The book "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, is a fictional story that takes place in Pane - a future where civilization has been forced into sectors. There is a lot of poverty, probably because the authorities (Capitol) have set very strict rules in attempt at a perfect utopia, which this culture is far from. every year the Capitol holds the Hunger Games, which is a cruel game where a male and female from each 12 sector are chosen against their will to battle each other to the death in order to survive. The protagonist of the story, Katniss Everdeen, volunteers to enter the hunger games after her younger sister is chosen to battle. Kat and Peeta are chosen to represent sector 12 and battle the other contestants to the death. Peeta and Kat end up becoming very good friends and find themselves to be the last 2 people in the games, Neither Katniss nor Peeta will kill the other, so Katniss takes out poisonous berries. Just as she and Peeta pop them in their mouths, the announcer shouts for them to stop and declares them both winners. I think one of the most prominent themes are the inequality between wealthy and poor, In Panem. there are very few who are wealthy and most of the wealth is concentrated on them. and the wealthy ones are rarely found in the districts but at the Capitol. there is barely any middle ground between rich and poor, most of the residents in the sectors go hungry, So Katniss illegally hunts with her bow and arrow in the forests in restricted areas. which she becomes very skilled with (likely because of the hunting she had to do to support her family). The poor are also more likely to be chosen to enter the Hunger games, as the more rich you are, the more you can exchange in order to lower your percentage chance of getting chosen, The rich who do become tributes to the games often volunteer because they have advantage and pay to be highly trained, they are big, strong, and better prepared, and in all more likely t