The Hunger Games Pg.346-359

The Hunger Games

Pg.346-359

12/16/10

Summary: Katniss and Peeta have just won the Hunger Games! Luckily, none of them swallowed any of the berries yet, because if they were too, they would have been dead by now. The hovercraft comes to get them and they are taken out of the horrid habitat that has been their home for the past couple of weeks, and are on their way to the luxurious Capital, where the celebration will be held. However, Katniss and Peeta are immediately knocked out, and separated so that they can undergo procedures to cure all of their health problems that were caused by the Hunger Games. When Katniss awakes, she is in a hospital bed located in a room with no visible windows or doors. She tries to get up to get out of the room and look for Peeta, but when she tries to get up; she is injected with some medicine that knocks her out once again. However, next time she awakes, an “Avox girl” walkes in with a meal for Katniss, and then just simply leaves. This routine of getting knocked out, waking up, eating, and then getting knocked out once again goes on for the next few days until Katniss finally pulls together the strength to get out of her room and go look for Peeta. Katniss is unsuccessful, and is taken by Effie, Haymitch, and Cinna to go prepare herself for the ceremony. When Cinna shows Katniss herself in her dress, Katniss just sees how much the Hunger Games have taken a toll on her. She is as thin as a twig, and has lost all of the aspects that made her believe she was beautiful before. After, Katniss is taken to the ceremony, and is given good luck hugs and kisses from her team before, “The most dangerous part of the Hunger Games begins.”

The Hunger Games Pg.331-345

The Hunger Games

Pg.331-345

12/12/10

Summary: Katniss realizes that they are being chased by “Muttations”, large creatures who look like wolves, but act like humans. Katniss follows Cato to the Cornucopia, where they climb about twenty feet to get away from the Muttations. However, Katniss realizes that Peeta has fallen behind, and the Muttations are gaining on him. Katniss ends up having to fire one of her arrows to allow Peeta to get onto the Cornucopia safely, without being killed by the Muttations. They are all on the Cornucopia and Katniss is debating on whether or not to kill Cato right here, right now, but misses her chance, for the Muttations are starting to use their human powers, and jump onto the Cornucopia. When one Muttations gets about half way up the Cornucopia, Katniss finds that they have collars on them with numbers, and that they have different collared eyes and facial expressions when it hits her; Muttations are made from the competitors who have all passed, and are now being controlled by the Capital. Katniss kills one more that is climbing up the wall, but is then stopped by Peeta’s scream, which is being caused by Cato strangling Peeta. Katniss can’t kill Cato, for Peeta will be brought down to the ground with him, and be killed by the Muttations. However, Peeta points for Katniss to shoot Cato’s hand, for the rest is covered by armor, and because it would allow Peeta to escape Cato’s grip. Katniss shot is dead on and hits Cato’s right in the hand, allowing Peeta to escape before Cato falls to the ground and is taken away by the Muttations. Katniss grabs on to Peeta to guarantee that he will not fall, and they wait to hear the cannon go off and signal their victory, but nothing happens. Katniss and Peeta reason that they have to be away from the body, so that the hovercraft can retrieve the body, so Katniss and Peeta walk back to the lake to get there supplies. Sure enough the cannon goes off, and they wait for another hovercraft the come and retrieve them for they are now the victors. However, once again, nothing happens. Finally, Claudius Templesmith’s voice rages from the loud speakers, but not to congratulate Katniss and Peeta for winning The Hunger Games, but rather to announce that the rule made earlier in the games had been overruled, and there will only be one victor to The Hunger Games. In disbelief, Katniss and Peeta start to get into a fight about who should be the victor. Katniss comes up with a brilliant idea to both eat the poisonous berries Peeta had found earlier at the same time, leaving them to die at the same time and mock the Capitol about how there will be no winner to The Hunger Games. They count to three and put the berries in their mouth, but just as they do this, Claudius’s voice come back on the loud speaker and congratulates Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark for being the victors of the 74^th Hunger Games!!

The Hunger Games Pg.320-330

The Hunger Games

Pg.320-330

12/9/10

Summary: Katniss goes into further explanation about how Foxface was killed by the berries Peeta collected. Afterwards, Katniss and Peeta have a minute of silence to acknowledge just how lucky they are that it wasn’t them who died from eating the deadly berries. Anyway, Katniss and Peeta were now walking around with their food they caught from hunting, all whilst trying to find a home for the night. Peeta soon gets bored of looking, and politely askes if they can go back, and stay in the cave for one more night. Katniss is nice, and agrees to stay in the cave, so they walk all the way back to their “home”. Once they get back, Katniss throws together a quick meal, after which, Peeta is out like a light. Katniss stays awake all night, and decides to let Peeta sleep in until the morning has begun. That very next day, Katniss and Peeta decide to leave there cave for good, and look for a new water supply since overnight the river was drained, in hopes to get Katniss and Peeta to collide with the last remaining competitor Cato. Kantiss and Peeta are walking towards the water supply, being to lake, where they will be out in the open with no real shelter against the all mighty Cato. Katniss and Peeta arrive at the lake first and have a few moments to just relax. However, this relaxing doesn’t last long for out of nowhere Katniss sees Cato running strait for them in the distance. In a spit second Katniss and Peeta are ready to battle. But, Katniss realizes that Cato is sweating, meaning that he has been running for quite a while, and all of a sudden Katniss spots a half dozen creatures running after Cato. In an instant Katniss forgets about Cato, and is running to save her own life.

The Hunger Games Pg.303-319

The Hunger Games

Pg.303-319

12/6/10

Summary: Katniss and Peeta decide to portion up the food given to them by Haymitch, and only have a tiny amount, even though they could devour the whole meal in a matter of minutes. After their meal, they watch the anthem and are very surprised to see that Thresh has been killed. It takes Kantiss a while to overcome her emotions, for Thresh is the competitor who spared her life during the feast. Anyway, after a nights rest, the rain has vanished, so Katniss decides this would be the perfect time to go hunting. However, it is also a very dangerous time to go hunting, for Cato, Thresh’s partner, is now by himself, and is probably on the hunt for the rest of the competitors. This doesn’t stop Katniss and Peeta for they are already on their way to the old spot where Katniss used to hunt with Rue. They split up when they reach the area, leaving Katniss can go get some meat, and Peeta to gather some berries. After Katniss catches a couple of animals, she returns to where they had split up, and finds Peeta missing, and some of their food gone. Peeta ends up just being behind a tree, but he says that he didn’t eat any of the food. Next thing they know, the cannon goes off and they find one of the remaining four competitors, Foxface, dead on the ground only a hundred yards away. In fear of Cato being the cause of her death, Katniss and Peeta scurry up into a tree. However, Katniss soon realizes that Foxface had taken the food, meaning that the berries Peeta had been collecting had been toxic.   

The Hunger Games Pg.290-302

The Hunger Games

Pg.290-302

12/2/10

Summary: Katniss finally wakes up to Peeta rubbing her head on a cold and rainy day. The day goes by slowly for the rain prevents them from doing anything outside of their cave. They end up gobbling down the rest of their food, in hopes that the weather will break tomorrow, and they will be able to go hunting. However, the exact opposite happens, and the weather actually gets sufficiently worse. By the end of the day Katniss and Peeta are starving. They talk for a while about how Katniss survived from the feast, and then they get onto the topic of how long Peeta has liked Katniss. Interestingly enough, Peeta has truly liked/ loved Katniss ever since Kindergarten. In regards to the conversation, they end up both leaning in for a kiss, which is interrupted by Haymitch sending them a feast big enough for five that can supply them for the next couple of days.