This research was conducted to analyze the declarative sentences of directspeech found in The Hunger Games novel. The objectives of this research are (1)to find out the translation techniques applied by the translator in translating thedeclarative sentences of direct speech in The Hunger Games novel, (2) to find outthe quality of the translations of declarative sentences of direct speech in TheHunger Games novel in terms of accuracy, acceptability, and readability.This research is descriptive qualitative research. A purposive samplingtechnique is used in this research. There are 177 data of declarative sentences ofdirect speech in The Hunger Games novel and the translations. The other datacame from the measurements from the raters and respondents.The result of this research shows that there are 11 translation techniquesapplied by the translator. Established Equivalent (496 times or 48.25%), Variation(159 times or 15.47%), Amplification (103 times or 10.02%), Transposition (96times or 9.34%), Reduction (38 times or 3.70%), Modulation (36 times or 3.50%),Pure Borrowing (27 times or 2.62%), Linguistic Amplification (23 times or2.24%), Linguistic Compression (23 times or 2.24%), Literal Translation (21times or 2.04%), Generalization (6 times or 0.58%). The analysis of translationquality shows that there are 172 data (97.18%) considered as accurate translations,5 data (2.82%) considered as less accurate translations, 175 data (98.87%)considered as acceptable translations, 2 data (1.13%) considered as less acceptabletranslations, 171 data (96.61%) considered as readable translation, and 6 data(3.39%) considered as less readable translations. It can be concluded that most ofthe translations are accurate, acceptable, and readable.Established equivalent is identified as the most dominant technique intranslating the data. By applying established equivalent, the message of the sourcetext can be correctly transferred in the target text, the translation also soundsnatural so the target readers can easily understand the sentence. The application ofappropriate techniques will produce a translation with a good quality.Keywords: translation techniques, translation quality, declarative sentence