His work in the Capitol also includes designing dresses for whichever Tribute is assigned to him and he achieves great success working with Katniss.
President Coriolanus Snow: The leader of Panem for at least 25 years at the beginning of the trilogy.
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