"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!" was said by Effie Trinket and can be found on page 19.
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 torn between her feelings for her hunting partner, Gale Hawthorne, and the district's other tribute, Peeta Mellark, even as she fights to stay alive. The Hunger Games will change Katniss' life forever, but her acts of humanity and defiance might just change the Games, too.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a trilogy of books set in a post-apocalyptic country in which the Capitol holds hegemony over the rest of the nation. Within that world, the Hunger Games are an annually-televised bloodbath in which 24 children from outside the Capitol fight to the death in penance for the rebellion of their forebears against the Capitol’s regime.
Not exactly light reading is it? Yet this grisly and gripping trilogy has now overtaken Harry Potter to become the bestselling series on Amazon.com. The books have now also been turned into a very successful film franchise. Let’s take a look at the language that brings Collins’ world to life.