Book- Catching Fire
Book- Hunger Games
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Catching Fire: Interview with Suzanna Collins
Questions
for Suzanne Collins
Question 1: In the Hunger Games where there barely
is any food, why does Katniss blow up all the food?
Answer 1: Katniss has the ability to hunt and gather
food for herself. But the Careers, who had gathered all the food together, do
not have that sort of ability. By Katniss doing this, this gives the Careers a
sense of starvation. This was a very smart move by Katniss, as it apparently
worked for her. Considering she won the games.
Question 2: Why was the Hunger Games created?
Answer 2: The Hunger Games was created by the
Capitol. It was created as a punishment for the people of Panem because people
were trying to rebel against the powerful capitol. It has been on for 75 years
in the book “Catching Fire”.
Question 3: If there is only 12 districts, what is
district 13?
Answer 3: District 13 used to be a running district.
Before the first annual Hunger Games, the district was reportedly bombed and
destroyed. This lead to apparent evacuation of the district. Later in the
books, there is suspected evidence that there still is life in district 13, and
in the last book they find out that district 13 had actually turned into an
underground district, with actual life still there.
Question 4: What was the untold details of district
12?
Answer 4: After Katniss, Peeta, and all the other
tributes break through the force field, the Capitol was very unhappy. They cut
all the power in district 12, and set out bomb squads. After about 15 minutes,
the town was completely gone, leaving about 10% of people alive.
Question 5: Why did the Careers let Peeta join them,
knowing he knew Katniss?
Answer 5: The Careers were always jealous of
Katniss. After her amazing scoring at the training, they were quite scared of
her. They believe that Peeta had left Katniss to stay alive, and thought he
would have valuable information about her.
Catching Fire Character Sketch: Peeta
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Mastroianni, 1
Giovanni Mastroianni
Ms. Szilva
May 28th, 2016
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Lover
Boy
Peeta
Mellark, also known as “Lover boy”. Arguably the most likeable person in the
entire series of the Hunger Games. Always known as the loner, the good guy.
When it comes to Peeta Mellark from the series “The Hunger Games” and the book “Catching
Fire”, he is self-sacrificing, heroic, and loyal. Peeta always puts everyone
else before himself, and that’s what makes him all 3 of these.
To start, Peeta is self-sacrificing. At a time where
District 12, the district where Peeta is from, just like Katniss, is very poor,
no one has any food. Katniss and her family have no food left. Katniss is slowly
starving to death. Peeta’s father is a baker, and him and Peeta bake bread.
Peeta realizes how hungry Katniss is, and wants to help. He deliberately overcooks
the bread, and his mother tells him to give it to the pigs. Instead, Peeta runs
out to Katniss, and gives her bread enough for her and her family. In a
district that is very poor, this is a huge deal to Peeta’s family. He gets into
trouble with his family, and says “My mother hitting me. I was taking out bread
for the pigs and instead gave it to you.”
Furthermore, Peeta is heroic. During the Hunger Games,
Peeta did not want to kill anyone. He did not want to do what everyone else
was. The Careers were coming after Katniss and Peeta. Since Peeta did not want
to kill, he tricked them and pretended to join their side, and led them away
from where he knew Katniss was. After Cato, a career, finds out about what was
happening, he went after Peeta. He severely wounded him, and Peeta got Katniss
out alive. When Katniss was treating Peeta wounds with medicine, he says “So,
if you can quit acting like I’m wounded, I can stop acting like it.” This was
to get Katniss more focused on the game and not to worry about Peeta’s wound.
In addition, Peeta is loyal. For starters, he is in love
with Katniss. But this did not start recently for him. Peeta has crushed on
Katniss since the age of 5. Also, Peeta faked a team up with the Careers in
order to protect Katniss, and did not leave Katniss for the Careers. Peeta
follows whatever Katniss says. The biggest time he followed what she said was
when they were going to commit a double suicide, and they had bother agreed
that they would eat the poison berries. But before the berries, Peeta was ready
for Katniss to kill him. I wanted Katniss to win the game, and told her to kill
him. He says” We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of
us. Please, take it. For me.”
To conclude, Peeta is probably the most likeable person
in the series because he is so self-sacrificing, heroic, and loyal. These
traits make him so appealing to viewers, Katniss, and those who watched him during
the games. He did not have the physical skill to win the Hunger Games, but his
strong mentality is what got him through.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Catching Fire Character Sketch: Katniss
Giovanni
Mastroianni, 1
Giovanni Mastroianni
Ms. Szilva
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March 24th,
2016
The
Girl On Fire
Katniss Everdeen, the winner of the 74th annual Hunger Games. When it comes to Suzanne Collins book “Catching Fire”,
Katniss Everdeen is the best. Katniss is the main character of Catching Fire,
and the series “The Hunger Games”. Katniss is the best because she is brave,
and takes the risk of her life. She is responsible, and puts more than family
before herself. She is very intelligent, and can do whatever she wants.
To start, Katniss is brave. One of the biggest times she
shows her bravery is when her sister, Prim, is called to join the Hunger Games.
Her sister is very small, and no one would step up for her. Katniss is famous
for stepping up for her sister, and saying the very well-known words “I
volunteer as tribute”. This results in her sister not having to go to the
hunger games, and Katniss showing even more bravery during the games. Katniss
took on everyone in the Hunger Games, and won it herself. She showed true
bravery to step in, and determination to come out alive, unlike the other 22
people.
Furthermore,
Katniss is responsible. Katniss takes on a very tough challenge to take care of
her family after the death of her father in an explosion incident. But she also
takes on a huge task with it, to take care of a village suffering from a loss
of food in the city. She goes out herself and finds as much food as she can for
the town, and illegally hunts to feed her starving family.
She is also the leader
of a revolution to take down the capitol. Plutarch, a supporter of her
revolution, says “While you live, the revolution lives”, showing her
responsibility and leadership of her rebellion.
In
addition, Katniss is very intelligent. Maybe it was not looked at as the
smartest move to volunteer for the Hunger Games, but she showed that she knew
what she was doing when she did. She figured out all the complex maps and
challenges that the Hunger Games threw at her, and she got by with flying
colours. She managed to even out-smart the capitol, and get her and her lover,
Peeta, out of the Hunger Games alive. She did this with only poison berries. She
describes the Capitol by saying “It must be very fragile, if a handful of
berries can bring it down”
To
conclude, Katniss is the best because she is so brave, intelligent, and
responsible. These are the traits that got her through the Hunger Games, and
are bringing her through everyday life obstacles. She is never brought down,
and for that is known as “The Girl on Fire”
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