Chapter 1

1. Describe District 12.

District 12 is not the best place to live in it doesn’t have much food and people can starve. Most people there are coal miners. They aren’t the richest so they have to trade goods for goods. District 12 is part of panem. It’s also one of 11 other districts

2. What illegal activity does Katniss participate in doing? Why does she need to do this?

Katniss’s illegal activity that she participates in is hunting. She isn’t the only one she hunts with another person. Katniss has to hunt to bring food to her family. Her father can’t bring them food because he died in a coal mine accident. She has a little sister to feed and her mother has given up so she has to be the tough one.

3. Describe the relationship between Gale and Katniss. Do you have a relationship like this in your own life? Explain.

Katniss and Gale hunt together. They also share the profits of what they can catch. They also kind of act like their own little family. No I don’t have a relationship like this in my life.

4. How is Madge different from Katniss and Gale?

Madge is very different from Katniss and Gale. She is very different because she is the Mayor of District12’s daughter. She is very rich and powerful. She doesn’t have to worry about food or clothes or anything.

5. What is the reaping? Do you think this practice is fair? Explain.

Reaping day is when two people a boy and a girl from districts 1-12 are chosen for the games. The games are to remind them that the capitol has power over everything. They put all of them in an arena to kill each other one by one.

6. Who is selected at the reaping?

Primrose everdeen and Peeta are chosen for the reaping.

Quotes

"District 12 where you can starve to death in safety" pg7

"In the woods waits the only person I can be myself. Gale." pg6

“Our part of district 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners for the morning shift at this hour” pg 4

"Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it’s not me. It's Primrose Everdeen." pg20