The book is set in the future in a place called panem in America. In panem there are 12 districts and the Capitol. The Capitol controls all 12 districts and it is also the most advanced and rich place in panem and district 12 is extremely poor and they have nearly nothing people are living in houses with no running water and they have no food because they can't afford to buy it. The main character in the story is Katniss Everdeen the story is also told through her eyes. Katniss does illegal hunting across the border of district 12 in the out of bounds area to get some extra money to buy food and things.
The hunger games is an annual event where one boy and one girl aged 12-18 are selected from each district through a kind of lottery pick where they put the names of all the boys and girls names into two bowls and one from each is picked and they will be put in to compete in the hunger games, where they will fight to the death and the one person that is still alive after it they will win and never need to go to do it again and they will get a nice house and they will get a pay of a great amount of money each month,but district twelve never wins so they all no they stand nearly no chance. And so that year on the reaping day primrose Everdeen Katniss's little sister got chosen but Katniss volunteered to take her place, then the boy got chosen Peeta Mellark who was the bakers son and one night he had seen Katniss when he was out feeding the pigs the burned bread and he threw it over to Katniss and ran back inside. So then they got to say their last goodbyes and they got taken away to the capital to train and get sponsors for a few days before they go to compete in the games.
The hunger games is an annual event where one boy and one girl aged 12-18 are selected from each district through a kind of lottery pick where they put the names of all the boys and girls names into two bowls and one from each is picked and they will be put in to compete in the hunger games, where they will fight to the death and the one person that is still alive after it they will win and never need to go to do it again and they will get a nice house and they will get a pay of a great amount of money each month,but district twelve never wins so they all no they stand nearly no chance. And so that year on the reaping day primrose Everdeen Katniss's little sister got chosen but Katniss volunteered to take her place, then the boy got chosen Peeta Mellark who was the bakers son and one night he had seen Katniss when he was out feeding the pigs the burned bread and he threw it over to Katniss and ran back inside. So then they got to say their last goodbyes and they got taken away to the capital to train and get sponsors for a few days before they go to compete in the games.
