The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of North America, the nation of Panem forces each district to send two children to the annual Hunger Games — a televised fight to the death. When Katniss Everdeen volunteers for her sister, she enters an arena where survival requires combat skill, political savvy, and the willingness to become a symbol for a revolution she never asked to lead.

63 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Katniss Everdeen — A sixteen-year-old hunter from the Seam of District 12 who volunteers as tribute to save her sister — and accidentally becomes the symbol of a revolut
• Peeta Mellark — The baker's son from District 12 — stocky, strong, and genuinely kind — who declared his love for Katniss on national television and spent the rest of
• Gale Hawthorne — Katniss's hunting partner and closest friend — tall, dark, furious — who channeled his rage at the Capitol into rebel warfare and weapons design, and
• Haymitch Abernathy — Victor of the 50th Hunger Games, District 12's only living champion — a drunk, a genius, and the man who kept Katniss and Peeta alive by being three m
• Finnick Odair — The most beautiful man in Panem and the deadliest with a trident — District 4's golden boy Victor whose charm hid years of Capitol-forced prostitution
• Johanna Mason — District 7's axe-wielding Victor who won her Games by pretending to be a helpless weakling — then killed everyone. The Capitol took everyone she loved
• President Coriolanus Snow — The president of Panem — white-haired, rose-scented, utterly ruthless — who maintains power through fear, spectacle, and the understanding that hope i
• President Alma Coin — The leader of District 13 — grey-haired, grey-eyed, grey-souled — a revolutionary who would replace one tyranny with another and call it liberation.
• Primrose Everdeen — Katniss's younger sister — blonde, gentle, brave in quiet ways — the reason for everything. Her name was drawn at the Reaping. Katniss volunteered. Th
• Effie Trinket — District 12's Capitol escort — wigs, heels, manners, schedules — who pulled children's names from a glass ball with manicured fingers and slowly reali
• Cinna — Katniss's stylist — quiet, understated, revolutionary — who chose District 12, set the Girl on Fire, and turned fashion into the first weapon of the r
• Plutarch Heavensbee — Head Gamemaker and secret rebel mastermind — a heavy, genial man who designed the Quarter Quell clock arena with a hidden exit plan and orchestrated t
• Seneca Crane — Head Gamemaker of the 74th Hunger Games — famous for his elaborate facial hair — who allowed two victors to survive the arena and paid for it with his
• Caesar Flickerman — Panem's eternal television host — blue-haired, blinding-smiled, ageless — who has interviewed tributes for over forty years, making children likeable
• Rue — District 11's twelve-year-old tribute — small, dark-eyed, quick as a bird in the trees — whose alliance with Katniss and death in the arena became the
• Thresh — District 11's male tribute — massive, powerful, and solitary — who spared Katniss at the feast because she honored Rue, then disappeared into the grai
• Cato — District 2's Career tribute — blond, brutal, and trained since birth to kill — who was the arena's apex predator until the mutts showed him what it fe
• Clove — District 2's female Career tribute — small, vicious, and lethally precise with throwing knives — who pinned Katniss at the feast and died boasting abo
• Annie Cresta — District 4 Victor whose arena flooded and drowned the other tributes — she survived because she could swim, and she's never been entirely present sinc
• Mags — District 4's elderly Victor — mumbling, beloved, and brave enough to volunteer for the Quarter Quell at eighty so Annie wouldn't have to go back into
• Beetee Latier — District 3's genius inventor and Victor — thin, bespectacled, and soft-spoken — who designed the wire trap that blew open the Quarter Quell arena and
• Wiress — District 3 Victor — eccentric, brilliant, half-lost in her own mind — who figured out the clock arena when no one else could, repeating 'tick tock' un
• Enobaria — District 2 Victor who ripped out another tribute's throat with her teeth — then had them cosmetically sharpened and tipped with gold. She's exactly as
• Boggs — District 13's military commander and leader of Squad 451 — a steady, loyal soldier who transferred his allegiance from Coin to Katniss when he realize
• Tigris — A former Capitol stylist surgically altered to resemble a tiger — whiskers, striped skin, flattened nose — who hid the rebel squad in her underground
• Madge Undersee — The mayor's daughter of District 12 — quiet, blonde, privileged by district standards — who gave Katniss the mockingjay pin that became the symbol of
• Foxface — The red-haired District 5 tribute — never named, always watching — who survived the 74th Games longer than almost anyone by being too clever to fight
• Lucy Gray Baird — A performer and singer from District 12's Covey community — tribute in the 10th Hunger Games — who charmed Panem with her voice, survived the arena wi
• Sejanus Plinth — A Capitol-raised boy from a District 2 family — emotional, principled, and doomed — whose friendship with young Coriolanus Snow ended with a hangman's
• Dr. Volumnia Gaul — The Head Gamemaker of the early Hunger Games — wild-haired, mismatched-eyed, brilliantly sadistic — who invented the mutt creatures, shaped the Games
• Marvel — District 1's male Career tribute in the 74th Games — tall, skilled with a spear — who killed Rue and was killed by Katniss's arrow before the body hit
• Glimmer — District 1's female Career tribute — beautiful, blonde, and deadly until the tracker jackers found her. She died swollen and unrecognizable, the bow s
• Pollux — A Capitol-born Avox — tongue cut out for rebellion — who spent years as an underground camera operator and used that knowledge to guide the rebel squa

Locations

• Panem — Post-apocalyptic nation built on the drowned and burned ruins of North America — a Capitol gorging itself on spectacle while thirteen districts starve
• The Capitol — Gleaming parasite city nestled in the Rocky Mountains — a place of obscene wealth, surgical body modification, and weaponized entertainment where citi
• District 12 — Coal mining district at the edge of Panem — the poorest, the most forgotten, and the place that produced the girl who burned the whole system down.
• District 13 — The district that officially doesn't exist — a nuclear-armed military society buried deep underground, biding its time for seventy-five years to finis
• District 1 — The luxury goods district — closest to the Capitol in geography and values, producing jewels, fashion, and children who volunteer to kill for glory.
• District 2 — The weapons and masonry district — Capitol's iron fist, producing both Peacekeepers and the deadliest Career tributes, its loyalty bought with militar
• District 4 — The fishing district — salt-crusted and sun-beaten, producing Career tributes who fight like the sea: fluid, patient, and deadly. Finnick Odair's home
• District 7 — The lumber district — vast forests and hard people who swing axes all day and learned to swing them at Peacekeepers when the time came.
• District 11 — The agricultural district — largest in area, most brutal in enforcement, where workers harvest food they're forbidden to eat under the watch of armed
• The Seam — The poorest quarter of the poorest district — a neighborhood of coal-dusted shacks where hunger is the baseline and the only way out is the mines or t
• Victor's Village — A cluster of twelve pristine mansions standing empty in every district — monuments to the Games that mock the surrounding poverty, occupied only by th
• Training Center — Capitol facility where tributes are housed, trained, scored, and polished for slaughter — penthouse luxury above, weapons training below, cameras ever
• 74th Hunger Games Arena — A temperate forest arena surrounding a golden lake — engineered as a killing ground where Gamemakers deploy fire, tracker jacker nests, and muttation
• 75th Hunger Games Arena — The Quarter Quell arena — a tropical island that IS a clock, each wedge triggering a different horror on the hour: blood rain, poisonous fog, lightnin
• 10th Hunger Games Arena — A bombed-out Capitol amphitheater — the early Games were crude, unpolished, closer to public execution than spectacle, with tributes dumped into ruins
• The Nut — District 2's military command center carved into a mountain — the Capitol's most fortified position outside the Capitol itself, and the target that ne
• President's Mansion — President Snow's residence in the Capitol — a palace of roses and poison where the most powerful man in Panem conducts business surrounded by genetica
• The Hob — District 12's black market — an abandoned coal warehouse where illegal game, liquor, and survival change hands under the noses of Peacekeepers who are
• The Cornucopia — The golden horn-shaped structure at the heart of every arena — a gleaming pile of weapons and supplies designed to lure tributes into a killing frenzy
• The Tribute Train — A Capitol luxury train transporting tributes from their district to the Capitol — crystal chandeliers and five-course meals for children being deliver

Items

• Mockingjay Pin — A small gold pin depicting a mockingjay in flight — an accidental symbol that became the emblem of a revolution, worn by a girl who didn't know she wa
• Nightlock Berries — Deadly poisonous berries that kill in seconds — Katniss and Peeta's threat to eat them together rather than give the Capitol a single victor was the f
• Katniss's Bow — A custom-made silver bow and arrows — the weapon that made the Girl on Fire lethal, from hunting squirrels in the woods of District 12 to shooting dow
• Finnick's Trident — A three-pronged spear from the sea — Finnick Odair's signature weapon, wielded with the fluid precision of a man who learned to kill before he learned
• Sponsor Parachute — A silver parachute drifting down from the arena sky — the difference between life and death, paid for by Capitol citizens betting on their favorite ch
• Tracker Jackers — Genetically engineered killer wasps — Capitol-designed biological weapons whose venom triggers hallucinations, agony, and death, deployed in arenas an
• Arena Force Field — An invisible electromagnetic barrier enclosing every arena — the cage that keeps tributes trapped and the technology that Beetee shattered to break Ka
• Peeta's Pearl — A small white pearl pressed into Katniss's hand during the Quarter Quell — the last pure thing Peeta gave her before the Capitol broke his mind and tu
• The Holo — A military holographic map projector showing the location of every pod — every trap, bomb, and muttation — planted throughout the Capitol's streets, c
• District Bread — Every district bakes its own bread — but the loaves Peeta burned and threw to a starving Katniss in the rain is the act of kindness that saved her fam

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