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• She hadn’t realized this was coming. The arena was the worst time for
Katniss many people she knew died. Katniss becomes more engaged, she
is always on her toes and on the look out for anyone or anything
suspicious.
Character- Katniss
• That’s when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood.
And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead,
only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the
voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches through
anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister.
(pg. 339)
• This scene shows that Katniss will risk everything to save her sister. After
this incident Katniss becomes more paranoid about the people and her
surroundings.
Character- Katniss
• Peeta. My dying wish. My promise. To keep him alive. (pg. 373)
• She doesn’t care if she dies she will sacrifice herself just so Peeta will make
it out alive. Katniss is barely conscious still lingering on hope that
everyone she knows is still alive
Setting
• “Tick, Tock”. My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know
she’s right. Tick, tock. This is a clock”. (pg. 325)
• In the setting Katniss realizes that the arena she is fighting in is like a giant
clock and each time means a new enemy. Her and her allies think of plans
to help elude these obstacles.
Setting
• “Come on, we’re almost to District Eleven. Let’s go take a look at it”. You
can see a wide sweep of the landscape. Huge open fields with herds of
dairy cattle grazing in them. (pg. 54)
• This scene shows that some districts unlike hers are still beautiful. Some
are still full of life. It is kind of like being in the unknown seeing things for
the very first time Katniss feels touched by the District Eleven people.
Setting
• “In District Eight there are still banners with my face waving from the
rooftops. Below them, there’s a mob scene. The square is packed with
screaming people, their faces hidden with rags and homemade masks,
throwing bricks. Buildings burn”. (pg. 89)
• The narrator, Katniss is creeped out and scared that somebody that she
knew has turned into a mute slave. She is sad that anybody she knows
this can happen too.
Narrator
• The wheels begin to turn. And I’m left staring out the window, watching
District 12 disappear, will all my good-byes still hanging on my lips. (pg.
187)
• The narrator is mourning her home town. She has to leave behind her
friends and family once again to try and fight and win. She is not ready to
give up her new life to go and please somebody that she doesn’t want to.
Author’s Purpose
• The author’s purpose is to tell reader’s to
never give up. When times are tough you
have to keep going to what is right. Katniss
tried to defy the Capitol. She shot an arrow at
the game makers, she hung a dummy naming
it Seneca Crane. Lastly she shot an arrow at
the dome of the arena collapsing it and
everyone that hadn’t died escaped. She is the
symbol of the rebellion.