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The 74th Hunger Games was the Hunger Games that was one of the primary driving events in the trilogy. This Hunger Games was both controversial and historical for being the first time in history where the Capitol crowned two victors: Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from District 12.[1] The Head Gamemaker was Seneca Crane.[2]

Tributes[]

District Male tribute Female tribute Mentors
District 1 Marvel Glimmer Cashmere and Gloss (possibly)[3]
District 2 Cato Clove Enobaria and Brutus (possibly)
District 3 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute
District 4 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute Finnick Odair[4]
District 5 Unnamed tribute "Foxface"
District 6 "Jason" (film) Unnamed tribute
District 7 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute
District 8 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute
District 9 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute
District 10 Unnamed tribute Unnamed tribute
District 11 Thresh Rue
District 12 Peeta Mellark Katniss Everdeen Haymitch Abernathy[5]

Arena[]

74th Hunger Games Arena

The 74th Hunger Games arena.

The 74th Hunger Games began on a large, flat expanse of hard packed dirt, with the Cornucopia at its center. The 24 tributes were set up in a ring around it, vying to claim its weapons, food, camping supplies, and medical supplies.[6]

The arena contained forests, streams, meadows, pools, a wheat field, caves, and a lake. It was enormous, and it would probably haven taken a tribute several days to walk from one end of the arena to the other. The forest was rigged with several Gamemaker traps, including a device that shot fireballs at the tributes, and places where the mutts could come in and out of the arena.

Known muttations[]

Arena uniform[]

Each tribute wore tawny trousers, a light green shirt, sturdy brown belt, and a thin-hooded black jacket that fell down to the thighs. The jacket was designed to reflect heat, as the nights would grow cold in the arena. The outfit also included boots, which were worn over skin-tight socks. The boots were made of soft leather and had a narrow, flexible rubber sole with treads, which were good for running.[7] In the film, outfits were color-coded according to district.[8]

Summary[]

Pre-Games[]

Reaping[]

Cato volunteered from District 2.[5] In District 12, Primrose Everdeen's name was pulled from the girls' reaping ball,[9] and after a moment of shock, her older sister Katniss jumped in to volunteer— the first tribute from 12 to do so in decades. Shortly thereafter, Peeta Mellark was reaped.[10]

Tribute Parade[]

District 1's tributes were spray-painted silver, and they wore "tasteful" tunics studded with glittering jewels.[11] The District 7 tributes presumably wore tree costumes, as had been typical for several decades under the district's stylist.[12]

From District 12, Katniss and Peeta wore simple black unitards, covering them from ankle to neck, with shiny leather boots laced up to their knees. They also wore capes made of "streams of red, orange, and yellow" with matching headpieces. Their capes were then set alight with artificial flames, making a lasting impression on the Capitol audience. Katniss and Peeta also held hands in the chariot at the direction of Katniss's stylist, Cinna.[11]

Training scores[]

Tributes garnered these scores from their private sessions with the Gamemakers. During her session, Katniss, infuriated at being ignored, shot directly at an apple in the mouth of the Gamemakers' roast pig.[13] This year, the Career tributes from 1, 2, and 4 all scored in the 8 to 10 range, while most other tributes averaged a five.[14]

Interviews[]

Glimmer wore a see-through gold gown, and the angle of her interview was sex appeal. Cato was a "ruthless killing machine", "Foxface" was sly and elusive, and the boy from District 10 was "very quiet".[15]

Rue wore in a gossamer gown "complete with wings". Caesar Flickerman complimented her on her training score, and when he asked her about her greatest strength in the arena, she replied, "I'm very hard to catch. And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out." Her district partner, Thresh, ignored Caesar's attempts at banter, responding only with a "yes" or "no" or refusing to reply altogether.[15]

Katniss was given a dress made of reflective red, yellow, and white gems, with blue that accented the tips of the flame design. In her interview itself, she pretended that she was speaking frankly to Cinna in the crowd, and she spun around in her dress upon direction, giving the impression of dazzling flames.[15]

Peeta drew in the audience right away, playing up his role as the baker's son and comparing the other tributes to their districts' breads. Then he told a "funny anecdote" about the Capitol showers, so he and Caesar went back and forth sniffing each other. After the laughing died down, Caesar asked Peeta if he had a girlfriend back home, and after some more prodding, Peeta admitted that he had a crush on Katniss.[15] This would be the beginning of District 12's star-crossed lovers angle.[7]


The Games[]

The 74th Hunger Games lasted for 18 days. This is a short summary of the main events each day.

Day 1 (bloodbath)[]

The tributes enter the arena. Katniss wants to run for the bow and arrows despite Haymitch's orders to run for the forest. She manages to get a backpack, but she grabs it at the same time the boy from District 9 does. She fights with him over the backpack, until he is killed by Clove. Clove then throws one of her knives at Katniss, but hits the backpack instead, and Katniss runs for the forest. She doesn't stop until it gets dark. She then straps herself to a tree to stay the night. The Careers start hunting tributes.[6]

  • Deaths: 11 - District 3 female, District 4 male, District 5 male, both from 6, both from 7, District 8 male, both from 9, and the girl from 10.

Day 2[]

Shortly before dawn, Katniss witnesses Peeta and the Career pack kill the girl from District 8, who tried to warm herself by making a fire.[6] Katniss can't figure out why Peeta has teamed up with the Careers. She feels betrayed. Since they didn't see her, she spends the day hunting and continuing her search for water.[16]

  • Deaths: 1 - District 8 female

Day 3[]

Katniss, very weak and dehydrated, wonders why her sponsors haven't sent any water. By the afternoon, she collapses in mud, alerting her to the pond of water beside her. She purifies the water, drinks, eats, and later rests.[16]

Day 4[]

Katniss is awakened by the Gamemaker-created wall of fire.[16] As she runs, she gets hit by a fireball on her calf, but manages to reach another pond by sunrise which eases her burns. While resting and recovering, Katniss hears the Careers coming towards her. They spot her and chase her into the forest. Katniss quickly hides in a tree where they can't reach her. Because they can't reach Katniss, they make camp under the tree to wait for Katniss to come down at some point. Katniss also gets her first sponsor gift: burn medicine for her leg and welted hands. When night falls, Rue appears in the tree next to her and points out the tracker jacker nest above Katniss' head.[17] While the anthem plays, Katniss begins sawing at the branch that the nest is hanging from.[18]

Day 5[]

At dawn, Katniss is able to drop the tracker jacker nest, and the wasps begin to attack the Careers and Peeta. With advance notice, Rue was able to escape, but Glimmer and the girl from District 4 die from the stings, and everyone else gets stung. Katniss is able to get the bow and arrows from Glimmer's corpse shortly before the hovercraft takes it away. She sees Peeta, but he sends her away just before Cato appears. Confused, disoriented, and hallucinating from the tracker jacker venom, Katniss is able to get away before she finally loses consciousness.[18]

  • Deaths: 2 - Glimmer, District 4 female

Day 6[]

According to Rue, Katniss slept for two nights. Her sleep was punctuated by several terrifying nightmares.[19]

Day 7[]

Katniss finally wakes up from her fever dreams and resumes hunting and seeking water. Rue, who must have been following her, appears, and teams up with Katniss. As she and Rue begin to fall asleep, Katniss begins formulating a plan.[19]

Day 8[]

Rue and Katniss wake to the cannon shot for the boy from District 10, who was most likely killed by the Careers. Katniss and Rue made plans for destroying the Careers' stock of food and supplies. While Rue starts three fires in the woods which lure the Careers away from the Cornucopia, Katniss made it to the camp and discovered that the supplies were piled away from the camp and guarded by the boy from District 3. She sees Foxface carefully approach the pyramid of supplies to steal food and works out that the Careers had reactivated the mines from the starting platforms and reburied them around the supplies. With three arrows, Katniss tears open a bag of apples, which fall and trigger the mines.[20] The explosions blow her off her feet and deafens her, but she manages to crawl under a bush just as the Careers arrive. Cato is so furious that he snaps the neck of the boy from District 3. Katniss spends the night under a bush.[21]

  • Deaths: 2 - District 3 male, District 10 male

Day 9[]

When she awakens, Katniss is still deaf in her left ear, but she can hear Foxface laughing at the Careers' loss. Katniss returns to the rendezvous spot, but since Rue has not returned, she spends the afternoon in a tree to wait, but later decides to search for her. At first finding no sign of Rue, she eventually heard Rue's four note tune coming from the mockingjays, then her scream. When Katniss finds her, Rue was captured in a net by Marvel, the boy from District 1, who spears her through her abdomen before Katniss can free her.[21] Immediately, Katniss kills him by shooting an arrow in his neck, then frees Rue from the net but can't help her except hold her and sing to her until she dies. Then she arranges wild flowers around the body as one last act of their alliance and defiance to the Capitol, for making them pawns in their twisted game. She walks away, and a parachute arrives with a loaf of bread from District 11, Rue's district.[22]

  • Deaths: 2 - Marvel, Rue

Day 10[]

Feeling lost, Katniss forces herself to sort her supplies and hunt. She thinks about revenge on the Careers for Rue's death. In the evening, Claudius Templesmith announces a rule change: there can be two victors if they come from the same district. Suddenly, Katniss calls out for Peeta.[22]

Day 11[]

Katniss follows the stream, hoping to find Peeta. She finds him buried and covered in his self made camouflage at a river bank. He is so weak and badly injured that he can't get out of there alone anymore, so Katniss pulls him out, washes him and tends to his stings, burns, fever, and the cut on his leg. They both seek shelter in a cave, but Peeta's fever isn't going away. To keep him from speaking pessimistically, Katniss kisses him, which also keeps up the appearance of being "madly in love." Promptly, a parachute arrives containing broth.[23]

Day 12[]

Peeta's fever has broken, but Katniss is exhausted and Peeta makes her sleep the rest of the morning. By afternoon, Peeta's leg has gotten worse: he has blood poisoning. Katniss spends the day hunting and cooking while Peeta lies in the cave. In the evening, Templesmith announces that there will be a feast at the Cornucopia tomorrow, where every tribute will find what they most desperately need. Immediately, Peeta makes Katniss promise not to go because its too dangerous. Later on, a parachute arrives from Haymitch containing sleep syrup, with which Katniss can knock out Peeta for the whole time she needs to get to the Cornucopia and get the medicine.[24] She leaves before dawn.[25]

Day 13[]

Katniss reaches the Cornucopia and finds Foxface running out of the Cornucopia to grab her backpack immediately after they're placed. Katniss makes a run for it, but is attacked by Clove. Katniss shoots an arrow at her but misses. Clove knocks Katniss down and holds her to the ground with a knife at her face, mocking Katniss about being in love with Peeta and how Katniss couldn't save Rue. Just as Clove begins to cut Katniss, Thresh arrives and kills Clove by smashing her skull with a stone. He then lets Katniss get her bag and run, because he feels like he owes her for what she did for Rue. Katniss is able to get back to the cave and inject Peeta with the medicine before she loses consciousness.[25]

  • Deaths: 1 - Clove

Day 14[]

When Katniss awakes having bled a lot overnight, she finds Peeta feeling much better than before. He has bandaged her forehead, and continues to care for her. A storm rages outside, so they stay inside and try to recover the whole day. They kiss for the first time.[26]

Day 15[]

The storm continues preventing any hunting and gathering. Katniss and Peeta both feel much better and finally get closer to each other. They kiss again, and immediately Haymitch sends them a huge feast. At night, they discover from the daily announcements that Thresh has been killed during the day. Overnight, the rain stops suddenly.[27]

  • Deaths: 1 - Thresh

Day 16[]

Katniss and Peeta go out for hunting and collecting berries and roots. Peeta unwittingly collects poisonous nightlock berries. When Katniss finds him collecting them, a cannon fires. Only a few meters away, Foxface's body is lifted to the hovercraft, and they realize that she stole the berries from Peeta and died.[27] Katniss takes the remaining berries and plans to use them later to trick Cato. They return to the cave.[28]

  • Deaths: 1 - Foxface

Day 17[]

Since Cato is the only remaining tribute among Katniss and Peeta, they go to find him. They find him running right into them, but he is also running from something far more dangerous: a pack of wolf mutts.[28] All three run to the Cornucopia, where they try to rescue themselves by climbing it. In that process, Peeta gets bitten by one of the mutts and loses a lot of blood. Weakened like this, Cato can reach him and strangle him, standing near the edge on the top of the Cornucopia. Katniss realizes that she can't kill Cato without having Peeta to be pulled down by him too, she shoots an arrow in Cato's hand. This makes him loosen his grip, he trips and falls over. Katniss and Peeta watch him fight the mutts for about an hour, then he collapses, but they are unable to kill him, due to his body armor. He is still alive when the night comes.[1]

Day 18[]

At dawn, Katniss finally shoots Cato with her last arrow, as an act of mercy. The mutts leave through a hole in the ground that opens up. Katniss and Peeta climb down the Cornucopia and head towards the lake so a hovercraft can come to take Cato's body. This is when Claudius Templesmith announces that the previous rule change is withdrawn, so there can only be one victor. Neither Katniss nor Peeta are willing to kill the other, and they're both arguing why they should be the one to die before Katniss remembers the berries. They prepare to commit double suicide, but before they can, they are both announced as the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.[1]

  • Deaths: 1 - Cato

Placing[]

Tributes of 74th hungergames

The tributes of the 74th Hunger Games.

Book[]


Film[]

  • 1st - Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (victors)
  • 3rd - Cato - mauled by wolf mutts, then shot in the head by Katniss
  • 4th - Thresh - killed by wolf mutts
  • 5th - Foxface - unwittingly ate nightlock berries
  • 6th - Clove - smashed against the Cornucopia by Thresh during the feast
  • 7th - Rue - speared through the abdomen by Marvel
  • 8th - Marvel - shot in the heart by Katniss
  • 9th - District 3 male - neck snapped by Cato
  • 10thDistrict 10 male - unknown
  • 11thGlimmer - stung by tracker jackers
  • 12th - District 8 female- presumably stabbed by Glimmer with Cato's sword [8 hours, 12 minutes, and 8 seconds]
  • 13thDistrict 4 female - Cut in the stomach by Cato and thrown into a supply crate [17 minutes and 23 seconds]
  • 14thDistrict 7 female - speared in the heart by Marvel [2 minutes and 31 seconds]
  • 15thDistrict 6 male - tripped and slashed to death with a scythe by Cato [1 minute and 40 seconds]
  • 16th - District 9 female - Pounded against the Cornucopia and stabbed by Thresh [1 minute and 37 seconds]
  • 17th - District 4 male - throat slashed by with a machete by Cato [1 minute and 18 seconds]
  • 18thDistrict 7 male - slashed in the throat with a sickle by Thresh [37 seconds]
  • 19thDistrict 9 male - knife thrown in back by Clove [est. 35 seconds; District 7 male's actor]
  • 20thDistrict 3 female - slashed in the forehead with a sickle by the District 5 male [29 seconds]
  • 21st - District 6 female - Stabbed to death with a knife by Glimmer[27 seconds]
  • 22ndDistrict 10 female - Clove throws a knife at her leg, then at her arm and finally throws one at her chest, killing her [23 seconds]
  • 23rd - District 5 male -Glimmer throws him into a box and then stabs him in the abdomen with a dagger [17 seconds]
  • 24thDistrict 8 male - stabbed with a kukri by Marvel [9 seconds]

Aftermath[]

When Katniss and Peeta pulled out the nightlock berries, it was interpreted as a sign of rebellion by many people in the districts.[29] Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker responsible for letting them both live, was executed[30] or committed suicide[8] shortly after. Districts began to push back against the Capitol, and Katniss's mockingjay pin, along with Katniss herself, became symbols of resistance.[31] One year after the 74th Hunger Games, the Second Rebellion broke out, eventually leading to the end of the Hunger Games, the liberation of the districts, and overthrow of the Capitol regime.

Trivia[]

  • The 74th Games was the last Hunger Games for which a victor was crowned. The 75th Hunger Games was started but never finished, with six tributes surviving.[32]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Hunger Games, Chapter 25
  2. Catching Fire, Chapter 2
  3. Catching Fire, Chapter 16
  4. Mockingjay, Chapter 19
  5. 5.0 5.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 3
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Hunger Games, Chapter 11
  7. 7.0 7.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 10
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 The Hunger Games film
  9. The Hunger Games, Chapter 1
  10. The Hunger Games, Chapter 2
  11. 11.0 11.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 5
  12. Catching Fire, Chapter 15
  13. The Hunger Games, Chapter 7
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 The Hunger Games, Chapter 8
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 The Hunger Games, Chapter 9
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Hunger Games, Chapter 12
  17. The Hunger Games, Chapter 13
  18. 18.0 18.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 14
  19. 19.0 19.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 15
  20. The Hunger Games, Chapter 16
  21. 21.0 21.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 17
  22. 22.0 22.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 18
  23. The Hunger Games, Chapter 19
  24. The Hunger Games, Chapter 20
  25. 25.0 25.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 21
  26. The Hunger Games, Chapter 22
  27. 27.0 27.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 23
  28. 28.0 28.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 24
  29. The Hunger Games, Chapter 26
  30. Catching Fire, Chapter 2
  31. Catching Fire, Chapter 10
  32. Catching Fire, Chapter 27
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