Collins          1-10                  Panem

• Set in future
• takes place in U.S. 
• 13 separate districts
• It is a totalitarian dictatorship

Collins     12-34           Reaping

• Gale and Katniss return from the woods
• Katniss puts on the dress that her mother has laid out for her
• Katniss's little sister, Prim,  is chosen 
• Katniss volunteers so her sister wouldn't be in the Hunger Games

Collins           Chapter 4         Train Ride

• Peeta volunteers to clean up Haymitch, who is drunk and has fallen in his own vomit.
• While Katniss sits in her room, she wonders why Peeta did this, then realizes he may just be kind.
• She decides this is more dangerous to her than an unlikable Peeta and determines not to get any closer with him.
• When she throws the cookies his father gave her out the window, they land in a field of dandelions, and she remembers gathering dandelions with Prim after she realized she would have to feed her family.
• Her mother, who is an apothecary, had a book describing plants that can be used for healing, and in it she found notes, made by her father, about which plants were edible.
• The next day, she went into the woods alone for the first time and began hunting and foraging regularly to keep her family alive.
• What she caught or collected that she didn’t need, she would trade or sell at the Hob.
• One day, she noticed some katniss, the plant she’s named after, in a pond.
• She dug up the edible roots, and that night she and her family ate till they were full. 

Collins      Chapter 4       Train Ride

• In the morning she goes to the train’s dining car.
• Effie, Peeta, and Haymitch are there. Haymitch is already drinking, and Peeta gets angry with him because he’s supposed to be advising them.
• He slaps the drink out of Haymitch’s hand. Haymitch punches him, and Katniss stabs her knife into the table between his hand and the liquor bottle.
• Haymitch wonders if he’s got fighters this year and asks Katniss what else she can do with a knife. 

Collins     Chapter 4         Train ride

• She pulls it out of the table and throws skillfully into the wall.
• If they don’t interfere with his drinking, Haymitch says he’ll help them.
• His first piece of advice is that whatever the stylists do to them, they shouldn’t resist.
• The train finally arrives at the Capitol. Katniss and Peeta are amazed at the grandeur and strangeness of it.
• The people all have bizarre hair and painted faces.
• Peeta waves to the people gathered to see the tributes coming in.

Collins       Chapter 5       The Capitol 

• In the Capitol, a team of people wax Katniss’s body hair to prepare her for her stylist, Cinna.
• Cinna is quiet and modest.
• It’s his first year working as a stylist for the Hunger Games, and to Katniss’s surprise, he requested the tributes of the impoverished District 12.
• It is typical for the tributes to dress in a style that reflects their district, and Cinna says since District 12’s industry is coal mining, Katniss’s and Peeta’s costumes will reflect coal’s main function, which is to burn.
• Her costume will be lit with a synthetic flame, and Cinna calls her “the girl who was on fire.”
• In their matching costumes—an unusual touch as tributes are rarely made to match—Katniss and Peeta are escorted to a main plaza in the city, where they will go before the huge audience.

Collins       Chapter 6        Trainning 

• At the Training Center, where the tributes stay until the Games begin, Effie Trinket talks enthusiastically about Katniss and Peeta.
• Katniss, meanwhile, is in awe of how luxurious her room is.
• It’s larger than her house and has all sorts of automated features, notably in the shower and closet.
• Katniss finds everyone, including the stylists, in the dining room for dinner.
• The servers are all young people dressed in white tunics. Katniss, who has had some wine, says she knows one of them, a girl with red hair, then realizes this person is associated with a bad memory.
• Effie snaps at her, saying she can’t possibly know an Avox.
• Haymitch explains that an Avox is someone who committed a crime and had their tongue cut out. Katniss says it must be a mistake, and Peeta covers for her by saying the Avox girl resembles someone from there school.
• Everyone talks about their success at the ceremony, then Haymitch tells Katniss and Peeta to go get some sleep. Their training begins the next day.

Collins      Chaoter 7    Trainning

• It is the first day of training.
• For three days, the twenty-four tributes will all practice together, then on the final afternoon they perform in private in front of the Gamemakers, the officials who run the Games.
• Haymitch asks Katniss and Peeta if they want to train together or separately, in case one has a secret skill she or he might not want the other to know about it. Peeta already knows Katniss is an excellent hunter, and Katniss feels surprised at the thought that Peeta must sometimes think of her.
• Ultimately they decide to train together. Haymitch wants to know about their strengths. Katniss’s is obviously good with a bow, and Peeta is strong and an excellent wrestler. But Peeta feels he has no chance.
• He says Katniss has no idea the effect she can have, and his mother even praised Katniss over him, calling her a survivor. 

Collins      Chapter 7      Trainning

• At training, Katniss watches the other tributes.
• Almost all are bigger than her, though many are clearly underfed.
• The tributes from the wealthier districts are all healthy. Some of them, called Career Tributes, train all their lives to compete in the Games.
• The training area has different stations with instructors, and the Career Tributes go right to the stations with the deadliest weapons.
• Katniss and Peeta go to a station where they learn various knots. Next they move to the camouflage station, and Peeta picks it up quickly because he decorates the cakes in his father’s bakery.
• Over the next three days, they visit more stations while the Gamemakers—twenty or so men and women—watch from the stands and take notes. Peeta and Katniss stay together the whole time, making small talk.
• At lunch one day Peeta explains that each district has its own distinct bread and shows them all to Katniss. In training they also notice one of the female tributes, a small young girl from District 11 named Rue, watching them.

Collins       Chapter 7         The final day 

• Katniss is last to have her private session with the Gamemakers.
• She selects a bow from the weapons available, but it’s different than her bow at home and takes some practice before she can use it accurately.
• She takes a few difficult shots to impress the Gamemakers, but notices that most of them are focused on a roasted pig that’s just arrived at their table.
• She becomes furious, knowing her life is at stake in the Games, and fires an arrow straight toward the Gamemakers that skewers that apple in the pig’s mouth.
•  Then she walks out.