The protagonist’s mother becomes catatonically depressed in the backstory and is unable to take care of her children, leaving the protagonist to become the primary caregiver. Although the mother recovers and her condition is treated sensitively, it’s still seen as emotional abandonment.
Characters hunt and pursue one another in the Hunger Games. Even before the Games, the protagonist and other characters always operate under the assumption that they are being watched or might be overheard by Peacekeepers
The entire concept is that children are forced to fight to the death. Framing it as entertainment is part of the abuse--the villains are so powerful that they can force a whole society to act like watching kids kill each other is all in good fun.
However, Katniss admits in her internal monologue to attempting to drown her sister's cat in the past. This obviously didn't happen. The cat survives through the whole series.
Rue gets trapped in a net, and this precipitates her death. After the Games, Katniss receives medical attention, some of which being against her will. She is restrained in her hospital bed at points.
Mentioned at the beginning of the book that a tribute a few years earlier would eat his victims in the arena and he was killed off by the gamemakers, so it’s an unspoken rule that cannabilism is one of the few things not allowed in the arena.
Katniss mentions previous tributes from her district were forced to wear nothing but Charcoal all over their bodies to be shown off to all of panem, we do not know the age of these tributes but there is a high possibility that they were underage since the age range fir going into the games is 12 to 18
SPOILER: no but there is a double suicide attempt near the end of the book using berries that are poisonous and before that a tribute does die from eating these berries
Although no one has an eating disorder, as you can imagine with a name like "The Hunger Games," the series involves lots of descriptions of food and starvation.
Not explicitly. One character who is shown to have proficient knowledge in plants, dies by eating poisonous berries. It is unknown if she knew the effects of the berries beforehand. Two characters are also almost of commit suicide, but they ultimately don't.
Yes katniss is nude when the capital is making her presentable (waxing her making her skin look soft ect) there is I think one shower scene and she is naked in the hospital after the games