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It's not your everyday teenager that volunteers to enter a fight to the death, but then again not every teenager has a cool name like "Katniss Everdeen" either. Clearly she was destined for greatness.
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- 00:01
My name is Katniss Everdeen. You probably know who I am, now that I've been portrayed
- 00:07
by an Academy Award-winning actress in a blockbuster movie.
- 00:10
I'm from District 12. It's like West Virginia, but poorer, seeing that the apocalypse has
- 00:16
come and gone and North America is now ruled by the Capitol.
- 00:21
I used to spend my days getting into it with my mom, caring for my sister Prim, chillin'
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- 00:26
with my buddy Gale, and hunting with my bow and arrows.
- 00:31
When the 74th Annual Hunger Games rolled around, all us tribute-aged kids from District 12
- 00:37
got our names put in a big hat. My little sister's name got picked...
- 00:41
...so I volunteered to go in her place, because I'm just that awesome. Peeta, the baker's
- 00:46
son, was selected as tribute, too. In the Capitol, Peeta and I were mentored
- 00:52
by Haymitch, who was on a first-name basis with Jim Beam. Our stylists, Cinna and Portia,
- 00:56
lit us on fire.
- 00:56
Then, when I put on my Legolas face and wowed the Gamemakers, Peeta busted out that he'd
- 01:02
been in love with me for, like, ever. Um, okay. The audience seemed to like that angle,
- 01:07
so I rolled with it. Let the Hunger Games begin! On the first day,
- 01:15
everybody died. Okay, obviously not everyone, or I wouldn't be telling you this story, but
- 01:22
the death toll was significant.
- 01:26
I did my best Girl Scout impression and relied on my survival skills to get through the day.
- 01:31
Peeta, however, became besties with the Career Tributes, who did their darnedest to try and
- 01:37
kill me. Fortunately, some tracker jackers got in the way.
- 01:43
I formed an alliance with Rue, this cute kid from District 11, and we were amazing for
- 01:48
a little while...
- 01:49
...but then she got killed. I covered her body with flowers because I found itÉ aesthetically
- 01:56
pleasing. The audience, however, thought this was my way of stickin' it to the Man.
- 02:04
And then the announcer was like, rule change! Turns out the Peeta-hearts-Katniss-forever
- 02:10
thing was really popular...
- 02:12
...so popular, that two people from a single district would be allowed to win the Hunger
- 02:17
Games for the first time ever. It looked like Peeta and I might make it out after all. Of
- 02:23
course, he had to survive that nasty leg wound first.
- 02:26
I nursed Peeta back to health, acting romantical the whole time, because that got us gifts
- 02:32
from our sponsors. Once Peeta was functional again, it was time
- 02:36
to kill Cato, the only other tribute still left alive. But first, man-eating mutant dogs!
- 02:42
Awesome!
- 02:43
I shot Cato, and he fell back into the pack and things gotÉ kinda messy.
- 02:49
At last, Peea and I were in the clear, but then there was another rule change. Peeta
- 02:57
and I were going to have to kill each other after all...
- 03:00
...or we could just eat poisoned berries, commit suicide, and go on to that big District
- 03:05
12 in the sky. Suicide, it seems, is not a legit out in the
- 03:11
Hunger Games, so the powers that be decided, hey, we won after all!
- 03:16
However, the Capitol was less than happy with that outcome. In order to avoid being punished,
- 03:27
Peeta and I had to continue acting all lovey-dovey.
- 03:30
Except it turned out that Peeta really did love me. Oops. And he knew I didn't love him.
- 03:36
Double oops. Oh, well. Even if my love life was on the
- 03:41
rocks, I'd managed to survive the Hunger Games. At least that was an experience I'd never
- 03:46
have to go through again...
- 03:51
...right?
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