A to Z Challenge and the Letter A

Welcome to the April 2012 A to Z Blogging Challenge. I've chosen to blog about a popular book that I love every day for the month of April.  I will blog thematically and systematically chapter by chapter from A to Z on this popular book .'The Hunger Games'

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It's my first time participating in this challenge so this will be my kick-off post.

I'm going to systematically write about the Hunger Games starting with chapter 1 letter A. The alphabet has 26 letters so it pretty much works out a letter a chapter i.e: letter A ch.1, letter B ch 2 etc...the Hunger Games has 27 chapters. Happy Hunger Games! and may the odds be ever in your favour.

Starting with the letter A Chapter 1: Attendance Is Mandatory for the reaping

Two kids are chosen, a girl and a boy, out of every district in Panem to fight to the death in an Arena.

is for Arena 
The arena is like an outdoor 'obstacle course' made up by the game makers. It is located in the Capitol of District 1. They control such things as the weather, making it as cold as they want or as hot as they like and by using such elements of fire, wind and rain it can decrease the chances of survival 100 percent. I hate to say this but it is where the tributes play the game and kill each other.

The Arena changes every year. It was a clock for the 75th Hunger Games Quarter Quell and I preferred it to the first one. I like how we got to know the old victors like everyone's favourite Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason. I also felt the second one had more action and was more exciting for me. You can find it in Catching Fire.

In the 74th game, it was a giant forest with lots of trees lakes and a wheat field. This Arena was filmed in Asheville North Carolina.

The Hunger Games: Behind The Scenes—Arena Locations: