![]() ![]() ![]() After, Katniss remembers the first time she met Peeta. To save her sister, Katniss volunteers to take Prim’s place. Katniss is a proficient hunter with a host of survival skills learned from her father and her friend Gale, which she uses to provide for her family.Īt the reaping, Peeta, a boy Katniss’s age, is selected. Since then, her mother has been despondent and neglectful. Her father died five years ago in an explosion at the coal mine. Katniss reflects on her role in her family. The book begins with Katniss and her younger sister Prim preparing for the reaping, the ceremony in which tributes are chosen. The districts suffer from poverty and oppression made worse by the fact that every year, two “tributes” from each district must fight to the death in the Hunger Games. Protagonist and first-person narrator Katniss Everdeen is from District 12, which supplies the coal that powers the nation. ![]() The story takes place in Panem, a postapocalyptic America divided into districts that are controlled by the Capitol. ![]()
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