The Hunger Games Summary: Chapters 1-4

(I'd like to preference this by saying that I have not read this before and have seen the movie, so I know the major plot points.)

To start this is shaping up to be a good book and that I understand the hype over the book. Here you meet the strong 16 years old Katniss Everdeen. The story covers the background of her. She has a 12 year old sister Prim, a emotionally distraught mother, and a deceased father from a mining accident. The reader also gets the metal image that Suzanne Collins is painting of the starving, poverty stricken District 12. Katniss has to illegally hunt to feed her family because her mother does not have a job. While the reader listens to her hunt, they approach Gale, Katniss's friend. The  reader explores the tight relationship between  the two. Then comes the Reaping. The reaping is where each of the twelve districts send two tributes, one boy and one girl from the ages twelve to eighteen, to fight to the death in a arena. This shows how crazy a tyrannical government can be. At the reaping's the drawing of names Prim come up and Katniss volunteers to take her place. At the reaping we meet three other very important main characters: Effie Trinket, Haymitch and Peeta. Haymitch is the only Hunger Games winner from District 12 and bit of alcoholic.  Peeta Malark is the boy chosen to go to the hunger games from District 12. Peeta and Katniss have a bit of a back story. One rainy day, Katniss had been searching through a bakery's trash for food but had been chased of by Peeta mother and Peeta saw who? Hungry Katniss. He burnt two loafs of bread and took abuse for just to give them to Katniss.  After this Katniss says goodbye to her family and Gale. I have finished the book today and end this by saying i will be posting all the other summaries daily and a final response after the summaries