who lives in a country named Panem, Panem, is ruled president snow who is isolating the poor of the country into twelve districts each district has a duty district eleven grows all the plants and crops and so on on the other side of Panem, there is what they call the Capital thats where all the wealthy people live.Katniss is from district twelve where all the coal miners live this is where she hunts and raises her widowed mother and little sister Prim.
once every year they have something called a reaping day which means everyone from twelve years to twenty has to apply or enter your name.
katniss sister prim gets her name called out of the the draw but katniss was brave enough to take her younger sisters place
the next name called out was peeta mallark a boy katniss grew up with which hurt even more .
they get two mentors for each district effie trinket and haymitch, and two main stylists Cinna and portia. they enter the games and hope for there life that they dont die.