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A summary of Chapters 1–3 in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Hunger Games and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Trespassing in the woods is illegal, and poaching is punishable by death, but most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye because they enjoy the fresh meat that comes out of hunting. More people would venture in the woods if they had proper weapons, but most have only a knife. Katniss’s father crafted her bow and arrows.
Haymitch Abernathy, District 12's only living Hunger Games winner, arrives late, staggers drunk onto the stage, and gives Effie Trinket a hug. She shakes him off, and it's time for the drawing. Effie reaches into a glass bowl full of slips of paper and pulls out the name of the female tribute: Primrose Everdeen.
CHAPTER ONE (START OF PART ONE) The narrator and protagonist of The Hunger Games, a 16 year old girl named Katniss Everdeen, wakes up to find her little sister Prim has left the bed they share and curled up next to their mother. Katniss understands – it is the "day of the reaping," the first stage of the horrific Hunger Games that she will ...
Chapter 1. The day of “the reaping” is when warriors called “tributes” are drawn for the annual Hunger Games. In the Games, teenaged boys and girls fight to the death to benefit their home districts in the dystopian, hunger-stricken nation of Panem. Effie draws Prim Everdeen’s name to be the girl tribute in a televised gathering.
Gale and Katniss move to the lake to fish. By the end of the day, they have a huge haul of food: fish, greens, and strawberries. The two go to the Hob, the black market, to sell or trade some of their goods. Half the strawberries are taken to the mayor's house to sell. There they meet Madge, the mayor's daughter, done up in a pretty dress for ...
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Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary. Panem is an future dystopic version of the United States, where the Capitol rules over 12 districts. There was once a District 13, but its failed rebellion led to its obliteration and the institution of a cruel means of asserting dominance—the Hunger Games. Every year, the Capitol randomly selects, or “reaps ...
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