Effie is the escort from the Capitol who has been assigned to District 12. Gale and Katniss make fun of her affected Capitol accent and how she is overly enthusiastic about the Hunger Games, a truly violent and grim event. They know that she looks down on District 12 and […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Effie Trinket

Of District 12’s two Hunger Games victors in 72 years, Haymitch is the only one still living. He is a middle-aged man who is always very drunk, but, after seeing some spunk in Katniss and Peeta, he decides that he will sober up enough to mentor them and help them […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Haymitch Abernathy

Prim is Katniss’ 12-year-old sister. Prim takes after their mother, who has light hair and blue eyes. This reaping is her first, and Katniss has only allowed her to enter her name once into the drawing. Prim is the only person whom Katniss is certain she loves, and she does […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Primrose (Prim) Everdeen

Gale, Katniss’ 18-year-old hunting partner, is well-liked by many girls in the District 12. When he first meets Katniss in the woods, he believes that her name is Catnip, and so this becomes his permanent nickname for her. Gale’s father died in the same mine explosion as Katniss’ father and, […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Gale Hawthorne

Peeta, the son of a baker, is the boy tribute from District 12 who claims to have been in love with Katniss since they were 5 years old. Even though they don’t speak and Katniss doesn’t consider Peeta a friend, he saves her life when they are 11 and she […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Peeta Mellark

Katniss, the story’s narrator and heroine, is 16 years old and has straight black hair, gray eyes, and olive skin. Her father died in a mine explosion when she is 11. Since then, to keep her family from starving in the Seam, she has had to provide for her mother […]

Read more Character List and Analysis Katniss Everdeen

The Hunger Games begins on the day of the reaping in District 12. Katniss Everdeen, the story’s 16-year-old narrator, sets out to meet her friend Gale so they can do some hunting and gathering before the reaping that afternoon. As Katniss makes her way from her home to the Meadow […]

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In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, the Capitol forces each of Panem’s 12 districts to choose two teenagers to participate in the Hunger Games, a gruesome, televised fight to the death. In the 12th district, Katniss Everdeen steps in for her little sister and enters the Games, where she is […]

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