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    Contents CONTEXT Growing up Suzanne Collins was a military brat Her - photo 1

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    Growing up, Suzanne Collins was a military brat. Her father was a career airman in the United States Air Force. As a result, Collins and her siblingstwo older sisters and an older brothermoved around frequently, spending time in numerous locations in the eastern United States as well as in Europe. The military, in fact, played a leading role in the familys history. Collinss grandfather had served in World War I, her uncle served in World War II, and the year Collins turned six, her father left to serve his own tour in the Vietnam War. War, consequently, was a part of life for Collins, something very real and not just an abstract idea. While her father was gone, she would sometimes see video footage of the war zone on the news, and she recognized that her father was there fighting.

    Though her father returned after a year, Collinss connection to war didnt end. In addition to being a soldier, Collinss father was also a military historian and a doctor of political science. That knowledge and his experiences serving in the Air Force and fighting in Vietnam had a profound effect on his relationship with his children, and he made sure they learned about war. While other girls fathers were telling them fairytales, Collinss father educated his children about military history. When the family was moved to Brussels, Belgium, for instance, her father educated her about the regions violent past and took her on tours of the countrys historic battlefields.

    Eventually, Collins attended Indiana University. There, she met the man who would later become her husband, Cap Pryor. At 25, she began an M.F.A. program at New York University where she specialized in playwriting, and after graduation, worked for about a year before landing her first television-writing job on the show Hi Honey, Im Home! Since then, Collins has been on the writing staff of several shows, including the Emmy-nominated Clarissa Explains It All. She and her family, now including two children, left New York for Connecticut. Collins began work on her first series of books for children, The Underland Chronicles. The series was another success for Collins, making the New York Times bestseller list. Collins was 41 when the first book in the series, Gregor the Overlander, was published.

    One night, Collins was watching television, flipping back and forth between coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a reality-TV show. Thats when Collins had the idea that would ultimately turn into The Hunger Games. A longtime fan of Greek and Roman mythology, Collins borrowed a great deal from those sources to give the story its shape. One notable contribution came from the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, in which the Cretan king Minos demanded that seven maidens and seven youths be sent as a tribute every nine years. He gave these tributes to the Minotaur, who would consume them. Collins also borrowed from Ancient Roman history. The gladiatorial games were updated and turned into a televised competition, and Collins took the name of her fictional dystopia from the Latin phrase panem et circenses (bread and circuses). While Collins finished her often dark and violent book, she continued to write for television, working on the markedly less violent show Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!

    The Hunger Games was published in September 2008 and quickly found critical success with reviewers and other authors, including Stephen King, praising the book. Among the features that received the most attention were the plotting and pace. Collins has attributed her skill in these areas to her background as a playwright and her time spent working in television, where there is little downtime allowed and character development has to occur simultaneously with the storyline constantly moving forward. The book also rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and subsequently spent more than three consecutive years on the list. The other books in the trilogy, published over the next two years, followed the same pattern, all becoming huge commercial successes. Then, in March 2012, The Hunger Games movie was released. It had the third-highest opening weekend in history, and the highest opening weekend ever for a movie that was not a sequel. There are now more than 18 million copies of The Hunger Games in print, and with the trilogy now available in fifty languages, the books have genuinely become a worldwide phenomenon.

    PLOT OVERVIEW

    Katniss Everdeen wakes up on the day of the reaping, when the tributes are chosen who will take part in the Hunger Games. Her mother and little sister, Prim, sleep nearby. Her father died in a mine explosion years earlier. She goes hunting in the woods outside her district, District 12, with Gale, her best friend. That night, at the reaping ceremony, the mayor gives a speech describing how the governments of North America collapsed and the country of Panem rose up in their place. A war ensued between the Capitol and the districts. The Capitol won, and as a reminder of their defeat, the Capitol holds the Hunger Games every year. The mayor then introduces Haymitch Abernathy, District 12s only living Hunger-Games winner, who is so drunk he ends up falling in his own vomit.

    The districts female tribute is chosen, and to Katnisss horror, its Prim. Katniss volunteers immediately to take Prims place. Then the male tribute is selected. Its Peeta Mellark, and Katniss remembers that Peeta gave her bread from his familys bakery years earlier, while she was searching for food for her family in the garbage bins behind the town shops. Katniss credits him with saving her that day. Katniss and Peeta say good-bye to their friends and families and board a train for the Capitol. During the trip, she and Peeta convince Haymitch, their mentor in the Games and the person responsible for getting them gifts from sponsors, to take his duties seriously.

    Once there, Katniss meets with her stylist, Cinna, who is designing her dress for the opening ceremony. At the ceremony, Katniss and Peeta wear simple black outfits lit with synthetic flames. The outfits are a huge hit with the audience and make Katniss and Peeta stand out among the tributes. The next day, Katniss and Peeta attend group training, and the tributes from rich districts who have trained for the Games their whole lives, called Career Tributes, show off their skills. Later, the tributes are interviewed by Caesar Flickerman, a television host. In his interview, Peeta reveals that hes had a crush on Katniss for several years.

    Finally the time comes. From a small underground room, Katniss is lifted into the arena and the Games officially begin. All the tributes are there, and in front of her is the Cornucopia, which houses an abundance of supplies. Rather than fight, she runs away as Haymitch advised. She hikes all day before making camp. After dark, someone starts a fire nearby, and it isnt long before a pack of Career Tributes arrives and kills the person. To Katnisss shock, Peeta is with them. The next day Katniss goes in search of water. She walks for hours and collapses from exhaustion, but ultimately she finds a stream. Shes awakened during the night by a wall of fire moving in her direction, and as she runs away, one of the numerous fireballs falling around her grazes her leg, injuring it.

    That night, while she hides in a tree from the pack of Careers below, she notices a young girl named Rue from District 11 in a nearby tree. Rue points out a nest of tracker jackers, wasps engineered by the Capitol to be lethal, over Katnisss head, and Katniss cuts the branch holding the nest, dropping it onto the Careers. Two of them die from the stings and the rest scatter. Katniss is stung a few times as well, but as shes running away, she remembers that one of the girls who died had a bow and arrows, the weapons shes become proficient with from hunting. She runs back to retrieve them, and Peeta happens to arrive as shes grabbing the bow. He yells at Katniss to run just as Cato, a very large and dangerous Career from District 2, shows up. Peeta stops him so Katniss can escape, and she passes out in a ditch shortly after.

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