Hunger Games Article

                        Explosion That Killed Many- An Accident?

                                      The Truth Comes Out 

By: Taylor M.

Panem, District 12- Seven courageous young men lost their lives in a serious mining explosion five years ago, in the year 2013., where they say it was not an accident at all. Many believe that they were killed for punishment, or it was just a simple, sinister accident.

            Many of the fathers that were killed left behind families, that received awards for their own courage. Two of these children, became best friends. Gale Hawthorne and Katniss Everdeen.

            Only five years later, the Capitol has been able to figure it all out. It was all due to a journal belonging to a witness, who was in the blasts that night. He tried to stop the miners from leaving early, there were others down the shaft. In a page of his journal, he wrote, “I can’t believe our bosses deserted us to fend for ourselves in this unsafe place.”

Men trying to find and assist a broken-bodied partner.

            But as they went, the witness miner stayed. Before he knew what was happening, the gas temperature was high, and the rubbing oil was thrown about. There he saw the flames that engulfed the lower shaft. There was no way to save them. Only time to save himself.

            There it took five years for the truth to come out about what happened at the mining site that killed so many. But even knowing this, the incident left many lives scarred.