The Reaping: The Life Of Katniss Everdeen

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Out in Panem there are 12 districts; districts 1 through 12. Every year Panem holds what is called the Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live T.V. Two contestants, called tributes, from each district (boy and girl) get picked to participate in the Hunger Games. Every year, Effie Trinket chooses the person’s name randomly from a box. In district 12 there lives a girl named Katniss Everdeen. She cares for her family by hunting animals with a bow and arrow. Therefore, she keeps her family alive. Katniss sells the food and in exchange gets money. She lives with her sister Prim, and her mother. Her dad died due to an explosion in a mine. Katniss’s life was going fine until the Reaping. The Reaping was the time when the names get picked…show more content…
When she thought it was far enough she looked inside the backpack. Inside is a pair of glasses that made her sees funny and she saw crackers, beef strips, a sleeping bag, and a plastic container. She climbed a tree; put the sleeping bag on a branch and slept on it. When Katniss was sleeping she heard different voices from people who are called the Careers. The Careers are tributes that team up to kill people in the games but turn on each other at the end. Katniss heard a voice talk and realized it was Petta. The Careers were going to use Petta so that they can find Katniss. During the next few days while playing the game no one died. People who were watching the Hunger Games were getting bored due to the lack of violence. The Game makers decided to make a fire in the arena to shake things up a bit. The fire was where Katniss was and she ran for cover and escaped with nearly a burn mark on her leg that was painful. The fire was used as a means to pull together all the tributes and continue fighting in the…show more content…
Later in the day, the game maker makes an announcement on an overhead speaker where all the tributes in the arena could hear. The game maker describes how both tributes from the same district can both win the Hunger Games. Katniss needed to find Petta knowing now they both could hold the title. She sets out to find Petta, who was injured by the Careers. After days of looking, Katniss found Petta and takes him into a cave. While Petta and Katniss were in the cave they heard the game maker again. He said that there are backpacks in one place for all tributes to find. Katniss realizes that all tributes would hurry to retrieve a backpack and decides to get there too. She went to the Golden Cornucopia, where the backpacks were held and witnessed the death of three tributes. Cata, a very large tribute, survived and was a threat to all because he was capable of killing everyone. After a lot of hiding, Petta and Katniss saw Cato and began fighting, but not for very long. While they were fighting, Mutations attacked all of them. Mutations are wild dogs that display the characteristics of the tributes that had been killed in the past. The Mutations rapidly killed

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