The Hunger Games Pg. 73-86

The Hunger Games

Pg. 73-86

9/30/10

Summary: Katniss goes with Peeta to have dinner with the stylists. Katniss and Peeta feast out on a wonderful dinner. After, they decide to go up to the roof of their building to talk. Katniss tells Peeta about a girl that she recognized who was bringing out dinner. It turns out that Katniss and Gale were walking in the forest, and they saw this girl running towards District 12. They wondered what she was doing, when all of a sudden a hover craft appears out of nowhere and grabsthe girl. The girl screamed for Katniss’s and Gales help, but Katniss and Gale just stood there and watched the girl get dragged away. Anyway, Peeta and Katniss go back to their rooms and get a good night sleep. However, Katniss goes to bed with the thought on her mind on whether or not the girl is still waiting for revenge. 

The Hunger Games Pg. 61-73

The Hunger Games

Pg. 61-73

9/26/10

Summary: Katniss and the contestants’ meat up with their stylists in the Remake Center to go over their outfit for the opening ceremony. District 12, being Katniss and Peeta, will be wearing an outfit that ties in a big thing in District 12, coal. Katniss and Peeta will be in a suite that will literally be on fire, which the stylists say will capture the crowd. Anyway, Katniss and Peeta are taken by a chariot to the opening ceremonies, where the stylists light their outfits on fire. Katniss and Peeta walk into the city to where the crowd awaits their entrance. The crowd loves their suites, so they start chanting, “District 12” while throwing roses to them. Katniss is amazed. Later, Katniss and the contestants are given a speech by the president. After the speech Katniss and Peeta are talking, and Peeta remarks that Katniss looks beautiful in her outfit. Suddenly, Katniss is forced back into reality, with the thoughts that Peeta and the crowd might have been playing her all along, and that they could have not liked her at all.

The Hunger Games Pg.48-60

The Hunger Games

Pg. 41-60

9/23/10

Summary: Katniss and the other contestants get on a train and travel to the Capital. On the way, Katniss is thinking of the past and her family. After a nights rest on the train the contestants have a nice breakfast. However, during their breakfast, Haymitch makes a mean remark to Katniss and Peeta, and they get in a brawl. Peeta goes to hit Haymitch, but he gets puched in the jaw first and falls to the ground. Katniss stops the fight by taking a knife and pounding it into the table only a few inches away from where Haymitch’s hand lay. Anyway, the contestants reach the Capital, and Katniss realizes that Peeta is playing the contestants in trying to act nice, to get people on his side. Katniss now realizes the Hunger Games is not only a game where you try to kill people, but it is very much a mind game.

The Hunger Games pg.34-47

The Hunger Games

Pg.34-47

9/19/2010

Summary: Katniss and the rest of the competitors are taken into The Justice Building to separate rooms to be visited by their family/friends. Katniss is first visited by her mom and Prim for a last good bye. Then, the Baker, Peeta’s father (who is another competitor in the Games) comes in and gives Katniss cookies. This is followed by Katniss’s friend, Madge, who gives her a good luck pin, and lastly Gale who gives Katniss a good luck hug. Katniss is then taken on a high speed train to the Capital, where the Hunger games are held. Katniss is given the feast of her life before she, and the other competitors watch a video showing all of them being chosen to enter into the Hunger games.

The Hunger Games pg. 21-33

The Hunger Games

pg. 21-33

9/14/10

Summary: Katniss is shocked that her sister Prim was chosen. She decides that Prim is too young to be in the Hunger Games, so Katniss does the unthinkable for a District 12 member, and volunteers to take Prim’s place in the games! However, after Katniss’s risky move, she started to get lots of respect from the people around her. Katniss tries to enjoy what could possibly be the last days of her life before the games start. Katniss wants to have a good last meal before the games, so she goes to the rich part of district 12 to try and get some food. She ends up getting two loafs of bread from what will soon be another compeer in the games, Peeta Melark. Soon enough the Hunger Games arrive, and Katniss is just about to begin the first challenge.

The Hunger Games- pg.1-20

The Hunger Games
Pg. 1-22
9/13/10


Summary: Katniss Everdeen lives in district 12, in a place once called North America. She and her friend Gale slip under the barbed fence and go hunting for animals to trade in for food. Gale is the only person that Katniss can really be herself to in this place known as her “home”. Kattniss and Gale end up catching a good amount of fish before retuning back to district 12 to get ready for the reaping. The reaping is an event that happens yearly where all of the districts randomly chose one person to compete in a competition where each kid is fighting to the death food. You do not want to hear your name in reaping. Katness, being one of the older kids, has a better chance of being picked, where her sister, Prim, being a younger kid has a very small chance of being picked. Anyway, the time comes for reaping and Katniss and the rest of the population find out that Katniss’s sister, Prim, is going to go to the hunger games!