The Hunger Games

        I am currently reading a book called The Hunger Games (for the 15th time!) by Suzanne Collins. This book is about a possible future society of the world where America, now called Panem, has been divided into 13 districts the surround a shining capitol. Each of the 13 districts provide something that the capitol needs. For example, District 1 provides luxury items, District 2- weapons, District 3- tecnology, District 4- seafood, etcetera. All of the districts have peace keepers sent by the capitol to enforce the law harshly. Most of the people who live in the districts are starving, over worked, under payed, and badly treated. After years of living under these conditions, District 13 decided to try to over throw the capitol. The capitol instanly obliterated 13 and, to prevent further uprisings and show how comple their power is, decided to hold an annual Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games, two children, a boy and a girl, between the ages of 12 and 18, are chosen to compete. They have to fight to the death against all lof the other 23 children. Only one comes out, and they are named the victor and live out the rest of their life in luxury. That is, if they don't go insane from the images of all the innocent children they murdered faces who creep into their dreams each night.
        Every child's name goes into the reaping one time each year no matter what. But, if your family is starving, you can sign up for tesserae and get grain once a month by putting your name in the reaping more times than neccessary. Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the book, is 16