Science Fiction Book Visual The Hunger Games Book

Science Fiction Book Visual The Hunger Games Book by: Suzanne Collins Presentation by: Emily Levitt Period: 3

Summary of The Hunger Games • This book has the setting of Panem, a place in North America, that consists of different districts. (Districts 1 -12) • The main character, Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12. This district is also known as the Seam. • The districts have a dystopian society which is brought together through the fight to death of kids ages twelve to eighteen. • This district, 12, is filled with coal minors and old, gloomy men, women, and children. • Katniss Everdeen’s sister, Prim is chosen to participate in the Hunger Games but Katniss volunteers as tribute. • Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen are the two participants, from District 12, in the Hunger Games.

Scientific Findings • Scientific finding 1: Dystopian Society Dystopia- a society characterized by human misery, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. District 12, where Katniss lives is considered a dystopian society because of its povery and depression. • Scientific finding 2: Technology The techonology of putting 24 children into a domed arena; the pictures shown on the sky in the arena; how the capital controlls the hunger games through computers; also the tracking devices that each competitor gets put into their arms before entering the game.

What I have learned • I have learned that science can be presented in The Hunger Games through many ways. • I learned that a dystopian society consists of poverty, over population, and human misery. • I also learned that the advanced technologies in the Hunger Games show an uprise in comupter science.

Book Review • The Hunger Games was a great and exciting book to re-read. • I love the concept of dystopian socities and how it involves children my age. • I can connect and relate to the book • The characters are very different from one another. • Overall, The Hunger Games is a great scientific book.