Title : The Hunger Games
Author : Suzanne Collins
Storyline : 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds hegemony
over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in
which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts
surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle until only one person is left.
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Title : Catching Fire
Author : Suzanne Collins
Storyline : Against all odds, Katniss has won The Hunger
Games. She and fellow district 12 tribute, Peeta Mellark
are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has
returned to her family, and longtime friend, gale. Yet nothing is the way
Katniss whises it to be. Gale ho;ds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned
his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the
capitol-a rebellion that Katniss and peeta may have helped create. Much to her
shock, katniss has fueled an unrest she’s afraid she can’t stop. And what
scares even more is that she’s not entirely convinced she should try. As time
draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts of the capitol cruel
victory tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a
shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the
consequences will be horrifying.
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Title : Mocking Jay
Author : Suzanne Collins
Storyline :
After her rescue by the rebels of District 13, Katniss is convinced
to become "the Mockingjay": a symbol of the rebellion against the ruling
Capitol. As part of a deal, she demands that the leader of District 13,
President Coin, grant immunity to all of the victors of the Hunger
Games. She also demands the right to kill President Snow,
the leader of the Capitol, herself. Finally, the leaders of Thirteen
decide to go rescue Peeta, after realizing the guilt Katniss feels is
impeding her role in becoming "the Mockingjay." After the rescue it is
discovered that Peeta has been brainwashed into believing Katniss is the
enemy and tries to strangle her upon their reunion in District 13.
The rebels, including Katniss, take control of the districts and
finally begin an assault on the Capitol itself. However, an assault on a
"safe" Capitol neighborhood goes wrong, and Katniss and her team flee
further into the Capitol with the intent of finding and killing
President Snow. Many members of Katniss' team are killed, including Finnick Odair.
Eventually, Katniss finds herself pressing on alone towards Snow's
mansion, which has supposedly been opened to shelter Capitol children
(but is actually intended to provide human shields for Snow).
Afterwards, bombs placed in supply packages kill many of these children
and a rebel medical team, including Katniss' sister, Prim. Prim's death
scars Katniss to the point of mental instability.
President Snow is tried and found guilty, but he tells Katniss that
the final assault that killed Prim was ordered by President Coin, not
the Capitol. Katniss realizes that if this is true, the bombing may have
been the result of a plan originally developed by Gale, however, Gale
denied his involvement. Katniss remembers a conversation with Snow in
which they agreed not to lie to each other. When she is supposed to
execute Snow, she realizes that he was telling the truth and kills Coin
instead. A riot ensues and Snow is found dead, having possibly choked on
his own blood (laughing) or been trampled in the crowd. Katniss then
tries to commit suicide by swallowing the pill that was sewn onto her
suit in case she was captured by the Capitol during one of her missions,
but Peeta stops her. Katniss is acquitted due to her apparent insanity
and returns to her home in District 12, along with others who are
attempting to rebuild it. Peeta returns months after as well, having
largely recovered from his brainwashing. Finally, Katniss surmises that
falling in love with Peeta was inevitable, as he had always represented
to her the promise of a better future, rather than the destruction she
now associates with Gale. She says that she did not need Gale's fire, as
she already had it herself; she needed Peeta, who symbolized the hope
she needed to survive. Together with Haymitch they create a book filled
with the stories of the previous tributes and others who died in the war
so that they will not be forgotten.
In the epilogue, Katniss speaks as an adult, more than fifteen years
later. She and Peeta are married and have two children. The Hunger Games
are over, but she dreads the day her children learn the details of
their parents' involvement in both the Games and the war. When she feels
distressed, Katniss plays a comforting but repetitive "game," reminding
herself of every good thing that she has ever seen someone do. The
series ends with Katniss' reflection that "there are much worse games to
play."
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