The Hunger Games Pg.208-221

The Hunger Games

Pg.208-221

11/4/10

Summary: Katniss and Rue go to bed, when all of a sudden they are woken by the cannon. They think of who could have died at this time, but decide to just wait for the evening to find out. It is close enough to morning that Katniss and Rue decide to start their day early, in hopes to come up with a plan to steal some of the Careers food. Katniss decides that they should split up, and Rue should go make a distraction to get the Careers out of their camp so that Katniss could then sneak down and take their food. Rue decides to make a fire, which successfully gets the Careers away from their camp, and Katniss is left alone in a tree above their camp thinking of the best and sneakiest way to retrieve the food. However, Katniss starts playing mind games with herself about if there are any traps down below to keep other competitors away. Katniss is very cautious, for she has decided to herself that there are mines down below, but time is running out so she has to think quickly about how to get the food before the Careers return. She decides to shoot arrows at the sack of apples, hoping that the sack will rip, and apples will fall to the ground and test whether there are mines or not. Katniss fires three arrows before the apples start to roll out, and as soon as the first apple hits the ground, Katniss is flung out of her tree and into the air!