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Chapter 1
Katniss Everdeen wakes up on the morning of the reaping in District 12. She sneaks under the fence to hunt in the woods with her friend Gale, and we learn how her family has survi…
Chapter 2
Katniss is taken to the Justice Building for her final goodbyes. Peeta Mellark is drawn as the male tribute.
Chapter 3
The train ride to the Capitol continues. Katniss and Peeta watch footage of past Hunger Games with Haymitch and try to get him to commit to helping them.
Chapter 4
The train arrives closer to the Capitol. Peeta tells Katniss he doesn't want the Games to change who he is, which confuses her because she sees the Games as purely about survival.
Chapter 5
The tributes arrive in the Capitol and are handed over to their prep teams. Katniss meets Cinna, her stylist, who is thoughtful and treats her like a person rather than a product.
Chapter 6
Katniss and Peeta arrive in the Capitol and are taken to their quarters in the Training Center. Katniss is overwhelmed by the excess and strangeness of Capitol life.
Chapter 7
The tributes spend two days in group training, where Katniss follows Haymitch's advice and avoids the weapons stations, focusing instead on skills like plant identification and fi…
Chapter 8
After her stunt in the private session, Katniss waits anxiously to learn if she will be punished. Instead, she receives a score of eleven, which stuns everyone including her prep…
Chapter 9
With the Games approaching, Haymitch and Effie prepare Katniss for her televised interview with Caesar Flickerman. Katniss struggles to find a persona that works.
Chapter 10
Katniss confronts Peeta after his interview and accuses him of trying to make her look weak. Peeta says he wasn't trying to help her, he was just being honest.
Chapter 11
Katniss enters the arena and immediately has to make a split-second decision at the Cornucopia. She grabs a backpack and runs instead of fighting for better supplies, narrowly avo…
Chapter 12
Katniss is still in the tree when the Career pack, with Peeta, camps below her. She stays hidden and dehydrated through the heat of the day.
Chapter 13
A fire Katniss accidentally starts draws the Careers to her. She is chased, cornered, and forced to climb another tree.
Chapter 14
Katniss saws the tracker jacker nest loose and drops it on the Careers. The attack works: the pack scatters, two tributes die, and Katniss herself is stung multiple times.
Chapter 15
Katniss spends days hallucinating and hiding while the tracker jacker venom works through her system. When she recovers, she finds Rue and the two form an official alliance.
Chapter 16
Katniss wakes up in the tree after the Career tributes have left, except for Peeta, who stayed behind. She watches from above and realizes Peeta is actually protecting her by misd…
Chapter 17
The tracker jacker venom sends Katniss into vivid, terrifying hallucinations. She relives her father's death in the mines and sees monstrous images she cannot control.
Chapter 18
Katniss and Rue finalize their alliance and make a plan. They want to destroy the Career tributes' food supply, which is stockpiled near the Cornucopia.
Chapter 19
Katniss rushes toward Rue's scream and finds her caught in a net trap set by Marvel, the male tribute from District 1.
Chapter 20
Katniss is alone again and grieving. She eats the bread from District 11 and tries to refocus on survival.
Chapter 21
Katniss and Peeta are hiding in a cave, trying to keep Peeta alive after his leg wound gets infected. The Gamemakers announce a rule change: two tributes from the same district ca…
Chapter 22
Peeta's leg is badly infected and Katniss needs to get medicine from the Cornucopia feast the Gamemakers announce. Haymitch sends her a sleep syrup, and she uses it to knock Peeta…
Chapter 23
Peeta wakes up angry that Katniss drugged him, but they work through it. They spend time in the cave recovering, and Katniss and Peeta talk and grow closer.
Chapter 24
Katniss and Peeta leave the cave and hunt for food. The Gamemakers, wanting to force a final confrontation, dry up all the water sources and drive the remaining tributes together.
Chapter 25
The standoff on the Cornucopia ends when Katniss shoots Cato, sending him into the mutts. He survives long enough to suffer badly, and Katniss eventually shoots him again out of m…
Chapter 26
Katniss and Peeta survive the arena, but the Capitol immediately turns on them. Seneca Crane's decision to allow two victors is reversed at the last second, and the Gamemakers dem…
Chapter 27
Katniss and Peeta are treated, cleaned up, and prepared for the victor's interview. During the train ride home, Peeta learns that Katniss's feelings during the Games were at least…
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