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Catching Fire

By suzanne collins.

Catching Fire Summary

A few months after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark, Katniss Everdeen, now 17, is adjusting to her new life of plenty after spending her entire childhood in poverty and hunger. Despite her family's lush new house in Victors' Village and the newfound wealth, Katniss still hunts in order to feed her friends. Her hunting partner and best friend Gale Hawthorne now works in the coalmines. They shared a single kiss, but she’s confused about their relationship.

President Snow pays Katniss a visit, threatening her loved ones if she doesn’t convince Panem that her final act in the Games – pulling out poisonous berries to kill herself and Peeta – was motivated by love and not defiance. She does her best to keep up appearances on the Victory Tour, but understands she may have to resort to marrying Peeta or run away. When they stop for a celebration in District 11, an old man whistles Rue ’s four-note mockingjay tune and the citizens offer their thanks to Katniss. The man is killed by Peacekeepers. Trouble is brewing in the districts, and Katniss is stroking the flames, whether she means to or not.

Peeta proposes to Katniss on live TV, but President Snow is still not convinced it’s enough. Back home, Katniss sees a transmission intended for Mayor Undersee and learns that District 8 has revolted. She tries to convince Gale to run away with her, but he knows the time is ripe for rebellion. Katniss approaches Peeta, who agrees to flee. However, they see Gale being whipped in the square by Romulus Thread , the brutal new Head Peacekeeper. Katniss gets in between Gale and the whip and Thead relents in his assault against her only when Haymitch intervenes. She takes Gale to her mother's house, where she tries her best to heal his wounds. That night, Katniss sits up with Gale and kisses him, realizing how much she loves him.

Over the next few days, District 12 becomes a police state. Armed guards are everywhere, crimes tolerated for years are suddenly to be punished to the full extent of the law, and the Hob is burned down. The mines are shut down for 2 weeks, bringing the District to the brink of starvation.

Katniss finds Bonnie and Twill, escapees from District 8, in the woods. They tell Katniss they are heading to District 13. Katniss is confused - District 13 was bombed 75 years ago in the Dark Days of the war with the Capitol. Twill tells her that each time a clip of 13's burned-out Justice Building is broadcast, a mockingjay flies through the shot in the upper right-hand corner. It has to be the same footage used over and over again. Twill thinks the survivors have survived underground and that the Capitol leaves them alone because of their chief industry before the war - nuclear development. Recuperating from injuries sustained getting over the newly electrified fence, Katniss sees two reports about District 13 that confirm Twill’s story about the mockingjay. Haymitch is skeptical about this information. Despite rumors of uprisings in Districts 3, 4, 7, 8 and 11, he tells Katniss an uprising in 12 is impossible.

Katniss and her family watch the "reading of the card," the announcement of the rules for the Quarter Quell, the 75th annual Hunger Games. This year, the tributes from each District will be chosen from the pool of existing victors. As the only female victor in District 12, Katniss must return to the arena.

Katniss approaches Haymitch and they agree they owe it to Peeta to keep him alive no matter what. The three train like Careers and review footage of previous victors. As expected, Peeta volunteers for Haymitch and he and Katniss head to the Capitol again - this time without getting to say goodbye to their families.

At the Opening Ceremony, Cinna dresses Katniss in a jumpsuit that glows like an ember. She is still the girl on fire. They meet some of the other victors - flirty Finnick Odair from District 4, Haymitch’s friend Chaff and Seeder from 11 and contemptuous Johanna Mason from 7. Haymitch advises Katniss and Peeta find allies among the victors. Katniss is drawn to Wiress and Beetee , smart, odd victors from District 8 and 80-year old volunteer Mags from 4.

Cinna dresses Katniss in her wedding dress for her interview and when she twirls at his command, the dress burns away to reveal one that makes her look like a mockingjay. Peeta's interview is similarly shocking; he tells the audience he and Katniss already married in secret and that she is now pregnant. Haymitch tells them both to stay alive, but also reminds Katniss to remember who the real enemy is. Before she launches into the arena, she is trapped in her tube, forced to watch Cinna beaten and arrested.

In the arena, water spreads out in every direction, surrounding a little island that houses the Cornucopia. 12 spokes of land radiate from the island. In concentric circles from the island are sections of saltwater, beach, then jungle. The pink sky is a force field dome surrounding the arena. Katniss swims for the Cornucopia and makes the quick decision to team up with Finnick; noting that he wears a gold bangle like the one Haymitch wears. They arm themselves and take Peeta and Mags, who hops on Finnick's back, into the jungle. As they climb, Katniss can't warn Peeta in time and he runs into a force field. Electrocuted, his heart stops but Finnick revives him. They press on in search of water, eventually camping at nightfall. From the nightly broadcast, they learn eight tributes have died, including Seeder. A sponsor gift arrives - a spile (spigot) for collecting the water that runs inside the trees. Later, twelve bells toll and a lightning storm begins a distance away. An hour later, rain falls nearby. An hour after that, a poisonous fog appears on the ground. Katniss wakes her friends and they run, but the chemical fog damages their nerves. Finnick takes Mags and Katniss helps Peeta but they soon have to swap. Katniss falls and Mags sacrifices herself by walking into the fog. Before it kills them, the fog is vacuumed up and out of the arena.

Katniss, Peeta and Finnick crawl to the beach. The salt water leaches the poison out of them. A swarm of orange monkeys appear in the jungle and Katniss realizes they are about to attack. Katniss, Finnick and Peeta defend themselves and the morphling girl from District 6 jumps in front of a monkey set on tearing into Peeta. Her wounds are fatal, and Peeta soothes her as she dies. The next day, they join up with Johanna, Beetee and Wiress, who keeps repeating the phrase "Tick, tock."

At what Katniss assumes is noon, the same tree that was struck by lighting the night before is hit again. Katniss remembers that the twelve bongs that preceded the first bolt and it hits her - the arena is a clock. The tree is in the first "wedge" of jungle created by the spokes of land radiating from the Cornucopia island. 12 o'clock. Each wedge corresponds to an hour of the day when a particular hazard occurs in its section. Lightning in the first clockwise wedge between 12 and 1 starting at midnight, blood rain from 1 to 2, fog in 2 to 3, etc.

At the Cornucopia, the group of allies are ambushed by the Careers. Wiress is killed and the allies kill Cashmere and Gloss . Finnick deflects a spear aimed at Peeta. Later, Katniss thinks about the events so far - Finnick retrieving Peeta from his plate in the water, Finnick reviving Peeta, the morphling saving him from the monkey attack, and Finnick blocking Brutus 's spear. Like Katniss, the other tributes are protecting Peeta.

Jabberjays mimicking Prim and Finnick's love Annie Cresta disturb them. By nightfall, two-thirds of the tributes have died in the first 36 hours of the Games. Peeta and Katniss take watch and they come clean with one another - each is trying to save the other. Peeta insists that Katniss has more to live for. But Katniss wants to make the world safe for Peeta's child. He must live.

Beetee comes up with a plan to use his wire to electrify the beach and water in order to kill Brutus and Enobaria . The wire must be threaded through the jungle from the lightning tree. While examining the tree, Katniss finds a weak spot in the force field beyond the tree. At 9 o'clock, Beetee weaves the wire around the trunk. He instructs Johanna and Katniss to lay the wire down through the jungle from the tree to the beach. Katniss kisses Peeta goodbye. As she and Johanna work, the wire is cut from above them. Johanna jumps onto Katniss and stabs her left arm, then runs off when Brutus and Enobaria arrive. Thinking their alliance is severed, Katniss races to Peeta. She finds Beetee unconscious by the tree, a knife wrapped in wire beside him; the wire leading to the tree. As Katniss plots to take out as many tributes as she can to leave Peeta with the best odds of survival, she remembers what Haymitch said to her. Her enemy is the Capitol, not the other victors. Figuring out Beetee's true plan, she ties the wire to an arrow and shoots it into the force field. The lightning strikes, sending a current upwards, destroying the dome.

As fireworks and explosions go off around her, Katniss is retrieved by a hovercraft and strapped into a hospital bed. Seeing Plutarch Heavensbee , she assumes she has been captured by the Capitol. When she fully comes to, however, she finds Plutarch has been working with Haymitch, Finnick, and the majority of the Quarter Quell tributes to break them out of the game. The hovercraft is on its way to District 13. Katniss learns that most of the districts are now in full-scale revolt. Katniss feels betrayed by Haymitch; he left Katniss and Peeta in the dark about the whole plan and now Peeta is in the Capitol's hands along with Johanna and Enobaria.

Katniss refuses to eat or talk to anyone until Gale shows up. He tells her that Prim and her mother are safe, but that District 12 has been destroyed by the Capitol.

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Catching Fire Question: Why was Seneca executed?

President Snow had him executed because, in Snow's view, Seneca failed to adequately handle the situation with Katniss, Peeta, and the nightlock.

How is the square been transformed

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the town square has been transformed. There are machine guns along the rooftops, and whipping posts, stockades, and gallows in the center of the square. The Hob has been set on fire and is reduced to just a pile of rubble and ash.

Can peeta and katniss agree on who should be their allies

I think in Catching Fire, they do agree on allies.

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Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games, an annual festival sponsored by the government of her nation, Panem. The government requires that each of the twelve districts of Panem send two competitors, one male and one female, to fight each other and compete in a sadistic series of challenges, until there is only one champion. The entire population of Panem watches the Hunger Games on television. Katniss and her co-representative from District 12, Peeta , won the games together, defying the government’s rules. The “Head Gamemaker,” Seneca Crane , allowed Katniss and Peeta to be co-champions because he thought it would make for a good story: indeed, Katniss pretended that she was in love with Peeta to please the media.

Shortly after winning the Games, Katniss is back in District 12. She now lives in a luxurious house, along with a former victor, Haymitch , her mother , her sister Prim , and Peeta. One day, Katniss returns to her home to find Coriolanus Snow , the president of Panem, waiting for her. Snow informs Katniss that she is about to embark on her “Victory Tour,” during which she’ll visit all twelve districts. He tells Katniss that her defiance of the rules of the Hunger Games caused rebellion in the twelve districts, and he warns her that if she disobeys the government’s rules again, her family will be killed. As Snow leaves, he gives Katniss one more piece of information: he knows that Katniss kissed Gale . Gale, Katniss’s lifelong friend, has been referred to as her “cousin” in the news, because the media doesn’t want to distract from Katniss’s supposed romance with Peeta

Concerned for her family’s safety, Katniss begins her Victory Tour, accompanied by Haymitch, Peeta, and her entourage, including stylists, makeup artists, and escorts. Before she leaves, Katniss’s mother gives her a small pin shaped like a mockingjay , a rare bird of Panem. During her visit to District 11, Katniss and Peeta appear in the Justice Building before the district’s entire population. Katniss, who’s wearing her pin, remembers Rue , a young competitor from District 11 who died in last year’s Hunger Games. Katniss goes “off-script,” telling the crowd that she’ll always remember Rue, and inspiring many to clap and cheer. As Katniss and Peeta leave the building, they’re horrified to see “Peacekeepers”—government soldiers—shooting those who applauded. Afterwards, Katniss tells Haymitch and Peeta everything President Snow told her. Peeta is upset that Katniss and Gale kissed, though he knows that he’s being selfish. Peeta sincerely loves Katniss, but recognizes that Katniss doesn’t return his feelings.

As Peeta and Katniss proceed with the rest of their tour, they “stick to the script” during all public appearances. Katniss begins to have nightmares about Rue and the Games, and sometimes sleeps in Peeta’s bed for comfort. The last stage of the tour takes place in the Capitol, where the government is based, and where the richest and most powerful citizens of Panem live. In the Capitol, during their final public appearance, Peeta proposes marriage to Katniss, having confirmed with Katniss and Haymitch that the marriage will keep their families safe. Katniss accepts Peeta’s offer of marriage, though she does so out of concern for her loved ones, not love for Peeta. Immediately afterwards, Katniss makes eye contact with President Snow, who is presiding over the event. Snow gives a barely perceptible shake of the head that, in Katniss’s mind, means that Katniss has not done enough to comply with his requests. After the event, Peeta and Katniss attend a huge ball where Katniss meets Plutarch Heavensbee , the new Gamemaker. She notices that Plutarch is wearing a watch with a mockingjay on it.

Katniss, Haymitch, and Peeta return to District 12, where they learn that there are uprisings in other parts of Panem. In response to these uprisings, the government has sent more Peacekeepers to District 12: rules are being more strictly enforced, and many citizens are jailed or killed for breaking the law. Convinced that President Snow wants her dead, Katniss prepares to leave District 12, along with Haymitch, Peeta, Gale, and her family. Katniss first tells Gale of her plan to leave—Gale is eager to join her, until he realizes that Peeta will be coming, too. Shortly thereafter, Gale is savagely whipped for illegally hunting in the woods. Katniss’s mother takes care of Gale, using medicines that seem harsh and brutal to Katniss, but ultimately cause him to heal more quickly. In the following weeks, Katniss’s mother tends to dozens of victims of the government’s brutality, and Katniss herself tends to Gale, even kissing him and falling asleep beside him. Peeta is displeased when he sees that Katniss has been sleeping with Gale.

Katniss, furious with the government, sneaks out to hunt in defiance of the rules. When she sneaks past the fence around District 1, she encounters a woman, Twill , and a girl, Bonnie , who claim to be from District 8. They explain that Katniss’s defiance of the Capitol, via her speech about Rue and her performance in the Hunger Games, has triggered a wave of rebellion against President Snow, and, in response, the spread of Peacekeepers throughout Panem. Twill explains that they are headed to District 13—an area that the government claims to be radioactive, but which Twill believes to be home to a huge group of rebels. Bonnie shows Katniss a small cracker, decorated with Katniss’s mockingjay; this encourages Katniss to trust Bonnie and Twill. Nevertheless, her concern for her family forces her to return to District 12, rather than joining her new friends on their journey.

Shortly after meeting Bonnie and Twill, Katniss returns to the Capitol with Peeta for a lavish photo-shoot preceding their wedding. During her time there, the government announces an unexpected change in the Hunger Games for that year. Because it is the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games, the Capitol will require the 12 Districts to send former victors, rather than new competitors, as is the usual procedure. Katniss realizes that she is the only woman from District 12 ever to win the Games—this means that she will be forced to compete in the Games for a second time. Shortly thereafter, Peeta insists that he’ll volunteer to compete in the Games, protecting Katniss for as long as possible.

Katniss is distraught at having to compete in the Games again—she realizes that she won’t be able to co-win the Games with Peeta this time, and thus, one of them will have to die. Nevertheless, she resolves to try her hardest to protect Peeta from the other competitors, and to ultimately sacrifice her own life to do so. Haymitch, who has always favored Peeta over Katniss, agree with Katniss’s plan, and spends the following months rigorously training both Peeta and Katniss. Katniss gains new respect for Haymitch—in the past, she’d thought of him as a lazy alcoholic, but now she realizes that he’s an intelligent, athletic man whose talents haven’t left him in the years since he won the Hunger Games himself.

After months of training, Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss prepare for the Games. As expected, Katniss’s name is selected, along with Haymitch’s, but Peeta immediately volunteers to take Haymitch’s place. The three of them go to the Capitol, where Haymitch will continue to coach Katniss and Peeta. At the Capitol, Peeta and Katniss meet the other competitors in the 75th Hunger Games. Notable contestants include a young woman named Johanna , who previously won the Games by pretending to be weak; a handsome young man and “fan favorite” named Finnick Odair , who won largely by seducing his opponents into trusting him; a middle-aged couple named Wiress and Beetee , who won by using their vast intelligence; and a group of “Careers” (people who train for the Games and then volunteer to participate) famed for their brutality. Following Haymitch’s instructions, Katniss forms an alliance with Wiress and Beetee. Katniss learns from her allies that the Gamemakers are using invisible force fields to protect themselves from the competitors, and prevent the competitors from escaping the Games. Katniss also learns how to identify these force fields—they leave a telltale “shimmering square.” During these days, Katniss begins to develop feelings for Peeta, and tells him, knowing full well that she’s likely to die in the upcoming Games, that she wants to spend the remainder of her life with him. Katniss notices Plutarch Heavensbee presiding over the Games, and feels intense hatred for him.

Hours before the Games begin, Haymitch tells Katniss to remember who the “real enemy” is. Katniss prepares to enter the enormous arena where the Games occur, accompanied by her stylist and friend, Cinna . A tracking device is forcibly injected into her arm, allowing the Gamemakers to follow her every move. Seconds before Katniss is raised into the arena, Peacekeepers attack Cinna, sending a clear message to Katniss: she must “behave” or her loved ones will be hurt.

The Hunger Games take place in a huge, circular arena full of water, with twelve spokes connecting the circumference to a small island in the center. Katniss manages to swim to the island, followed by Finnick, who is from a coastal district. On the island, there is a massive pile of weapons, from which Katniss takes a bow and arrow. Finnick insists that he and Katniss form an alliance—though Katniss is initially reluctant, she agrees after Finnick helps both her and Peeta. They also align with Mags , an old woman from Finnick’s district. The group of four makes its way to the far side of the island, where Katniss notices a force field too late to prevent Peeta from electrocuting himself. After Finnick performs CPR on Peeta, saving his life, Katniss realizes that she’ll never be able to kill Finnick. At the end of the first day, a cannon fires, indicating that almost half of the contestants have already been killed.

The group of four encounters a series of challenges: first, a cloud of mist that paralyzes anyone who walks through it. Katniss, Finnick, and Peeta run away from the cloud, with Finnick carrying Peeta. Because Katniss is too weak to carry Mags, the group is forced to leave her to die. This devastates Finnick, since Mags was one of his only true friends. Shortly afterwards, the remaining group encounters a swarm of monkeys, a massive tsunami wave, and lightning. Their most traumatizing challenge occurs when Katniss and Finnick are confronted by a swarm of birds who speak with the voices of their loved ones: Katniss, for instance, hears the sound of Prim screaming.

The group meets Wiress and Beetee, who have banded together with Johanna. Wiress, who’s been mentally disturbed by the Games, continues to mutter, “tick tock,” irritating Johanna. Katniss correctly deduces that Wiress is saying that the arena is built like a clock: each twelfth of the circle contains a different challenge, each of which occurs exactly once every twelve hours, for one hour at a time. Before Katniss has time to process this information further, a group of Careers attacks her and her allies, killing Wiress in the process.

Beetee, who has previously chosen a long, thin wire from the pile of weapons, proposes that the group lure the remaining competitors to the beach, connect the beach to the lightning area with the wire, and wait for the lightning to electrocute them. The group agrees, largely because no one is clever enough to think of a better plan. The group splits in two: Katniss and Johanna unravel the wire along the beach, while Finnick, Beetee, and Peeta go to the lightning area of the arena. While Katniss is unraveling the wire, a heavy object hits her on the head. Half-knocked out, she feels Johanna cutting her on the arm with a knife and then running away. Katniss concludes that Johanna and Finnick must have had a plan all along to betray Katniss and Peeta.

Still desperate to save Peeta’s life, Katniss staggers toward the edge of the island, where Beetee and Peeta have gone. Lightning is about to strike, electrocuting most of the beach. In the lightning area, she sees Beetee lying on the ground, a deep wound in his back. Suddenly, she sees Finnick running toward her, followed by a Career named Enobaria . Katniss is about to shoot Enobaria, thinking that Finnick will stagger toward the lightning, eliminating himself, when she remembers Haymitch’s warning to remember the real enemy. Realizing that Haymitch was talking about the Gamemakers, Katniss turns from Finnick to the force field that keeps the competitors trapped inside the arena. She shoots her arrow at the “shimmering square” at the exact instant when the lightning strikes. There is a large explosion, and Katniss loses consciousness.

When Katniss wakes up, she is lying in a large hospital room. She notices Beetee next to her, and concludes that the Gamemakers are keeping them alive for some other sadistic game. She staggers up and walks toward the sound of voices. In a nearby room, she is surprised to see Haymitch talking with Finnick and Plutarch Heavensbee. Plutarch tells Katniss that he has been part of a plan to overthrow the government, and was working with Finnick, Johanna, and Haymitch. Along with Haymitch, Plutarch planned to free Katniss and Peeta from the Hunger Games by blowing up the force field, and then take them to District 13. Haymitch didn’t tell Katniss or Peeta because he knew they had to have plausible deniability if the plan failed. Meanwhile, he enlisted the help of Finnick, Beetee, and Johanna, who were instructed to protect Katniss and Peeta at all costs.

With Beetee’s help, the group has escaped from the Hunger Games. But Katniss is horrified to learn that the government has captured Peeta, Johanna, and Enobaria before they could be freed from the arena. In the depths of her misery, Katniss finds that Gale is also a part of the rebel alliance. Gale tells Katniss that they will free Peeta from the government. He also gives her shocking news: District 12 has been destroyed.

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Catching Fire (2009) is the sequel to The New York Times bestseller The Hunger Games (2008), and the second novel in author Suzanne Collins’s trilogy of the same name . Catching Fire is a young adult dystopian science fiction novel that takes place in the future, amidst the ruins of what was once America. Catching Fire details the aftermath of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark’s victory in the 74th Hunger Games from the first novel. Despite leaving the arena, Katniss and her loved ones are in more danger than ever as the threat of punishment looms. In Catching Fire, Collings explores the effects of trauma and classism and how fascism oppresses society. The novel also investigates how strong emotions like guilt, fear, and anger can spark rebellion. Lionsgate released a film adaptation of Catching Fire in 2013.

Suzanne Collins is also the author of The Underland Chronicles (2003), another young adult series, and several books for younger readers. This guide references the Scholastic Press hardcover edition of Catching Fire .

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In the post-apocalyptic future, the North American nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts ruled by the Capitol, a wealthy and technologically advanced city in the Rocky Mountains. Every year, each of the 12 districts must send two children, called tributes, to fight in a televised battle to the death as punishment for a past rebellion. In the months following her victory in the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen has returned to her home in the impoverished District 12 with her co-victor, Peeta Mellark and is trying to forget about the events in the arena. She is haunted by nightmares and knows that things can never truly go back to normal. President Snow , the ruler of Panem, visits Katniss and tells her about rumors of potential uprisings around the country. Snow blames Katniss and says that this dissent is a result of her decision to defy the Capitol in the Games. Rather than fight each other as the last two surviving tributes, Peeta and Katniss threatened to eat poisonous berries and die together; to avoid scandal and public ire, the Capitol declared Peeta and Katniss joint victors. Snow tells Katniss that she must convince him and the whole country that she is madly in love with Peeta during their upcoming Victory Tour, so that her actions can be interpreted as romantic rather than politically motivated.

Katniss and Peeta visit the 12 districts of Panem during their Victory Tour and notice that some districts seem to be on the brink of outright rebellion. In District 11, a man is executed after leading the crowd in a salute to Katniss. Disturbed, Katniss tells Peeta about Snow’s threat. Although Katniss and Peeta get engaged during a televised interview to support the official narrative of their joint victory, President Snow still is not pleased. While returning home, Katniss discovers that there has been an uprising in District 8. Katniss tries to convince her friend Gale to run away with her and take their families into the woods before the Capitol can punish her or anyone she cares about. Gale says that if there is going to be an uprising, he wants to be a part of it. When Gale is whipped publicly by the Capitol’s Peacekeepers, Katniss decides that he is right and that she must stay and fight.

President Snow announces the Quarter Quell, a special twist to the Hunger Games that comes every 25 years. For the third Quarter Quell—the 75th Hunger Games—the Capitol will choose tributes from the surviving victors of previous games. Katniss, the only living female tribute from District 12, will have to return to the arena. When Katniss and Peeta’s mentor Haymitch is chosen as the male tribute for District 12, Peeta volunteers in his place to make sure he can protect Katniss.

Katniss and Peeta return to the Capitol and begin training for the Games. They meet the other victors from years past, and in a dramatic interview the night before the Games, Katniss’s white wedding gown transforms into a black feathered dress, a reference to the mockingjay symbol of the growing rebellion. Katniss and Peeta enter the arena and form an alliance with victors Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, Beetee, and Wiress. Together, they discover that the arena is set up like a clock. A bolt of lightning strikes a tall tree at midnight and noon each day, and the group concocts a plan to run a wire from the tree to the only water source in the arena, hoping to electrocute the enemy tributes and wipe out the food supply. Fearing Johanna and Finnick have turned against her and Peeta, Katniss changes the plan. Instead of running the wire down to the water, Katniss ties it to one of her arrows and fires at the roof of the arena just as lightning strikes the tree. The surge of electricity destroys the barrier, and the force of the explosion knocks out Katniss. When she awakes, she discovers that she has been rescued by rebel forces. Haymitch and Plutarch Heavensbee, the designer of the 75th Hunger Games arena, explain that there was a secret plot all along to rescue her so she could be the face of the rebellion. Although Finnick and Katniss were successfully retrieved, Peeta was left behind.

Katniss flies into a rage and is sedated. In the final scene, Gale tells her that the Capitol has destroyed District 12 in retaliation for what happened in the arena. Gale got Katniss’s mother and sister, Prim out, but everything else is gone.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - review

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire (Hunger Games)

Catching Fire is an excellent sequel to The Hunger Games that takes us deeper into the aftermath of surviving the games and the torturous nightmares of such a disturbing place that make the terror unforgettable. After pulling the berries stunt that miraculously managed to keep both her and Peeta Mellark alive at the end of the Hunger Games, Katniss now faces the threat of losing her loved ones when President Snow realises that some people have taken Katniss's survival as an act of defiance, and a signal to rebel against the controlling Capitol. To keep her family and friends alive, Katniss must attempt to convince the entirety of Panem that her berries trick was purely out of an insatiable fear of losing Peeta, the love of her life, not as defiance against the Capitol.

However, with a disastrous plot twist and the horrors of the games still looming over her life, Katniss finds comfort in the only other person she knows understands her situation: Peeta. Throughout this book we see Katniss begin to appreciate Peeta as a person and more, rather than her supposed star-crossed lover. This is where Katniss and Peeta really become a major part of each other's lives with a mutual understanding of most things, and when Peeta becomes more and more important to Katniss.

We learn more about the other districts and previous victors in this book along with the hints of uprisings in these districts, the injustices of the Capitol and people's eagerness to fight back despite the fear. There is definitely more of a sense of unity among the victors of all people, and the feel of a pre-war spark and the sense of hope that follows these uprisings.

I would recommend this entire series to anyone and would give this book a 10/10.

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Katniss Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Gale Hawthorne
Haymitch Abernathy
President Snow
Primrose (Prim) Everdeen
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Part 1: Chapter 1
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Part 1: Chapter 5
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Part 1: Chapter 8
Part 1: Chapter 9
Part 2: Chapter 10
Part 2: Chapter 11
Part 2: Chapter 12
Part 2: Chapter 13
Part 2: Chapter 14
Part 2: Chapter 15
Part 2: Chapter 16
Part 2: Chapter 17
Part 2: Chapter 18
Part 3: Chapter 19
Part 3: Chapter 20
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He also tells Katniss he is aware of the kiss she shared with Gale in the woods, implying that the Capitol knows they illegally venture into the woods to hunt. Snow acknowledges that Katniss doesn't know how she feels about Peeta or Gale, but is not in love with Peeta as Panem believes.

Katniss decides the only person she can tell about Snow's threats is Haymitch, her and Peeta's drunken mentor from District 12 who also won the Games years ago. Though she and Haymitch argue and rarely get along, she trusts him. Haymitch tells her that in order to truly appease Snow and Panem, she and Peeta will have to get married.

As she goes to sleep that night, Katniss realizes there are potentially worse husbands than Peeta and ponders what their future together will be like. The next day, Katniss rudely snaps at Effie, the escort assigned to District 12, and then goes to sit outside to cool off. Peeta joins her and apologizes to her for the way he's been acting lately. He admits his jealousy of Gale and asks if they can go back to being friends; Katniss knows she needs to be more than just friends with him to keep everyone alive.

Despite the grave situation she's in, Katniss enjoys being on good terms with Peeta again , especially as their first stop on the Victory Tour, District 11, will be a difficult one. District 11 is the home of Rue, the young girl tribute whom Katniss allied herself with during the Games, and Thresh, the respectable boy tribute whom Katniss and Peeta wished they could have befriended.

At their stop in District 11, an old man in the crowd whistles the mockingjay tune that Katniss and Rue used to signal to each other in the arena. Katniss is shocked to see the audience press their three middle fingers to their lips and extend them to her, a gesture in District 12 that represents goodbye, thanks, or deep respect. Katniss and Peeta are immediately taken off stage but not before they see the old man shot and killed.

After escaping to a forgotten room, Katniss and Haymitch tell Peeta everything that is going on, from President Snow's threats to the likelihood of rebellions throughout Panem. She begins to feel very overwhelmed by the state of everything and understands the situation is much worse than she realized.

Throughout the rest of the Tour, Katniss and Peeta do everything they can to act madly in love. However, the stress of it all takes its toll on her and she is plagued by nightmares. They are exhausted by the time they reach the Capitol. The constant pretending never seems to be enough, so Katniss suggests that Peeta propose marriage to her in front of the entire country, which he does. The crowds go insane with happiness, but Snow tells Katniss it is not enough.

Despite the fact that Snow says she has failed, the festivities of the Victory Tour continue with the annual party at Snow's mansion. While at the party, Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Head Gamemaker, asks to dance with Katniss. Plutarch and Katniss make small talk, and he shows her a watch with a mockingjay engraved on it and mysteriously says "it" starts at midnight. The watch's mockingjay is the same image that Katniss wore as a pin in the arena. Plutarch's watch and comments puzzle Katniss, but she brushes it off as a fad in the Capitol.

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Book Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games #2)

Author: Suzanne Collins

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian Science Fiction

First Publication: 2009

Language: English

Major Characters: Katniss Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, Madge Undersee, Caesar Flickerman, Twill, Cashmere, Gloss, Enobaria, Beetee, Wiress, Mags, Blight, Woof, Cecilia, Chaff, Seeder, Plutarch Heavensbee, Octavia, Portia

Theme: Symbols and Interpretations; Hidden Resistance vs. Direct Rebellion; Surveillance and Manipulation; Pain, Pleasure, and Self-Control

Setting: Fictional District 12, Panem; Capitol, Panem (United States)

Narrator: First person, Katniss’s perspective

Book Summary: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games #2)

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she’s not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Katniss is about to be tested as never before.

Catching Fire starts up not far from where The Hunger Games ended. Katniss is living in the Victors Village with her family. You’d think she could finally be able to relax and live the cushy life. Well that wouldn’t make a good book. There are rumors of rebellion and since Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games in defiance they have become the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol, particularly President Snow, is not happy with them. Now Katniss has to worry about looking as in love with Peeta as possible to quiet down the rebellion, but is that what she really wants?

There are two halves to this second book of The Hunger Games Series. One with Katniss trying to prove she didn’t mean to cause any problem for the Capitol and that all she did in the arena was for love, for Peeta and not all at because she acted on anger. The second half is her trying to reverse her actions of the first half.

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don’t hurt anyone but myself.”

In Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, we really start to see Katniss’s PTSD from being in the games. One of the things The Hunger Games series does well is depicting how complex people are, including in their handling of trauma. This becomes and even bigger example of that complexity when we meet the other victors. Haymitch has his drinking, the Morphlings turn to drugs, Finnick has his swagger, Johanna is angry, and on it goes. They are all dealing with the fallout of the Games in their own ways, but you understand and feel for all of them.

The brilliant, awful thing about the Games is how they are constructed to victimize the participants over and over again. From selection to actively participating in your pre-slaughter with training and interviews and makeup and parades, to the actual murdering and dying. And if you are lucky or unlucky enough to survive, a victory tour to face down the families of all the people you killed. And after that, mentoring for the rest of your life, at the whim of the Capitol.

Suzanne Collins is very good at laying the groundwork of her The Hunger Games trilogy in each book. This is one of the best paced trilogies I’ve ever read. You would think that how things play out here, it would feel repetitive or redundant, but it doesn’t. It’s another heartbreak in a long line for Katniss and the games are just as awful and thrilling.

“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

We really start to see Katniss’s character progress here as well. She’s such a survivor, but she also cares deeply for people. As her world opens up, as she moves out of District 12 and onto bigger stages, and meets more people, the more you see both those sides of her also develop and shine: the ultimate survivor who would also protect everyone if she could.

One of the strengths of Catching Fire is also it’s weakness: The close first person narration. It makes it incredibly readable and being in Katniss’s head is a fantastic way to process and view this world. However, this means Katniss is not always where the important things are happening, especially here and in Book 3, where she becomes a tool in larger plots.

It’s challenging to take the same format and mix it up enough to keep it exciting, but Suzanne Collins is an excellent story teller and she does a good job keeping the plot exciting. She makes you feel more invested in the tributes, more angry at the capital, and more fearful for the districts, which made the book more intense.

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Book Review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

The hunger games – catching fire is the second book in the hunger games trilogy. it continues to follow the story of katniss after her appearance in the hunger games in book one. check out my book review of the hunger games – catching fire by suzanne collins., disclaimer: some of the links below are affiliate links, which means if you click on the link and make a purchase, i’ll get a small commission at no extra cost to you. please note that all sales are processed by the linked website, not rays of adventure, so you’ll be subject to their privacy policy., overview of the hunger games – catching fire by suzanne collins.

My book review of The Hunger Games – Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins assumes you’ve read the first book, but I’ll try not to give too many spoilers for what happens in the second book in the series. Check out my review of the first book here .

The Hunger Games – Catching Fire begins back in District 12, where Peeta and Katniss have just returned from their Hunger Games victory. They managed to win the Hunger Games together, when Katniss found some poisonous berries that they threatened to take simultaneously. They hope they can get back to life with their families now the Games are over. But they learn that the ruling powers in the Capitol are not happy with how they managed to trick their way into winning The Hunger Games together.

There’s another complication for Katniss. In the arena in the Hunger Games, Katniss acted like she was in love with Peeta. But there’s another boy at home, Gale. And she’s not sure about her feelings for the two. Both of them have genuine feelings for her, but she’s undecided.

Peeta and Katniss have to take a Victory Tour as winners of the Hunger Games. They tour through the other districts in their country, still pretending to be in love. They see the unrest and the rumours of a revolt against the Capitol.

In at attempt to crush the sparks of a revolt, the Capitol decide to put on another Hunger Games, this time with the victors from previous Games. Katniss and Peeta are once again in the arena. But this Hunger Games is different, as it’s being used as part of a plot from the Rebels to begin a revolt.

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What I liked about The Hunger Games – Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

I really enjoyed the second book of the Hunger Games. I liked seeing what happened to Katniss and Peeta after their triumph in the first book. And my inner-teenage-girl enjoyed the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta and Gale. With each conversation, I’d change my mind about which one I wanted Katniss to choose! Although I think I do have a favourite…which I won’t reveal!

I enjoyed the build up of suspense as we saw how the Rebels and the sparks of revolution were starting to grow. And the section of the book in the Hunger Games was really easy to read. I ended up reading the whole of that section in one go. The other tributes were good characters, with some depth to them as well. I particularly liked Finnick, Johanna and Beetee. They all had interesting backgrounds, and were the type of characters that you could easily misjudge at first. I really enjoy it when I make an assumption about a character but then find out I was wrong. I think that’s a sign of a really well written character.

What I wasn’t so sure about

Despite enjoying the love triangle element of the book, there was part of me that found it a bit uncomfortable. Part of me did think that Katniss was being a bit mean to both men, and should just decide so she didn’t keep hurting them both. But it kept the suspense and interest, so I enjoyed it as well.

Repeating the Hunger Games also felt a little bit repetitive. I still enjoyed reading this part of the book. It just felt slightly repetitive to go back into the arena so soon after the first book. I feel like there maybe could have been something a bit more different done.

Would I recommend The Hunger Games – Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins?

My book review of The Hunger Games – Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins is very positive, so I’d definitely recommend this book. If you enjoyed the first book, you won’t be disappointed with this sequel. And it ends on an exciting note as well, which sets it up perfectly for the third and final book in the series. Read my review of the third book here .

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Catching fire — “hunger games” series.

Suzanne Collins
Drama , Dystopian , Science Fiction

Readability Age Range

Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2010; Booklist Editor’s Choice for Youth, 2009;Timemagazine’s Top 10 Fiction Books, 2009

Year Published

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine . It is the second book in the “Hunger Games” series.

Plot Summary

The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which the dictatorial Capitol of Panem forces two teens (called tributes ) from each of its 12 districts to fight to the death.

Katniss Everdeen and her District 12 counterpart, Peeta Mellark, survived the 74th Hunger Games. As champions, they returned home to wealth and fame. But like most Games survivors, their nightmares about the deaths and brutality they witnessed in the arena overshadow their victory. Katniss also fears the wrath of the Capitol leaders. Her subtly subversive actions in the arena rendered her a symbol of revolution for the districts. Panem’s President Snow visits Katniss at her home, confirming that one more slip on her part will spell torture and death for her or her loved ones.

Katniss and Peeta take their obligatory Victory Tour by train through the 12 districts. Under orders from President Snow, they maintain the pretense of their undying love for one another. Peeta does love Katniss, but she is torn between her affection for him and that of her District 12 hunting partner, Gale. Though Peeta and Katniss play their roles, announcing their engagement and talking up their wedding, they inadvertently add fuel to the fires of revolution.

Katniss’ fears and nightmares increase as she hears about various districts revolting. She devises a plan to escape into the woods outside of her district with her friends and family. But when Peacekeepers nearly beat Gale to death, Katniss realizes she must stay and fight for change for her people.

President Snow, determined to quiet Katniss and the revolution, rules that the next Hunger Games will consist of tributes who were former champions. Since Katniss is the only girl from her district to ever have won the Hunger Games, she will automatically return to the arena. Peeta volunteers to be the other tribute from District 12 and Haymitch, the only other District 12 winner in history, mentors them as he did in the first Games.

Haymitch insists Katniss and Peeta work with tributes named Finnick and Johanna in the arena. Katniss is skeptical of forming any alliances but follows Haymitch’s directions. She’s confused when Finnick and Johanna save and protect her and Peeta rather than allowing them to be eliminated from the competition.

The arena, a high-tech stadium that resembles a beach with a jungle around it, operates like a giant clock. Each hour brings a new form of torment, from natural disasters such as lightning storms to birds whose cries are engineered to sound like the tortured screams of the tributes’ loved ones. When only a few tributes remain, an old, seemingly crazy tribute shows Katniss and her team that a wire he’s created may be able to electrocute the remaining tributes if paired with lightning. Katniss and her allies help him rig the wire, just before the lightning strike leaves Katniss unconscious.

She wakes on a padded table with tubes in her arms. Believing the Capitol is planning to torture her and Peeta further, she tries to escape. Then she learns she is with Haymitch, Finnick and Johanna, headed to District 13, a region thought to have been destroyed long ago. Katniss learns Haymitch and the others, along with the new head Gamemaker, are helping stage a rebellion against the Capitol. The lightning strike against the wire was part of a plan to allow the tributes to escape from the arena. She responds in rage, feeling her friends used her. Gale comes to see her. When she asks about their home, he delivers the cryptic message that “there is no District 12.”

Christian Beliefs

Other belief systems.

Katniss’ mother gives her a pin for good luck. Katniss worries that many people’s fates depend on her.

Authority Roles

Haymitch, a friend and mentor to Peeta and Katniss, is a former Hunger Games champion. His horrible memories drove him to alcoholism. President Snow, a heartless dictator, has breath with such a strong smell of blood that Katniss wonders if he drinks it. He devises a number of schemes to frighten and/or eliminate her. Katniss’ mother suffered severe depression after Katniss’ father died several years earlier.

Prior to her time in the Hunger Games, Katniss served as sole provider for the family and harbored anger for her mother’s emotional abandonment. Katniss now allows her mother back into her life and gives her opportunities to reclaim her role as caretaker for the family.

Profanity & Violence

Katniss shouts obscenities a few times, though no curse words appear in the text. Knocked up is used to describe both Katniss and her sister’s goat. Peacekeepers put a bullet through an old man’s head when he whistles a subtly rebellious tune. A Peacekeeper nearly beats Gale to death, leaving the skin on his back mutilated like a “raw, bloody slab of meat.”

Capitol leaders commonly cut out the tongues of people who disobey them, leaving them as servants called Avoxes. Katniss dreams about being forced to watch as someone’s tongue is cut out. She also has night terrors about other tributes pursuing and killing her and about her father being “blown to bits” in a mining accident. She often daydreams about killing President Snow. Leaders execute the head Gamemaker of the 74th Hunger Games because he allowed Katniss to spark a rebellion.

Peeta and Katniss watch videos of former tributes in the arena. One is skewered through the head by sharp bird beaks while another bleeds from an empty eye socket after an axe wound. Katniss remembers a former tribute known for ripping open another tribute’s throat with her teeth. Peacekeepers brutally beat Cinna, Katniss’ prep team leader, in front of Katniss as she waits to enter the arena. When many tributes die early in the Games, the waters and beach are bloodstained and covered with bodies. One tribute flails and contorts as she’s enveloped by poisonous fog. Katniss and her allies battle and kill mutant monkeys.

Sexual Content

Katniss kisses Gale a couple of times and Peeta a number of times. Cinna kisses Katniss goodbye before she enters the arena. Katniss recalls a former District 12 Peacekeeper who lured starving young women into his bed by offering them coins or food. Katniss and Peeta often sleep in the same bed in each other’s arms so they won’t have nightmares. There is no mention or insinuation of anything sexual. Katniss even says that “nothing else happens” but sleep, though their bedroom arrangements cause people on their Victory Tour train to gossip.

Peeta lies and tells the viewers Katniss is pregnant in hopes of gaining sympathy and/or keeping her out of the Games. Another tribute tells Katniss she’ll rip her throat out, even if she is “knocked up.” Peeta tells Katniss the other tributes are teasing her because they perceive her to be very pure.

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Alcohol/Substance Use: Haymitch, an alcoholic, is rarely sober. Katniss and Peeta help get him alcohol, partly because they’re afraid that without it he’ll drink something more dangerous, such as rubbing alcohol. Katniss’ prep team members are nearly incoherent from alcohol at one of the Capitol celebrations. The prep team shares bright colored pills to keep them going early in the morning. They also give Katniss sleeping pills to help stop her nightmares, but she only finds it harder to sleep. The tributes from District 6 are known “morphling” addicts.

Overindulgence: Excess is a trademark of the Capitol residents. Both men and women wear bright makeup and gaudy clothing; Katniss almost pities them for being so blind to their frivolity. At a Capitol party, Katniss and Peeta are disgusted to learn that vomit-inducing drinks are neatly set at the buffet table. This affords guests the opportunity to stuff themselves, throw everything up, and then eat more.

Modesty: One tribute wears a net “strategically knotted at his groin” so he isn’t technically naked. A female tribute runs around nearly naked during the opening ceremonies, sometimes oiling her body.

Lying: When Katniss buys alcohol for Haymitch, she says it’s for her mother to use in making medicine. Katniss’ friends and family say that Gale is her cousin (not a potential boyfriend) so she will be allowed to see him. Katniss and her prep team lie about Katniss having a talent for clothing design, when her prep team leader has actually created the sketches. Peeta lies to the viewing audience about Katniss being pregnant. Katiniss and her loved ones tell other lies to the government to protect themselves.

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Catching Fire

By suzanne collins.

"Catching Fire", the second novel in the "Hunger Games" trilogy is action-packed and thrilling, much like its predecessor.

About the Book

Written by Neesha Thunga K

B.A. in English Literature, and M.A. in English Language and Literature.

It is a brilliant commentary on the struggle for control, as well as on the nature of entertainment. Even though the story is set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world, the parallels that can be drawn with current life are uncanny.

The Power Struggle in Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins’ Catching Fire picks up where The Hunger Games left off. Katniss has struck a blow to the power hierarchy in Panem with her trick with the berries, and the nation now stands at a precarious moment in time. President Snow, however, is determined to do whatever it takes to hold on to his authority in the nation, but it might not be enough. The districts have been aroused, and Katniss’s fiery personality has set them off.

However, the plot of Catching Fire seems to have a relatively poor foundation. It does seem a little too easy for the rebellion to be stirring against the Capitol with just a few berries. It is also highly unlikely that no one in the history of the Hunger Games has thought of committing suicide rather than kill each other (what with the Hunger Games having completed more than 70 years). This calls the so-called “absolute” power of President Snow into question here. Is he really so afraid of a 17-year-old girl that he has to come to her house to threaten her? This does not seem to be in line with his ruthless personality, who usually puts people to death for the slightest of transgressions.

However, the reason Katniss is kept alive can be chalked up to the fact that her death is capable of adding more fuel to the fire – something which President Snow wishes to avoid. Unfortunately, allowing Katniss to remain alive is a poor move on the President’s part. She is unwittingly drawn into the cause of the rebellion, and ultimately becomes the face of it. Her personality is that of a true leader, while her fierce passion rouses the sentiments of others around her. Slowly and steadily, she lights a spark everywhere she goes, until the entire nation of Panem is “Catching Fire.”

Catching Fire is therefore the novel that sets the tone for the rebellion that is soon to arrive in the next installment, Mockingjay . The power struggle that it portrays is similar to the power struggle that can be seen in any autocratic environment across the world. The desperation of President Snow to maintain his power (which only serves to make him more dangerous) is reflected in every fascist leader the world has seen, including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Mao Zedong. It is a further reminder that people’s representatives are extremely important, which is exactly why the rebellion enlist Katniss into their cause – to become a representative of the people and fight for their rights.

The Final Pages of Catching Fire

The concluding pages of the novel credit Suzanne Collins ‘ ability to hook the reader in. She introduces several twists in the novel, with the final one taking everyone by surprise. The reader is taken on a rollercoaster, where they are given hope (much like the characters themselves) that both Katniss and Peeta would survive, and subsequently given to despair as that hope is snatched away time and again by the Gamemakers . Katniss’s drastic decision to take out the force field and destroy the arena comes as a shock to everyone in Panem, as well as everyone reading the books at home.

Ultimately, however, Katniss and Peeta end up surviving, although Peeta’s fate rests in the hands of the Capitol . The concluding pages also set the foundation for the final novel, which is based on the Capitol’s fury at Katniss’s rebellion, and the launch of the rebellion itself. Lastly, we are left with the love triangle between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale, which takes shape in the next novel, Mockingjay .

Thus, the last pages of the novel act as a spark, much like Katniss herself, for the trilogy of The Hunger Games as a whole.

A Commentary on the Nature of Entertainment

The Hunger Games takes entertainment to a whole new level and makes the reader reflect on the kind of entertainment they themselves watch. Granted, nothing on our television screens comes remotely close to the televised events of the Hunger Games themselves, but there are eerie parallels between the Games and reality shows today.

Just as viewers from the Capitol only care about the entertainment value provided by the tributes , viewers of reality television only care about the entertainment value provided by the contestants on reality shows. With sponsors , Gamemakers, and the “entertainment factor,” the Hunger Games does not seem too far removed from the reality shows of today. As such, The Hunger Games becomes disturbingly relevant in our world, not just because it echoes the lessons we learned from World War 2, but also because it captures the sadistic nature of entertainment in the 21st Century.

The only saving grace of the Capitol in this book is the fact that they are enraged to learn that Katniss has to go back to the arena (where she is almost certain to die) while being pregnant. This shows that not even the most depraved of them is lost, and there is still hope yet for their salvation. This is exactly why Katniss feels sympathy for her vain hair and makeup team. She knows that they have lived an extremely sheltered life and have never been raised to think on their own – something which reflects the dangerous impact of mindless entertainment once again.

What is the main theme of ‘ Catching Fire ?’

The main theme of ‘ Catching Fire ‘ is the power struggle between the Capitol and the districts . The districts are beginning to rise against the autocracy of the Capitol, and they threaten to overthrow the fragile authority that has been held by the Capitol all these years.

What is a symbol in ‘ Catching Fire ?’

The Mockingjay bird is a prominent symbol in ‘ Catching Fire. ‘ The bird represents the failure of the Capitol to tame the jabberjays and is appropriated by rebellion. Katniss herself comes to embody the bird as The Mockingjay.

Why does Katniss pull the berry trick?

Katniss knows that the Gamemakers require at least one victor for The Hunger Games . This is why she decides to consume the poisonous nightlock berries with Peeta – in the hope that the Gamemakers will keep both her and Peeta alive, rather than have no victors at all.

Do Katniss and Peeta get married?

Katniss and Peeta get engaged at the end of the Victor’s Tour in Catching Fire . However, they only get engaged to quench the rebellion. Long after the Capitol has been overthrown, the two of them genuinely fall in love with each other and get married.

Catching Fire: A Gripping Sequel

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Digital Art

Book Title: Catching Fire

Book Description: 'Catching Fire,' the second in the Hunger Games trilogy, intensifies the action with well-developed characters and unpredictable twists, leading to a compelling finale.

Book Author: Suzanne Collins

Book Edition: First Edition

Book Format: Hardcover

Publisher - Organization: Scholastic Press

Date published: September 18, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-545-22353-1

Number Of Pages: 402

Writing Style
Lasting Effect on the Reader

Catching Fire Review

Catching Fire is a gripping second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy. It builds upon the foundation laid by the first novel in the series and takes the action forward quickly. Characters are more well-rounded in this novel, and the unpredictable twists in the plot make for an unforgettable read. The concluding pages are worth a mention since they make it impossible for the reader to not be curious about the next novel in the trilogy.

Fast-paced and thrilling
Unpredictable twists that add to the plot
Builds well upon the first book
Good character development of the main characters
The rebels can communicate too easily in a controlled environment
The plot is not well-thought-out
Too many deus ex machina

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Sequel just as gripping -- and brutal -- as the first.

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The story is equally rich in provocative political

Katniss, a winner of the Hunger Games and now look

Violence is plentiful, but not gory or graphic in

A few kisses between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale.

An adult is a described as "drunk as a skunk" in o

Parents need to know that this follow-up to The Hunger Games concerns a TV tournament in which 20 teens fight a gruesome battle to the death. The violence, while not gory or graphic in detail, is plentiful. Fighting involves primitive weaponry, hand-to-hand combat, poisoning, and spearings and stabbings. The…

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The story is equally rich in provocative political and social commentary, and exploring epic themes of morality, obedience, oppression, rebellion, redemption, sacrifice, and, of course, survival.

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Katniss, a winner of the Hunger Games and now looked upon as the leader of this uprising, is a strong character whose character is much more developed in this sequel. Through her journey, readers can explore many big ideas.

Violence & Scariness

Violence is plentiful, but not gory or graphic in detail. Cinna, an important secondary character, is beaten and tortured as a suspected rebel. The last third of the novel depicts vivid fight-to-the-death horrors in a truncated Hunger Games re-enactment, including brutal hand-to-hand combat, poisoning, spearing and stabbing.

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What's the story.

Katniss and Peeta, rich and famous from having won the annual Hunger Games, are reluctanly embarking on a Capitol-sponsored victory tour through the 12 districts of the dystopian world Panem. They are now seen as a threat to oppressive Capitol, having defied the Gamemakers with their subversive victory. This act of rebellion has ignited growing unrest within the districts. To her dismay, Katniss is looked upon as the leader of this uprising. Katniss briefly considers escaping with her family and friends before reluctantly assuming her role as rebel leader. The insidious President Snow is prepared to do whatever is necessary to quash this budding uprising.

Is It Any Good?

Collins does not disappoint in this enthralling, entirely satisfying sequel. The pace is a little slower and the emphasis more on character than plot -- Katniss grows considerable as a character -- but readers will find CATCHING FIRE as much of a gripping page-turner as The Hunger Games . More of the story takes place outside the arena than within, but there is plenty of action-packed combat.

Collins offers readers intriguing insights into the nation of Panem: its power structure, rumors of a secret district, and the spreading rebellion. The story is equally rich in provocative political and social commentary, and exploring epic themes of morality, obedience, oppression, rebellion, redemption, sacrifice and, of course, survival. The author also creates a tantalizing and unresolved love triangle between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale that will leave questioning readers desperate for the next installment. This novel can stand alone but readers will have a much a richer experience if they begin with The Hunger Games .

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Book Details

Author : Suzanne Collins
Genre : Science Fiction
Book type : Fiction
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Publication date : September 1, 2009
Publisher's recommended age(s) : 12 - 17
Number of pages : 400
Last updated : July 12, 2017

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The Hunger Games binge-read: Revisiting Catching Fire

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It's crazy what a few poisonous berries can do. But at the end of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games , a couple of nightlock berries was all it took for Katniss and Peeta to win the battle against their fellow tributes and emerge from the arena with both of their lives. But the war against the Capitol was only just beginning.

After looking back on The Hunger Games , EW is continuing our trilogy binge-read series with Catching Fire over a decade after Katniss and Peeta were forced to return to the Games for the Quarter Quell. Collins' longtime publisher and editor David Levithan is back to reveal new facts and insights about the sequel, including a pivotal scene that almost wasn't included.

So without further ado: 2009's Catching Fire .

Going in blind

While Levithan had a good idea about what to expect from the first book, he had less information to go off of for the second.

"She didn't tell us very much going into it," he tells EW. "She has her outline and her structure in her head and she just sort of goes and writes it. With Catching Fire, we knew where we were picking up, but we didn't quite know what was going to happen. We knew it was the Quarter Quell so we assumed that there would be another Hunger Games in it. But honestly, we didn't really know everything that was in it until it began."

He enjoyed reading the sequel just as much as he did with the first book, and he and all his colleagues were impressed that Collins was able to make the sequel as exciting as the original book. "It was astonishing to us what she pulled off with it, in that traditionally middle books are the hardest because you are strung between two poles," he says. "But it very much felt like a satisfying installment on its own, as well as the second book in the trilogy."

Sticking to her plan

Over a decade later, Levithan is still in awe of how Collins stuck to her original plan ... and how much she was able to keep it a secret, even from her editors.

"When we saw the outline for the trilogy there really were about two pages mentioning the Quarter Quell and just saying that the fight was on," he says. "She didn't even want to give away the ending of the first book in her proposal so I didn't even know that we knew that Peeta was in the second book until obviously we read the first book. But really she stuck to her vision pretty, pretty well."

It made Levithan's job easier because the editorial conversations he had with Suzanne were less about changing what she had written and more about making additions.

"A lot of the conversations we had were sometimes things wouldn't be on the page that we as readers wanted to be on the page," Levithan says. "And we would talk about, 'Can we actually see this scene?' Or, 'You keep referring to this, what is this thing, it's in your head, but it's not actually on the page.' A lot of the process was more filling in blanks, it wasn't really changing the arc of the story at all. I can't think of a single instance where the arc of the story was changed as we were working on it."

Thank him for that kiss

But there is one scene Levithan remembers telling Collins she needed to include in the story. Remember how he previously told EW that "some of the funnier editorial conversations [he] had with Suzanne were about making sure that it's a fair fight between the two of them," referring to Peeta and Gale in the race for Katniss' heart? That came into play in a major way as the central love triangle heated up in Catching Fire.

"In the first draft of Catching Fire , it started with the meeting with President Snow," Levithan says. "And President Snow says, 'I caught you kissing Gale on this camera, what do you think about that?' And Katniss reacts and then it moves on. I immediately was like, 'Wait what? She kissed Gale?! That's a big deal, we need to see that!'"

Gale fans everywhere can thank Levithan for pushing for that scene because Collins eventually added the moment to the story. "Originally the scene between them when they kiss was actually not in the book, it was just referred to by Snow, and then the story went forward from there, and I said, 'We've got to see this,'" Levithan adds. "Having this conversation made Suzanne believe very firmly that I was like Team Gale all the way when really, I just wanted it to be not a foregone conclusion. I mean, clearly talking to her, Peeta was going to win. But I was not necessarily like, 'No, Gale should win!' Instead, I was like, 'I'm just saying that if she kisses him, we need to see them kiss.'"

He breaks off into a laugh before continuing. "She totally understood that, like, 'Alright, alright, you love Gale, we'll put that in,' just teasing me. So that's why we actually get to see that rather than just have President Snow tell us about it." To this day, any time Levithan watches the Catching Fire movie adaptation, he gets a thrill seeing that scene onscreen knowing he helped make it happen. "This scene exists because of this conversation we had," he says.

Expanding Panem

Readers get a much clearer picture of not only the world of Panem but also the growing rebellion in Catching Fire, and Levithan praises Collins for never getting too bogged down in the details of expanding the world and war over the characters. "Suzanne as a writer has a very, very strong instinctive knowledge of what the balance should be," he says. "So very rarely were there long passages where we were like, 'We don't really need this,' or, 'You're over-explaining.' The biggest challenge in Catching Fire is usually in book two you don't have a completely new cast of characters that joins the book so that was actually the thing that was the hardest to keep track of."

As much as Levithan and his colleagues loved all the new characters, they were worried it was too much to introduce after just getting used to the characters from the first book. "We have all of these other contestants and a lot of them have these great moments," he says. "And so just keeping track of who's Finnick, who's Johanna, who's Beetee, all these new characters, making sure that they were all established very clearly early on, was tough. But a lot of that was already on the page when we started, and we were sort of in awe that we didn't need a chart next to us to keep track of who was who."

Levithan's favorite new character is hands down Johanna Mason, the sarcastic, strong District 7 tribute forced to go back into the Games just four years after she won the first time because she was the only living female victor from her district, just like Katniss.

"I was utterly fascinated by Johanna; I like the unpredictable characters," he says with a laugh. "I just thought that she was really fascinating in her rage and in her not holding back. She was this interesting counterpoint to Katniss insofar as what Johanna could get away with versus what Katniss could get away with and the fact that you never really understood are they on the same side? Are they not on the same side? Is there something Katniss can learn from her? It was the kind of character I had not been expecting and I just from chapter to chapter did not know which way she was going to turn. She was definitely the one who intrigued me the most."

With so many major twists in Catching Fire , from the escalating rebellion to the Quarter Quell to the eventual escape from the arena, it's hard to pick a favorite. But when pressed, Levithan admits that he loves how Collins subverted expectations with the structure of the Games in the second book.

"In the first book, the Hunger Games unfold through Katniss' eyes, and you're not trying to figure out the overview of it and how it works," he says. "It's just about survival and them throwing things her way. And I do remember when I read the second book the first time that I realized 12 quadrants and the clock and the fact that there was this really rigid structure to the Hunger Games world this time in a way that there wasn't the first one, that was just a huge eureka moment. The Capitol has upped the stakes significantly here. There is an even more insidious method to the madness."

Levithan calls it "ingenious" how the Capitol (and Collins) "boosted the ratings" by making it more lethal and more of a show. "You could just see them being like, 'It's a special edition of the Hunger Games shaped like a clock,'" he adds with a laugh. "Because I did not know going into it that that was how the Quarter Quell was going to be set up, I had that aha moment just like a reader when it all clicked together."

After he finished reading Collins' first draft of Catching Fire for the first time, he immediately called her and begged her for more.

"I was like, 'Where is book three?!' It's not fun to wait a year," he says. "I am genuinely jealous of people today who can read all three books in a row. They don't have to wait a year between them. You have no idea how hard that was to wait! She had a very effective cliffhanger."

And you don't have to wait a year either. Stay tuned for EW's final binge-read retrospective as Levithan looks back on 2010's franchise-ending Mockingjay next week.

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Catching Fire is the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins . It is the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games .

Catching Fire continues the story of Katniss Everdeen following the 74th Hunger Games . She again, along with Peeta Mellark , are forced to go through another Hunger Games - the Third Quarter Quell .

2.1 Part I: "The Spark"
2.2 Part II: "The Quell"
2.3 Part III: "The Enemy"
3 Characters
4.1 Critical response
5 Audiobook
6 International covers
7 References

Sparks are igniting. Flames are spreading. And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol — a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour , the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. [1]

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark both survived the Hunger Games. Both returned home wanting and expecting a somewhat peaceful future. But the Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

When rumors of a rebellion that she started reach Katniss' ears, everything changes. Now, as Peeta and Katniss are forced to visit the districts on the mandatory Victory Tour, everything can and will go wrong—if Katniss and Peeta cannot pull off their act as two madly-in-love teenagers. If they fail, both their families and their entire district could be in danger of President Snow's wrath.

Part I: "The Spark"

Katniss Everdeen is now back in District 12 living in the Victors' Village with her mother, Prim, and neighbors Peeta Mellark and Haymitch Abernathy. Soon they will both have to leave home again for the Victory Tour where the winners of the previous Hunger Games travel to each district and make various appearances and public speeches. Katniss expected that when she returned home everything would be the same, but now her best friend, Gale, seems farther away than ever now that he works in District 12's mines twelve full hours a day, and with the Victory Tour coming up, Katniss has more on her mind than ever. During much of the day, Katniss is bored with her new life because now, she has everything: money, a good home, and a constant supply of food. One day after Katniss returns home from hunting game outside of the District, an unexpected visitor appears, President Snow, the president of Panem. He explains to Katniss that during the last Hunger Games when she tried to commit suicide with Peeta by eating poisonous nightlock berries, she ignited a possible uprising in the districts. President Snow and Katniss have a lengthy conversation about the fact that if she doesn't convince the districts that she made the decision out of temporary lovesickness, then he would personally make sure she suffers.

Katniss, now convinced she has started a fire she cannot control, tries her best to convince everyone that she and Peeta are madly in love. When she and Peeta finally set off for the Victory Tour, everything is going smoothly, and Peeta has agreed with Katniss that outside of being star-crossed lovers, they should try to be friends. When the tour arrives at their first destination, District 11, Katniss gets to meet the families of Thresh and Rue (two tributes who were killed by the Careers in the 74th Hunger Games). When it is time for the public speech to begin, Katniss thanks the people of District 11 for their contributions to her during the Hunger Games and is about to leave when one of Rue's siblings gives her such a look that Katniss comes back quickly to make one final speech. Katniss tells everyone about the story of how Thresh spared her life, and how Rue became a valued ally during the Games. After her speech, an old man whistles her and Rue's four-note tune that meant they were safe, and the crowd simultaneously does a traditional District 12 gesture to show their thanks to Katniss. Right after Katniss finishes her speech, she realizes she forgot something, so she goes back to retrieve it. There, she sees a Peacekeeper shoot the man who whistled in the head.

Afterwards, Katniss and Peeta confess what had happened to Haymitch. He tells Katniss to explain to Peeta what is going on, so Katniss tells Peeta everything about President Snow, the threat of uprisings, and how they are all in jeopardy if something doesn't change soon. Peeta becomes angry and tells Katniss and Haymitch to stop keeping secrets from him, then leaves.

The rest of Victory Tour fell into a routine (giving speeches, eating fancy dinners, riding on the train, and sleeping). Finally, Katniss and the crew get to the Capitol. That night, when she and Peeta go to get interviewed by Caesar, Peeta performs a fake proposal to Katniss which she accepts. Caesar is beside himself, the audience is hysterical, and the crowds in the districts are overflowing with happiness. President Snow then makes an unexpected appearance to congratulate the newly engaged couple. Katniss then makes a discreet gesture to President Snow to ask him if she was convincing enough to which he replies "no" with an almost imperceptible shake of the head. Katniss now knows her life is in constant danger, but despite that, she feels somewhat relieved, and carries on like nothing ever happened.

That night, Katniss has dinner in President Snows' mansion and feasts like never before. Many Capitol citizens drank something that made them vomit so they could eat more. Soon it's time to go and Katniss and Peeta are on their way back to District 12. Katniss suffers from terrifying nightmares throughout the night on the train, so Peeta sleeps in her bed to calm her and keep her company. Finally they get back to District 12 and a huge party is thrown for them. While in the mayor's home, Katniss sees on the mayor's television that there is an uprising going on in District 8. Katniss arranges a secret meeting with Gale, at which Gale confesses his love for her but she says that she does not have those feelings for him. Gale gets angry and disappointed but before he leaves Katniss accidentally tells him there was a rebellion in District 8. Gale then says that they could have a rebellion in District 12 as well, and he runs off to spread the news. Katniss then goes to Peeta to ask him if he would run away with her and he says yes, but while they are discussing the plans, they see that Gale is being violently whipped in the square by an unfamiliar man.

Katniss steps in to stop the man, whose name is Romulus Thread, but he gives her a lash across the face. Katniss gets severely hurt but Haymitch and Peeta step in to save her. Eventually the people of District 12 (including many who frequent the Hob), convince Thread to stop whipping Gale. As soon as he leaves, everyone helps Katniss take Gale to her mother. Katniss' mother tries to soothe the pain by giving him medicine when suddenly Madge, the mayor's daughter, comes with some morphling to help soothe Gale's pain. Later on that night, Katniss says she picks Gale, but is still torn between Peeta and Gale.

The next day, there is a huge blizzard, during which Thread constructs several stockades, an official whipping post, and a gallows, as well as a series of machine gun positions perched on the rooftops in the square. While walking in town, Haymitch, Katniss, and Peeta see these ugly tools of torture, and then the Hob is destroyed by the Peacekeepers. The last thing Katniss notices when leaving the square is that she does not recognize even one of the Peacekeepers' faces.

Katniss realizes that she cannot stand to be at home, so she goes into the woods and heads to the lake. She sees two Peacekeepers, and before she shoots them, one of them holds up a cracker with a mockingjay on it.

Part II: "The Quell"

The two Peacekeepers were actually two young women who had run away from District Eight. Their names were Bonnie and Twill , and brought news to Katniss about the uprising in their district, the one that made Peacekeeper uniforms which explains why they are wearing the uniforms. They said they were headed to District 13 which, to Katniss, was unbelievable. They believed that people lived underground in District 13. Bonnie and Twill explain to Katniss that they know District 13 exists because the Capitol reuses old footage of District 13 whenever it is shown on TV, as they believe that they always see the same bird in the same place. This leads Katniss to wonder what the district currently looks like.

She gives the women her food supplies and shows them how to hunt. When the evening comes, they leave her and she returns to the village. However she realizes that the fence to the district is now electrified and she is unable to enter the village through her normal passage. She decides she needs to go over the fence, and searches for the right tree. She climbs up and over and must jump from 25 feet in the air. She lands, and hurts her tailbone and heel. She returns home and tells her mother and Prim that her slipping on some ice caused her injuries, but there are two peacekeepers there waiting for her. They are surprised to see her, because they know she was in the forest and believed she would be trapped on the other side of the fence.

They were waiting for her not to show up so they can bring her family in for questioning. Luckily, Haymitch, Peeta and Prim were able to go along with a story to cover for her. After the Peacekeepers leave, Katniss' mother examines her broken foot, and Peeta stays with her through the night after she asked him to stay. She is in bed for the winter, while Peeta keeps her company and they enter information in her mothers' medicinal and edible plant book, with pictures that Peeta is drawing.

Once she is healed, her prep team comes in to help her with her wedding fashion shoot, along with Cinna. She listens to them speak of how they have not had shrimp in the Capitol for weeks and realizes that other districts are rebelling. The next day, she speaks to Haymitch and he tells her that because District 12 is so small, everyone would need to join in for them to overthrow the Peacekeepers and the Capitol. The same day, Prim comes home and tells everyone that there is a mandatory television scheduling that night, which she believes is the footage from the wedding fashion shoot.

Prim is partially correct, but there is also another big announcement. President Snow appears with a wooden box, and reminds the audience of the dark days and when the Hunger Games were born. He also states that every 25 years, the anniversary of the Hunger Games is marked by a Quarter Quell, a glorified version of the Games. He talks about the first Quell, when every district was made to vote on who was sent to the Hunger Games. In the second Quell, every district was forced to send twice as many tributes into the Hunger Games. The wooden box holds the information for the 3rd Quarter Quell. Snow pulls out an envelope and states that the male and female tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors. Since District 12 has only three winners, Peeta, Haymitch, and Katniss, Katniss knows that she is now going to be forced to go back to the Hunger Games.

She runs out of the house and into a basement of an empty house to scream and cry. She makes her way to Haymitch where he already tells her Peeta has come to visit him, and told him that Peeta wants to go back into the arena to protect Katniss. She tells Haymitch that whatever they do, she wants Haymitch to make sure Peeta comes back alive. She and Haymitch get drunk and the next afternoon, she goes back to Haymitch's house where Peeta has emptied all of his liquor and has threatened to turn them or anyone who gives them alcohol in. He tells them that they will be training for the Quarter Quell because two people will come back alive, and they begin to work out and also study footage of past winners to see their competition.

On the day of the reaping, Katniss has decided to say goodbye to Gale, to tell him how much he means to her. The reaping has Katniss as only choice for the female competitor, and the male competitor chosen is Haymitch; however, Peeta volunteers to take his place. Instead of being able to tell their families goodbye, they are brought directly to the train and leave for the Capitol.

Once at the Capitol, they eat and find out who the competitors from the other districts are. That night, after Katniss is woken from a nightmare, she goes to see Peeta. The two embrace and are interrupted by a waiter bringing in warm milk. They decide to watch more videos and come across Haymitch's victory from the 2nd Quarter Quell which they have not seen. Katniss recognizes the name Maysilee Donner as her mother's friend, and realizes that she was a twin to Katniss' friend Madge's mother . She also sees her mother crying and embracing Maysilee when she is called. Katniss also sees Haymitch being called up. She notes that he was powerful looking, and even somewhat handsome.

Haymitch allied with Maysilee and he broke through the foliage surrounding one end of the arena; he discovered the force field surrounding the arena to prevent the tributes from escaping. He wished to investigate further but Maysilee did not so the two tributes parted ways. Just after the two broke off their alliance, Maysilee was killed by a flock of birds that pierced her throat and Haymitch stayed with her until she died, holding her hand.

Haymitch became one of the last two remaining tributes, the other being a female Career tribute. The girl pursued Haymitch to the edge of the arena where the force field was located. Both tributes were wounded, but Haymitch more so; the female tribute attempted to win the Games by outlasting Haymitch. However, Haymitch used the force field during the final fight when his adversary threw her ax at him; it was repelled back by the field and killed her. Haymitch was crowned victor of the 50th Hunger Games. However, President Snow, the leader of the Capitol, was furious about Haymitch's trick with the force field, which Katniss would later describe as being "almost as bad as the berries." Katniss wonders what the Capitol did to punish Haymitch.

Once they arrive, they are ushered to prepare for the Opening Ceremonies. Right before the ceremony, Finnick Odair from District 4 hits on Katniss, asking her to divulge her secrets but she brushes him away. After the ceremony, Johanna Mason from District 7 walks by Katniss naked. Katniss does not understand why everyone is acting weird until Peeta explains that to the Capitol, she is "pure" and they are trying to get under her skin, which angers her.

They go to the rooms where she sees the Avox girl, Lavinia , from the 74th Hunger Games, and also a new Avox, which turns out to be Darius from District 12, who tried to stop Thread from whipping Gale. He, like all Avoxes, was forced to suffer getting his tongue cut out. She is warned by Haymitch not to say anything because it would mean punishment for Darius. Later, Haymitch tells them that they must form alliances this year and make friends. During training, Katniss befriends Wiress and Beetee from District 3, who point out the force field used to separate the Gamemakers from the tributes. Katniss displays her archery skills and is wanted by many to be in an alliance. In their solo performances for the Gamemakers, both Peeta and Katniss are unsure of what to do. Peeta goes first, and after a long wait Katniss goes. She doesn't know what Peeta did, but she can tell that the Gamemakers are angry. She sees Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Head Gamemaker, and has an idea. She ties a noose to a dummy and with berry juice writes the name " Seneca Crane ," the former Head Gamemaker during Katniss' Hunger Games, who let both Katniss and Peeta live. He was executed by orders of President Snow.

Afterwards, she finds out that Peeta made a drawing of Rue with the flowers on the ground which could not be washed away, and was covered by the Gamemakers. Haymitch is not happy because now they have made enemies. The training scores are shown, and Katniss wonders to Cinna if anyone has ever received a 0. But instead, she and Peeta both receive perfect 12. Haymitch explains that this was done to make sure the other tributes are gunning for the both of them. Peeta and Katniss stay together that night, and Katniss has come to accept her death, which she knows will be the spark for the rebellion. That night, both do not have nightmares. The following day, they spend the entire day and night together alone on the roof.

The day of the interview, the prep team comes into Katniss' room and find her and Peeta together. Peeta leaves and as the prep team starts to cry, they leave one by one until Venia is left. She then says goodbye Katniss and Cinna comes in with her wardrobe, specifically chosen by President Snow, the chosen wedding gown from the photo shoot. She notes to Cinna that it's heavier than before, but he explains that he had to do some alterations and tells her do not lift her arms until she twirls on television.

The interview atmosphere is different from the previous year. The tributes are speaking out against the Capitol, asking why President Snow is not stopping this if he is great and powerful. The second last tribute to speak is Katniss, who comes on stage with the dress on, apologizing to the crowd for not letting them see her get married. She twirls and raises her arms and the wedding dress burns away to reveal a different dress underneath. When she looks towards a television, she realizes that Cinna has turned her into a mockingjay.

Although Cesear knows what the dress represents, they play it off as the bird on Katniss' token. Next comes Peeta, the last tribute to speak. He tells the audience that he and Katniss are already married, and tells them that Katniss is pregnant. This drives the audience to madness and hysteria. As Peeta makes his way back to the other tributes, he holds Katniss' hands amidst the chaos, and in turn she grabs the hand (stump from what is left) of Chaff who is next to her, and then all the tributes join hands before the Capitol has time to turn the cameras off, and Katniss knows that this, the joining of unity on the stage, has now rippled into the districts and will stir the rebellion even more. Effie was forced to leave without saying goodbye to Peeta and Katniss, and they say their goodbyes to Haymitch. He tells them to stay alive, and to always remember who the real enemy is.

Getting ready for the ceremonies, she is in the room with Cinna when she steps on the plate to be taken to the arena, when she is frozen in place and can't move. She looks at Cinna who just shakes his head in confusion, when three peacekeepers enter the room, who then arrest, beat him into submission and drag him out of the room. A frozen Katniss watches in horror, but then is transported to the arena.

The plate leaves her in the middle of blue water, which she realizes "is no place for a girl on fire."

Part III: "The Enemy"

When the gong sounds, Katniss dives into the water and swims to shore, noting that she feels very light and very fast. First to arrive, she heads for the weapons, as she knows the Careers would do. She grabs a bow and arrows , and turns when she hears a noise, poised to kill. It's Finnick with his trident raised. She sees his gold bracelet which once belonged to Haymitch and realizes that this was his way of telling her to form an alliance. Finnick yells for her to duck, and spears a man from District 5 with the trident. They search the other items and notice that it only contains weapons, no food etc. The Careers are now making their way to shore. Katniss tries to shoot one, but misses and shoots Gloss in the calf. She then aims for Brutus who is charging towards her but he manages to stop it with his belt before it punctures his liver. She realizes that Peeta is still on the metal plate and goes to retrieve him, but Finnick offers to do it. Katniss notices Mags jump into the water and doggy paddle to shore. When Peeta and Finnick are on shore, Mags explains to Finnick (who is apparently the only person who understands her) that the belts on their outfits are flotation devices.

From the beach, they run into a jungle. Finnick carries Mags and Peeta leads the way. After their first stop, Katniss climbs the trees to get a look and sees that there are many bodies in the water and on the beach, but she can't tell who they are.

As they are walking, searching for drinkable water, she notices a shimmering square and realizes that it is a force field surrounding the arena. Before she can stop him, Peeta walks into it and is repelled back, knocking Mags and Finnick to the ground. Peeta is not breathing. Panicked, Katniss begins to slap him but his heart has stopped. Finnick offers to help by beginning CPR. She doesn't realize what he is doing at first and begins fighting him, but he slaps her away and Peeta eventually is resuscitated. Peeta asks Katniss how she recognized the force field. She does not want to let them know she can spot them visually, because the Gamemakers might do something to retaliate, so she tells them she heard it. Afterwards, they realize that they must move on and after a while, Katniss climbs a tree to see that the arena is actually a perfect circle. She tells them that there is a wheel in the center and that she did not see any water, but perhaps there will be streams within the jungle.

After resting, Katniss offers to hunt. She notices animals she doesn't recognize and shoots what she names a tree rat. She notices its nose is wet, which means there must be water nearby but she cannot locate it. She brings the food back to the camp where Peeta has the idea to throw the food into the force field to cook it. The horns blare, announcing the fallen from the first day of the Games: the male from District 5 , killed by Finnick, the male from District 6 , Cecelia and Woof from District 8, both tributes from District 9 , the District 10 female, both tributes from District 10, and Seeder from District 11.

Then a silver parachute floats down and Peeta opens it to reveal a small metal pipe, which no one can identify. Knowing that Haymitch would never send anything unless it was life-saving, Katniss stops to think. In frustration, she thinks of her family and it comes to her: a spile , which could be inserted into a tree like a tap, to reveal sap. These trees, however, contain water, which the group drinks. Later, Finnick takes first watch as the others sleep. Katniss wakes to gongs, which Peeta and Mags sleep through. Finnick counts 12 gongs, and sees lightning in the distance. After an hour, the lightning stops and rain begins. She hears the cannons indicating another death of a tribute. She notices fog in the distance, and realizes it's an unnatural fog created by the Gamemakers. The mist from the fog causes blisters where it touches. When Peeta stumbles, she notices it also attacks the nerves, as his face droops and his legs stop working. Finnick agrees to carry Peeta if Katniss can carry Mags, which she agrees to. But after a while, Katniss can not carry Mags anymore as her legs become paralyzed. Finnick comes back and tells Katniss he cannot carry them both. Mags kisses Finnick and runs into the fog, convulsing and dying. The three continue on, away from the fog. After not able to move any further, due to exhaustion, Katniss turns to the fog to watch it and realizes that it stops as if meeting an invisible wall. The fog then disappears. Katniss finds the body of salt water from the beginning of the Games, which at first burns, but she realizes that the water forces the poison from the fog out of her body. She slowly puts her limbs into the water and Peeta does the same. Finnick is too hurt to do it himself, so Peeta and Katniss help him. After regaining their strength, Peeta sets out to get water from a tree nearby. Katniss and Finnick are sitting and Katniss hears the sound of multiple monkeys gathering. She tries to signal Peeta calmly but as Peeta approaches, he glances at the horde of monkeys and they attack. Katniss realizes that they are mutts . After killing many, one aims for Peeta's chest, who is currently unarmed. Katniss tries to block with her body but misses. The insane morphling from District 6 comes out of nowhere and attacks the monkey, getting bitten by the animals. The monkeys retreat. After, Peeta brings the morphling female to the beach and they notice that the bites have punctured a vital organ. They stay with her until she dies.

Later, Katniss asks Haymitch for medicine for the scabs from the poison, which he delivers along with a loaf of bread. While they eat they hear a scream and see a tsunami charge through and although they are far enough away, the water reaches their camp. They hear a cannon fire and know that there are 12 victor tributes left. The trio see three bodies emerge from the pool, and notice that one of them is Johanna Mason. Finnick runs to her and they hug. As Katniss and Peeta figure out what to do, they realize they cannot leave Finnick after all he has done, and go to Johanna. She has Beetee and Wiress with her. Beetee has received a knife in back, while Wiress is spinning in a circle, and all three are covered in red. Johanna explains that when the lightning finished and it began to rain, they thought it was water, but it turned out to be blood. Meanwhile, Wiress starts to spin in circles again, and says "tick tock, tick tock" repeatedly. Johanna yells at Wiress, then pushes her to the ground, and Katniss tells her to give Wiress a break, which Johanna replies to by also pushing Katniss down as well.

Later during first watch, Johanna and Katniss talk about Mags and how she died. Also, Katniss asks what she was doing with Wiress and Beetee, and Johanna states that Haymitch told her to bring them to Katniss for an alliance. Later that night, Katniss sees the lightning again, when Wiress restates "tick tock," and Katniss begins to realize the arena is in the shape of a clock. Wiress is relieved because someone understands her, and Katniss quickly explains the situation to the team. She also remembers Plutarch Heavensbee showing her his clock watch and saying, "It begins at midnight," as an image of a mockingjay flashed on the watch face.

They go to the Cornucopia to see if they are correct and are proven to be right. Beetee, starting to feel a little better, tells the group that Wiress is not only very smart, but very intuitive. While drawing up the map of the clock, Katniss realizes that Wiress has stopped singing, and turns with an arrow ready and hits Gloss in the temple, while Johanna buries an axe in Cashmere 's chest. As they try to follow the tributes from District 2, the Cornucopia starts to spin fast. Beetee is thrown from the island, and Katniss goes to Wiress' body to retrieve a wire that Beetee wanted desperately.

When they go back to the jungle, they conclude that the jungle sections could have been switched and they will not know until the tidal wave. Also, Katniss starts to realize that everyone is protecting Peeta and wonders if they believe that he can be the leader of the rebellion. At this point she hears Prim screaming and runs towards it, only to find that they sounds are coming from a jabberjay . Finnick runs to Katniss when he hears a scream as well, and runs after it. Katniss follows him through the jungle to another jabberjay screaming in Annie Cresta's voice. Katniss climbs a tree to kill the jabberjay and Finnick is heartbroken. Finnick explains to Katniss that it might not be his Annie, but that jabberjays mimic what they hear, and he wonders in horror where the jabberjays heard the screams. As she starts to hear Gale's voice from a jabberjay, Finnick grabs Katniss' arm and drags her back to the jungle opening where Peeta and Johanna are. Mad that Peeta did not help her, she realizes that Peeta is yelling but she can't hear him and both she and Finnick run straight into an invisible wall. They are trapped in a wedge of the clock, and the jabberjays arrive with their screams of horror for the next hour until the wall disappears. Peeta calms her down by telling her that Prim and the others were not tortured. As the final 8, their families will be interviewed and they cannot do that if the families are dead. Finnick asks Beetee if it's true, and he agrees with Peeta.

Later, Peeta tries to give Katniss a gold locket filled with pictures of Gale, Prim, and her mother as a reminder of all the other people who depend on her. He insists she should survive, rather than him, because if she dies he has nothing to live for. Katniss is overwhelmed, and kisses him with true feeling, like when they were back in the cave, and decides she must still attempt to fulfill her plan. The next day, Katniss asks Peeta to leave the alliance, but he tells her to wait because he believes Beetee has a plan. The plan is to tie Beetee's wire around the lightning tree (which is struck by lightning at 12:00) and run the wire into the ocean, making the beach a conductor to electrocute everything in its path, thanks to the dampness of the tidal wave at 10:00. Katniss and Johanna are in charge of running the wire down to the beach because they are the fastest. However, when the wire is cut by Brutus and Enobaria, Johanna knocks Katniss over the head with the heavy coil and cuts into Katniss's arm, removing her tracker . Johanna tells her to stay down, and runs off. Brutus later storms in telling Enobaria to leave Katniss because she is 'as good as dead.'

Katniss hears Finnick running but stays quiet so as not to alert him to her whereabouts, since she believes that he and Johanna have betrayed them. She struggles to make her way to the lightning tree and sees Beetee on the ground with a knife and more wire. She sees that he was trying to cut through the forcefield that lies close to the tree. She then realizes that just beyond this forcefield is the real world. At that moment, she hears Peeta calling her name, and because she is so wounded, she does the only thing she can, which is call to him, alerting all enemies to her so Peeta can have a shot at winning.

She collapses after hearing other cannons sound off, and replays Haymitch's last words in her mind: "Remember who the real enemy is," and she realizes he was referring to the Capitol. Realizing that Beetee was trying to blow up the forcefield, she wraps the wire around an arrow and shoots it straight into the flaw in the forcefield at the exact moment when the lightning strikes the tree, blowing up the arena.

She lays there realizing that the Capitol will not let anyone live after this, and that she has just killed Peeta because of it. She sees Plutarch Heavensbee come over to her and close her eyes and she passes out. She awakes in a hospital bed next to Beetee. She searches for Peeta, believing that the Capitol has captured her and planning to kill Peeta to save him from being tortured.

She passes a room and hears Plutarch talking to Finnick and Haymitch about getting someone out of District 4. She opens the door and Haymitch tells her that there was a plan to break them out the minute the Quell was announced. The victors from Districts 3, 4, 6 , 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it. Plutarch had been for several years part of a group planning to overthrow the Capitol. He made sure that the wire was among the weapons, as it was to be used to blow up the forcefield. The bread drops in the morning were code for the rescue. The hovercraft is from District 13, which is where they are headed. Upset, she asks why she and Peeta were not informed. Haymitch explains that once the forcefield exploded, she and Peeta would be the prime targets and the less they knew the better, in case of capture. She tells them that Johanna tried to kill her, but Finnick explains that she was removing Katniss' tracker, and that all of victor tributes in those districts have pledged their lives to her and the rebellion; that she is the mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion.

She realizes that Haymitch never had any plans to keep Peeta alive. He tells her that everyone kept Peeta alive because they knew that if he died she would never keep an alliance with the others. She asks where Peeta is, and Haymitch tells her he was picked up, along with Johanna and Enobaria, by the Capitol. In horror and anger, she attacks Haymitch, scratching his face. Finnick and others strap her down and drug her to keep her calm. Finnick tells her that the Capitol will at least keep Peeta alive to use as bait against Katniss.

Later, Gale visits her. He tells her that after the Games, the Capitol sent bombers to the districts. He explains that he was able to get her family out in time, but District 12 has been destroyed.

Katniss Everdeen — She returns for the second installment as the narrator and the main character, facing new challenges which involve painstakingly difficult decisions to be made. In order to prove her desperate action at the end of the 74th Hunger Games was triggered by mindless love as opposed to rebellion against The Capitol , she is forced to convince the nation of her undying love for Peeta. Unfortunately, she ultimately falls short of President Snow's expectations. When she is reaped for the 75th Hunger Games , Cinna dresses her in a wedding dress for her interview, but because of his alterations, the dress burns off via synthetic fire into a mockingjay outfit. Katniss battles with her devotion to Peeta versus Gale, and remains undecided.
Peeta Mellark — Katniss' fellow tribute , who has now become her fiancé. Peeta volunteers to take Haymitch's place in the Quarter Quell in an effort to keep Katniss alive. During the Quell, Peeta runs into a force field and his heart stops, but Finnick restarts it with CPR. Peeta is among those captured by the Capitol at the conclusion of the novel.
Haymitch Abernathy — Katniss and Peeta's mentor in the Hunger Games. He is an alcoholic, and drinks to escape the torture of the Games. Before Katniss and Peeta, he was the only living victor in District 12 after winning the 50th Hunger Games , another Quarter Quell. Haymitch is the duo's instructor throughout The Hunger Games and Catching Fire . Because he favored Katniss' survival in the 74th Games, he promises Katniss that he will help Peeta survive this time.
Effie Trinket — The escort for the tributes of District 12, Katniss and Peeta. She is very prim and proper, and is known for having a distinct Capitol accent. Manners are very important to her as well as keeping an immaculate schedule. She dresses flamboyantly as she is a resident of The Capitol. She helps organize sponsor gifts alongside Haymitch to send Katniss and Peeta during the Games. At the end of the 75th Hunger Games, Effie is arrested along with Katniss and Peeta's prep teams.
Gale Hawthorne — Katniss' best friend and hunting partner in District 12. He is nineteen years old, openly expresses his hatred of the Capitol, and wishes to start an uprising as the people of District 8 did. Katniss must pretend that they are cousins to keep him alive, or President Snow could order to have him killed since he suspects that Katniss has feelings for him, not Peeta. Before the Quarter Quell, he is whipped within an inch of his life by the cruel, newly appointed Head Peacekeeper Romulus Thread for poaching a wild turkey.
Coriolanus Snow — The president of Panem. He speaks to Katniss face-to-face for the first time at the beginning of Catching Fire . President Snow's breath smells of blood, and he wears a genetically modified white rose in his breast pocket to cover up the smell.
Finnick Odair — The handsome beau - tribute from District 4 . He won the 65th Hunger Games by using a trident and net (District 4's trade is fishing) and his good-looks to win sponsors. Katniss is hesitant to make Finnick her ally at first due to his seemingly shallow and arrogant personality, but he proves to be valuable and altogether trustworthy. Finnick is a key person in the rebellion, as revealed to Katniss in the hovercraft at the end of the book.
Plutarch Heavensbee — The Head Gamemaker of the 75th Hunger Games. During Katniss' Victory Tour , he tips her off that the arena is a clock. Katniss later learns that he is part of a secret group whose main objective is to take down the Capitol.
Mags — The female tribute from District 4, and Finnick's mentor during the 65th Hunger Games. She is around 80 years old and volunteers to take the place of a young woman, Annie Cresta , to spare her from the Games. Mags is one of the first people Katniss wants for an ally, along with Beetee and Wiress, due to her kind personality. Katniss observes that she can make a fishing hook out of anything. While the group tries to escape the poisonous fog, Mags gives herself up without question so Finnick can carry a wounded Peeta to safety, and so Katniss can keep going.
Johanna Mason — The female tribute from District 7 . She won the 71st Hunger Games by pretending she was a weakling until there were only a handful of tributes left, then showing that she could kill viciously. Johanna is captured by the Capitol at the end, along with Peeta and Enobaria.
Beetee — The male tribute from District 3 . Also known as "Volts," he is extremely intelligent and a crafty inventor. He notices a soft spot in the Capitol's forcefield surrounding the Gamemakers, and points this out to Katniss in training. This convinces Katniss that Beetee and Wiress would make good allies. During the Quarter Quell, he uses a special wire he designed to blow up the arena's forcefield. Beetee joins Katniss at the end on the way to District 13 .
Wiress — The female tribute from District 3. Due to the fact that she often doesn't finish her sentences, Johanna refers to her as "Nuts." Beetee often finishes them for her as the two are good friends, thus the joke "Nuts and Volts." However, like Beetee, she is also very intelligent, and is able to figure out that the Quarter Quell arena behaves like a clock, with different challenges at appearing at a certain time and place on the face of the clock. During the Games, she is killed by the male tribute from District 1 , Gloss , who slits her throat.
Enobaria — The female tribute from District 2 . She is famous for ripping a tribute's throat out with her teeth during the Games that she won. She is a threat to Katniss in the arena, but is later captured by the Capitol along with Peeta and Johanna.
Cinna — Katniss' stylist , who continues to help Katniss outsmart the Capitol with his sly designs. During the Quarter Quell, he transforms Katniss' wedding dress into a symbol of resistance, the mockingjay . While Katniss is in the glass tube going into the arena, Cinna is beaten and dragged out of the room by three Peacekeepers.
Darius — Friendly, red-headed Peacekeeper from District 12. He is turned into an Avox and made to serve Katniss and Peeta during the Quell because he attempted to stop Gale's whipping after 20 lashes.
Romulus Thread — A ruthless Peacekeeper who replaced Cray as the Head Peacekeeper of District 12. He is cruel and unyielding, presumably sent to District 12 specifically to control the "rebellious" Victors of the 74th Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss. Thread flogs Gale nearly to death as punishment for poaching and oversaw the burning of the Hob.
Primrose Everdeen — Prim helps her mother with patients and continues with her schooling. She moved to her new house in the Victor's Village with her mother and Katniss. Prim was one of the people President Snow threatened to kill if Katniss didn't prove that she was in love with Peeta and that the suicide threat was an act of love, not rebellion. When Katniss was stuck in the woods by the re-electrifying of the fence, the Peacekeepers went to her house, presumably to question Prim and her mother and to catch Katniss out of bounds. The Capitol had arranged for a showy wedding to Peeta, complete with a contest to decide her wedding dress, decided by voting residents of the Capitol. Prim makes Katniss promise not to try on any dresses until she gets home from school. After Katniss is reaped for the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss is unable to say goodbye to Prim, being instantly whisked away with Peeta to the train. When District 12 is bombed, Gale saves Prim and her mother.

Critical response

Catching Fire received mainly positive reviews from critics. Publishers Weekly wrote, "If this second installment spends too much time recapping events from book one, it doesn't disappoint when it segues into the pulse-pounding action readers have come to expect." [2] Booklist commented on how the "unadorned prose provides an open window to perfect pacing and electrifying world building." [3] A review from The New York Times also gave a positive review, writing, "Collins has done that rare thing. She has written a sequel that improves upon the first book. As a reader, I felt excited and even hopeful: could it be that this series and its characters were actually going somewhere?" and also praised how Katniss became more sophisticated in the book. [4] The Plain Dealer wrote, "The very last sentence of Catching Fire will leave readers gasping. Not to mention primed for part three." [5]

However, not all reviews were positive. The same review from The Plain Dealer became annoyed at how, "after 150 pages of romantic dithering, I was tapping my foot to move on." [5] A review from Entertainment Weekly called the book weaker than the first and wrote, "Katniss pretends to be in love with her sweet-natured Games teammate Peeta Mellark, but she secretly pines for brooding Gale, a childhood friend. Except — why? There's little distinction between the two thinly imagined guys, other than the fact that Peeta has a dopier name. Collins conjures none of the erotic energy that makes Twilight , for instance, so creepily alluring." [6]

In addition, Time magazine named Catching Fire the fourth top fiction book of 2009, [7] while People magazine rated it their eighth Best Book of 2009. [8] It also won Publishers Weekly' s Best Book of the Year for 2009 award. [9]

The novel has had two major English-language audiobook adaptations. The first was narrated by Carolyn McCormick , and the tenth anniversary version was done by Tatiana Maslany .

The Hunger Games: How Finnick Odair Won His Games — and What Happened After

The victor of the 65th Hunger Games, Finnick Odair, used his good looks and charm to come out on top, but his victory came at a price.

Finnick Odair was the youngest Hunger Games victor and utilized his charm, fighting skills, and alliances to secure his win.
Finnick's reputation as a Capitol favorite and his love for Annie were overshadowed by his forced involvement in prostitution under President Snow's control.
Finnick met a tragic end while fighting alongside Katniss and her allies, highlighting the dark and brutal nature of The Hunger Games franchise.

Portrayed by Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair was a force to be reckoned with in The Hunger Games films. The victor of the 65th Hunger Games was a valuable ally to both Katniss during her second run in the Games and to District 13 during the rebellion against The Capitol.

During the later entries in The Hunger Games , Finnick used his charm and fighting skills to win over allies and defeat his enemies. These qualities are what helped Finnick become a Hunger Games champion and a Capitol favorite, a reputation he would carry with him until he joined District 13. The seemingly bright future of Finnick Odair wasn't all that it was made out to be, however. His newfound fame came at a price.

Updated by Timothy Blake Donohoo on December 12, 2023: The revitalized interest in the Hunger Games franchise has seen several readers and moviegoers look back on some of its darkest elements. These include the character Finnick Odair, who serves a particularly bleak purpose. Though set up to be as much of a hero as Katniss Everdeen, he met a dark fate that only furthered highlighted his tragic nature. This may have made him into one of the franchise's most disturbing characters due to how he was used by The Capitol.

Finnick Odair Was the Youngest Hunger Games Victor

Finnick odair's final moments mirror a surprising hunger games death.

Finnick Odair was reaped for the 65th Hunger Games at the age of 14. As a Career Tribute from District 4 , he was already very well-trained and was favored to win by many in The Capitol. Thanks to his physical attributes and skills within the arena, Finnick was able to secure alliances, gather resources, and gain many sponsors, which helped him win the Games.

One of the greatest assets that Finnick Odair possessed was his trident, which Katniss described as one of the most expensive gifts ever given to a tribute. Since District 4 specialized in fishing, Finnick was naturally skilled with a trident. Combined with his expert knot-tying abilities, another trait unique to District 4, Finnick was able to trap his enemies in hand-woven nets made from vines before stabbing them with his trident. All of these attributes helped Finnick become the youngest victor in Hunger Games history .

After his win, Finnick became a mentor to other District 4 tributes and maintained a close relationship with The Capitol, where he would gain a reputation for having multiple sexual partners. Finnick became particularly close with two District 4 victors: 11th Hunger Games winner Mags Flanagan, who served as his mentor and fought alongside him in Catching Fire , and 70th Hunger Games winner Annie Cresta, whom Finnick mentored during her run and later fell in love with.

Why Katniss Killed President Coin in The Hunger Games

Mockingjay parts 1 and 2 gave finnick some bleak developments, hunger games director reveals what he 'totally regrets' about mockingjay.

Despite falling in love with Annie, however, Finnick Odair still had a reputation for sleeping with many Capitol women. But all that changed during the events of Mockingjay when he revealed that his lifestyle was forced upon him by President Snow. After winning the games, Snow forced Finnick into prostitution and sold his body to Capitol residents to gain their trust. Finnick only agreed to take part because Snow threatened to torture his loved ones.

Even though he bedded several women throughout his time as a victor, Finnick's love for Annie remained true. He would go on to fight alongside Katniss and her allies in order to save his love from The Capitol after she was captured and used as a weapon against him. After saving her, the couple finally married in District 13, but Finnick later died on the final mission to kill President Snow. This was a major moment in the rising action of The Hunger Games , though it was handled differently in the books and movies .

How the Death of Finnick Odair Was Handled in the Book Versus the Movie

How the death of finnick odair was handled in the book, the hunger games: mockingjay part 1's best change was bringing back effie trinket.

The events that lead to the death of Finnick Odair begin when he sets out to help Katniss assassinate President Snow. Traveling through the tunnels of The Capitol of Panem , the group is attacked by a group of lizard-like "muttations." These creatures are held off by Finnick, but his heroic act sadly ends in heartbreak for his allies. One of the mutts bites his head off, with Finnick's Hunger Games victories beforehand doing little to prevent such a saddening and tragic death.

Katniss then ignites a series of bombs that clear the tunnels and kill off the remaining mutts. Despite being able to escape with their own lives, she and the others had lost a firm friend in the form of Finnick Odair. While this is certainly a sad fate for the young man, the way in which the movie adapted the material is actually somewhat darker.

How the Death of Finnick Odair Was Handled in the Movie

A deleted hunger games: catching fire scene gives katniss her true rebel moment.

The death of Finnick in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is changed a bit from the original Suzanne Collins novel. Here, Finnick comes in heroically to save the group from the muttations. After he seemingly deals with the immediate threat, he and the others begin climbing up a ladder to escape. Katniss tries to help him reach the top, but unfortunately, he's pulled down and killed by his attackers. Finnick's graphic death from the books isn't utilized, but Katniss's abject grief and anguish over the event are made even more clear.

If anything, Finnick's being pulled down into the void of death is the perfect symbol of how dark The Hunger Games was. Even those who had seemingly survived the Reaping and the initial games were doomed in some other capacity. Finnick Odair showcased this perhaps more than anyone, despite his celebrity status upon winning the Games. This was due to the brutal circumstances forced on him at the behest of President Snow.

Finnick Odair Had the Darkest Hunger Games Storyline

The ballad of songbirds & snakes recreates a key president snow hunger games scene.

As mentioned, Finnick's Hunger Games victory saw him become a veritable sex symbol, with many people in The Capitol having physical relations with the young man. In actuality, however, this wasn't simply the lustful gallivanting of a lascivious young man. Finnick was sold for his body and turned into a prostitute, with the villainous President Snow forcing this on him under the threat of harming his loved ones otherwise. To the outside world, he was merely a man sowing his proverbial wild oats, but Finnick Odair took no joy in these acts. This was only made worse due to the love he felt for Annie Cresta, who sadly became his wife, only to quickly become his widow.

This dark storyline gets to the heart of the Hunger Games franchise's premise, which notably attacks the distractions and vapidity of celebrity-oriented culture. Many celebrities are treated almost as commodities, with their antics beyond the big screen earning them fans and disdain. This includes the salacious gossip connected to these celebrities, which may or may not be true. Sadly, human trafficking of the sort that Finnick Odair experiences is quite common in Hollywood, especially among female talent. It's actually somewhat revolutionary that The Hunger Games touched on the topic, especially with a male character. This heartwrenching theme only makes the life — and death — of Finnick into an even more tragic affair.

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The Hunger Games franchise shows a dystopian future where teens are forced to battle to the death for the amusement of the wealthy. Everything changes when Katniss Everdeen volunteers in place of her sister, Primrose.

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Oliver Anthony , the Appalachian singer who had the biggest out-of-nowhere viral hit in years in 2023, announced Friday that he will be issuing his debut album, “Hymnal of a Troubled Man’s Mind,” on Easter Sunday.

The collection was produced by the biggest name in the production of roots-oriented music, Dave Cobb , famous for his work with Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell as well as film projects such as “Elvis” and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.”

A tenth song is a previously unheard song, “Momma’s Been Hurting.”

Appropriately, perhaps, for an album released on a major religious holiday, but still highly unusual for any commercial release, “Hymnal” features Anthony reciting biblical verses between songs. The singer told Joe Rogan in a lengthy interview last year that he is a man of faith, although he hadn’t been to church in many years.

Anthony is releasing the album independently, even though major labels were reportedly heatedly pursuing him for a record deal after “Rich Men North of Richmond” turned the Virginian into almost literally an overnight sensation (and a scourge of many commentators who didn’t appreciate his lyrical views on welfare recipients).

In a statement, Anthony — whose real name is Chris Lunsford, but who took the name of a late relative for performing — says that he wanted to get a proper recording out of some of the most meaningful songs that had brought him to this point before moving on to material that was written with a studio project in mind.

He added that “in sort of a beautiful and crazy way, nearly all the songs that my fans listen to outside of the RadioWv session from August of 2023” — i.e., the outdoor “Rich Men” session seen on video — “are those Android recordings I recorded almost immediately after writing each song in 2022-2023. Think of them like a rough draft: in many cases, I had written the song not even 30 minutes before recording. My motivation for uploading was mainly to create a tangible medium, so the songs were safe for me to play at open mics without worrying about them being stolen. I feel that it was my responsibility to give a handful of my early written songs the completion they deserve.”

The songs on the album are “Rich Man’s Gold,” “Doggonit,” “I’ve Got to Get Sober,” “Cobwebs and Cocaine,” “Hell on Earth,” “I Want to Go Home,” “Feeling Purdy Good,” “Always Love You Like a Good Old Dog” and “VCR Kid” as well as the concluding “Momma’s Been Hurting.”

Anthony said it will not be long before he puts out freshly penned songs. “Now, I can begin releasing my most recent work, without feeling like I skipped an important step. Fans can expect to start seeing new releases soon, following this project.”

Easter will find the singer giving a benefit concert at the Beacon Theatre in Hopewell, Virginia that will be livestreamed for free on his social channels on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. The stream will encourage donations to Beacon Hill Church’s food outreach program.

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