The hunger games follows a female character named Katniss Everdeen through her journey of a game called ‘the hunger games.’ The game is a fight-to-the-death tournament against other children.
Kat is lives with her mother and younger sister Prim in district 12 which is the poorest of the districts. the novel starts on the day of the “reaping” where each district mist pick 2 tributes to compete (one being female and one being male) to represent them in the games. when prim is selected as the female tribute, katniss volunteers herself instead of her sister and they accept her offer. along side her from her district fighting is peeta, a middle class boy from district 12.
the remainder of the novel follows the children as they are trained to fight in the brutal game and groomed to portray a certain image for the audience of people who watch the televised games.
when the games begin in an forested are a, katniss rushes away from the excitement of getting materials and develops a strategy. the rest of the novel follows katniss on her journey of the games and killing people from other districts. finally at the end katniss and peeta won the games but the gamesmaker rescind the rule about dual victors.
peeta and katniss threatened to commit dual suicide which would then ruin the games and are hence awarded a dual victory.