The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
Would you be willing to
compete in a live
televised reality show
in which the winner is
showered with gifts
such as…
…a new home,
money for life,
and a career
mentoring new
opponents each
year?
But if you LOSE…
You pay with
your LIFE.
Still want to
play?
What if you didn’t
have a choice?
Sixteen-year old Katniss Everdeen
finds herself in a no-win situation:
Save her loved ones and
lose her own life…
Or save herself, at their expense.
Wrtier was inspired
to write The Hunger
Games after she had
been channel surfing
between watching live
coverage of the Iraq
war and a reality TV
show .
She was also influenced by
mythology, especially the
story of Theseus and the
Minotaur.
Roman gladiator battles
as entertainment for the
masses contributed, as well.
The Setting
The story is set many, many years in the future.
The country (in which Katniss lives) is located in
the former North America after natural disasters
and the oceans “swallowed up” much of the
land.
This new country is called Panem.
The Setting: Panem
Panem consists of 12 districts
surrounding the Capitol City.
Note: The location of each district and outline of
Panem is purely speculation.
Capitol
City
The Districts
(smaller red dots)
The districts are
a dystopian
society and
government.
The Capitol is a
utopian city.
Dystopia is a fictional society
characterized by human misery,
oppression, disease, and
overcrowding. The government is
usually totalitarian: one that
exercises control over the freedom,
will, or thought of others.
Utopia is an imaginary place that
is ideally perfect: free from poverty
and suffering.
As punishment for
the rebellion
against the
Capitol, the district
citizens are forced
into a life of
poverty,
starvation, and
hard labor…
To further repress the district citizens, the
Capitol required all children aged 12-18 to
enter their names into a lottery or reaping
to see who will compete in the annual
Hunger Games competition.
Each year in the Hunger Games,
twenty-four district
children enter the arena to
fight to the death.
Only one will survive
and be crowned the victor.
The Capitol forces all citizens to watch
The Hunger Games competition
on live TV. It was created by the Capitol to
remind the district citizens of their past
wrongs.
Watching their children die is
the district citizens’
repentance for the rebellion.
Every district
child aged
12 to 18
MUST
enter their name
into the reaping.
If, however, they wanted food for
themselves and their families, they
could sign up for tesserae
(which provided grain and oil for one
person for a year).
The catch?
Their names would be entered into the
reaping multiple times for each
family member who needs food.
District 1
• Its industry is making
luxury items for the
Capitol. Due to the
nature of its industry, it's
considered the
wealthiest district, the
only other wealthier
area being the Capitol
itself. It is a Career
District.
District 2
• District 2's seal depicts
a block of stone and
carving tools. The
district's public
presentation is that of
stone quarries, but it
also manufactures
weaponry, makes
trains, and supplies
Peacekeepers.
District 3
• District 3's primary
industry is general
electronics of many
types, though it is
known for also
making various
mechanical products
such as automobiles
and firearms
District 4
• District 4's industry
is fishing, thus most
residents have
experience using
nets and tridents,
making fishhooks
from scratch,
swimming, and
identifying edible
sea life.
District 5
• This district's
industry is power.
• Nuclear, electric,
and using coal to
make energy.
District 6
• This district's
industry is
transportation.
District 7
• District 7's industry
is lumber and many
of its residents have
experience with
hatchets, axes,
saws, and other tree
cutting tools.
District 8
• District 8's industry
is the production of
textiles, and they
have at least one
factory that is
primarily used for
making
Peacekeeper
uniforms.
District 9
• District 9 is the least
heard about District.
District 9's industry
is grain. Little is
known about this
district, just that
there are lots of
farmland for Grain.
District 10
• Livestock is District
10's industry. All the
meat and cattle is
raised in this district.
Ranchers and
Butchers are the
main occupation of
this district.
District 11
• District 11's industry is
agriculture - orchards
and fields of grain and
cotton surround the
district. Almost
everything grown is
shipped directly to the
Capitol. It is one of the
poorest districts in
Panem, second only to
District 12.
District 12
• District 12's seal depicts
a block of stone and
carving tools. The
district's public
presentation is that of
stone quarries, but it
also manufactures
weaponry, makes
trains, and supplies
Peacekeepers.
Your Speech
• You will be given a random district. And a
random job in that district.
• You will attempt to persuade me that your
job in your district is so important that you
cannot be sent to the hunger games.
Happy Hunger
Games
May the odds be ever in your favor…