The dystopian setting of The Hunger Games is as bleak and miserable as fans of the genre would expect, and Suzanne Collins created a memorable world that includes two key parts of the story: the First and the Second Rebellion. As Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to be one of the two District 12 tributes in the 74th Hunger Games, she learns more about the devastating and dark history of Panem, and she is never the same again.