The Hunger Games Pg. 172-184

The Hunger Games

Pg.172-184

10/24/10

Summary: Katniss quickly scurries out of her tree and runs for her life away from the fire. While Katniss is running, she thinks about if the fire gaining on her was a forest fire, or if it was set of on purpose to make the Games more interesting? Anyway, the smoke catches up with Katniss and she starts coughing, and eventually vomiting. The wall of fire soon starts launching fire balls which almost hit Katniss. However, soon it is over, but Katniss is in a lot of pain from the many burn marks she has all over her body. She soon finds a pool of water and bathes in it for quite a while to ease the pain. All of a sudden, Katniss hears footsteps so she runs to the closest tree and climbs up. It turns out that it was Peeta and the Careers coming to basically kill Katniss. They were unable to though, for they couldn’t climb up the tree so Katniss was spared (for now at least). Night comes and Katniss sets up camp in the tree for the night when she sees eyes. It turns out that these were the eyes of another competitor, Rue, who was there the whole time watching Katniss escape from Peeta and the Careers!