Ok, so as I hope you guessed from the word -trilogy- in the title, this is a series of 3 books, first The Hunger Games, second is Catching Fire, and third is Mockingjay written by Suzanne Collins. You may have heard of them by now because they've been 'catching fire' (LOL I made a funny!), and more and more people have been reading them. They're even talking about a movie, though I don't know if it's ever going to happen. I personally think that it's a bad idea. A movie could very easily ruin it if it's rushed into and done in a way to 'cater more towards it's primarily teenaged audience'. PLEASE. Lets not ruin anymore books this way. *cough*percyjackson*cough*
Anyway, about the books -
In place of what we know as North America, there is a country called Panem which is all that is left of humans after they almost killed themselves entirely off. Originally it consisted of 12 districts that encircled the Capitol and are ruled with a brutally iron fist and forced to work to supply the Capital with all the resources that they would need to support their gaudy life styles. Unrest spread, and a revolution broke out in the districts, but the Capitol easily silenced the rebles and completely destroyed the 13th district as an example of their power.
In the years that followed, a thing called the Hunger Games was invented as a PERMANENT reminder of the hold that the Capitol had on its districts. The children of the rebles were forced to fight and kill each other. In these games, two tributes, one male and the other female ages 12-18, are selected from each district and sent to the Capital to fight to the death in an unknown arena. In some districts it is an honor to be chosen, but in most, it is a horror.
74 years after those years of chaos known as the 'Dark Days' Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl volunteers for to be one of District 12's tributes in place of her little sister. Peeta Melark, the baker's son, is also chosen, and together they are whisked off to what will become the longest, and darkest nightmare of their lives. Little do they know, as they fight for their lives, the effects that a single act of self preservation can have on a nation of people starving for justice
and freedom. Anyway, about the books -
In place of what we know as North America, there is a country called Panem which is all that is left of humans after they almost killed themselves entirely off. Originally it consisted of 12 districts that encircled the Capitol and are ruled with a brutally iron fist and forced to work to supply the Capital with all the resources that they would need to support their gaudy life styles. Unrest spread, and a revolution broke out in the districts, but the Capitol easily silenced the rebles and completely destroyed the 13th district as an example of their power.
In the years that followed, a thing called the Hunger Games was invented as a PERMANENT reminder of the hold that the Capitol had on its districts. The children of the rebles were forced to fight and kill each other. In these games, two tributes, one male and the other female ages 12-18, are selected from each district and sent to the Capital to fight to the death in an unknown arena. In some districts it is an honor to be chosen, but in most, it is a horror.
74 years after those years of chaos known as the 'Dark Days' Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl volunteers for to be one of District 12's tributes in place of her little sister. Peeta Melark, the baker's son, is also chosen, and together they are whisked off to what will become the longest, and darkest nightmare of their lives. Little do they know, as they fight for their lives, the effects that a single act of self preservation can have on a nation of people starving for justice
