Plot
Characters
Signposts
Conflict
Dystopian Features
100

The male tribute selected from District 12 for the 74th Hunger Games.

Who is Peeta Mellark?

100

The name of Katniss' sister.

What is Primrose Everdeen?

100

Katniss starts piecing together all of Peeta’s actions and realizes that he is already forming a plan to stay alive in the games. 

What is an Aha Moment?

100

Peeta vs. Cato

What is person vs. person?

100

The jabber jays recording human conversations and reporting them back to The Capitol.

What is surveillance?

200

The extra rations of grain and oil in exchange for names going into The Reaping.

What is tesserae?
200

This is the character that Katniss allies with. They make a plan to blow up the supplies of the Career Tributes.

Who is Rue?

200

Katniss frequently thinks of her mother and Prim.

What is Again and Again?

200

Katniss trying to find water.

What is Person vs. Nature?

200

District citizens are not able to communicate with each other.

What is the restriction of free thought and access to information?

300

Katniss does this in order to take her sister’s place in the Hunger Games. 

What is she volunteers for tribute?

300

This character trains Katniss and Peeta on presentation. 

Who is Effie Trinket?

300

Katniss interrupts the action to think about the hollow day in District 12 when Peeta threw the bread toward her.

What is a Memory Moment?

300

The expectation that the tributes put on a good, entertaining show while in the arena.

What is Person vs. Society?

300

District citizens are forced to watch The Reaping, The Hunger Games, and the Interviews.

What is the citizens are controlled or influenced by propaganda? 

400

Katniss drops this on the Career Tributes as they camped at the base of her tree.

What is a tracker jacker nest?

400

The mayor’s daughter. She gives Katniss a mockingjay pin. 

Who is Madge Undersee?

400

Katniss realizes that the boy she shot to try and save Rue was her first kill.

What is an Aha Moment?

400

Katniss questioning how much love she is willing to show Peeta in order to help her win the Games.

What is Person vs. Self?

400

District citizens of Panem are forced to send their children to fight each other to the death in the Hunger Games. Capitol citizens gamble on how it will go. 

What is dehumanization?

500

The announcement of this rule caused Katniss to yell “Peeta” and clap her hand over her mouth. 

What is that there can be two winners of the Hunger Games, as long as they are from the same district. 

500

Thresh intervenes and saves Katniss from this Career Tribute.

Who is Clove?

500

Katniss makes reference to her father at different points throughout the book. 

What is Again and Again?
500

Haymitch struggling with his addiction to alcohol.

What is Person vs. Self?

500

Citizens in District 12 are afraid to go beyond the electric fence. 

What is fear of the outside world?