Basically, the hunger games is an annual games where a male and female between the ages of 12 and 18 can be randomly chosen to go to the annual hunger games. there are 12 districts where a a male and female are chosen from each, and compete in the games, the hunger games is where the capitol shows off its power, and hosts the hunger games where the 24 tributes and to fight to their death in a large arena miles long with vegetation and obsticals. when the tributes are chosen, they are transported to the capitol, where everyone is rich, and you have to get sponcers. Sponcers are rich people that can buy things for the tributes in the middle of the games. So from district 12, Katniss and Peta are both chosen, they take a train to the capitol, hey have three days to get ready before the games. The tributes enter the arena, they have a little time untill a cannon goes off, katniss and a lot of other tributes go for backpacks, and weapons layed in the middle of a field in a cornucopia katniss manages to get a backpack and runs for safely, she continues to hike. She eventually manages to hike close to the edge of the arena. the game makers have camera every where, and when they see her nearing the edge, they sent fireballs after her, until she was led away from the edge, and to a small pond where she fills a an empty water bottle. later she encounters a meeting with an alliance of people from district 1, 2 and peta from 12. they chase her up a tree, try to get her but cant, so finally Peta says that they should wait her out. Night falls, and morning comes. The next morning Rue, age 12, from district 11 wakes up katniss, and warns her about a tracker jacker nest. tracker jackers are deadly wasps. She tells katniss to cut the branch with a knife, she cuts it, and the tracker jacker nest falls onto the sleeping tributes below, causing most of them serious pain and death. This leads to her escape. Later katniss and peta team up, and almost win, untill kato comes over, and they fight with him, untill he is thrown off into a pack of man eat wolves. they win the hunger games, but the game makers are not happy.