Sunday, October 17, 2010

Chapter 27 Questions

Chapter 27
1. What goes on during the final interview?The guy Caesar Flickerman asked them questions again and they showed them on tv how the other tributes died.
2. What happened to Peeta's leg? They had to replace it with a mechanical parts because it was beyond repair.
3. Why does Katniss feel torn in the end?She doesn't know what's she is going to do with the love thing with Peeta when she met up with Gale,her mother, and Prim which later she found out was making Gale furious..
4. What does Peeta realize? She was just acting with the love thing just to be more popular with the viewers which he didn't know before so it broke his heart.
    QUOTES
  • "And then I hear Caesar Flickerman greeting the audience. Does he know hoe the crucial it is to get every word right from now on? He must. He will want to help us." (pg 360)
  • "I now understand Cinna's choice of dress for me for tonight. I'll need to look as girlish and innocent as possible."
  1. "He staggers back, almost losing his balance, and that's when I realize the slim metal contraption in his hand is some kind of cane." (pg 361)
  • "And I think, Oh, Caesar, if only that were true. But actually, President Snow may be arranging some sort of accident for me as we speak." (pg 366)  

Chapter 26 Questions

  Chapter 26

1. How does the Capitol heal Katniss? They clean her all up, treat all her scares. And they even treat the ones from over her years. They fix there hearing from her left ear. Her nails are made polished in perfect oval and her hair is silken..
2. What does Haymitch reveal to Katniss before she sees the crowd? He told her that the capital is mad her for what she did in the games for the double suicide thoughts and it caused the capital embarrassment.  
     QUOTES
  • "And since my eyes were looking down, I can see that while our muscles are immobile, nothing is preventing the blood from draining out of Peeta's leg." (pg 346)
  • "Did Peeta make it? She gives me a nod and slips a spoon into my hand, I feel the pressure of friendship." (pg 349) 
  • "Not only the scars from the arena gone, but those accumulated over years  from hunting have vanished without a trace." (pg 351)
  • "Listen up. Your in trouble. Word is the capital furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem, says Haymitch."
 

Friday, October 15, 2010

Chapter 25 Questions

  Chapter 25

1. What attacks the last three tributes? Some capital mutations of wolves made from the tributes' bodies attacked the last three tributes. They way Katniss could tell this was by their eyes, Because Their eyes were the same of the dead tributes. 
2. How does Katniss use her last arrow? She shot it at Cato's skull, when he was lying injured on the floor inside the Cornucopia, to end his misery because the mutts were slowly eating him up.
3. What happens when the Gamemakers revoke the rule change? They wanted only one winner to win and Katniss or Peeta refuse to kill themselves or the other. So they both choose to kill themselves by eating the poisonous berries that also killed Foxface.   
4. Who wins the Hunger Games? Katniss and Peeta both win because they were both going to kill themselves so the gamemakers got scared and let them both win. But unfortunately for them this might arouse problems with the capitol.
       QUOTES
  • "I send an arrow into the pack and one goes down, but there are many to take his place. Peeta waving me up the horn, Go Katniss go." (pg 331)
  • "Then one of  them, a good size mutt with silky waves of blond fur takes a running start and and leaps onto the horn." (pg 333)
  • "And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes and a collar that reads 11 in woven straw. Teeth bared in hatred.Rue..." (pg 334)
  • " Cato just laughs. Shoot me and he goes down with me. He's right. If I take him out and he's falls to the mutt, Peeta is sure to die with him." (pg 336)  

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Chapter 24 Questions

  Chapter 24

1. How do the Gamemakers try to drive the last tributes together? They dried up all the lakes except the one that was near the cornucopia so they would all be forced to go to the Cornucopia.  But before that they took all of the lakes fishes and creatures away so when Peeta and Katniss where walking back to their camp Katniss didn't kill any fish.
2. How does Katniss feel about Cato? She thought that he was more slippery than Foxface and powerful and well trained but she wasn't really sure if he was smart. That he could easily easily lose his judgement if he was angry.
3. How do the final three meet up? When Katniss and Peeta were waiting at the lake for Cato  he came out  running out of a bush being chased by something.Which later turned out to be mutts.(Mutations)  
     QUOTES

  • "He'll know where we are now, says Peeta. If he was anywhere nearby and saw the hovercraft, he'll know we killed her and come after us." (pg 321)
  • "The playful romance we sustained in the cave has disappeared out in the open, under the hot sun, with the threat of Cato looming over us." (pg 322)
  • "I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to over estimate them as well." (pg 324) 
  • "The lake, says Peeta. That's where they want us to go." Maybe the ponds still have some, I say hopefully." (pg 326)

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Chapter 23 Questions

 Chapter 23

1. Why does Thresh's death affect Katniss? Thresh death affected Katniss because Thresh spared her life and she would've been his friend if they would've have both lived in district 12. 
2. Who is left in the arena?It is only Katniss, Peeta, Cato, and Foxface but she dies later in the chapter when she accidentally eats a couple of poisonous berries.
3. What Katniss' fears if she wins the Games?She fears she won't have nothing todo because she won't need to hunt and that all she has ever done her hole life.
4. What happens to Foxface? She got poisoned by some berries she stole from Peeta, who when he was gathering them didn't know they were poisonous.
      QUOTES
  • "I know the audience will enjoy our having fun at Haymitch's expense. He has been around so long he's practically an old friend of some of them." (pg 305)
  • "Haymitch and I don't get along well in person, but maybe Peeta is right about us being alike because he seems able to communicate with me by the timing of his gifts." (pg 305)
  • "I see Peeta staring at me . What? Thresh is dead, says Peeta. He can't be, I say." (pg 307) 
  • "Four of us left. For the first time, I allow myself to truly think about the possibility that I might mke it home. To fame. T wealth.To my house in the victor village." (pg 310)  

Chapter 22 Questions

  Chapter 22

1. How does Katniss compare Peeta to Gale? She said Peeta's  life was always easy. He is the son of a baker so was always well fed so he never had to worry about food. Unlike Gale who he has to hunt for food with her to feed he's whole family.
2. What happens with the weather? It went from  the weather being warm and sunny to heavy rain with thunder so loud it almost shakes the earth.
3. How does Katniss get the feast? She acts romantic with Peeta and then Haymitch sends them some supplies because her being romantic brings up viewers who now want to sponsor them to help them survive. But she let Peeta do most of the talking because she wasn't ever really a good talker so she asked Peeta when he started liking her. Which worked.
    QUOTES

  • "Possibly I have the flu and this is why I'm allowed to stay in bed, even though I can tell I've been asleep for a long time." (pg 290)
  • "But the thought only upsets me. I think we would like Thresh. I think he'd be our friend back in district twelve, I say". (pg 293)
  • " The rain has turned into a downpour, sending streams of water through where earlier they were just drips." (pg 294)
  • " This is the first kiss where I actually feel the stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious". (pg 298)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Chapter 21 Questions

Chapter 21 1. Who's the first to get their pack?The girl Katniss nicknamed Foxface. She got it first because she sprinted for it at the beginning. Which was smart because nobody could run after her because everybody else still needed their bags.
2. Who catches Katniss? The girl named Clove knocked her on her head and killed her.
3. Why does Thresh let Katniss go? He let's her go because she helped out Rue for her last hours. So he did it so he wouldn't have to owe Katniss any other favors.
4. Why does Katniss think Cato will go after Thresh and not her?It's because Thresh has his pack Cato really needs. But as a precaution she doesn't stop running until she's at the cave.
    QUOTES



  • " I watch the sky, hoping for one less opponent at dawn, but nobody appears tonight. Tomorrow there will be faces up there. Feast always result in fatalities." (pg 279)
  • "And a tiny orange one-really I could carry it around my wrist- that must be marked with a 12." (pg 283)
  • "Without hesitation, I sprint for the table. I can sense the emergence of danger before I see it." (pg 283)
  • "And then Clove slams into me, knocking me flat on my back, pinning my shoulders to the ground with her knees." (pg 284)