Catching Fire #23

For 5/12/11 when Blogger was down

Catching Fire

Pg.326-339

5/12/11

Summary: Katniss comes to the understanding that the arena is a clock, and at every hour a new horror takes place. Katniss hurries to wake the rest of her team up in order to flee from their next “horror” which is only about a half an hour away (according to the arena). Nobody in Katniss’s alliance has any really good ideas, and therefore, they all decide to head down to the Cornucopia, or the center of the arena/ clock. When they arrive, Katniss takes a peak at the remaining supplies and weapons left at the Cornucopia from other tributes after day one. Katniss doesn’t find anything useful, but Beetee on the other hand finds a wire that helped him win his first Hunger Games. Katniss and her gang try to get some rest for they have a few hours before the horrors will reach their location, but during their first moment of silence, Katniss can sense something is wrong. She loads her bow and arrow, and turns around to find Wires dead with her throat sliced open. Katniss and her alliance scurry to get their weapons ready and find themselves in a battle with some of the Career tributes. Fortunately, other that Wires, nobody is killed on Katniss’s side, and only Finnick suffers from taking a knife to the leg while protecting Peeta. On the other hand, Katniss and her tribe kill two tributes, and are now ever so closer to wining their second Hunger Games. However, once the rest of the Careers scurry off, the whole arena starts to spin. The arena isn’t slowly spinning, but it spins to the point where objects are flying all around, and Katniss has to cling into the sand to avoid being catapulted across the arena. However, the spinning stops before anybody is hurt, but now Katniss and her alliance have no clue where they stand on the clock, and which direction leads to the noon part of the arena. Joanna decides to just pick a random direction in hope that she is right, and the others of the gang following her footsteps. They travel until they reach the forest, where they split up to get water and to set up a small camp. However, as Katniss and Finnick are filling up their canteens with water, Katniss hears a scream. Katniss drops everything and starts running towards the sight of the scream that sounds ever so familiar, like her little sister Prim’s scream!