The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Classim
- Ableism & ableist language
- Graphic physical injuries (including burns & loss of hearing) and illness
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a child (on-page, multiple scenes)
- Death of a father & husband recounted
- Death of a friend (on-page)
- Hallucinations
- Nonconsensual drugging
- Alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse & alcoholism
- Non-consensual medical treatment & procedures (including amputation)
- Graphic blood & gore depiction
- Cannibalism recounted & discussed
- Emesis (graphic, multiple on-page scenes)
- Needles
- Scars discussed
- Serious illness of a loved one
- Starvation & dehydration depiction (central theme) and death from starvation & dehydration mentioned
- Grief & loss depiction
- Murder & attempted murder
- Knife violence and stabbing
- Explosions (on-page & recounted)
- Fire
- Strangulation
- Whipping mentioned
- Poisoning
- Avalanche mentioned
- Police brutality mentioned
- Poverty themes
- Rebellion themes
- Animal death (graphic & repeated) and hunting
- Animal dead bodies, and graphic description of skinning & butchering
- Animal attack & death from animal attack (including death from a wasp attack and graphic scene of a child being eaten alive by a wolf)
- Attempted murder of a pet cat recounted
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