Read the excerpts from "flowers for algernon." we had a lot of fun at the factory today. joe carp said hey look where charlie had his operashun what did they do charlie put some brains in. i was going to tell him but i remembered dr strauss said no. then frank reilly said what did you do charlie forget your key and open your door the hard way. that made me laff. their really my friends and they like me. *** i didn't know what to do or where to turn. everyone was looking at me and laughing and i felt naked. i wanted to hide. i ran outside and i threw up. then i walked home. it's a funny thing i never knew that joe and frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. what conclusion can be drawn about charlie based on his description of the events in these passages?

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!