The Hunger Games Essay

The book that I chose to explain the plot development points in it is The Hunger Games.

The Exposition is quite short in this book. It all starts off by explaining what The Hunger Games is all about and why the government makes two children (a boy and girl) from each district to fight to the death until one lone victor remains. Then it starts with the Everdeen family. They live in District 12. Katniss is the older sister and Primrose is the younger sister. The book explains that Katniss takes care of her family the most and provides food for them by hunting.  Prim is 12 so it is the first time she has to put herself in for the chance to be in the hunger games, turns out that Prim gets picked for one of the children to go into the Hunger Games, but Katniss volunteers in her place to protect her. Then they pick the boy who gets to go into the games to represent District 12 as well. The boy who got picked is named Peeta Mellark and Katniss met him vaguely once before but never really talked to him. So then the Rising Action begins.

When the Rising Action starts is when all of the children who do get picked to go into the Hunger Games get brought to the Capitol where the President and the wealthier lives. They get a whole makeover and get treated like royalty for just a short amount of time before they go into the games. While that is going on they get trained to go into the games and get judged on their ability by the Game Keeper (The one who creates the arena where the games are). Katniss was surprised that she got the highest score out of all the people with an 11. So as they’re getting ready for the games the book builds up to the point where the reader wants to know what is going to happen when they get into the arena.

The Climax begins when Katniss and the others get sent into the arena where they are forced to fight to the death. When the games start all chaos happens. Some people are going after each other while others run away to find shelter. While they are all in the arena relationships start to evolve. Katniss meets a 12 year old girl who reminds her quite like her own sister and tries to protect her. Unfortunately, when she was in the games the 12 year old friend she loves gets torn from her and passed away. After that the Game Keeper decides to change the games up a bit. They changed it to where if the other person from your district is still alive you can be winners together if the pair of you are the only ones left. Katniss then decides to try and look for Peeta.  When she ends up finding him a romantic relationship evolves and she becomes closer to Peeta. They begin to look after each other and help each other to stay alive. Towards the end of the games there is only one more person left in the games besides the two of them. When Peeta and Katniss  meet with the other person left they get caught up to where the other person was about to kill Peeta, while Katniss still had her bow and arrow Peeta secretly pointed to where she should shoot to get the other person off of him and they will win. They ended up being successful in that and they knew that they won!

This is when the Falling Action begins. The Game Keeper actually decides to revoke the last change in the games where it puts Katniss and Peeta in the situation where they are forced to kill each other. Katniss does not agree with that and decides to get Peeta to eat poisonous berries that can instantly kill them both and gives the Capitol no victor. Just before they were about to do that the Game Keeper announced to order them to stop. They ended up accepting them both as victors but with haste.

Where the Resolutions begins is when they both get brought back to the Capitol to get interviewed about when they were in the games. Even though the games showed that Katniss and Peeta were supposedly “in love” Katniss thought it was just for show. So they acted as if they were in love but secretly Peeta was really in love for her and wasn’t really acting. They then get brought back to their home in District 12 with their loved ones but then ends with the President angry about what happened and a revolution slowly starts happening in the next book.