Career

Careers are tributes from districts one, two and four, these districts are more well off than the others, and the children are usually trained from a very young age to fight in the Games. In these districts children often volunteer to take part in the Games as they consider it to be a great honour. Careers usually team up in the arena to kill the other tributes, until they must in turn kill each other.

In the 74th Hunger Games the careers are made up of the district 1 tributes: Marvel and Glimmer, district 2 tributes: Cato and Clove and the female tribute from 4, the male tribute from 4 is killed in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia on the first day. They are also joined by the male tribute from 3, whom the careers deemed useful because he could manipulate the bombs under the plates which initially lifted tributed into the arena. He used them to set a trap around the careers' supplies to prevent other tributes stealing them, he is later killed by Cato after the supplies are blown up by Katniss. Peeta also joined the careers with the intention of keeping Katniss alive, although she doesn't realise his intentions and sees this as a betrayal. He is later injured severly by Cato as a result of helping Katniss escape after the tracker jacker attack, Katniss later finds him and nurses him back to health.

In the 75th Games the careers are made up of district 1 tributes: Gloss and Cashmere who are brother and sister, they won the Games in consecutive years fairly recently, they are described as classically attractive. The district 2 tributes: Brutus and Enobaria, when origonally in the arena Enobaria tore her opponents' throats out with her teeth, the capitol later sharped and plated her teeth with gold. Enobaria is one of the few opponents to survive the 75th Games and is captured by the capitol.