The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Unabridged AudioBook on CD

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Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

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About the Hunger Games

The Hunger Games will be a young adult novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was first published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, in hardcover. That it is written on the inside voice of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who is located in a post-apocalyptic world belonging to the country of Panem where the countries of The United States once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds absolute power all over the heard of nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event by way of one boy andf the other girl aged 12 to 18 from each one of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a very televised battle in the course of just one single person can survive.

The book has actually been released when you are a paperback and as well an audiobook and e-book. The Hunger Games Series had an initial print of 200,000 - twice doubled by means of original 50,000. Since its initial release, the novel could have been translated into 26 different languages and rights of production tend to be sold in 38 countries. The book received mostly positive reviews from major reviewers and authors. The Hunger Games can be the first novel inside of the Hunger Games trilogy, as well as Catching Fire, published on September 1, 2009, and Mockingjay, published on August 24, 2010.

A film adaptation, co-written and co-produced by Collins herself and directed by Gary Ross, was released worldwide on March 23, 2012. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.

Collins says that the inspiration to be able to The Hunger Games Series got their start in channel surfing in the media. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show is without a doubt another she saw footage all over the invasion of Iraq. Each of the "began to blur obtained in this very unsettling way" together with the idea for those who are book was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as cause of story, with Collins describing Katniss as if it were a futuristic Theseus, and that Roman gladiatorial games formed the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her father's service involved in the Vietnam War also affected the story, whose heroine lost her father when he was eleven, five years ahead of the story begins. Collins stated made by the deaths of your respective young characters and various other "dark passages" were the hardest parts all over the book for you to, but she had accepted she could well be writing such scenes. She considered the moments where Katniss reflects on happier moments in her past to be the more often enjoyable passages for you to.

The Hunger Games takes place as soon as destruction of The United States by some unknown apocalyptic event, in a very nation often referred to as Panem. Panem is composed of a wealthy Capitol and twelve surrounding, poorer districts. District 12, the place that the book begins, is found the coal-rich region this led to formerly Appalachia.

As punishment for virtually any previous rebellion against the Capitol which experts claim a 13th district was destroyed, one boy and one girl relating to the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by annual lottery to sign up from inside the Hunger Games, an event the fact that the participants (or "tributes") must fight especially in an outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one remains. The story follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for those who are 74th annual Hunger Games constantly in place of her younger sister, Primrose. Also selected from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a baker's son whom Katniss knows from school, who once gave her bread when her family was starving.

Katniss and Peeta are taken right to the Capitol where their drunken mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, victor in regards to the 50th Hunger Games, instructs the criminals to watch and learn the best and talents with regards to the other tributes. May possibly be then publicly displayed in direction of the Capitol audience held in a televised session with interviewer Caesar Flickerman. Upbeat, Peeta reveals on-air his long-time unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this as being a ploy to get maximum audience support for a particular Games, which can be crucial for survival, as audience members are encouraged to send gifts like food, medicine, and tools to favored tributes usually in the Games. The Games begin with 11 in regards to 24 tributes dying in the first variety day, while Katniss will depend on her well-practiced hunting and outdoor skills to survive. For the reason games continue, the tribute death toll increases. A day or two later, Katniss develops an alliance with Rue, a 12-year-old girl from the agricultural District 11 who reminds Katniss of her sister Prim. The alliance is short-lived: Rue is killed by another tribute. At Rue's request Katniss sings to her, then spreads flowers over her body as a considerate sign of respect-and of disgust to get the Capitol.

Supposedly a result of Katniss and Peeta's beloved image while in the minds of your respective audience as "star-crossed lovers", a rule change is announced midway out of your Games, on the grounds that two tributes belonging to the same district can win the Hunger Games is actually. Upon hearing this, Katniss mission to find Peeta and eventually finds him wounded. As she nurses him back to health, she acts fault a young girl falling in love in order to gain more favor with the in-patient audience and, consequently, gifts from her sponsors. When the couple are finally a lot more two tributes, the Gamemakers turn back the rule change in an effort to force them straight into a dramatic finale, where one must kill the other to win. Katniss, with the knowledge that the Gamemakers will want to have two victors than none, retrieves highly poisonous berries which is called "nightlock" from her pouch and offers some to Peeta. Upon realizing that Katniss and Peeta intend to commit suicide, the Gamemakers announce that both might victors you get with the 74th Hunger Games.

Although she survives the ordeal on the inside arena it really is treated to a wonderful hero's welcome inside of the Capitol, Katniss is warned by Haymitch that she has now turn into a political target after defying her society's authoritarian leaders so publicly. Afterwards, Peeta is heartbroken when he learns that Katniss's actions belonging to the arena were small amount of a calculated ploy to earn sympathy coming from the audience. However, Katniss is unsure of her own feelings, and realizes that she's being charged dreading as soon as when she and Peeta will go their separate ways.

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