1. The Hunger Games
By: Suzanne Collins
Michael Trubshaw
Reading - Miss Roche
Period 5
5/11/12

2. Suzanne Collins:
Biography - The Early Years
Biography - The Early Years
• Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in
Hartford Connecticut. She had to move several
times because her dad was in the Air Force. She
went to high school at the Alabama School of Fine
Arts. She was a theater arts major. She went to
college at Indiana University and received a double
major in drama and telecommunications.
www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/

3. Suzanne Collins: Biography -
Adult Years she wrote for many
• After Suzanne graduated from college,
children’s television shows on Nickelodeon. She wrote for
the following shows : Clarissa Explains it All, The Mystery
Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. As a writer for
PBS Kids she helped write Clifford’s Puppy Days. One day
while thinking about Alice in Wonderland, she thought that
you were more likely to fall in a man hole than a rabbit hole.
So she based her first book series on that idea and called it
The Underland Chronicles. The idea for the Hunger Games
came to her while watching a kid’s reality TV show and
thinking about war. So far the Hunger Games book series is
her most successful to date.

4. Summary
• In post - apocalyptic America, 12 districts are ruled by The
Capitol. Each year each district sends one boy tribute and
one girl tribute to the Hunger Games, where the
competitors battle to their death, leaving only one survivor.
Katniss Everdeen is a 16 year old girl who lives in district 12.
Her 12 year old Sister Prim is picked for the Hunger Games.
Because Katniss is afraid that her sister may die, she
volunteered to take her place as tribute. Now alongside the
district 12 boy tribute, Peeta Melark, she must learn how to
survive this horrendous competition. She must know who to
trust and who not to trust. She must have the will and the
strength to survive.

5. • Main characters:
Characters
1. Katniss Everdeen: The main character of the book, Katniss lives in district 12. She has long
brown hair and gray eyes. Her father died in a mine explosion. She is 16 years old and takes
care of her mom and sister Prim. Prim was picked for the Hunger Games but Katniss went in
her place, so Prim wouldn't die.
2. Peeta Melark: Also a citizen of district 12. He is the baker’s son and is picked as the
boy tribute of district 12. Peeta is the same age as Katniss and has blond hair and blue eyes.
3. Gale
Hawthorne: Katniss’s best friend in district 12. He is 18 years old, and he is Katniss’s hunting
buddy in district 12.
• Other characters
1.Prim Everdeen: The 12 year old sister of Katniss Everdeen, she is sweet and innocent.
2. Effie Trinket: A
very important person at the Hunger Games. She helps train the tributes from district 12 for
the Hunger Games. She lives in Capitol City.
3. Haymitch: The first person to ever win the
hunger games in district 12. He is a drunk, but stays sober so he can help train Katniss and
Peeta. 4. Cinna: Katniss’s dark skinned
stylist, who not only prepares her for the Hunger Games but helps to comfort her in the
process. 5. Rue:
The girl tribute from district 11. She is 12 years old and she has brown hair and dark skin. In
the Hunger Games, she makes an alliance with Katniss to defeat the other tributes.
6. Caesar Flickerman: The person who
has been doing the interviews for the Hunger Games for the last 40 years.

6. • Introduction
PLOT
- The 74th Annual Hunger Games
- - Setting - the ruins of North America now known as Panem
• Rising Action
- The Reaping - the day the tributes are chosen.
- Prim is chosen as tribute in district 12.
- Katniss takes her place as tribute in the
Hunger Games. - Peeta Melark
is chosen as the boy tribute in district12. - Katniss and
Peeta board a train to Capitol.
- Haymich and Effie accompany them on their journey
- Katniss meets her stylist Cinna who helps refresh her for her interviews.
- Katniss and Peeta train for their interviews.
-
Katniss shoots an arrow at the game makers because they do not pay attention to her
performance. She fears this will cause a low score, but she get 11 out of 12.
-They have their interviews with Ceasar Flickerman.
- They begin to train for the Hunger Games.
- Cinna helps dress Katniss for the games.

7. • Climax Plot (continued)
-The Hunger Games begin.
• Falling action
- The bloodbath at the Cornucopia.
- Katniss gets to the forest safely and set up camp in the forest.
- A fire set by gamemakers flares up through the forest
- Katniss is severely burned by he fire.
- She hides in the trees once again.
- Katniss meets Rue.
- Katniss drops a tracker
jacker nest on a group of career tributes that are hunting her. Two of the girl tributes are killed
by the venomous stings of the tracker jackers. - Katniss finally gets the
bow and arrow that she was unable to get at the Cornucopia.
- Katniss makes an alliance with Rue to defeat the career tributes.
- Katniss and Rue devise a plan to destroy the supplies the
career tributes had hidden in their camp.
- Katniss uses her bow and arrows to explode the land
mines that protected the supplies.
- Katniss loses her hearing in one ear after the explosions.
- Katniss searches for Rue.
- Katniss find Rue, she is dying from a spear wound in
her chest. Katniss kills the boy who did this to Rue.
- Rue’s last wish is that Katniss sings her a lullaby as she
dies.

8. Plot (continued)
• Falling Action (continued)
- A new rule was made; if two people from the same district are still both
alive, they can both win the Hunger Games if they are the last two
surviving contestants.
- Katniss finds Peeta and treats his wounds.
- Three people die leaving only Katniss, Peeta and Cato to finish
the game. -Cato is near death after being attacked by mutated tributes
that are now wolves.
- Katniss kills Cato.
• - Conclusion
- The rule is revoked that two players from the same district
can not win. - Katniss and
Peeta pretend that they are going to eat poisonous berries. - So that
there will be winners in the Hunger Games, they allow both Katniss and
Peeta to win.

9. New Vocabulary
1) paraffin-a flammable, whitish, translucent, waxy solid consisting of saturated
hydrocarbons, obtained by distillation from petroleum or shale and used in
candles, cosmetics, polishes and sealing and waterproofing compounds.
“Greasy Sae, the boney old woman that takes half of the greens off our hands for a
couple chunks of paraffin.” P. 11
2) strewn - v. -scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area.
“Strewn around the Cornucopia are other supplies, their value decreasing in
value the farther away they are from the horn.” P. 148
3) underrate - v. underestimate the extent , value, or importance of someone or
something.
“Don’t underrate yourself says Peeta” P. 89
4) coaxing - v. - persuade (someone) gradually or by flattery to do something.
“ Getting the broth into Peeta takes an hour of coaxing, begging, threatening
and yes, kissing”. P.262
5) yearling - n. an animal ( esp. sheep, calf or foal) a year old, or in its second year.
“A young buck, probably a yearling by his size.” P. 269
6) revoked - v. -put an end to the validity or operation of (a decree, decision, or
promise) .
“The earlier revision has been revoked.” P. 342

10. STARRING ACTORS:
Katniss Everdeen played by: Kristen Stewart
Peeta Melark played by: Zac Efron

11. STARRING ACTORS:
Gale Hawthorne played by: Sterling Knight
Prim Everdeen played by: Ella Fanning

12. STARRING ACTORS:
Effie Trinket played by: Katy Perry
Haymitch played by: Johnny Depp

13. STARRING ACTORS:
Cinna played by: Will Smith
Rue played by: Willow Smith

14. STARRING ACTORS:
Ceasar Flickerman played by: Orlando Bloom

15. Eye of the Tiger
SOUND TRACK Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance
Now I'm back on my feet
Album: Eye of the Tiger
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times, it happens too fast
by Survivor
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive
[Chorus]
Scene: Katniss has escaped from It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge
the blood bath in the Of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
Cornucopia, while attempting to And he's watching us all with the
Eye of the tiger
gather supplies for her survival Face to face, out in the heat
Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry
They stack the odds
during the Hunger Games. She Still we take to the street
For the kill with the skill to survive
secretly hides out in the trees [Chorus]
Risin' up straight to the top
to survive the night. Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance
Now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive
Written by: [Chorus]
Frank Sullivan & Jim Peterik The
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tiger
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The eye of the tiger

16. Ratings:
I gave The Hunger Games a rating of
Five out of Five Stars
I thought the book was very intense. Suzanne Collins has written a book about post
apocalyptic America and how people had to struggle to survive without basic human rights.
The story takes place in a country called Panem, which used to be North America. This
new country is brutal and unforgiving. Young people between the ages of 12 and 18 are
forced to participate in the Hunger Games. This televised event is a fight to the death, with
only one survivor. I thought Suzanne Collins portrayed the main characters with humanity.
I felt sadness over the choices they had to make. Her description of life and death in Panem
was very real and I felt like I was there watching everything happen right in front of my
eyes.
I loved the book, I could not put it down. I am very anxious to read the next two books in
the series.