The Hunger Games

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: List of characters in the Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games universe, Katniss Everdeen, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Peeta Mellark, Suzanne Collins, Haymitch Abernathy, Gale Hawthorne. Excerpt: This is a list of characters in the Hunger Games trilogy, a series of young adult science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is the 16-year-old protagonist and narrator of the story. Katniss is normally quiet in school and doesn't bother with gossip and social matters. She lives with her mother and younger sister Primrose in the poorest district of Panem, District 12, which is in charge of mining coal for the capitol. Her looks are typical for those from the Seam (the slums of District 12): long black hair, which she wears in a braid; olive skin; and gray eyes. Five years before the start of The Hunger Games, her father is killed in a mining explosion and her mother falls into a depression. In order to provide for her sister, Katniss begins to hunt in the woods as her father taught her. In the process, she becomes friends with Gale Hawthorne. When it comes time to draw the tributes for the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss' sister Prim's name is drawn, but Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place, along with the male tribute from District 12, Peeta Mellark. During the Games, Peeta expresses his love for her on live television, which Katniss assumes is a ploy to gain attention from rich sponsors, but is later revealed to be genuine. Halfway through the Games, a new rule is instituted so that both tributes from a District can become winners. However, when only Peeta and Katniss are left, the rule is reversed, in an attempt to force one of them to kill the other, ensuring a more dramatic ending. At that moment, Katniss decides that both of them should eat poisonous berries called nightlock and die, ensuring the H...