Not exact matches
This spat of youth violence comes just days after another
boy, 14 - year - old Philip Johnson, was shot
to death in Williamsbridge Monday night during a
fight organized by two groups of feuding teenagers via text message.
Every year on Reaping Day, a
boy and a girl (ages 12
to 18) from each district are chosen by lottery
to fight to the
death in a televised gladiator event devised by head Games - maker Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley).
For, since an attempted coup 74 years earlier, the government has been punishing the proletariat by staging an annual
fight to the
death in the wilderness in which each district is represented by a
boy and a girl.
That game was enjoyable yet frustratingly hard
to the point of launching the gamepad into a concrete wall, me and my little
boy played it together which meant less
deaths, but we still
fought with eachother
to determine who was the crap player messing everything up, turns out it was me, old and out of fashion
As punishment for a rebellion, each district must pay penance
to the nation by sending one
boy and one girl, between the ages of 12 and 18,
to the Capitol
to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a televised
fight to the
death.
A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts
to pay tribute in the form of a teenage
boy and girl who are forced
to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a
fight to the
death on live TV.
Each year a
boy and girl are selected from each district
to compete in the Hunger Games, a televised live event (not unlike American Idol) where the chosen
fight to the
death.
Set in a future where the U.S. has been fragmented following a series of disasters, the games are similar
to gladitorial combat and each sector sends a girl and
boy to fight to the
death.