Tessera

want something to happen, that they don’t even realize that something is going on below the surface. For example in The Hunger Games, “say you are poor and starving as we were. You can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person… What would it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where…

12 years old, their names will be entered every year until they are 18. People from District 12 who cannot afford their food, they can add their name more times to exchange the oil and grain. The upper-class people will have less risk of needing tessera of hunger games. People from rich districts have been trained since they were a kid, and their weapons and equipment are much better than the competitors in poor districts. The tributes from the upper class like District 1, 2, 3, have the…

kids are put into the Hunger Games. “You become eligible for reaping the day you turn 12 [...] your name is entered once [...] when your 13 twice, etc. By 18 your name is entered 7 times. But if you’re poor and starving you can put your name in for tessera” (Collins 13). In the book you have to be entered into a drawing to be potentially put into the Hunger Games. Which is essentially a giant killing spree and only one survives. Katniss is entered into the games with another contestant from her…