Catching Fire #14

Catching Fire

Pg.188-203

4/10/11

Summary: Katniss is on a train with Peeta and her team headed to the Capital. At first, there is a very sad and quiet tone flowing around the cabins. Not much is said and everybody heads to bed. However, Katniss wakes up to a nightmare about the Hunger Games and walks out of her room to find Peeta watching clips on previous Hunger Games trying to gain knowledge on their new completion. He has watched all of the clips with the tributes that will be returning to this year’s Hunger Games so Katniss pushes Peeta to watch the clip where Haymitch wins the Hunger Games. The first thing Katniss realizes while watching the clip is how beautiful the location was where the Hunger Games were held at the time when Haymitch played. For instance, there were meadows with a snow-caped mountain where you would never once think about hundreds of children dying at your feet. Also, Katniss discovers that Haymitch was very intelligent. He was the only tribute to really explored the map. On his journey throughout the Games, he joined an alliance with the other District 12 tribute and they headed for the unknown “end” of the map. Haymitch knew there had to be an end to this place somewhere and sure enough it ended at a massive canyon. Coincidently, when Haymitch was walking on the edge of the canyon, a pebble fell into the canyon, and when it seemed like the pebble fell forever, it shot back up out of the canyon. Haymitch was able to use his knowledge of the canyon, which had been made by the Capital for the Hunger Games, to win the Games. When it was just down to him and the other District 12 tribute, Haymitch got the tribute angry and ran toward the canyon. When the tribute threw her ax at Haymitch he jumped into the canyon. The tribute had thought she won when all of a sudden the ax came flying out of the canyon and into the tributes skull leaving Haymitch the victor. The part that shocked Katniss and Peeta was how similar Haymitch’s experience in the Hunger Games was to theirs when District 12 teamed up both times and won by playing the Capital. Katniss is now sure that two people who have caused the Capital so much trouble can think of a way to get Peeta home alive!