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Plot  Colton Okay, so the plot of catching fire, or basically what happens in the story, is that Katniss, the main character is living at home in district 12 in the victors village when suddenly she finds out she has to go "play" in the hunger games a second time. they are only supposed to have to do it once as a punishment for a rebellion in the past, but they gather up all the winners from the previous hunger games and make them fight. So, Katniss throughout the book is trying to piece it all together and find out the real reason why she has to go through all this over again.

Ben The hook is Ella making a recording for Shade about how she ran way from the prisons where the overlords keep everybody, and she explains the point of the recordings that Shade has everyone make, which is to teach you, and she says that they make you wonder how that person died, and that where probally wondering how she died. The background tells you how it all started, that an event called the change happened which made everyone older then fifteen disapeer and after a week buses with people in spacesuit things came around telling all the kids that they needed to come into the buses because someone had to take care of them, some people hid, but for the most part, they all went into the buses, after a week or so they started making robots to attack each other and hunt down all the kids that didn't come. Some of the events are that they sneak into a fortress and steal a "thinker", a very fast and weired shaped computer, they also break into the meat factory, where the overlords harvest kids brains and muscles and put them into their robots, and when they get caught. The climax is when Goldeye and Ninde are being drowned by a robot and Ella and Drum are trying to destroy the grand projector before the overlords get to them and resolution is that Goldeye and Ninde marry and have two kids whose names are Ella and Drum in honor of their two friends that died to save them all.

Alyssa The hook event is when Kayla can't get the art scholorship she wants and she's devestated. That's when you want to know more because it makes you sad for her. The backround tells you about how her father killed himself trying to get the barcode tattoo off. It also tells you how her friend wants Kayla to get the barcode tattoo and she doesn't want it and the backround explains what the barcode tattoo is. Some of the events leading up to the climax are things like, she joins Decode, the barcode tattoo becomes law, and her mom dies. The climax is when Kayla has to run for her life from the hospital because she doesn't have a tattoo. The resolution includes her meeting up with the resistence groups and connecting to nature. And there is a huge decision at the end that leads to the next book.

amanda- The Hook is when all grown-up dissappear in the world and theres crashed cars, the phones are out and children are wandering the streets not know what to do or whats happening. So the three main charachters Sam Astrid and Quinn go around try to find out what is happening and solving the problem of why theres know grown-ups. The whole story many things happen the rich kids from the other school comes and takes over everything and they're trying to kill Sam because they know he is a challenge to them. so now there trying to save the town and they fight against each other. And solve what has happen why is there no grown-ups? why is there a huge sheild thing around the FAYZ?


 * Nick**- The Hook is when all the kids that are graduating are picking there careers out of a hat and Lina doesn't get the one she wanted which was a messenger and instead she gets assigned to the pipes which is the most disgusting and probably the worst one you could pick. So she's sitting on the school steps and she's feeling sorry for herself when her exe-best friend Doon comes and offers to trade her (he got the messanger one) but he has some ultierier motives for wanting to go to the pipes. The Background tells you about the city and the mysterious builders who made it and tells you how the blackouts are getting more and more frequent and how the food is beginning to run out. Events leading up to the Climax is when Lina finds a black box in the back of the closet that mysteriously opens by itself but her little sister Poppy cuts the weird paper cutouts of girls holding hands and ruins them. Later Lina and Doon find the mayor stuffing himself with food in some secret food warehouse deep inside the pipes when everyone else is starving. After they figure out what the ruined papers sat. The climax is when Lina and Doon try to convince everyone that they have found a way out of Ember and no one belives them because the mayor in his own self intrests calls them liars in an attempt to get out first with all the food and everything Lina and Doon care about hangs on getting the town to believe them.