Essay on Theme of 'The Hunger Games' Catching Fire

“The Hunger Games series displays a thrilling storyline filled with pure socialness, vulgar language, mental toughness, and the sacrifices some families have to make to survive.

Why did the Hunger Games start? The games started to provide entertainment and to remind the people who were in charge, that the Capitol.

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The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised Battle royal to the death.

In preparation for the games, there is an event called the reaping where one boy and girl called tributes aged from 12-18 are chosen from each of the 12 districts. In this year's reaping katniss, Everdeen's sister Prim is chosen to compete in the games, however, Katniss volunteers in place of her sister. How would someone become a tribute? You become eligible for the reaping the day you turn twelve. That year, your name is entered once. At thirteen, twice. And so on and so on until you reach the age of eighteen, the final year of eligibility, when your name goes into the pool seven times. That is true for every citizen in all twelve districts in the entire country of Panem.

But here is the catch. 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. You may do this for each of your family members as well. So, at the age of twelve, she had her name entered four times. Once, because she had to, and three times for tesserae for grain, and oil for herself, Prim, and my mother. Every year she needed to do this. And the entries are cumulative. So now, at the age of sixteen, her name will be in the reaping twenty times.

After picking the tributes, all 24 of them are assigned a personal stylist to have them dressed and ready for any events leading up to the start of The Hunger Games.

In the midst of all this, the government and or capitol is busy picking the arena. Then there are the game makers, They design the arenas and determine the obstacles unique to each Hunger Games. Before the Games, the Gamemakers spend time observing the tributes during training and assign each tribute a skill ranking of one to 12, to help establish odds for betting and create a rooting interest in certain tributes. The Gamemakers also track the location of each tribute during the Games with the use of a device implanted in the skin. This allows them to create events that will force tributes together if the action slows down.

When the games are only days from starting many citizens of Panem start placing bets on who they think is going to win the competition. Many of the competitors in the games receive sponsors. Sponsors can send a variety of different items. Food, and medicine to the tribute that they chose to sponsor. A Lot of the time some competitors will form alliances with other players, but you see that when times get rough during the game those alliances don't always stick, But the bond that Katniss and Peeta who is the male tribute from the 12th district have created, as well as them allying not to kill one another no matter what is very important and key to their survival in the games.

Finally, the time comes. From a small underground room, Katniss is lifted into the arena and the Games officially begin. All the tributes are there, and in front of her is the Cornucopia, which houses an abundance of supplies. Rather than fight, she runs away. She hikes all day before making camp. After dark, someone starts a fire nearby, and it isn’t long before a pack of Career Tributes arrives and kills the person. To Katniss’s shock, Peeta is with them. The next day Katniss goes in search of water. She walks for hours and collapses from exhaustion, but ultimately she finds a stream. She’s woken in the night by a wall of fire moving in her direction, and as she runs away one of the numerous fireballs falling around her grazes her leg, injuring it.

That night, while she hides in a tree from the pack of Careers below, she notices a young girl named Rue from District 11 in a nearby tree. Rue points out a nest of tracker jackers, wasps engineered by the Capitol to be lethal, over Katniss’s head, and Katniss cuts the branch holding the nest, dropping it onto the Careers. Two of them die from the stings and the rest scatter. Katniss is stung a few times as well, but as she’s running away, she remembers one of the girls who died had a bow and arrows, the weapons she’s become proficient with from hunting. She runs back to retrieve them, and Peeta happens to arrive as she’s grabbing the bow. He yells at Katniss to run just as Cato, a very large and dangerous Career from District 2, shows up. Peeta stops him so Katniss can escape, and she passes out in a ditch shortly after.

Katniss encounters Rue again, and the two quickly form a bond. They can get food hunting and foraging, and Katniss realizes that the Careers would have difficulty surviving without the supplies at the Cornucopia, so she and Rue devise a plan. While Rue lights decoy fires, Katniss sneaks up to the Cornucopia. The supplies are in a pyramid away from the main camp, and after the Carers leave to investigate the fires, Katniss manages to blow up the supplies by cutting open a bag of apples with her arrows, which sets off the mines set to protect the pyramid. When Katniss doesn’t find Rue at their meeting spot, she goes looking for her and finds her just as another tribute stabs her with a spear. Katniss kills the other tribute, and when Rue dies, she covers her body in flowers.

Katniss is depressed all the next day until an announcement is made that there has been a rule change: Now, two tributes from the same district can be declared winners. Katniss goes looking for Peeta, and it takes her a day but finally, she finds him. He’s severely injured from his fight with Cato and can barely walk, but Katniss helps him to a cave where they’ll be hidden. Thinking Peeta may die, Katniss kisses him impulsively. A moment later she hears a noise outside and finds a pot of broth that was sent from Haymitch. She realizes that Haymitch will reward her for playing up the romance between her and Peeta, so that's what she does. The next morning Katniss sees that “Peeta’s leg is badly infected and he’ll die soon without treatment. Another announcement is made, this time saying each tribute will find an item they desperately need at the Cornucopia. Katniss knows that means medicine for Peeta’s leg, but Peeta thinks it’s too dangerous and doesn’t want Katniss to go. Using the sleep syrup sent from Haymitch, Katniss gives it to Peeta in return it knocks him out. She then takes off to go and retrieve medicine for him. While on her way to retrieve the medicine she runs into some of the some of the other competitors. The main one is Clove who starts talking about Rue's death which upsets Katniss, but then suddenly district 11’s tribute kills Clove sparing Katniss’s life. She returns with the medics and administers it to Peeta which saves his leg. At this point, another cannon shot goes off indicating another competitor has died and now there are only three left. The only people left are katniss, peeta, and Cato. The crane unleashes genetically modified beasts. They kill, Thresh, and force Katniss, Peeta, and Cato onto the Cornucopia's roof. There, the last survivors must fight to a stalemate. Cato gets Peeta in a headlock and uses him as a human shield against Katniss's bow. Peeta directs Katniss to shoot Cato's hand, enabling Peeta to throw him to the beasts below. As Cato is torn apart, Katniss kills him with an arrow in an act of mercy rather than leaving Cato to suffer a more horrific death. And at this moment there were 2 victors because of the rule change allowing two people to be co-victors. Throughout this experience, they have to learn how to survive with what they have.