Summary The explosions knock the wind out of Katniss and cause her to lose hearing in both of her ears. She knows that the Careers will be coming back to see what’s become of their camp, but she can’t stand. She crawls into some brush for cover just before Cato […]
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Summary Katniss takes comfort in Rue’s presence and tries not to think about the fact that they can’t both win the Games. She starts plotting ways to destroy the Careers’ food supplies, knowing that they don’t know how to be hungry like she and Rue do. Katniss wakes the next […]
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Summary Katniss continues to struggle against the tracker jacker venom, which targets a person’s fears and makes them come to life through hallucinations. She remains in a nightmarish haze, imagining Prim dying, her father’s last moments, and herself torn to pieces. Finally, she wakes. The venom has worked its way […]
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Summary Katniss realizes that Rue is pointing to a wasp nest above her and wonders if these are true wasps or if they are one of the Capitol’s muttations, a type of wasp called the tracker jacker. Tracker jackers are larger than wasps, have a gold body, leave stings that […]
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Summary Katniss scrambles to get out of her tree and outrun the flames and smoke. She tries to keep up with the animals ahead of her, but has to take time to rest and vomit from the smoke, allowing herself a minute to recover. She can tell that these flames […]
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Summary Katniss catches a glimpse of Peeta; his face is swollen and his arm is bandaged. She thinks about him telling her not to try to get supplies from the Cornucopia, even though he was planning to do the very same thing himself. She can, however, understand the temptation. What […]
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Summary Katniss and the other tributes stand in a ring around the Cornucopia, a giant golden horn filled with supplies that will help them in the Games. The tributes have 60 seconds to take in their surroundings before the gong sounds and the Games begin. Moving too early triggers land […]
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Summary Katniss is at first so angry with Peeta for his comments, believing that he made her look weak, that when they get off on floor 12, she shoves him. He knocks an urn over, shattering it, and then falls and cuts his hands on the shards. Haymitch, Effie, Cinna, […]
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Summary Katniss works to overcome her feelings of betrayal, deciding that in order to feel betrayed she would have had to trust Peeta in the first place, which she never did. She questions this, though, wondering if maybe she did trust the part of him that gave her bread as […]
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Summary Katniss spends the rest of the day crying on her bed. She believes that the Gamemakers will punish her for what she’s done, that they’ll make her an Avox and cut out her tongue. She imagines all of the possible scenarios, but is most fearful that the Capitol people […]
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