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The Hunger Games

Chapters 4, 5 and 6

Fairbloom, Blyth

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Review: Setting

• As we learnt in chapter 1, Panem is located in what was North

America

• In the middle sits the Capitol – the center for wealth and

affluence, which organizes the yearly Hunger Games

• Surrounding the Capitol are thirteen districts – regions, which fall

under the rule of the Capitol

• District 13 was bombed during the Dark Days as a reminder that

everyone in Panem must obey the Capitol

• Katniss is from District 12, which is in charge of coal / mining. She

lives in an area called The Seam

Review: Treaty of Treason / Hunger Games

• Treaty of Treason: Crime of betraying one’s country

(i.e. by trying to kill or overthrow the government)

• “The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to

guarantee peace, and as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games” (18).

• Two teens (tributes) are chosen in each district to

participate in the Hunger Games, as an act of repentance for rebelling against the Capitol

Review: Mockingjay Pin

• The mockingjay pin was given to Katniss by Madge Oversee,

the mayor’s daughter to wear during the Games to represent District 12

• A mockingjay is a bird: mockingbird mixed with a jabberyjay
• The jabberjays were birds that had been genetically

engineered by the Capitol as spies during the rebellion

• They were used to overhear the conversations in the districts

and to report back to the Capitol. The people in the Districts figured this out and fed the Capitol false information

Review: Mockingjay Pin

• The Capitol left the birds alone in the wild where they mated with

female mockingbirds

• The mockingjay can carry a tune and can repeat songs / melodies
• The bird reminds Katniss of her father, who loved to whistle to the birds
• The bird broke free of the control of the Capitol – the bird is a sign of

resistance and rebellion

• “Something of a slap in the face to the Capitol” (42)
• As we read the novel, we will see Katniss begin to be identified with the

bird

Chapter 4 (Pgs. 48 – 60)

Getting to Know Peeta

• Peeta volunteers to clean up Haymitch, who is drunk and has fallen in his own

vomit.

• “Possibly Peeta is trying to make a good impression on him, to be his favorite
• nce the Games begin” (48).
• While Katniss sits in her room, she wonders why Peeta did this, then realizes he

may just be kind.

• “It’s because he’s being kind. Just as he was kind to give me the bread” (49).
• She decides this is more dangerous to her than an unlikable Peeta and determines

not to get any closer with him.

• “A kind Peeta Mellark is far more dangerous to me than an unkind one. Kind

people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there” (49).

Dandelions

• When she throws the cookies his father

gave her out the window, they land in a field of dandelions, and she remembers gathering dandelions with Prim after she realized she would have to feed her family

• “Enough to remind me of that other

dandelion in the school yard years ago… I had just turned away from Peeta Mellark’s bruised face when I saw the dandelion and I knew hope wasn’t lost. I plucked it carefully and hurried home” (49 – 50).

• “But my father added other entries

to the book. Plants for eating, not

• healing. Dandelions, pokeweed, wild
• nions, pines. Prim and I spent the

rest of the night poring over those pages” (50).

SYMBOL: Dandelions

• Hope for Katniss
• First things she saw after

Peeta gave her bread on that fateful day long ago when her family was starving to death

• When she saw the dandelions,

she realized that she would be able to feed her family with food she can gather from the forest

Survival in District 12 for the Everdeens

• Her mother, who is an apothecary, had a book describing plants that can be used

for healing, and in it she found notes, made by her father, about which plants were edible.

• The next day, she went into the woods alone for the first time and began hunting

and foraging regularly to keep her family alive.

• “The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bit farther into its

arms… I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet” (51).

• “I kept us alive” (51).
• What she caught or collected that she didn’t need, she would trade or sell at the

Hob.

Survival in District 12 for the Everdeens

• “On May 8th, I went to the Justice Building, signed up for my tesserae, and

pulled home my first batch of grain and oil in Prim’s toy wagon. On the eighth

• f every month, I was entitled to do the same” (51).
• One day, she noticed some katniss, the plant she’s named after, in a pond. She dug

up the edible roots, and that night she and her family ate till they were full.

• “’Katniss,’ I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s

voice joking, ‘As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve’” (52).

• Her mother began to return to normal as well. Katniss, however, never fully

forgave her weakness and their relationship was never the same.

• “Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall

to protect myself from needing her and nothing was ever the same between us

• again. Now I was going to die without that ever being set right” (53).

Getting Haymitch’s Attention

• In the morning she goes to the train’s dining car.

Effie, Peeta, and Haymitch are there.

• “We can’t be far from the Capitol now. And
• nce we reach the city, my stylist will dictate

my look for the opening ceremonies tonight

• anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn’t

think nudity is the last word in fashion” (55).

• Haymitch is already drinking, and Peeta gets

angry with him because he’s supposed to be advising them.

• He slaps the drink out of Haymitch’s hand.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z92aHy9-

fkk&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo- V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr&index=3 (0:45 – 1:40)

• Haymitch punches him, and Katniss stabs

her knife into the table between his hand and the liquor bottle.

• “Well, what’s this? Did I actually get a

pair of fighters this year” (57)?

• Haymitch wonders if he’s got fighters

this year and asks Katniss what else she can do with a knife.

• She pulls it out of the table and throws

skillfully into the wall.

Entering the Capitol

• If they don’t interfere with his

drinking, Haymitch says he’ll help them.

• His first piece of advice is that

whatever the stylists do to them, they shouldn’t resist.

• The train finally arrives at the Capitol.

Katniss and Peeta are amazed at the grandeur and strangeness of it.

• The people all have bizarre hair and

painted faces.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z

92aHy9-fkk&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo- V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr&index=3 (2:05 – 2:36)

• Peeta waves to the people gathered to see the

tributes coming in.

• He says he’s waving because some of them may be

rich, and Katniss realizes he may be planning a way to survive the Games, making him a threat to her.

• “All of the pieces are still fitting together, but I

sense he has a plan forming. He hasn’t accepted

• death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive.

Which also means that kind of Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me the bread, is fighting hard to kill me” (60).

Chapter 5 (Pgs. 61 – 72)

Cinna (Katniss’s Stylist)

• In the Capitol, a team of people

wax Katniss’s body hair to prepare her for her stylist, Cinna.

• Cinna is quiet and modest.
• It’s his first year working as a

stylist for the Hunger Games, and to Katniss’s surprise, he requested the tributes of the impoverished District 12.

“Katniss, the girl who was on fire” (67).

• It is typical for the tributes to dress in a

style that reflects their district

• Cinna says since District 12’s industry is

coal mining, Katniss’s and Peeta’s costumes will reflect coal’s main function, which is to burn.

• “You’re not afraid of fire, are you,

Katniss” (67).

• Her costume will be lit with a synthetic

flame

• “I want the audience to recognize you

when you’re in the arena…” (67)

Cinna’s Success

• In their matching costumes—an unusual touch as tributes are rarely made to match—

Katniss and Peeta are escorted to a main plaza in the city, where they will go before the huge audience.

• The other district’s tributes all have their turns, then just before Katniss and Peeta

emerge, Cinna lights them and tells them to hold hands.

• “Remember, heads high. Smiles. They’re going to love you! I hear Cinna’s voice

in my head. I lift my chin a big higher, put on my most winning smile, and wave with my free hand… As I gain confidence I actually blow a few kisses to the crowd” (70).

• They emerge and are instantly a sensation. The crowd loves them, and because of

Cinna’s work, they are the most memorable tributes of the night.

• “Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not

my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire” (70).

Katniss & Peeta

• “For the first time, I feel a flicker of hope rising in
• me. Surely, there must be one sponsor willing to take

me on! And with a little extra help, some food, the right weapon, why should I count myself out of the Games” (70).

• “So I keep holding on, but I can’t help feeling strange

about the way Cinna has linked us together. It’s not really fair to present us as a team and then lock us into the arena to kill each other” (71).

• “Don’t be so stupid. Peeta is planning how to kill you,

I remind myself. He is luring you in to make you easy

• prey. The more likeable he is, the more deadly he is”

(72).

Chapter 6

(Pgs. 73 – 85)

In the Training Center

• At the Training Center, where the tributes stay until the Games begin, Effie Trinket

talks enthusiastically about Katniss and Peeta.

• Katniss is in awe of how luxurious her room is. It’s larger than her house and has all

sorts of automated features, notably in the shower and closet.

• Katniss finds everyone, including the stylists, in the dining room for dinner.
• The servers are all young people dressed in white tunics.
• Katniss, who has had some wine, says she knows one of them, a girl with red hair,

then realizes this person is associated with a bad memory.

• Effie snaps at her, saying she can’t possibly know an Avox.
• Haymitch explains that an Avox is someone who committed a crime and had their

tongue cut out

In the Training Center

• Katniss says it must be a mistake, and Peeta covers for her by saying the Avox girl

resembles someone from there school.

• Haymitch acknowledges the hand holding idea as the “perfect touch of rebellion”

(79)

• “Rebellion?... But when I remember the other couples, standing stiffly apart,

never touching or acknowledging each other, as if their fellow tribute did not exist, as if the Games had already begun, I know what Haymitch means. Pretending ourselves not as adversaries but as friends has distinguished us as much as the fiery costumes” (79).

• Everyone talks about their success at the ceremony, then Haymitch tells Katniss and

Peeta to go get some sleep. Their training begins the next day.

The Truth Behind the Avox Girl

• Katniss and Peeta go to the roof, where they can speak without being overheard.

There’s an electrified field around it so tributes can’t jump off.

• Peeta leads Katniss to a garden where wind chimes and the wind will cover their

voices.

• Katniss says she and Gale were hunting in the woods one day when they saw a

ragged-looking girl and boy running in terror.

• A hovercraft appeared and captured the girl in a net. It hauled her up instantly,

then shot the boy through with a spear that had a cable attached and hauled his body up too. Then it disappeared.

• Katniss says for a moment, before the girl was taken, she locked eyes with her, but

Katniss did nothing. The memory haunts her.

Dystopian World

• “District 12 is pretty much the end of the line. Beyond us, there’s only
• wilderness. If you don’t count the ruins of District 13 that still smolder from

the toxic bombs… Haymitch had called the Avoxes traitors. Against what? It could only be the Capitol. But they had everything here. No cause to rebel” (83).

• They go back inside because it’s cold, and Peeta asks Katniss if Gale is a relative.

He also asks if Gale came to say goodbye when she left. She says he did, but so did Peeta’s father.

• Peeta mentions that his father knew Katniss’s mother.
• They said goodnight, and in her room Katniss sees the redheaded Avox. She asks

the girl to take some clothes to Cinna.

• “You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope” (85).
• As she falls asleep, wonders if the girl will enjoy watching her die in the Games

Poverty vs. Wealth

• Numerous comparisons between Katniss’s poor upbringing in

District 12, and the wealth of the Capitol

• In Chapter 4 we saw how Katniss learned where and how to get

food for her family to survive; i.e. the meal of katniss roots that filled their bellies. A few paragraphs later the reader sees Katniss sitting down at breakfast, which included eggs, ham, fried potatoes, bread, etc.

• In Chapter 5 Cinna presses a button and a giant, hot meal appears

in front of them. Katniss thinks about how much work would go into her trying to prepare a similar version of that meal at home

Importance of Appearance

• Chapter 5 is devoted entirely to Katniss’s

preparation for the ceremony: waxing, washing, and greasing her naked body

• The costumes created make Katniss and

Peeta look exceptional

• It is important for Katniss and Peeta to

stand out because it helps them attract the sponsors, who can give them useful gifts during the Games that may ultimately mean the difference between survival and death

• The costumes turn them into media

sensations

• The people in the audience cheer their

names

• The viewers prefer this manufactured

spectacle to the reality of the situation that these children (tributes) are frightened for their lives

• Haymitch and the stylists instruct Peeta

and Katniss to present themselves in a certain way to control what the other tributes think of them

• The matching costumes and holding

hands makes them appear as an allied couple, which is unusual in the Games because only one can win

Brutality & Totalitarian Control

• Avoxes in Chapter 6
• Haymitch says that they are traitors, which

implies that they committed crimes against the state

• Panem punishes them brutally by cutting out

their tongues, which literally and symbolically silences them, and makes them slaves

• They are only spoken to when given an order
• The boy that the Avox was running with was

punished savagely and shot through with a spear

Assignment: Interesting Interviews

• You will create interview questions that you would like to ask a specific character
• You can select any character from the novel
• Create 5 questions
• The questions should make reference to specific circumstances that the selected

character was involved

• The questions should make a person think – they are not YES or NO questions and

should not be followed with a WHY or WHY NOT question

• You will then answer the interview questions from the selected character’s point of
• view. The answers should make reference to events or circumstances in the book.
• Example Question for Katniss: In what ways do you think your knowledge of plants

and animals will be helpful during the Games?