Sunday, October 24, 2010

Ch. 26 Questions

Chapter 26

1. How does the Capitol heal Katniss?
   The Capitol heals Katniss by repairing her ear and putting her to sleep and putting her out of her misery and pain.

2. What does Haymitch reveal to Katniss before she sees the crowd?
  He ells her that the Capitol is angry and is the laughping stock of Panem.

Ch. 25 Questions

Chapter 25

1. What attacts the last three tributes?
        The thing that attack the last three tributes are Mutations which were created by The Gamemakers and they resemble dead tributes and have the same eye and hair color except that they also look like wolves.

2. How does Katniss use her last arrow?
   Katniss uses her last arrow to kill Cato though he was already suffering she took that away by killing him fatser.

3. What happens when the Gamemakers revoke the rule change?
   Peeta acts upon the rule change and begs Katniss to kill him with his knife ,but Katniss rejects his plea. So she comes up with the plan to get the berries that killed Foxface and comitt suicide both of them. It is known as Double Suicide and as soon as it entered thie lips they announce the victors.

4. Who wins The Hunger Games?
   Both Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen win the Games.

Ch. 24 Questions

Chapter 24

1. How do the Gamemakers try to drive the last Tributes together?
   The Gamemakers try and drive the Tributes together by drying up all the water sources and the only one left is the lake by the Cornocopia.

2. How does Katniss feel about Cato?
   Katniss feels that Cato is a horrible person and that he hates her and they can both relate to one another by their tempers except that when Katniss doesn't like someone she doesn't go and kill them unlike Cato.

3. How do the final three meet up?
        The final three meet up because Katniss and Peeta are waiting for Cato by the lake ,but suddenly Cato bursts through the woods and he is being chased by some odd animal. Katniss doesn't know what they are untill she sees that they are Mutations and they were created by the Gamemakers.

Ch. 23 Questions

Chapter 23

1. Why does Thresh's death affect Katniss?
   Thresh's death affects Katniss so greatly because he had spared her life a a payment for being an alley and protecting his fellow Tribute, Rue. When she finds out he died she feels soo afffected because she feels like if she made a new friend in the arena ,but suddenly he is gone.

2. Who is left in the arena?
   The tributes that are left in the arena at this point in the Games are Katniss, Peeta, Foxface, and Cato.

3. What is Katniss's fear if she wins the Hunger Games?
   Katniss's fear is that if she wins, once she gets the fame and fortune, she wil forget who she is and will be a person she doesn't want to be. She is afraid that once her family has enough food she won't have the need to hunt and so she will forget who she is and end up like Haymitch.

4. What happens to Foxface?
   Foxface is sly as usual and while Peeta and Katniss are gathering berries and such, she takes a couple and a slice of cheese ,but what she doesn't know is that those berries are poisonous and so she is poisned and she dies.

Ch. 22 Questions

Chapter 22

1. How does Katnis compare Peeta to Gale?
       Katniss beleives that Peeta would never speak about Panem in a bad way and unlike Gale who always did with Katniss in the woods.

2. What happens with the weather?
   The thing that happens with the weather is that it turns all into a storm with lots of rain and Katniss knows that it is the Gamemmakers controling the weather.

3. How does Katniss get the feast?
   Katniss and Peeta are rewarded by the feast by being all romantic and kissing and just being in love. Unlike Katniss,Peeta was being genuine about his feelings for Katniss although she wasn't. The food came down when they kissed.

Ch. 21 Questions

Chapter 21

1. Who's the first to get their pack?
   The first person to get their pack is Foxface. Katniss is pissed off because she wanted to be the first to get her pack and she didnt because Foxface thought of a sly way to get her pack. She had hid inside the Cornocopicia and retrieved her pack easily.

2. Who catches Katniss?
   The person who catches Katniss is Clove. Clove then pins Katniss to the ground and starts cutting her ,but somebody comes up and lifts her of off Katniss and that person was Thresh.

3. Why did Thresh let Katniss go?
   Thresh lets Katniss go because he didn't want to owe Katniss of Rue's death and so he let her go ,but warned her that that was the first and last time that he would. 

4. Why does Katniss think that Cato will go after Thresh and not her?
   Katniss thinks Cato will go after Thresh instead of her because Thresh, before he departed, took Cato's pack and then left with his own as well. The pack had something very valuable for Cato. 

Ch. 20 Questions

Chapter 20

1. What is Peeta's condition?
  Peeta's condition is preety much critical because of the wound in his leg which Cato had stabbed him. It is very difficult for Peeta to move. Katniss knows that Peeta has Blood Poisining and knows that if he does not get treated he will die.

2. How do the Gammeakers try to entice the tributes? What does Katniss think they have for her?
   The Gammeakers try to entice the Tributes by making a "Feast." Claudias Templsmith,the announcer, informed the tributes that in the Cornocupicia there was a bag that had your District number and in the bag contained something of value to the Tributes. Katniss believes that inside their bag has something to cure Peeta's leg wound. Peeta, though, will not let Katniss go with out him.

3. What does Haymitch send Katniss? Why?
   Haymitch sends Katniss sleeping syrup to drugg Peeta and be able to go to the feast.

Ch. 19 Questions

Chapter 19

1. How does Katniss find Peeta?
   Katniss finds Peea by when he spoke to her, when she had called out for him. She had said Petta where are you and he responded that "your practically on me." She spotted him through layers and layers of mud and the only way you could tell he was under there was through the whites of his teeth and the blue of his eyes.

2. What is Peeta's true talent?
   Peet's true talent is his ability to cover somthing in layers and make it different the way he did to himself by covering his body with the mud and being able to camoflouge.

3. How does Katniss treat Peeta's wounds?
   Katnis treated Peeta's TrackerJacker stings with the leaves that Rue gave Katniss. She couldn't do much with the wound in his leg, so she just applied the leaves as well and as for his fever she gave him some pills.

4. Where do Katniss and Peeta hide out?
   Katniss and Peeta hide out inside a cave, though Katniss wanted to hide out in a tree she knew that Peeta would be unable to climb a tree.

5. How and why do they get the pot of broth?
   Katniss and Peeta got the pot of broth because they were playing up the romance with all the kissing. They got the pot from Haymitch.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Ch. 18 Questions

Chapter 18

1. What does Katniss do for Rue?
       Katniss did something very sweet and in a way rebelious towards the Capitol and Rue. Katniss covered Rue in a bunch of beautiful flowers and it had seemed to Katniss as if she were to be sleeping in a flowerbed. But sadly Rue won't be waking up. It is rebelious to the Capitol because Katniss wanted to show them she was not just another piece of their games. This is what Peeta had told Katniss on the train and she finally underwhat he meant.

2. Who sponsers a gift for her? What is it?
   The sponsers of the gift that Katniss receives is from District 11. The gift that they sent her was a loaf of bread to show their gratitude to what Katniss has done to Rue and Katniss thinks that they too do not like to owe people.

3. How does Katniss's attitude change after Rue's death?
   Katniss's attitude is transformed into someone who has their head into the game, someone who will stop at nothing to win the games and she is doing this for Rue and for Prim and for all the people that have to go through the types of things the Capitol puts them through every single day. She hates the Capitol and wants them to end their power.

4. What rule change do the Gamemakers announce?
   The change of the rules is announced and it said that if both the girl and the boy tributes survive the Hunger Games they can both win. Katniss is excited yet confused because she wants both herself and Peeta to make it home.

Ch. 17 Questions

Chapter 17

1. What happens to Katniss in the explosion?
   In the explosion Katniss is caused to be sent back tumbling into the ground and she is bleeding heavily from her left ear in which she cannot hear from. She thinks she has gone deaf.

2. Why does Katniss leave the rendezvous point?
   Katniss is left to decide whether to leave or to stay and wait for Rue which in her part did not show up. That is the reason Katniss left the rendezvous point.

3. What happens to Rue?
   Sadly, Rue is killed by a Career with a spear which instantly sends Katniss into the positoin to kill the Career instentaniously. Though Katniss did not get in time to save Rue's life she tried her best, so Katniss buried Rue in a bunch of beautiful flowers.

Ch. 16 Questions

Chapter 16

1. What is Katniss' defensive attack?
   Katniss' offensive attack is to steal all the food from The Careers because since they have a surplus of food they do not have the need to hunt unlike herself who has to usually hunt and gather.

2. In what ways are the Careers at disadvantage?
   The Careers are at a disadvantage because they do not know what it is like to starve unlike Katniss who usually goes through it on a daily basis can survive through it and still be productive.

3. What important information does Rue provide?
   Rue provides very important information because she tells Katniss with information about the Careers and where they keep their food and who is guarding it and she tells her this information and Katniss can go through with her plan to destroy the Careers food and steal a bit for herself.

4. What is Rue's favorite thing? How does this connect to Katniss?
   Rue's favorite thing is music. She tells Katniss that she loves to sing at home while she is working in the trees in agriculture. Rue likes Katniss's MockingJay pin because Rue would sing with the MockingJay's all the time. This connects with Katniss because her father would sing to her in the woods and the birdies would stop singing to hear his voice.

5. Why can't Katniss get to the bountey of supplies? How is she able to destroy it?
   Katniss is not able to get to the bountey of supplies because it is surrounded by the land mines that they had used when they were going to get of off the little area they had. The boy tribute from District 3 set the mines and in the pile there was a bag of apples that she shot and once they hit the floor it was Boom! Boom!

Ch. 15 Questions

Chapter 15

1. Who forms an alliance with Katniss? 
      The person that makes an alliance with Katniss is Rue. Rue is the girl tribute to District 11. Katniss wants her to be her ally because she saved her life with the tracker jackers. She tells her she's preety smart since she has made it that far into the Games. Rue reminds Katniss of her sister Prim whom she made a promise to come back alive.



2. How does this alliance benefit both parties?
   The alliance benefits both parties because Rue helps Katniss with her trcker jacker stings by giving her some leaves she found. Katniss remembers these are the leaves her mother used on miners who had been burned before in explosions. Rue is benefiting from this alliance because she gets medicine that was sent to her by sponsers.
3. What are some differences between District 11 and District 12?
District 11 and District 12 are different in many ways because District 11 is the agriculture District, while District 12 is coal mining district. Katniss may think her Distrcit is strict, but Rues is even worse. Even though it's agriculture, they can't eat any of it. If they do, they get punished by getting whipped in front f everyone. In Katniss' District, there are rarely any whippings. Her Districts' Mayor isnt' as strict as Disctrict 11's.

Ch. 14 Questions

Chapter 14

1. Who helps Katniss escape from the Careers? How?
   The person who helped Katniss escape from the Careers was Rue. Rue helps Katniss by pointing at the Tracker Jacker Nest above her and Katniss gets the idea to cut the branch propping the nest up and tossing it down to the Careers and Peeta to distract them as she escapes.

2. What does Haymitch send Katniss?
   Haymitch sends Katniss a small little pot that is full with medicine to help ease the pain on her hands and calf. The calf and the hands need to be easd because they were burned badly by the firewall.

3. What does Katniss get from Glimmer's body? Why is this so important to her?
   Katniss retrieves a bow and arrows from Glimmer just before they take her body away with the Hovercraft. These things are important to her because they are her weapons and she needs them to survive the rest of the Hunger Games. This weapon is essential to her because it is what she will use to survive and hunt.

4. What does Peeta do when he finds Katniss?
   Peeta, to Katniss's surprise, gets mad at her and tells her that she needs to get up and run because the Careers who are still alive are coming after her to kill her.

5. What are the effects of the Tracker Jacker Stings on Katniss?
   Some effects that Katniss lives through are that she starts hallucinating and she gets very dizzy. She sees very strange things like ants crawling up and down her body.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Ch. 13 Questions

Chapter 13


This is the firewall the
Gamemakers had made.

1. What new threat does Katniss face?
   The new threat that Katniss faces is that the tree she was sleeping on is now on fire and the fact that if she makes it out alive she will be badly burned. Also she will have bad inhalation problems because of the strong and thick smoke that arose from the Fire and Katniss knew it was not man-made, it was a little trick from the Gamemakers to spice things up a little bit.


2. How do the Gamemakers control the events of the Games?
   The Gamemakers have a little control room where they make things happen to keep the Capitol entertained and the Districts terrified and intimidated.



These are the fireballs

3. What slows Katniss down?
   What slows Katniss down is the fire balls being launched at her. The fireballs are only the size of about an apple, but she is having trouble, but barely escaping to still live because with a direct hit it could end her life.


4. Who finds her?
   The people who find her are The Careers and Peeta when they find her in the tree and also Rue finds her on the tree.



This is Rue

Ch. 12 Questions

Chapter 12

Katniss couldn't find water





1. What is Katniss struggling to find?
   Katniss is having a lot of trouble finding water.


2. In what ways is Katniss “playing the game?"
   The ways that Katniss is playing the games is that she will not show emotion like how she found out Peeta was with the Careers.


3. Why doesn’t Haymitch send Katniss water?
   Haymitch doesn't send water to Katniss because he's sending her a subliminal message that there is water nearby.

Ch. 11 Questions

Chapter 11

This is The Cornucopia
1. What is the Cornucopia?
   The Cornucopia is a giant golden horn shaped like a cone with a curved tail, the mouth of which is atleast twenty feet high, spilling over with the things that will give life to the Tributes in the Arena.





This is the woods and the lake

2. How does Katniss make it into the woods? What weapons does she choose? Why?
   Katniss makes into the woulds by running full sprint to the woods. The weapons that she chooses are a bright orange backpack and a knife from District 9 who splattered Katniss with blood when he coughed. She took these weapons because she didn't want to leave with virtually nothing in her hands, though she wanted to go for the arrows Peeta had distracted her by shaking his head and signalling her not to go for the arrows.



This is the fire the Pack started

3. Why is Katniss angry at the tribute who starts the fire? Who is hunting in the pack?
   Katniss is mad at the tribute who started the fire because its like if you were waving a flag and screaming "Come and get me!" The hunting pack is the allience of Tributes 1, 2, and 4 and Peeta. Two girls and Three boys and Peeta.