District 8

"From the simple, lovely fabrics of the districts to the brocades favoured in the Capitol, District 8 makes it all."

- Description from The Hunger Games: Tribute Guide

District 8 is one of the districts of Panem. Its main industry is making textiles and clothing. They have at least one factory that is primarily used for making Peacekeeper uniforms. Incomes in District 8 must be fairly low, as Twill mentions that she puts in a four hour shift in a Peacekeeper Uniform factory after her full time job as a teacher. Bonnie, a child, also mentions putting in a four hour shift after she gets out of school. Katniss describes District 8 as "an ugly, urban place stinking of industrial fumes, the people housed in run down tenements, barely a blade of grass in sight".

Occupations
According to the official Hunger Games movie website (thecapitol.pn), the following jobs are offered in District 8:
 * Factory worker
 * Weaver
 * Dress maker
 * Designer
 * Warehouse manager

Known tributes



 * Cecelia - Victor of an unknown Hunger Games, participant in the 75th Hunger Games.
 * Woof - Victor of an unknown Hunger Games, participant in the 75th Hunger Games.
 * District 8 female (74th HG)
 * District 8 male (74th HG)

The male tribute from this district died during the bloodbath in the 74th Hunger Games. The female tribute, though never named, died later that night. She made the fatal error of building a fire, which allowed the Career Tributes to find her in the dark. Her camp was right next to Katniss Everdeen's, so Katniss watched as the Careers killed her. The cannon that signifies a death waited to go off, because the Gamemakers hoped the Careers would find Katniss. Peeta Mellark, who had allied himself with the Careers, caught on and insisted that the girl from District 8 wasn't dead yet, so he went back to "finish the job". When the cannon sounded, the Careers moved on with Katniss still hidden safely in the tree.

In the 62nd Hunger Games, Enobaria from District 2 ripped out the District 8 male's throat with her teeth.

Uprising
District 8 was one of the districts that President Snow was concerned would rebel against Capitol rule. On the night when Peeta proposed to Katniss, District Eight rose up and fought against its Peacekeeping force. The Peacekeepers were caught off guard and overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the mob. The Peacekeepers' Headquarters, the Justice Building, the armory, and the Communications Center were all secured by the rebels. However, the Capitol responded by sending in thousands of Peacekeepers and using Hovercrafts to bomb the rebel strongholds. The rebels began to flee and the forward momentum slowed, then stopped. Everything went into a lockdown mode, and no one was allowed out of their houses for a while. The factories were shut down and the only time the TV played anything other than static was when it showed suspected rebel instigators being executed. Eventually things returned to normal but the Capitol blew up one large factory when they found out the talk of rebellion started there. After the rebellion, the leader of District 8, Paylor, becomes President of Panem after President Snow is deposed and Katniss assassinates President Coin.

Bombings
In Mockingjay, Katniss goes to District 8 to visit the victims from the capitol bombings and to broadcast a propo to air in all the districts and the Capitol. When she was leaving, Boggs tells her that they need to get to the airstrip because of incoming bombers. Haymitch eventually picks Katniss, Gale, Boggs, Katniss's bodyguards, and camera crew.

Bonnie and Twill
Bonnie and Twill were two people from District 8 who were trying to escape to District 13. Katniss had found them traveling through the woods in District 12. They showed her a piece of bread with a Mockingjay stamped on it, which is the 'symbol for the rebels'. They were going to District 13 because they had heard stories of people living under the District. They were leaving because the factory that the capitol had destroyed was the one that they worked at. It was a fluke that they didn't die, Twill had worked as a school teacher and Bonnie was her pupil. Twill and her husband had planned on dressing in Peacekeeper uniforms and escaping. When Bonnie and Twill had finished their school day they headed to the factory. However, there had been a heavy storm that resulted in a tree being knocked across their path. Because of this, they were late to work, and were still a few blocks away when the whole factory blew up. Bonnie's whole family died and so did Twill's husband, so the two headed off on their own. They also told Katniss that they thought the Capitol has been using the same tape of District 13 every time they air the surface, and that during the tape a wing of a Mockingjay passed by the corner of the screen. In Mockingjay, it was revealed that the two of them never made it to District 13. They are presumed deceased and may have been killed by the Capitol or died of exposure in the winter forest.

Trivia

 * Like the tributes from District 7, the tributes from District 8 usually die within the first few days of the Games. The District 8 male tribute died during the Cornucopia bloodbath of the 74th Hunger Games, while the female tribute of the same Games is killed by Cato and Peeta after unwittingly setting a fire in the woods at night, proving that the tributes of District 8 were often unprepared to survive the brutality of the Games. This could be attributed to the face that District 8 is an urban district, and the tributes it produces do not have experience living in the natural environments of the arena.

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