Catching Fire #16

Catching Fire

Pg.218-237

4/18/11

Summary: Katniss and Peeta have a quiet dinner with their new Avox Darius. After, Katniss and Peeta watch the recap of the Opening Ceremonies. Katniss shortly heads off to bed after the Ceremonies are over, but has many nightmares that always end with somebody’s tongue bleeding or getting severed from the rest of their head. Katniss decides to sleep in up until the last minutes before she has to be downstairs at the Training Center. Katniss really isn’t looking forward to the training sections. She has been told by Haymitch to try and make friends since everybody already knows everyone except for Katniss and Peeta because they have just won the last Hunger Games last year. Katniss tries her best and comes to like the tributes from District 3, Wiress and Beetee, when she talks to them over at the knot tying station. However when Katniss meets back up with Peeta during the lunch break, Peeta has different opinions about who they should team up with. Katniss and Peeta decide to sit with all of the other tributes at the big table they have put together for lunch, even though Katniss was highly pushing against the decision, to try and make more friends that could possibly be on their side once in the Hunger Games. Katniss meets Chaff, one of Peeta’s new friends, and realizes he isn’t as crazy as she had thought before, and could be a great teammate. After lunch Katniss does the “edible insect” station with the tributes from District 4 before being invited to make hammocks with the tributes from District 1. Katniss gives up on trying to make friends because she thinks Haymitch will just laugh when she tells him, “I want and eighty-year-old [Mags form District 4] and Nuts and Volts [Wiress and Beetee from District 3] for my allies.” Katniss decides to go over and shoot some arrows to get over the frustration she is feeling inside of her. However, once she is finished shooting, she turns around and finds all of the eyes on her in disbelief. Katniss realizes she should have just started with the archery station and let her new friends approach her. Anyways, the training section is now over and it is time for private sessions where the tributes have fifteen minutes to show the Gamemakers their skills. Of course, being the girl from District 12, Katniss is the last tribute of the day leaving her with plenty of time to think of how she will amaze the Gamemakers. Katniss goes into the room to find the Gamemakers’ to be a bit upset and thinks that Peeta made them mad somehow. Katniss decides to blow off the plan she had to amaze the Gamemakers’ and do something that will really make the Gamemakers’ mad in order for them to forget whatever Peeta did to them before. Katniss first kills a dummy with a noose. Afterwards, Katniss retrieves some fake blood and blows the Gamemakers’ away when she writes “SENECA CRANE” in big letters across the dead dummy.