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The Hunger Games - Chapter Summaries Chapter 1  Katniss Everdeen, 16 the central character tells her story in the first person.  It is the day of the reaping.  Her little sister, Prim (short for Primrose) is asleep in bed with their mother across the room.  She lives in ‘The Seam’ at the edge of District 12, which is enclosed by a high electric fence.  Katniss often illegally crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside, where she hunts with a bow her father made. Hunting and killing meat to survive has ‘hardened’ Katniss as a character.  Her father taught her hunting skills before his death in a mine explosion when she was eleven years old.  Katniss even sells meat to the Peacekeepers who are supposed to enforce the laws. Most people in the district don’t have enough food.  She meets her friend Gale in the woods. They discuss running away, but both are the breadwinners for their families. Katniss is unsure about her feeling for Gale as they seem to be now developing a more romantic relationship.

The Hunger Games - Chapter Summaries Chapter 1  They return from hunting to sell their kill in time for the reaping process.  Katniss explains that, at age twelve, your name is entered into the draw once; at thirteen, it’s entered twice; and so on up until age eighteen. But you can choose to have your name entered again in exchange for a Tessera, a year’s supply of grain and oil for one person. Poor people often need the Tessera to survive, so the children of the poor end up having their names entered numerous times. Katniss, who is sixteen, will have her name in twenty times, and Gale, who is eighteen, will have hits in forty-two times. Katniss’s sister, Prim, is only twelve and has taken no Tessera, so her name is only in once.  Katniss returns home, and after she gets ready, goes with her mother and Prim to the town square. That’s where the reaping, which is televised and treated like a festive event, takes place in their district. In the square, the mayor gives a speech that provides the history of the Hunger Games.  To punish the districts for rebellion, the Capitol holds the Hunger Games, in which a male and female “tribute” aged between twelve and eighteen from each district must fight to the death in a large outdoor arena.

Chapter 1

The Hunger Games - Chapter Summaries Chapter 1  The tribute that survives wins, and that tribute’s district receives extra food.  Haymitch Abernathy, one of only two people from District 12 to win the Hunger Games and the only one still living, comes out on stage. He is drunk and tries to hug Effie Trinket, a public figure who acts as an escort to District 12’s tributes.  Effie Trinket then draws the name of the first tribute: Primrose Everdeen.

The Hunger Games - Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Character Development - Key Points Plot Development – Key Points Key moment in the Chapter.

The Hunger Games - Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: As this is the first chapter in the novel there is a lot of introducing of characters, setting and theme in this chapter. Character Development - Key Points  This really is Katniss’ chapter as she is the central character and the story is told from her point of view. We learn her age, 16; that she is poor and lives with her mother and sister as her dad was killed in an explosion; she hunts to put food on the table and to sell to earn money for the family; she has learned to control her emotions and at times now seems to be hard, even cruel (the cat/the lynx). Her family and survival come first.  We also get briefly introduced to a variety of other characters, Prim, her mother, Haymitch, Effie and most importantly Gale, who she is developing romantic feelings for. Plot Development – Key Points  Hunting to survive, and she is a good hunter, especially with a bow.  Rebellion and the dystopian/repressed society she lives in.  The Hunger Games. Key moment in the Chapter.  The description of Gale as a ‘good hunting partner’  The drawing of Prim’s name