But I don’t spend much 41, e thinking about it. They think,” I say. “Come on, let’s eat,” I say and plant aquick kiss on the top of her head. I won’t. Download: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (unabridged MP3 - CD) [Pub224] The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (unabridged MP3 - CD) PDF By Suzanne Collins Image not readable or empty gambar/0545114071.jpg The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (unabridged MP3 - CD) | #3270374 in Books | 2008 | Binding: MP3 … I put myhands behind my back and stare into the distance. I’m trying to get past rejecting offersof help from her. . Then I try to convince myself it doesn’tmatter. It makes me jealous but not for the reasonpeople would think. “— beever in your favor!” I finish with equal verve. Possibly because they 23, w me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encoun-tered Prim, who no one can help loving. Let themcall the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, Ithought. I see Gale pulling her off me and watch myself mount the 45, ge. In it is all the anger, all the fear I feltat her abandonment. Electrified or not, the fence hasbeen successful at keeping the flesh-eaters out of District 12.Inside the woods they roam freely, and there are added con-cerns like venomous snakes, rabid animals, and no real pathsto follow. The mayor’s daughter, Madge, opens the door. It’s too bad, really, that they hold the reaping in the square— one of the few places in District 12 that can be pleasant.The square’s surrounded by shops, and on public market days,especially if there’s good weather, it has a holiday feel to it.But today, despite the bright banners hanging on the build-ings, there’s an air of grimness. The camera crews, perchedlike buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect. Ido. No, the odds are not in my favor today. There are several other weak spots in the fence, but thisone is so close to home I almost always enter the woods here. And so on 12, so on until you reach the age of eighteen, the final year ofeligibility, when your name goes into the pool seven times.That’s true for every citizen in all twelve districts in the entirecountry of Panem. s��\A�0W�+�䊒L���A� t8�����#��x��c��nn�nn�nn�nn�nn�>>�ʚ��ʚ��ʚ��ʚ��ʚ���~�*�+�+�U����9�3W�\ٻ�we�ޕ���P��wC9�L�31���o�7���������o�7���������o�7��W�*K��Rr9o��]�m�v��ړ�-ƴ翀ybv}����ѥU�d � Therule is that once a tribute’s name has been pulled from theball, another eligible boy, if a boy’s name has been read, orgirl, if a girl’s name has been read, can step forward to take hisor her place. Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowlsof hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off ourhands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. But we’re not related, at least notclosely. The one who advises you, lines up your spon-sors, and dictates the presentation of any gifts. It is a pretty dress, butshe would never be wearing it ordinarily. The Treatyof Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, asour yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be re-peated, it gave us the Hunger Games. The sight of him waiting there brings on asmile. Many are edible, but one false mouthful andyou’re dead. That’s why my mother and Prim, with their light hair andblue eyes, always look out of place. “What’s your name?” I swallow hard. In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place oncecalled the Rockies. I suppose now that my mother was lockedin some dark world of sadness, but at the time, all I knew wasthat I had lost not only a father, but a mother as well. Etathvormorany. “Well, it’s been an exhausting day,” says Effie Trinket. The boytook one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast 30, clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loafof bread in my direction. Hunger Games by Jordan Seth . I’d shot a few rabbits before, with my father’s guidance. Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup theentrails. And one day, you comeupon them sitting motionless against a wall or lying in theMeadow, you hear the wails from a house, and the Peacekee-pers are called in to retrieve the body. By the time the market closed, I was shak-ing so hard I dropped my bundle of baby clothes in a mudpuddle. Some of the drugs in the story are psychoactive 44, Now that the meal’s over, I’m fighting to keep the fooddown. I prop myself up on one elbow. If a girl with a gold pin and no tesserae had notmade what I’m sure she thought was a harmless comment. Itwas as if spring had come overnight. “I volunteer as tribute!” There’s some confusion on the stage. The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bitfarther into its arms. Madge’sface has become closed off. Not impossible, but slim. I didn’t pick it up for fear I would keel over and be un-able to regain my feet. Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple ofloaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, pa-raffin, and a bit of money for each. And this is something special. There’s no me now to keep you bothalive. He was with his friendsand didn’t acknowledge me in any way. “Lots of . This movie is a great start into "The Hunger Games" quadrilogy. But suddenly I am thinking of Gale andhis forty-two names in that big glass ball and how the odds 19, not in his favor. The woods terri-fied her, and whenever I shot something, she’d get teary andtalk about how we might be able to heal it if we got it homesoon enough. Gale will get her the herbs she doesn’t grow her-self, but she must be very careful to describe them becausehe’s not as familiar with them as I am. Haymitch canwell be the difference between your life and your death!” Just then, Haymitch staggers into the compartment. A boy with a crippled foot from District10. Gale knows his anger at Madge is misdirected. I can’t stand the sight of the Capitol people myself. Whatever you see onthe screen. They can get by, ifthey’re careful, on selling Prim’s goat milk and cheese and thesmall apothecary business my mother now runs for the peoplein the Seam. Connecting content to people. Kids from wealthier dis-tricts, where winning is a huge honor, who’ve been trainedtheir whole lives for this. 20, One time, when I was in a blind in a tree, waiting motion-less for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to theground, landing on my back. That’s your bestchance.” “They don’t always have bows,” I say, thinking of the yearthere were only horrible spiked maces that the tributes had tobludgeon one another to death with. The shock of the moment is registering on hisface, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but hisblue eyes show the alarm I’ve seen so often in prey. �>��l�$ʇ�u������n�w��ơ9�ɝ����:�b�1��>[����j�n.���i��~��eߟ���\�+ݼN��6�p�Y�#�!v��=��]~���G��~r�^�6�R�o������˞�m��M�������cp�|��L3��:�M�uY�H��Uo�Xg�o����ˎ�潎YU���"�?���+� Now I am truly in danger of crying, but fortunately Hay-mitch chooses this time to come staggering across the stage tocongratulate me. Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. We are each given our own chambers that havea bedroom, a dressing area, and a private bathroom with hotand cold running water. After we’d harvested those,we scrounged along inside the fence for probably a mile untilwe’d filled the bucket with the dandelion greens, stems, andflowers. Besides, no one wanted those clothes. “Getting a knife should be pretty easy, butyou’ve got to get your hands on a bow. Set in The Hunger Games universe, the franchise began with The Hunger Games, the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy. “Promise you’ll wear it into the arena, Katniss?” sheasks. When I am done with instructions about fuel, and trading,and staying in school, I turn to my mother and grip her arm,hard. I couldn’t walk into that room with the smoky 28, e from the damp branches I had scavenged at the edge ofthe woods after the coal had run out, my bands empty of anyhope. Then came theDark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol.Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The reaping isn’t un-til two. The common term forthem was muttations, or sometimes mutts for short. Wemight do a tad better elsewhere, but we make an effort tokeep on good terms with Greasy Sae. by Suzanne Collins. She must know what’s coming. “Yes,” hisses Effie Trinket. “I can send one of the Capitol people tohelp you.” There’s any number on the train. I am the girl whobrings the strawberries. If it wasn’treaping day. Hecould be my brother. Yes. Herclothes from her past are very precious to her. 6:27. As soon as I’m in the trees, I retrieve a bow and sheath ofarrows from a hollow log. . She zips back to the podium, and Idon’t even have time to wish for Gale’s safety when she’s read-ing the name. Get the IMDb App. Right now, it’s silent as astone. If you lift a finger, we will destroy everylast one of you. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the othertributes that he is no competition at all, and then come outfighting. Effie Trinketmakes it sound like Haymitch just has somewhat rough man-ners that could be corrected with a few tips from her. It was as if the impact hadknocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay therestruggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. 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