They are able to apply for tesserae, which is grain and oil as the district is so poor, food is rare but each year someone takes it, their name goes in once more, and stays in, thus increasing their chance Gale's name was in there an awful lot, so he had more chance than most of being picked. Prim's name was in there once, so had a tiny chance of being chosen.
Once a year a boy and a girl are chosen from the bowl, supposedly at random it is speculated by Katniss that the random chance is not actually all that random , but anyone can volunteer immediately afterwards, as Katniss does. In other districts, the Games are an honour and people volunteer all the time; in District 12, this is not so. First you should have some background information: the Hunger Games were established at the end of the Dark Days when District Thirteen held an uprising and rebellion against the Capitol.
The Games are a punishment for the rebellion and a warning for future residents of Panem that something worse may come their way if they rebel again. The Reaping happens once a year, a few months before the Games begin. A person's name will automatically be submitted into the Reaping once he or she is twelve years old, and will no longer be submitted under one of two conditions: 1 Said person has turned 18, and is no longer eligible for the games, or 2 they had been Reaped already and won the games.
People will also have a chance to enter their names into the Reaping more than once in exchange for goods. A representative from the Capitol - in this case, Effie Trinket - to Reap the tributes. A short video about the history of the games will play, and then Effie will then draw the names of the two unlucky people.
First she will pull the girl's name, and the tribute will walk up to the stage to stand next to Effie. Then, she will draw the boy's name, and he will do the same. Others may also volunteer as tribute in the games as a replacement of the person who had been Reaped.
Katniss had volunteered for her little sister, Primrose Prim , because she knew that Prim had no chance of surviving in the arena.
In District Twelve, volunteers are rare, but in the more luxurious districts, such as District One or Two, volunteers are much more common, because they had been training for the Games, also known as Careers. The two tributes will have a short time with people they are close to before they head for the Capitol, and then they go to a training center where they spend the next few weeks getting ready for the games. Sign up to join this community.
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How does the Reaping work in The Hunger Games? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 94k times. Please take into account that: I am not at all familiar with the Hunger Games I have done some research Don't get it I know that the reaping has something to do with putting your name into something most likely the Reaping but I am not familiar with how it works.
Answers would kindly be accepted ;. To avoid starvation, poorer children may be driven or forced to add their names additional times to provide for their family, even if they know it increases the chance 0f getting reaped. There are usually only three reasons why a person would volunteer in the Hunger Games. First is to spare the person who was picked and compete instead of them, such as how Katniss volunteered for the Games so that she could save Prim, who she knew could not survive in the arena.
This, however, does not spare the person who was picked from being re-picked in the next few years. So, if the Hunger Games continued, Prim could have been eligible for the next six Hunger Games until she turned Second is when a person volunteers so that they can protect someone else in the games, thus sacrificing their life knowing that only one of them can win.
This was seen in Catching Fire when, during the Quarter Quell Reaping, Haymitch was reaped but Peeta volunteered so he could enter the arena and make sure Katniss lives. The third and most common is for Careers who willingly volunteer for the chance of glory at winning the Games. During the First Rebellion, most of Districts 1, 2, and 4 were mostly loyal to the Capitol, thus are the wealthiest districts.
That does not exempt them from the Hunger Games, but unlike the other districts, they appear to enjoy the Hunger Games to the point that they have several children train from birth to become someone willing to volunteer for the Games. These are known as Career tributes or Careers. Careers are trained from a young age to prepare themselves for the Hunger Games. They attend a special academy to train in combat and other skills that will make them a formidable contender by the time they turn 18 and volunteer.
While other districts feel like getting reaped is like being condemned to death, the Career districts see this as a great honor as they get the chance to win and be the heroes of their district. Once a Career reaches the age of 18 though they can be younger if they show enough skill , they volunteer for the games during the reaping. Since there are many children in the same age group, the mentors of the academy hand-pick the boy and girl Career tribute who will have the honor of volunteering before the reaping begins.
There were also unnamed Careers from District 4. During their reaping, the girl who was reaped wanted to compete, but Clove volunteered. There was a scuffle, causing Clove to wound the girl and being restrained. The rules to the Hunger Games reaping are modified or completely changed during the Quarter Quell. Every 25 years, the Capitol holds a special edition of the Hunger Games so as not to make the yearly event commonplace that people forget why the Hunger Games exist in the first place.
Ever since the Hunger Games were established, the original creators created plenty of Quarter Quell ideas enough to last many centuries. These are sealed in envelopes that, when the time is right, the reigning president announces before the annual reaping. In the first-ever Quarter Quell, the reaping rules were changed so that the male and female tribute per district was not randomly selected, but voted by everyone in the district.
This was to remind the districts that their decision to rebel is what caused their deaths, so now they get to decide who will be sent to the arena. This may have been difficult for most districts to vote for which teenager will be sent off to their most likely death, but in Career districts, those who wanted to volunteer might have been campaigning to be voted. This was to remind the districts that for every Capitol citizen that died, two rebels were killed. The Hob:. The black market where Katniss and Gale trade their forest finds for bread, salt and other goods.
Greasy Sae runs the market in an abandoned warehouse that once held coal. The Capitol:. The ruling city of Panem, separated from the districts by a wall of mountains -- a gleaming cityscape of tall buildings, cars, electricity, plenty of food and people who dress in gaudy attire. Residents of the Capitol are entertained by the games, since none of their children is at risk.
The Career Tributes, children from wealthy districts who volunteer for the games, having been fed and trained their whole lives to compete. Genetically altered animals bred by the Capitol to be weapons.
Short for muttations. They resemble huge wolves with four-inch claws. Jabberjays were genetically altered birds that could memorize and repeat human conversations and were used to spy on the districts. The birds mated with mockingbirds to make mockingjays, a new species that could replicate bird sounds and complicated human melodies but not words.
Katniss' father was especially fond of them. Tracker jackers. If you don't die, the hallucinations from the venom can drive you mad. If anyone disturbs their nest, the wasps will track down and kill.
They serve as silent slaves in the Capitol. Nightlock berries:.
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