The Hunger Games Chapters 4, 5 and 6 Fairbloom, Blyth
Character Tweets??
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 once 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 • “But my father added other entries gave her out the window, they land in a to the book. Plants for eating, not field of dandelions, and she remembers healing. Dandelions, pokeweed, wild gathering dandelions with Prim after she onions, pines. Prim and I spent the realized she would have to feed her rest of the night poring over those family pages” (50). • “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).
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 8 th , 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 of 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. • Haymitch punches him, and Katniss stabs Effie, Peeta, and Haymitch are there. her knife into the table between his hand and the liquor bottle. • “We can’t be far from the Capitol now. And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate • “Well, what’s this? Did I actually get a my look for the opening ceremonies tonight pair of fighters this year” (57)? anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn’t • Haymitch wonders if he’s got fighters think nudity is the last word in fashion” (55). this year and asks Katniss what else she • Haymitch is already drinking, and Peeta gets can do with a knife. angry with him because he’s supposed to be • She pulls it out of the table and throws advising them. skillfully into the wall. • 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)
Entering the Capitol • If they don’t interfere with his • Peeta waves to the people gathered to see the drinking, Haymitch says he’ll help tributes coming in. them. • He says he’s waving because some of them may be • His first piece of advice is that rich, and Katniss realizes he may be planning a whatever the stylists do to them, they way to survive the Games, making him a threat to shouldn’t resist. her. • The train finally arrives at the Capitol. • “All of the pieces are still fitting together, but I Katniss and Peeta are amazed at the sense he has a plan forming. He hasn’t accepted grandeur and strangeness of it. death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind of Peeta Mellark, • The people all have bizarre hair and the boy who gave me the bread, is fighting hard painted faces. to kill me” (60). • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z 92aHy9-fkk&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo- V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr&index=3 (2:05 – 2:36)
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).
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