They spend days growing closer in a cave, but Katniss lacks the skill to cure Peeta's wound. When the Gamemakers announce that a "feast" will be held to draw the tributes together for crucial supplies, she tricks Peeta and heads to the feast. In trying to get her gift, which she assumes is anti-infection medicine for Peeta, she is almost killed by a Career, but saved by the other tribute from Rue's district.
Having heard of Katniss's kindness towards Rue, the tribute lets her live. The medicine cures Peeta, and they spend more time growing closer in the cave. Once the Gamemakers dry up their water supplies, they prepare themselves and head out to face Cato , the only other surviving tribute. But their main challenge turns out not to be Cato, but several wolf-man creatures unleashed by the Gamemakers, creatures reanimated from the corpses of dead tributes.
Katniss and Peeta escape by climbing to higher ground, while the other tribute falls and is tortured by the creatures. Finally, Katniss kills the tribute with her arrow out of mercy. They have won the Games, but the Gamemakers rescind the rule about dual victors. Peeta and Katniss threaten to commit dual suicide, which would ruin the Games, and they are hence awarded a dual victory.
They are fetched by the Capitol representatives, and separated for a long period of recovery. When they are brought out to the audience again, Haymitch warns Katniss that she needs to overplay the lovers angle as a defense for her threat to commit suicide, which the Capitol considers an act of rebellion.
Over the period of fanfare that follows, she takes his advice, which makes Peeta, who actually does love her, very happy. When all is done, they head back to District 12, and Katniss lets slip along the way that her affection was always for the cameras.
Though not the entire truth, she is torn between her old identity as a poor hunter, and the more complex one she shaped through the Games. Peeta is heartbroken, but understands they must maintain an image as they prepare to present themselves to their district. Katniss considers the idea unrealistic because they have too many lives depending on them. The guide themes, chapter outlines and character summaries are more detailed than other sites. The information is chapter specific and so it's easy to target certain things.
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins. Access Full Guide Download Save. The youngest children have their names entered once, while with each passing year the number of entries go up for the others. The reaping and the fight to the death are called the Hunger Games. The winner, who is the last child left alive, is rewarded with gifts not only for themselves, but for their whole district for a year.
This year Katniss Everdeen, who is sixteen and has twenty entries in the reaping, is more afraid for her friend, Gale, who is eighteen and has forty-two entries. Katniss' sister Primrose is experiencing her first reaping and has one entry. The occupants of District 12's Seam, where Katniss and her family live, are very poor. Katniss is responsible for feeding her mother, sister, and herself, because her father died in a mining explosion.
Many people who live District 12's Seam go hungry, because of a lack of food. Katniss poaches from the woods with Gale, an act which could get them killed. The people in the districts are controlled by the officials in Capitol. District 12 is surrounded by an electrified fence and the people are under constant scrutiny. On this reaping day, the girl's name called out is Primrose Everdeen. Katniss volunteers to replace her sister as tribute. This is a highly unusual move, but it is according to the rules of the reaping.
Effie Trinket, the Capitol official in charge of drawing the names, asks the crowd to applaud Katniss, but instead they stay silent. It is their way of letting her know they do not approve of the reaping. Children become eligible for the reaping the day they turn 12, their name entered once that year, twice the year after that, with an additional entry each year thereafter until they turn 18, the last year they are eligible for the reaping. They can, however, choose to have their name added more times in exchange for a tessera, a year's supply of grain and oil for one person, and can do this for each family member in their household, with the entries being cumulative.
This year, Katniss' name has been entered 20 times, and Gale's has been entered 42 times. Katniss has not allowed Prim to take out any tesserae. She returns home to wash and dress for the reaping, which takes place in the square in front of the Justice Building. Her mother lets her wear one of her light blue dresses, a dress from her apothecary days before she moved to the Seam with Katniss' father.
At the reaping, the children stand in rows, from oldest to youngest, and all 8, citizens of District 12 are required to attend. Camera crews are there, as they are in every district, to record the events.
At , Mayor Undersee tells the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of what was once called North America, and how this country survived droughts, disasters, and storms. He recalls the shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, and how the Dark Days came, a time when the districts rose up against the Capitol; twelve districts were defeated, and the thirteenth was completely destroyed.
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