How Does Panem Help In The Hunger Games

Panem is the fictional world in which the action/adventure book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is set in. In Panem, The Hunger Games are a very big deal. the Hunger Games represent the war that the Panem districts had. Now as a symbol to never go to war again, when a child needed extra rations of food, their name would be added once more into the jar where at the end each year every district will pull out two names to go into the Hunger Games. This particular year, Katniss’ little sister Prim, is mandatory that she is in the games. Katniss decided to volunteer for her sister, so now she is forced to go through training for the games, where she later meets a boy from her district named Peeta and forms an alliance with him in order to survive. After hunting for a while with her close friend Gale in District Twelve, Katniss comes home in order to get prepared for the reaping, which is when two tributes are chosen to go into The Hunger Games. When she gets to the reaping, she finds that Prim has been chosen. Katniss decides to volunteer for her. When she volunteers she also discovers that a boy in her district named Peeta who had saved her family from starving at one point, also was chosen to …show more content…
After a few rounds of tributes being killed, Katniss finds out that it's only her, Peeta and one other tribute who are still alive. Katniss and Peeta work together to defeat the last tribute. Knowing that only one tribute can survive, both Peeta and Katniss agreed to eat poisonous berries so neither of them would survive. Not wanting to lose power and their new ‘celebrities’, the Capitol decides for the first time in history to let two tributes survive. After having being trained and getting mentally prepared, Katniss along with her new friend Peeta survived the hunger