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…. Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Classism & ableism
- Alcoholism (secondary character)
- Hallucinations
- Drugging
- Alcohol consumption & abuse
- Involuntary medical treatment & procedures, including amputation & needles
- Graphic blood & gore depiction
- Graphic physical injuries & serious illness of a loved one, including burns, loss of hearing, and discussions of scars
- Graphic emesis, multiple on-page
- Cannibalism recounted & discussed
- Graphic food and water scarcity, including mentions of death from starvation & dehydration
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a friend & child (on-page, multiple)
- Death of a father & husband recounted
- Murder & attempted murder by stabbing and strangulation
- Fire & explosions, on-page & recounted
- Whipping mentioned
- Poisoning
- Avalanche mentioned
- Police brutality mentioned
- Poverty
- Rebellion & war themes
- Graphic animal death & hunting including 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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