Catching Fire #12

Catching Fire

Pg.164-173

4/4/11

Summary: Katniss is starting to get sick of lying in bed all day because of her injury, and just wants to get outside and do something. However, she is surprised by her makeup and hair crew that arrives three weeks early to prepare Katniss up for her wedding dress shoots which have moved to that day. Katniss is soon swept away and gets a full makeover that includes hiding the lash on her face from the whip. During Katniss’s makeover, one of the crew members, Octavia, makes a remark about how there has been a shortage of sea food because of the bad weather in District 4 which somehow gets Katniss thinking once again about the uprisings. Katniss doesn’t have much time to think, though, because she is brought downstairs and the photo shoot begins. Katniss wasn’t expecting the photo shoot to take as long as it did because by the end of the pictures for the first dress she was already exhausted. After the photo shoot, Katniss goes in search of Gale to inform him about the news she has learned from Bonnie and Twill about District 13, but comes up empty handed. Instead, she talks too Haymitch about the uprisings and District 13. Haymitch is unsure about the rumors Katniss heard from Bonnie and Twill about District 13, but doesn’t want to bring Katniss’s hopes down so he changes the topic. Haymitch decides to tell Katniss that her wedding dress pictures may be on the mandatory broadcast tonight. Katniss is stunned. She never realized that the producers at the capital could get the photos all the way from District 12 in a day, and put them in the program. Sure enough, the photos were the opening part in the program. However, the news only got worse from there. Since this year is the 75^th anniversary of The Hunger Games, also known as the “third Quarter Quell”, the capital changed The Hunger Games (just like they did on the first and second Quarter Quell), but this time it is different. For the third Quaker Quell, Districts will have to choose both a boy and girl tribute (person to have won the games) and send them back to The Hunger Games for a rematch. It takes Katniss a while for the fact to come across her that the only other tribute from District 13 is Haymitch, meaning that Katniss, being the only girl tribute from District 12, is automatically going back into The Hunger Games!