The Hunger Games Book Summary

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The story takes place in the future in a country called Panem. The country has twelve districts, they used to have 13 but the people of district 13 revolted against the Capitol. The Capitol is the place where all the rich people live. Because district 13 revolted, the capitol broke the district and now it doesn’t exist any longer. The Captiol wanted to make sure that something like that never happens again so they came up with a game called The Hunger Games. Each year a boy and a girl of every district will be chosen to fight in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games take place in a special arena. The rules are simple, the last child alive in the arena is the winner of The hunger Games. So yes, children can murder each other. The tributes need
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This relates to the moment when Katniss and Peeta first met. He gave her loaves of bread for free.

7- Describe the character in the book that appealed to you most. Take into account the following:
The character that appealed me the most is Katniss Everdeen. She has straight black hair, an olive skin and grey eyes. She is 16 years old. She has a sweet little sister, a best friend named Gale, a hopeless mother. She is friends with Peeta, he is an insecure but brave boy and Rue. She is a little girl from District 11. She is very smart and nice.
Katniss’ most striking trait is definitely being brave. Her bravest moment in this book is when she volunteers as tribute for the games, to protect her sister. She knows that there’s a high change that she wouldn’t survive it, but she still decided to volunteer. I think that’s really

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