Movie Essay: The Girl On Fire

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“The girl on fire”
Prim is Katniss's sister and she was chosen to be the girl from district 12 in the games but Katniss decides to volunteer as tribute.
Katniss is 16 years old and has long brown hair. She is skinny and knows how to survive.
She is a great hunter and is skilled with a bow and arrow

Peeta is the baker's son and has spent most of his life in the bakery.
Also known as “the boy with the bread” because when he and Katniss were little, he was ordered by his mother to go give their pig some burnt bread but instead gave it to Katniss.
He is the boy tribute chosen from district 12 to go to the hunger games, but he is very doubtful that he will survive until the end.

Panem is What used to be known as North America.
It has a Capitol
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Caesar Flickerman's voice comes over the intercom and says that there will be a feast.
This isn't a food feast. It is backpacks from each district that has something inside that the person from the tribute really needs.
Inside the district 12 backpack is the medicine for Peeta's leg.
Katniss basically drugs Peeta so she can leave out on her own to go get the backpack. She runs across the field to the Cornucopia to grab the backpack and gets grazed by a throwing knife in the forehead.

Thresh comes to save Katniss because she avenged Rue's death. Thresh was from the same district as Rue.
Katniss runs back to the little cave that her and Peeta stay in to treat Peeta.
His leg gets better so he can actually move around and walk on it.
He can now help Katniss gather food and supplies they need to survive.

The theme of this book is to know how to survive. You need to know how to survive in the arena of the Hunger Games. Katniss has to hunt several times in the arena. She also has to gather food. She has to be careful though because some of the berries are very poisonous and can kill you right as soon as they get to your

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