- "This beautiful district is lush with trees, from which these citizens supply our lumber and paper. The people of District 7 are hardworking and down-to-earth."
- —Description from The Hunger Games: Tribute Guide
District 7 is one of the thirteen districts of Panem. Large swathes of the region are apparently covered with trees - as District 7 provides lumber and paper to the Capitol - and the citizens are known to be skilled with axes.
History[]
Relationship with the Games[]
District 7 tributes seemed to have decent chances in the arena, as their industry involved a lot of physical labor and the handling of potential weapons like axes and saws.
Aftermath of the 74th Hunger Games[]
By the time of the reading of the Quell card, there were rumors of uprisings in District 7 and District 11.[1]
75th Hunger Games[]
At the time of the third Quarter Quell, the tributes from Districts 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 were all involved in a rebel plan to protect Katniss and break out of the 75th Hunger Games arena. Soon after the plan was enacted, communications went down in Districts 7, 10, and 12.[2]
Second Rebellion[]
One evening, the Capitol aired a live propo of Peeta Mellark, who was made to recount war damage allegedly perpetrated by rebels. This included a broken dam in District 7,[3] which may have inspired the District 5 dam scene from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.[4]
Also in Mockingjay - Part 1, a band of District 7 loggers is escorted to their shift by a group of armed Peacekeepers. Someone hums Rue's four-note song, and the loggers run off and scale the trees. Though many of their number are shot and killed, a man quotes Katniss's District 8 propo— "If we burn, you burn with us!"— and the rebels use a remote control to detonate the land mines buried below, killing the Peacekeepers.[4]
All but one of its victors were killed during the war and the Victors' Purge. The only survivor was Johanna Mason.[5]
Culture[]
Nothing is mentioned about the typical lives of citizens. However, Katniss Everdeen notes Johanna Mason's skill with axes, and muses that she had probably been handling them since she was a toddler. If that's the case, it seems that citizens from District 7 begin working in their district's lumber industry at an early age.[6]
Known tributes[]
- Treech - Male tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. Bitten by a venomous snake mutt that Lucy Gray Baird dropped down his shirt. Placed 3rd out of 24.[7] In the film, he inhaled rat poison Lucy Gray dropped on him and placed 6th.[8]
- Lamina - Female tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. Fell to her death after being attacked by Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner. Placed 10th.[9] In the film, she was speared in the chest with a trident by Coral, placing 9th.[8]
- District 7 female (74th HG) - Died in the Cornucopia bloodbath.[10]
- District 7 male (74th HG) - Died in the bloodbath.[10]
- Johanna Mason - Victor of the 71st Hunger Games,[11] and tribute and survivor of the 75th Hunger Games. After the war, she was the district's last surviving victor.[5]
- Blight - Victor of an unknown Games and tribute in the 75th. Died on the second day after running into a force field, placing 16th.[12]
Location and geography[]
According to the map of Panem featured in The Hunger Games Adventures, District 7 is located in the northwest region of North America, primarily centered in the region known today as Cascadia. Its territory primarily covers the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, as well as the U.S. states of Montana and Washington. It is one of the few districts, besides District 13 and District 10, to be primarily located outside the contiguous United States as its territory is primarily situated in western Canada. District 7's location ties heavily to its lumber and paper industry, as the region it is located in is famous for the vast forests that produce redwoods, pines, and many other kinds of trees. There is also a dam within or nearby the district.
District 7 borders District 4 (to the southwest), District 1 (to the south and southeast), and District 9 (to the east).
Trivia[]
- In Catching Fire, Johanna says the tributes from District 7 have been dressed as trees for the past 40 years of Tribute Parades.[13] However, in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, the tributes in the 74th Games were dressed in elaborate paper costumes resembling origami.
- District 7 was the 5th - 10th district to pry from Capitol rule.
- District 7 is possibly one of the larger districts, due to the space needed for trees.
- According to The Hunger Games Adventures, District 7 is located directly northeast of District 4, on the northwestern coast of Panem.
- However, when Katniss travels to the Capitol for the 74th Hunger Games she looks out the train window seeing the lights of either district 7 or 10, meaning it would more likely be located between Appalachia (location of District 12) and the Rockies (location of the Capitol).[14]
- Aside from Career districts (1, 2, and 4), District 7 has the biggest advantage in the Games, as they not only have experience in the arenas brutal environment, but they also show exceptional skill in weapons such as an axe and other cutting tools.
- According to the Capitol.PN, District 7 has 115 mills in operation with a population of 26,354 people, making it the eighth largest district in terms of population.
- According to the Capitol.PN, District 7 claims 63,125 in tesserae, making it the sixth richest district.
- If the population is 26,354 and they claim 63,125 tesserae, it would equal to 2.395 tesserae per person, making it the 8th richest district.
- It's one of the locations which appear in the film series. Others are Districts 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, and 13. However, Districts 1 and 4 appear briefly in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on the TV when Haymitch is showing footage of the other victors being reaped for the Games.
- Based on the arena wear for the 74th Hunger Games, the district's color seems to be ironstone brown (#7c5242 – ).[15]
References[]
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 12
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 27
- ↑ Mockingjay, Chapter 9
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 26
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 23
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 20
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
- ↑ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 18
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 11
- ↑ https://capitolcouture.tumblr.com/post/63406814571
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 22
- ↑ Catching Fire, Chapter 15
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 4
- ↑ File:Anatomy of an arena costume.jpg