Catniss Everdeen is the older sister of Prim, those two live alone with their mother because their father died a few years ago due to a mining accident. They live in a place called Panem which is divided into 12 districts and they live in the 12th one. Catniss awakes the day of the reaping (where a girl and boy is chosen to go to the hunger games which is where they fight to death) and goes to the woods. This is one of the only places she is comfortable. Catniss soon finds Gale one of her friends and they go out and get food. They talk about how they should just run away, that it'd be so much easier. Catniss comes back to reality and realizes that they can't do that. After they gather all of what they recieved they go and trade it at the market. Once thats done they return home where Catniss finds a very nervous Prim. She gets ready for the reaping and they take off. Catniss isn't worried that Prim's name will be chosen since her names only in it once, but somehow Prim's name is drawn. Catniss then decides to volunteer herself as tribute. The boy who is chosen is Peeta Mellark. Catniss has memories of him coming to her head of him giving throwing her bread one day when she was about ready to starve to death. Catniss and Peeta get an hour to say goodbye and Catniss visitors are her mother and Prim, Peeta's father the baker, the mayors daughter, and Gale. Catniss gives strict instructions to Prim and her mother on what to do. Gale and the baker promise to take care of Prim. The mayors daughter gives Catniss a pin of a mockingjay to remind her of her district. Later they go off to the train station where they take off for the capitol. Peeta and Catniss try talking to their mentor Haymitch but he's to drunk to talk till the next morning when they make a deal that he will stay sober enough to be a mentor because they have fight in them.