The Hunger Games is a junior novel written by Suzanne Collins.It was published in 2008. This novel is the first part of her trilogy which following parts are catching fire and mockingjay. One of the most prevalent themes in The Hunger Games is survival and keeping your humanity and dignity as you try to survive. The book is about a 16-years-old Katniss Everdeen who lives in a state called Panem, in district twelve.

The hunger games is an annual event where each of the districts is selected by one girl and one boy. The selected 24 tributes will fight for their lives until death and the winner is the only survivor.

The main characters are Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 with her sister Primrose Everdeen and her mother, Gale who is Katniss’s bestfriend and her hunting partner, Peeta who is a baker’s son of district 12 and the one of the 24 tribute of the hunger games but he also loves Katniss.Then there is Rue who is form district 11 and becomes Katniss’s ally during the hunger games. There are other crucial characters too but they don’t make much difference.

The plot shortly. There is a reaping where the tributes are selected. The girl tribute of the district 12 is Primrose Everedeen but because she is Katniss’s 12-year-old little sister Katniss volunteer. It is a shock for Prim and their mom but Katniss promises that she will do anything to win the game. The other tribute of district 12 is Peeta Mellark. After they leave the district 12 to Capitol they practice for example the use of weapons and other survivor skills they will require. And then the game begins. All of the 24 tributes stand on a beam where they have to wait 60 seconds and after that everybody runs to the weapons and then in to the woods. Every time when someone dies there is a cannon shot. Some of the tributes make crowds so they don’t get killed so easily. At first Katniss is alone until she ally with Rue. When Rue dies there is a new rule which is that both tributes from the same district can be winners and the Katniss search for Peeta.

I liked the book a lot because it was so easy to read even though I didn’t understand every single word but it didn’t matter. It was very exciting although I had watched the movie already but the book had more information than the movie as usual. I recommend it to everyone who likes a lot of adventure.