Catching Fire #8

Catching Fire

Pg.106-120

3/9/11

Summary: Katniss jumps in front of Gale, and takes the full impact of the whip right to her face. Luckily, Haymitch comes to the scene before Katniss is beaten anymore, and rats out the man for what he has done. Peeta also comes to the rescue to try and get Katniss out of dodge, but Katniss was too focused on saving Gale. She ends up taking Gale to her house, where her mother takes a good look at him. Katniss is terrified because she convinced herself that all of this nonsense happened because of her. Plus, when Katniss asks her mother if Gale will be all right, she doesn’t get an answer. However, once Ms. Everdeen (Katniss’s mother) bandages Gale up, he starts to regain his consciousness. Ms. Everdeen decides to cut down on the pain medication because of the speed of his recovery, but Katniss pushes her mother to give Gale the original medication because she just wants this whole thing to be over with. Later in the evening, somebody knocks on Katniss’s door. She knows it could only be the Peacekeepers, but she doesn’t know if they are here to help, or to just make matters worse. It turns out that they were there actually there to help, and they gave Katniss some pills to give Gale, and sure enough, he talks for the first time since he was whipped. He is able to pull off a quick smile to Katniss before the pain killers kick in, and he falls back to asleep.