74th Hunger Games

The 74th Hunger Games were the first Hunger Games in history to feature two victors, which became somewhat controversial, as it was seen as an act of rebellion by some, such as President Snow, while others saw it only as Katniss trying to protect her love.

Tributes
The 74th Hunger Games, like most Games, had 24 tributes. Many tributes died during the bloodbath at the Cornucopia.

Placing


All of District 6, District 7, and District 9 Tributes died on the first day, along with District 4 in the movie.
 * 1st- Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark - Victors
 * 3rd- Cato - Day 17 (Katniss shot him with an arrow to free Peeta from his grasp, he was then mauled by Muttations. Out of pity, she eventually shot him in the head. In the film, it was in the arm to release Peeta and he was shortly after killed by Katniss after being attacked by the wolf mutts.)
 * 4th- Foxface - Day 15 (unwittingly killed by eating nightlock berries that Peeta gathered for himself and Katniss; places 5th in the film)
 * 5th- Thresh - Day 14 (probably killed by Cato, in the film by mutts; places 4th in the film)
 * 6th- Clove- Day 12 (killed by Thresh when he smashed a rock against her temple during the Feast; in the film, Thresh smashed her against the Cornucopia.)
 * 7th- Rue- Day 9 (killed by Marvel with a spear through her abdomen)
 * 8th- Marvel - Day 9 (killed by arrow in the neck shot by Katniss after spearing Rue, in the film, it was through the heart.)
 * 9th- District 3 male - Day 8 (killed by getting his neck snapped by Cato in a fit of rage)
 * 10th- District 10 male - Day 8 (presumably killed by the Careers)
 * 11th- District 4 female - Day 5 (stung to death by tracker jackers after Katniss dropped a nest on the Careers' camp in the book. Killed by Cato at the Cornucopia in the film.)
 * 12th- Glimmer - Day 5 (stung to death by tracker jackers after Katniss dropped a tracker jacker nest)
 * 13th- District 8 female - Day 2 (killed by Peeta and Cato in the book. It is not shown which career killed her in the film, although Cato is shown handing his sword to Glimmer.)
 * 14th- District 10 female (Killed by Glimmer in the movie)
 * 15th-District 9 female (Not seen but assumed to be killed by Marvel in the movie)
 * 16th-District 8 male (Killed by Thresh in the movie)
 * 17th-District 7 female (Assumed to be killed by Clove in the movie)
 * 18th-District 7 male (Killed by Clove in the movie)
 * 19th-District 6 female (Killed by Marvel in the movie)
 * 20th-District 6 male(Legs amputated by District 4 Female and killed by Cato in the movie.)
 * 21st-District 5 male (Killed by Cato in the movie)
 * 22nd-District 4 male (Killed by Cato in the movie)
 * 23rd-District 3 female (Stabbed by Marvel in the movie, and finished off by the District 5 male)
 * 24th- District 9 male (Stabbed by Clove while fighting over a backpack with Katniss in the book; District 8 boy in the movie)

Victors
That year, for the first time ever, two tributes were permitted to win, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. The two tributes were playing star-crossed lovers, each not wanting to kill the other. Despite Peeta's pleading to Katniss to kill him after the Gamemakers stated that there would again only be one winner, she organized a plan to eat poisonous nightlock berries, to kill both of them, knowing the Capitol would rather have two victors than none. The Gamemakers, afraid of having no victor and humiliating the Capitol, ended the Games promptly, allowing two winners for the first time. However, this was seen as an act of rebellion towards the Capitol. Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker, was executed shortly after allowing this (in the film it is shown that he died because President Snow had him locked in a room with only a bowl of nightlock berries so that he can die the same way Katniss and Peeta were supposed to). President Snow became furious with Katniss after the Games ended due to her plan.

Arena
The arena for the 74th Hunger Games begins with a large flat area with hard packed dirt that had the Cornucopia in the center of it. Like always, the 24 tributes were set up in a ring around the Cornucopia, which was filled with weapons, food and camp supplies as well as some types of medicine. The arena contained forests, streams, meadows, pools, a wheat field, caves, and a lake. The arena was enormous, and it would probably haven taken a tribute several days to walk from one end of the arena to the other. In addition, there were some Capitol-made creatures, including tracker jackers and the wolf-like creatures. The forest was rigged with several Gamemaker-made traps, including a device that sent fireballs at the tributes and places where the mutts could come in and out of the arena. Around the arena is a fence of some sort of electric field (as learned in the second book).

Events in chronological order to the Book
The whole 74th Hunger Games lasted for 16 days. This is a short summary of the main events happening.

Day 1: The Tributes enter the arena. Katniss runs for the bow and arrows first, despite Haymitchs orders to run for the forest. She gets attacked by Clove (District 2) and fails to get the bow, but is able to get a backpack (containing sleeping bag, crackers, dried beef meat, iodine, matches, wire, sunglasses, empty water bottle) and runs for the forest. At the Cornucopia, she also obtains a knife, thrown at her but hitting her backback instead. She doesn't stop until it gets dark, when she climbs a tree to stay the night. 11 Tributes die at the Cornucopia.

Day 2: Shortly before dawn, Katniss watches from her tree how Peeta and the career pack kill the girl from District 8, who tried to warm herself over a fire. Peeta must have teamed up with the careers, but Katniss can't figure out why. She feels betrayed. Since they didn't see her, she spends the day hunting and searching for water. It's the second day without water.

Day 3: The third day, Katniss finally finds water. She only has just enough time to drink and fill her bottle, when the fire appears. She gets hit by a fireball on her leg, but can manage to reach a pond. There, the careers find her and chase her up a tree, where she is trapped. When the night falls, Rue (District 11) appears in the tree next to her and shows her the tracker jacker nest above her. While the Anthem plays, Katniss begins to saw the branch the nest hangs from. Katniss gets her first sponsor gift: burn medicine for her leg.

Day 4: At dawn, Katniss lets the tracker jacker nest fall on the careers and Peeta. Two of them (Glimmer, from District 1, and the girl from District 4) die from the venom. All the others including her get stung. Katniss is able to get the bow and arrows from the dead Glimmer, before she runs into a sparkling Peeta, who send her away instead of killing her and is then attacked by Cato (District 2). Afterwards she is not able to tell if this really happened or not, because she was hallucinating from the tracker jacker venom. She then finally loses consciousnes.

Day 5: Katniss finally awakes from her fevery dreams. Rue, who must have been following her, appears and they team up. The book doesn't mention it here, but we know that Peeta must already be lying on the river bank by this time, badly wounded and sick with no food.

Day 6: Rue and Katniss wake to the cannon shot. Later they will get to know that it was for the boy from District 10, who was killed by the careers. Katniss and Rue make plans for destroying the careers stock of food and supply. While Rue start 3 fires out in the woods to distract the careers and lure them away from the Cornucopia with the stock of nourishing items, Katniss sneaks to the food source. She sees Foxface (District 5) stealing food from it and knows from how she moves that the careers must have buried the mines from the platforms beneath the stock. She blows the whole stock up by shooting an arrow through a net of apples, which fall and trigger the mines. The explosion blows her off her feet, and she goes deaf in her left ear, but manages to crawl under a bush. When the careers come back, Cato is so furious about the boy from District 3 who was left there to protect the stock, that he kills him by breaking his neck. Katniss spends the night under the bush.

Day 7: When she awakes, Katniss' left ear is still deaf, while the right one can hear again. She spends the bright hours of daylight, which are too dangerous now to travel, up in a tree and in the evening uses Rues four note tune with the mockingjays to find her, but there is no answer. When Katniss finally finds her, she is captured in a net by Marvel, the boy from District 1, who kills her by tossing a spear right through her abdomen before Katniss can reach them. Katniss kills him by shooting an arrow in his neck, then frees Rue from the net but can't help her but hold her and sing for her until she dies. Then she arranges wild flowers around the dead girls body as one last act of their alliance and defiance to the Capitol, for making them pawns in their twisted game. She walks away without really knowing where to go or what to do, when a parachute arrives with a bread form District 11, which was Rue's District.

Day 8: Wandering aimlessly around, Katniss thinks about Peeta und Gale. She heard Cato say something about Peeta's being as wounded and as good as dead a few days ago. In the evening, the Gamemakers announce a change to the rules of the game: there can be two victors, if they come from the same District. Suddenly, Katniss knows what she has to do.

Day 9: Katniss finds Peeta buried and covered in his self made camouflage at a river bank. He is so weak and badly injured that he can't get out there alone anymore, so Katniss pulls him out, washes him and cleans the huge suppurating wound at his leg. They both seek shelter in a cave. Peeta has a fever, which makes Katniss totally helpless. She remembers Haymitchs "madly in love" story and kisses Peeta as in total despair over her love. Promptly, a parachute arrives containing food they both need desperately.

Day 10: Peetas fever has broken, but the leg has gotten worse: he has blood poisoning. Katniss spends the day hunting and cooking while Peeta lies in the cave. In the evening the Gamemakers announce a feast at the Cornucopia tomorrow, where every Tribute will find what the most desperately need. Immediately, Peeta makes Katniss promise not to go because its too dangerous. Later on a parachute arrives from Haymitch containing sleep syrup, with which Katniss can knock out Peeta for the whole time she needs to get to the Cornucopia and get the medicine. She leaves before dawn.

Day 11: Foxface is the first one at the Cornucopia and gets her backpack. Then Katniss makes a run for it, but is attacked by Clove, who knocks her down and holds her to the ground in order to kill her with a knife. At this very moment, Thresh (District 11) arrives and kills Clove by smashing her skull with a stone. He then lets Katniss get her package and run, because he feels like he owes her for what she did for Rue. Katniss is able to get back to the cave and inject Peeta the medicine, before she loses consciousnes.

Day 12: When Katniss awakes, she finds Peeta being much better than before and awake. A storm is raging outside, so they stay inside and try to recover a bit the whole day.

Day 13: Still stormy. Katniss and Peeta both feel much better and finally get closer to each other. They kiss for the first time with both of them fully aware of it. Haymitch sends them a huge feast. At night they get to know from the daily announcements that Thresh has been killed during the day. Then the rain stops.

Day 14: Katniss and Peeta go out for hunting and collecting berries and roots. Peeta unwittinly collects poisonous nightlock berries. When Katniss finds him collecting them, a cannon fires. Only a few meters away the dead Foxface is lifted to the Hovercraft. She took the berries for safe, since Peeta was collecting them for himself, and died. Katniss takes the berries and plans to use them later to trick Cato. They return to the cave.

Day 15: Since Cato is the only remaining Tribute among Katniss and Peeta, they go to find him. They find him running right into them, but he is also running from something far more dangerous: a pack of mutant wolves. All three run to the Cornucopia, where they try to rescue themselves by climbing it. In that process, Peeta gets bitten by one of the mutts and loses a lot of blood. Weakened like this, Cato can reach him and strangle him, standing near the edge of the Cornucopias top. Because Katniss can't kill him like this without risking to have Peeta be pulled down by him too, so she shoots an arrow in his hand. This makes him loosen his grip, he trips and falls over. Katniss and Peeta watch him fight the mutts for about an hour, then he collapses, but they don't kill him. He is still alive when the night comes.

Day 16: At dawn, Katniss finally manages to shoot Cato with her last arrow, as an act of mercy. The mutts disappear. But when nothing else happens, they climb down the Cornucopia. This is when a voice announces, that the previous made change of rules is withdrawn and there can only be one victor. Peeta and Katniss face each other as enemies against their will. None of them wants to kill the other, beside from them being halfway dead anyway. Then Katniss remembers the berries. Only a glimpse before they both can commit suicide by poisoning themselves, they are both announced as the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.

Uniform
"The material in the jacket is designed to reflect body heat. Expect some cool nights."

- Cinna to Katniss before she enters the arena

The uniforms are brand new, and are the same for every Tribute (except for the label on the side with the number of the tribute's district). The designers have no say in the tributes' outfits. The uniform is simple tawny trousers, light green shirt, sturdy brown belt, and thin, hooded black jacket that falls down to the thighs. The outfit includes boots, which are worn over skin-tight socks. The boots are very nice, being made of soft leather with a narrow, flexible rubber sole. Tokens are worn with them as long as they can't be used as an advantage to a tribute. In the film Cinna hides Katniss' Mockingjay pin when he puts her uniform on her. In the film the uniforms were a different colour for each district.

Impression
When Katniss and Peeta pulled out the nightlock berries, it was interpreted as a sign of rebellion by the many of the people of the districts which led to uprisings. Katniss wanted to show that if Peeta and herself could not live, then there would be no victor. The official reason, given in interviews, was that they did it so they both would survive, as neither wanted to live without the other. The underlying reason was that the Hunger Games had to have a victor, so Katniss thought of nightlock to kill them both and leave the Games without a winner. In the following books, this one move caused increasing problems. President Snow came to Katniss's house and threatened her and Gale in Catching Fire and decreased her chances of survival for her and her family and friends.