Tributes
She is the first person selected during the District 12 reaping, causing Katniss to volunteer.
Prim Rose Everdeen
Katniss kills the tribute Glimmer by dropping a nest of these creatures on her.
Tracker Jackers
A year’s supply of grain and oil that can be purchased in exchange for entering a child’s name extra times into the reaping.
Tesserae
A "maniacally upbeat" resident who praises the tributes for their table manners.
Effie Trinket
This tribute saves Katniss’s life years before the Games by giving her a loaf of burned bread.
Peeta Mellark
Before she forms an alliance, Katniss stays safe while sleeping by doing this.
Tying herself to a tree
The mockingjay pin is considered a "slap in the face" to the Capitol because the birds were originally created to be these tools.
Surveillance tools (spies)
He looks shockingly normal for a Capitol stylist, except for his metallic gold eyeliner.
Cinna
A tiny tribute from District 11 who is able to leap from tree to tree.
Rue
This is the very first gift Haymitch sends to Katniss in the arena.
Burn ointment
Katniss realizes the Gamemakers will make her life miserable in the arena because she did this during her private training session.
Firing an arrow at the Gamemakers (or the pig/apple)
Katniss bonds with this person because they both lost fathers in the same mine explosion.
Gale Hawthorne
Katniss believes this tribute is the smartest of the group; she is never named in the book but is referred to by this nickname.
Foxface
This tribute dies when Thresh smashes her in the head with a rock during the Feast.
Clove
Katniss is motivated to eat the nightlock berries because she believes this outcome will happen if she and Peeta both die.
Districts rioting (or ending the Games forever)
The interview host who dyes his hair a different color for each Hunger Games.
Caesar Flickerman
Katniss sees him as her main opponent, but ends up killing him as an act of mercy after he is killed by mutts.
Cato
Peeta survives his leg wound largely due to this skill he learned in District 12, which helps him camouflage himself.
Cake decorating
Katniss calls the crowning ceremony the "most dangerous part of the Games" because she fears retaliation for this.
Humiliating the Capitol
He communicates with Katniss during the Games solely through carefully timed gift deliveries.
Haymitch Abernathy
In the movie, Katniss obtains her district token at the Hob; however, in the book, this character gives Katniss the Mockingjay pin to wear in the arena.
Madge Undersee- Mayor's daughter