My book starts off with a girl whose name is Katniss Evergreen, and she lives in what is called “District 12.” I am not exactly sure how many Districts there are or why they are fenced in by electric wires. There is also this thing they call the “Reaping.” In the book Katniss says “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.” Based on that quote I assume the reaping is some kind of human sacrifice, but not too sure yet.
The narrator is Katniss; she has a mother who is what they call a “healer,” which is basically just a doctor in reality. She has younger sister, Prim, who is a baker and loves to spend time with her mother. Katniss on the other hand is the hunter and gatherer. She seems to know what she is doing because she was taught by her father, who died five years ago from coal mining. District 12 is a an area where you are not supposed to be let out of, they have electrical wiring around the whole area so no one can get out. But Katniss crawls underneath a portion of it to hunt and bring food home so they can survive, as their District is very poor. I have only read through the first 43 pages of this book already but I am very interested in learning what the “Reaping” is about and why they call the book a game!
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