Catching Fire #5

Catching Fire

Pg.63-74

1/20/11

Summary: Katniss and Peeta are rushed into the Justice Building, where they are safe from the angry crowd outside. Haymitch joins them, and he takes them in some storage room located in the Justice Building, and asks Katniss and Peeta what exactly happened out there. Katniss tells them everything. She tells them about President Snow, how much danger they are in, and Peeta snaps. He had enough with people keeping secrets from other people that they were so close to, and uses Katniss and Haymitch as an example. However, they do end up getting over this argument, and just in time for they have to get ready for the dinner. Surprisingly, the dinner actually goes quite well, and in no time Katniss and Peeta are on the train to the next District. This same routine of lessening to The Speech of Honor, giving a thank you speech, going to dinner and then getting right back onto the train was going well in all Districts (12-1), and now it was time for their stop at the Capital. Peeta ends up fake proposing to Katniss during the ceremony, and Katniss thought that this would get President Snow to believe about the whole “love story”. However, Katniss was wrong; when she looks into his eyes for that reassuring nod, she is rejected by a “imperceptible shake of his head”!

Catching Fire #4

Catching Fire

Pg.45-62

1/17/10

Summary: Katniss and Peeta head to Rues hometown, District 11, for the first stop of the Victors Tour. On the way Katniss losses herself, and bursts out to Cinna that nobody cares about her planning. Katniss feels so bad that she jumps out of the train to get away from things for a bit while the train was being fixed. Surprisingly, Peeta comes out to meet her and see if everything is alright. Katniss is relived when they decided to just be friends, since Peeta knew about her and Gale. Anyway, Katniss has no time at all before she arrives at District 11, and is rushed to the gathering spot where the Victor’s Tour begins. Peeta gives his speech, and everything is going great, until Katniss made eye contact with one of Rues sisters. The sorrow on the poor girls face made Katniss feel ashamed of herself, so she decided to go make a quick speech herself. Katniss makes a great speech, in my opinion, but she is very worried that what she said will go against with what President Snow wanted her to do when her visited her last week.

Catching Fire #3

Catching Fire

Pg.30-44

1/12/11

Summary: President Snow leaves, and Katniss’s mom comes rushing into the office to see what the scoop is. Katniss simply lies to her mom, and tells her that President Snow interviews every victor of the Hunger Games. After, Katniss enjoys her short, but sweet alone time she has in the bath tub; her stylists come rushing in to get her ready for the tour. At first, they are disappointed with Katniss for not listening to their advice, but then the stylists’ compromise, and turn her back into her beautiful self. Once the stylists are done, Katniss makes her way downstairs and finds Cinna, her costume designer, waiting to give her the outfit she will be wearing during the tour. However, before Katniss tries on her outfit, she is taken outside for a shot of her describing her outfit, that technically she was supposed to design. After the shot, Peeta comes over, and they kiss for the first time in months. Later, they are whisked away to the train station where they will once again leave their families to go on their tour all over Panem. On the way back to the Capital, Katniss tells Haymitch everything about what happened with President Snow. Unfortunately, Haymitch only has negative feedback, and tells Katniss that the camera crew will probably follow her and Peeta for the rest of their lives, meaning that Katniss may have to marry Peeta!

Catching Fire #2

Catching Fire

Pg.18-29

1/9/11

Summary: Katniss and President Snow sit down and start talking. All of a sudden, things take a turn for the worst when President Snow starts talking about the berries in the Hunger Games. Katniss braces herself for the conversation because she knows that he is going to question her about Peeta and Gale. President Snow is worried that Katniss’s actions in the Hunger Games will start an uprising, which could lead to a revolution that would change Panem. Katniss knows that she is in trouble, when she tells President Snow that Peeta made the cookies they were eating during their conversation because this gets President Snow talking about her and Peeta being “lovers”, and eventually on the topic of Gale. President Snow cut to the chase when he basically told Katniss that he knew about her and Gale going hunting on Sundays, and that they are more than just friends. Katniss is stunned by how President Snow knows about this, but keeps the shock shielded behind her poker face. Katniss assures Presisdent Snow she will prove to him that she and Peeta are lovers on the tour, and they wrap up the conversation. Just as President Snow is walking out the door, he turns to Katniss and says, “By the way, I know about the kiss” that came out of nowhere one day by Gale while hunting.    

Chatching Fire #1

Catching Fire

Pg.3-17

1/6/11

Summary: Katniss is home, and starts to return to her old life, but she can’t. Her life has changed so much with being wealthy, and getting a new house that she gets really bored for all of the things that she used to keep her family alive, she almost never has to do anymore. However, she still goes hunting, and the food that she catches gets distributed between her family and Gales family. Katniss goes to the market and buys the groceries and supplies for the next few days, but while she is at it she gets Haymitch a bottle of alcohol as a thank you gift. After, she walks over to his house (which is right down the street from her new house) and gives him the present before the camera men come over to prepare for the upcoming tour. Katniss ends up having to wake Haymitch up for he was passed out drunk on the table. When she finally gets him up, Peeta stops by to wake him up as well because technically he was supposed to do it in the first place. This was an awkward moment for Katniss because she wasn’t expecting to encounter Peeta, and she really didn’t know what to do. Anyway, Katniss returns home to a guest awaiting her inside. Katniss knows it is somebody from the Capital for the way they are dressed, but she is still quite nervous. She walks into the room and finds President Snow, the president of the districts, in her study room!   

The Hunger Games Pg.260-End

The Hunger Games

Pg.260-274 (End)

1/3/11

Summary: The celebration begins in the Capital where Katniss and Peeta take the stage with their beautiful outfits made by Cinna. However, Katniss and Peeta aren’t so excited because they know that the Gamemakers aren’t so found of them due to their attempt of tricking them during the Hunger Games, and now if the producers decide to show some specific parts in the video that recaps the games, Katniss and Peeta will be in deep trouble. Luckily for Katniss, nothing too bad is shown, and so far they are safe. After the celebration, Katniss and Peeta are sent to bed before they really even have a chance to talk to each other. Katniss decides to sneak out of her room in search for Peeta, but ends up unsuccessful due to the suspicious noise that she thought was Haymitch. Katniss barely gets any sleep before she is awoken early the next morning to get ready for the interview on the Hunger Games. Katniss was very nervous for this was going to be the time where she and, or Peeta would accidently say something that gets the Gamemakers even more angry with them. To make matters even worse, the interviewer was asking some hard questions, some that almost couldn’t be answered for they would immediately tick off the Gamemakers. However, Katniss and Peeta battle their way through the interview and are reassured that they are safe with hugs from Haymitch. Finally, after all of these days out in the frigid cold, it is time for Katniss and Peeta to head home to District twelve and see their family. On the train back Katniss and Peeta get into a little bit of an argument, which eventually ended up getting big enough that they suddenly weren’t in love anymore. In fact, Katniss and Peeta had returned to the same people they were when they first got elected to be in the Hunger Games. Fortunately, they came together as they pulled up to their small train station in District twelve and walk out as the “lovers of District twelve”, and the Champions of the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games!