Reading Response 2: Hunger Games

            With everything I’m involved in, I don’t have very much time to just pick up a book. However, I have been able to pick up and read the Hunger Games a little bit here and there. I read the book a couple years ago, which makes it easier to read and makes things go faster.

            The plot of the story is in future America. America is split into 12 districts with each district doing a different job of production. There is also the capitol, where the president and rich people live. Every year, a handful the capitol come to each district and draw the names of one boy and one girl under the age of 18 (this is called reaping). The two are sent into a game where they fight for their lives against 22 other kids from the other 11 districts.

            Prim Everdeen and Peta Mellark are the two names picked out of a hat. Suddenly, when Prim’s name is called, her older sister, Katniss, steps in and volunteers to take her spot. District twelve put three fingers in the air as a sign of respect to Katniss. Katniss and Peta are then taken for preparation of the games.

            Peta and Katniss knew each other, but had never really talked. This had to change in order for them to work together in the games. Katniss had remembered a time when they were younger, “The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction. The second quickly followed, and he sloshed back to the bakery, closing the kitchen door tightly behind him” this memory of Katniss’ really explains how scarce the food is in district twelve. (So far, this is as much as I’ve read)



The picture I have chosen is America in the day of the Hunger games. It is divided into twelve districts and the districts are labeled.