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.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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!
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?
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.
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
4. Who finds her?
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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