The Hunger Games Booktalk

Collins , S. (2008). The hunger games. New York, NY: Scholastic Press.

  

How far would you go to save a loved one if they were being faced with death?  Would you be willing to sacrifice your own life to save a loved one?  This was the question that Katniss Everdeen was faced  with in the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  Katniss lives in Panem, in the ruins of what was once North America after a terrible apocalypse.   The Capitol rules Panem.  The Capitol is the area full of the wealthiest and most privileged people, and in order to keep their power the other citizens of Panem must participate in the Hunger Games.  Each of the 12 districts in Panem send one boy and one girl to fight to the death in the hunger games.  Twenty-four young men and women fight, and only one can come out alive.  When Katniss Everdeen’s younger sister was selected to fight in the hunger games, Katniss sacrificed herself to fight in place of her sister.  Read The Hunger Games to find out if Katniss was able to survived the games or if she lost her life to save her sisters.