Prim is randomly selected as the girl tribute that is supposed to fight in the Hunger Games. However, when her name is called, Katniss volunteers as tribute in her place, saving her sister's life. Before Prim is selected, we only see a glimpse into her life through the eyes of her sister.
How many times was Prim's name entered for the reaping?
Katniss, who is sixteen, will have her name in twenty times, and Gale, who is eighteen, will have his in forty-two times. Katniss's sister, Prim, is only twelve and has taken no tesserae, so her name is only in once.
Even with just a 10% chance of the selection process being rigged, the extremely low likelihood of Prim being selected by random chance leads us to conclude that the selection was, in fact, almost certainly rigged. At around 1 in 10,000, it seems fair to call it "unlikely" that the selection process was rigged.
In The Hunger Games, Prim was chosen because she was wearing the mockingjay pin. I noticed Katniss gives Prim the Mockingjay pin before the reaping and prim wears it on her lapel. Considering many in district 12 can't afford jewellery, she stands out during a ceremony that's televised to all citizens.
That year, the Capitol was set to hold the 74th Hunger Games in Panem's history. Seeing as tributes from each district ranged from age 12 to 18, Katniss was one of the older participants. At first, her 12-year-old sister, Prim, was chosen, but Katniss bravely volunteered in her place.
The Hunger Games: Katniss and Peeta Reaping Scene [HD]
Was Lucy Gray reaped on purpose?
It turned out that Lucy Gray was purposely reaped by the mayor because Mayfair had a relationship with Lucy Gray's ex-lover, Billy Taupe, and Mayfair did not like this. As a result, Mayor Lipp struck Lucy Gray in the face, resulting in a horrible bruise.
Katniss, meanwhile, is four years older and very protective of Prim, and so without hesitation she volunteers to take her sister's place. Moreover, she has years of experience hunting (and therefore killing) and is far less sensitive than her sister, making her more likely to survive the ordeal of the Games.
Katniss's focus on survival and her family's safety prevented her from fully considering romance, but her feelings for Peeta and Gale diverged in the end. Katniss ultimately chose Peeta because he understood her trauma and she didn't want to lose him, proving her love for him.
Prim's cat is named Buttercup. He is a ragged-looking yellow cat with a surly disposition, except when it comes to Prim. Buttercup adores Prim because she rescued him and nursed him back to health. Through Prim's connection with Buttercup, Collins establishes the young girl's caring nature early in the novel.
There are two reasons why Katniss chose Peeta instead of Gale. Gale was partly responsible for Prim's death in Capitol. Katniss wanted someone to calm her down and soothe her, and she knew only Peeta can do that and Gale will only rebel against the Capitol.
It's mentioned in the books that both protagonists, Katniss and Gale, have taken numerous tesserae to keep their families from starving, and to save their younger siblings from increasing their odds. A well-off 18-year-old would have only seven slips in the globe. Katniss has 20. Gale has 42.
It is also cumulative, so Katniss Everdeen, when she was sixteen, had her name put in the glass ball twenty times. Gale Hawthorne, who has five family members including himself, had his name put in the glass ball forty-two times.
Answer and Explanation: Gale is eighteen in The Hunger Games, two years older than Katniss. Since the citizens of the Districts cannot be selected after they turn nineteen, this is the last year when Gale can be chosen as a Tribute.
Before the Capitol battle, Gale had explained to Katniss his series of bombs designed to feed off human compassion: a small bomb would go off, and then when medical aid rushed in, a second bomb would go off, killing those people as well. Incidentally, it's this exact type of bomb that took Prim's life.
At first, Katniss and Buttercup did not like each other at all. Katniss saw Buttercup as another mouth to feed, so she tried to drown him in a bucket of water before Prim begged for his life.
All Gale wants is to keep his family and those close to him safe. By the time he was 18 (the same year "The Hunger Games" takes place), he had put his name into the Reaping 42 times in order to gain extra food for his family and reduce the chance of his three younger siblings being chosen as a District 12 tribute.
Author Suzanne Collins asked to have it changed to the orange variety she had described in the books. And director Francis Lawrence has followed through with the orange cat in the following two installments. Two cats were used in filming, one "mellow" actor cat for most scenes.
Katniss purchased that goat after Rooba came by and said that she, in fact, didn't want the goat; then she winked at Katniss. Together, Katniss and Gale deliver the goat to Prim who was all too excited to care for it.
Prim is Katniss' 12-year-old sister. Prim takes after their mother, who has light hair and blue eyes. This reaping is her first, and Katniss has only allowed her to enter her name once into the drawing.
The woods are now ruined. Katniss decides that the Capitol views her and Gale's weekly hunting trips — and the one time that Gale unexpectedly kissed her, which Snow knows about — as flaunting her defiance in front of the entire district.
Gale was responsible for creating weapons that would trigger a second wave of bombs to target first responders and combat healers. This invention potentially ended up killing Prim, but even if he wasn't directly responsible, Katniss found this tactic so abhorrent that she lost her affection for him.
It's only implied that they get it on via snuggling and other affectionate acts in close quarters — but if you have read the book, they really imply that they took their relationship to the next level.
District 12 has the most Hunger Games victors, with five winners, including Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, and Lucy Gray. Finnick Odair is the youngest winner in history, winning at just 14 years old.
She was only 13 years old when she was killed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, and her youth only makes the tragedy that much harder for Katniss to bear after everything else she had suffered. Prim's death is a truly heartbreaking moment.
