The Hunger Games

Effie, district 12’s chaperone, reaches her dainty hands with purple and white pained nails into the large fishbowl shaped vase. With a few twirls of her wrist she finally chooses the piece of paper that holds the name of the tribute. Grasping it, she walks back to her microphone, unfolds the paper, takes a deep breath reading the name and announces, “Prim Rose Everdeen”. In the crowd of children dressed in their worm out dim clothes, everyone backs away from Prim as she comes to the reality that her name has been called. As the camera shifts to her sister Katniss you can see the look of horror and confusion on Katniss’s face. The camera shifts back to Prim, she is holding back tears and coming to the realization her life will not last much longer. Effie coaxes her toward the stage. Prim slowly begins to allow her feet to move toward the stage when she remembers her little duck tail Katniss pointed out earlier and tucks it in as she moves. The other young girls can say or do nothing but back away and look at Prim. The camera shifts to Prim’s mom and you can tell she is holding everything back. As Prim makes it into view and Katniss first sets eyes on her Katniss cannot bear to see her young sister being a tribute. Katniss steps into the aisle and calls out to her sister in a first weak voice and then screams “I volunteer! I volunteer!” The guards hold her back until she retains composure, stands up straight and claims, “I volunteer as tribute.” A thing said that cannot be taken back.

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