1. Pg. 6 – Hunting in the Seam
Quote -Even here in the middle of
nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.
In this part of
the book Katniss is with her friend Gale in the woods. They are hunting for
meat for their families. Hunting is illegal and she and Gale quietly hunt without
being caught. If they were caught they would probably be killed by the Capital
because it is illegal. They hunt so that their families will not starve to
death. She keeps her illegal bow and arrow hidden in the woods. Everyone in her
district has rules that they have to follow. They have to always worry about
and watch what they say to each other because they could be heard even in the
woods. The Capitol has a lot of control over all the people in the district so
they have to be careful not to get caught. Even though she sells her meat to
the Peacekeepers they don’t tell on them because they want the meat too and
don’t know how to hunt. I learned that she is a hunter and her father taught
her how to use her bow and arrow. She learns to be quiet, to mask her face from
others so that they can’t read her mind. This is important because later on in
the arena she has to be aware of what she says and what she does because she is
on camera and everyone is watching from all the districts and the Capitol.
2. Pg. 41 The Setting
Quote: In school, they tell us the
Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a
region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here.
Which is why our miners have to dig so deep.
Katniss tells
about where the setting of the story takes place. It is in North America, in
the future, after disasters, droughts, storms, fires and war took place. What
was left was this country where they live called Panem. Panem has 13 districts
around it but one was killed off after the rebellion. Now there are only 12
districts and Katniss and her family live in District 12. It is a place where
coal miners live and work. Her father died in a coal mining accident when she
was 11. She lives in a place they call the Seam that is surrounded by an
electric fence. The fence is to keep the woodland animals away from the people.
It is where Katniss hunts illegally. She tells about how in school they learn a
lot to do with coalmining. Each district has a different industry. This section
is important because we learn about where the story is happening. It is in
Canada and in the future. It is interesting to read about what the author
thinks could happen in the future (in her story).
3.
Katniss makes the
Gamemakers mad pg. 102
Quote: Suddenly I am furious, that with
my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me.
That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my
face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it
straight at the Gamemakers' table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble
back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig's mouth and pins it to the wall
behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief.
Katniss
is at the training session for the Hunger Games. The Gamemakers are all
watching the tributes practice using different weapons. Katniss didn’t go to
the bow and arrow first because others would know this is the weapon she is
really good at using because of her experience as a hunter for her family. She is
feeling frustrated that the Gamemakers are just eating and drinking and not
really paying attention to giving out scores for the tributes. Without thinking
much about it she sends an arrow at them and hits the pig on the table where
they are sitting. They are all shocked at this. Katniss is so mad that she
doesn’t stay to be dismissed from the training area and she storms off. After
she is really worried that her choice to do that may be a major problem for her
and her family because the Gamemakers may be so mad that they will send her
home or even kill her and her family. This shows that Katniss sometimes makes
decisions without really thinking about what may happen after. She realizes she
is so impulsive but she also doesn’t really care about what they do unless it
means her family is hurt. This shows one of Katniss’ personality traits.
4. Katniss and her relationships with Gale
and Peeta. Pg. 112
Quote: I can’t help comparing what I have with Gale
to what I’m pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale’s motives
while I do nothing but doubt the latter’s. It’s not a fair comparison really.
Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know
the other’s survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?
Throughout the whole story
Katniss is back and forth with her feelings towards Peeta. She never says it
but I think she is in love with Gale. He makes her feel secure and safe when
they are in the woods just like her father did when she was growing up. She
trusts and believes in Gale and she calls him her “confidant” because she can
talk to him about anything anytime without fear of getting into trouble. With
Peeta, she is confused. She knows he loves her but she is not really sure that
it is true love because he may be acting. She thinks Haymitch may have told
Peeta to act like he loves her just for the games. She also knows that she will
have to kill him in the arena so she doesn’t want to be close to him. She puts
on a show in front of the cameras to show that she is playing along with the
romance story that Haymitch wants them to play. This is important in the novel
because Katniss is always confused and her feelings for both of these boys are
mixed up or intertwined all the time. At the end of the novel she is sure that
Peeta is true with his love but she is not feeling the same for him.
5. Muttations pg. 331
Quote: Muttations. No question
about it. I’ve never seen these mutts, but they’re no natural-born animals.
They resemble huge wolves, but what wolf lands and then balances easily on its
hind legs? What wolf waves the rest of the pack forward with its front paw as
though it had a wrist? These things I can see at a distance. Up close, I’m sure
their more menacing attributes will be revealed.
This
section of the book describes creatures that remind me of the chimpanzees in
the new movie called Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The apes in the
movie are smart. Caesar, the leader of the apes, tells the other apes what to
with sign language and hand gestures just like the muttations. They had
colourful eyes that Katniss recognized as the eyes from the other dead
tributes. The apes all have bright green eyes from the drug they had that
Caesar gave to them. They run through the streets on their 4 legs and sometimes
on their 2 feet just like the muttations did. The muttations are there to kill
Katniss and Peeta but are not able to get to them. The apes are just trying to
get back to their forest where they can live peacefully. On the way they do
attack people on the Golden Gate Bridge. The bad people were killed by the
apes. Caesar told them not to harm others. I would like to be Caesar because he
is so smart and he is a leader. The other chimpanzees treated him like a king.
6.
Entertainment in the
Hunger Games pg. 339
Quote: Why don’t they just kill
him?” I ask Peeta.
“You know why,” he says, and
pulls me closer to him. And I do. No viewer could turn away from the show now.
From the Gamemakers’ point of view, this is the final word in entertainment.
In this
part of the story Cato is being mauled by the muttations but the Capitol can
see that he is not dying. He has body armour on so he is protected from the
claws of the monsters. The people watching including all the people from the 12
districts as well as the politicians and Gamemakers are enjoying watching him
suffer but not die. This is entertaining for the people. Katniss and Peeta
can’t understand how this could be something people actually like to watch by
because the Capitol is not doing anything about it it means that it is the best
part of the Hunger Games for others to see. The whole Hunger Games has been
televised for everyone to see every minute of the day. It is probably like
watching CNN News all day. People love this entertainment and can’t take
themselves away from it. The Gamemakers know this and are keeping Cato alive
because of it.
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