The scoring for The Hunger Games is the time where the participants show off what they can do, in order to try to impress the judges, or the sponsors. One participant, Katniss Everdeen, shows up for the scoring. She uses the bow and arrow to impress the judges, but on her first shot, she misses the target completely. She is very mad, and the judges are all laughing at her and they stop paying attention to her. She then shoots again and hits the target directly in the middle, but no one is looking because they are still laughing at her. She is even more upset because they weren’t paying attention. She then proceeds to turn to the judges, and notices an apple in a roasted pig’s mouth. She pulls back the bow and releases and it hits an apple in
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The Hunger Games was published by Scholastic Corporation. The book is about a dystopian society where every year, this country has two people (one male, one female) per district that they choose to enter a competition. The two per district fight in a battle to the death until there is only one standing. The book is about the struggles with the battle and the life surrounding it. The main characters are: Katniss Everdeen, who the book follows, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne, and President Snow, who resides over the entire thing. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem, in the ruins of North America. This book has also been transformed into a movie, and it also has two other sequels, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, both of which are movies as …show more content…
The country is split up into 12 districts, and district 1 is the richest and district 12 is the poorest. Katniss’ family is in the 12th district. Katniss’ sister gets picked for it, but she volunteers in place of her younger sister. The other person that is picked is Peeta Mallark, the male main character in this book. Then after several minor events comes the scoring where the judges/sponsors decide on whether or not they want to help that participant during the Games. During the games Katniss forms a friendship with a girl named Rue and Peeta, who is from her district. Rue ends up getting speared to death, and she covers her in flowers. This ends up sparing her life when another guy, who was from Rue’s district, saves Katniss. During the games Katniss and Peeta have to play up their romantics in order to get more help from other people like the sponsors. Their “love” is what ends up keeping the two of them alive throughout the entire
The Hunger Games was published by Scholastic Corporation. The book is about a dystopian society where every year, this country has two people (one male, one female) per district that they choose to enter a competition. The two per district fight in a battle to the death until there is only one standing. The book is about the struggles with the battle and the life surrounding it. The main characters are: Katniss Everdeen, who the book follows, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne, and President Snow, who resides over the entire thing. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem, in the ruins of North America. This book has also been transformed into a movie, and it also has two other sequels, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, both of which are movies as …show more content…
The country is split up into 12 districts, and district 1 is the richest and district 12 is the poorest. Katniss’ family is in the 12th district. Katniss’ sister gets picked for it, but she volunteers in place of her younger sister. The other person that is picked is Peeta Mallark, the male main character in this book. Then after several minor events comes the scoring where the judges/sponsors decide on whether or not they want to help that participant during the Games. During the games Katniss forms a friendship with a girl named Rue and Peeta, who is from her district. Rue ends up getting speared to death, and she covers her in flowers. This ends up sparing her life when another guy, who was from Rue’s district, saves Katniss. During the games Katniss and Peeta have to play up their romantics in order to get more help from other people like the sponsors. Their “love” is what ends up keeping the two of them alive throughout the entire