The Hunger Games: Chapters 2 and 3 Fairbloom, Blyth, ENG4U
Recap of Ch. 1 In the first chapter we learned… 1. Who are protagonist is and what her skill is: 2. What the Hunger Games is and its parts: – Treaty of Treason – Reaping – Tessarae – The Capitol escort 3. Where the novel takes place: – Capitol – District 12 – The Seam 4. Who was selected as the female tribute for District 12?
Chapter 2
Primrose Everdeen – Prim has been selected as the female tribute and Katniss is panicking – “Prim was one slip of paper in thousands! Her chances of being chosen so remote that I’d not even bothered to worry about her” (21). – Katniss did not allow Prim to take more tesserae – Katniss’s name was in the glass bowl 20 times. (Gale’s 42 times)
Katniss Volunteers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v98Rh9qzmPs&index=1&list=PLZbX A4lyCtqo-V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr(0:00 – 0:48) – As Prim walks up to the stage, Katniss, in a panic, rushes forward and shouts that she is volunteering as tribute. – A volunteer is allowed to take the place of the person whose name is drawn, but this never happens in District 12. – “In some districts, in which winning the reaping is such a great honor, people are eager to risk their lives, the volunteering is complicated. But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse, volunteers are all but extinct” (22).
Silence – Katniss and Prim embrace, and Gale has to pull Prim away from Katniss. – Katniss fights back any sign of emotion because crying will make the other tributes think she’s weak. – Effie Trinket asks for a round of applause, but the crowd remains silent and offers only a gesture of respect to Katniss. – “To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring... So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong” (23 – 24).
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v98Rh9qzmPs&index=1&list=PLZ bXA4lyCtqo-V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr(1:13 – 2:01) – “Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don’t expect it because I don’t think of District 12 as a place that care about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love” (24). – This sign of respect from the District brings tears to Katniss’s eyes, but she holds them back because she wants to appear strong in front of her District and the viewers watching on TV.
Haymitch – Haymitchsaves Katniss from crying by publically displaying his drunkenness as he barges in front of Katniss to make a scene and falls off of the stage. – “Now I am truly in danger of crying, but fortunately Haymitch chooses this time to come staggering across the stage to congratulate me. … “Lots of …” He can’t think of the word for a while. “Spunk!” he says triumphantly. “More than you!” he releases me and starts for the front of the stage. “More than you!” he shouts, pointing directly into a camera. Is he addressing the audience or is he so drunk he might actually be taunting the Capitol?” (24) – Haymitch’salcoholism represents the depressing outcome of winning the games. Haymitchhas lost his identity and is a mess; although he is sent anything he wants and lives in a mansion, he continues to live a lonely, sad life. – Haymitchis the only survivor from District 12’s Tribunes
Peeta Mellark – Peeta is selected as the male tribute – “Oh no, I think. Not him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner. Peeta Mellark. No, the odds are not in my favor today” (25). – “All forms of stealing are forbidden in District 12. Punishable by death” (29). – “It was the boy. In his arms, he carried two large loaves of bread that must have fallen into the fire because the crusts were scorched black… he threw a loaf of bread in my direction” (30 – 31). – “To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed... I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people” (32).
Chapter 2 Questions 1. How does Katniss save her sister from the reaping? 2. What kind of person do you think Peeta is? What evidence from the book led you to come to this conclusion? “There will be twenty-four of us. Odds are someone else will kill him before I do. Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late” (33).
Chapter 3
After the Reaping – Katniss is escorted into the Justice Building and left in a room. – “A group of Peacekeepers marches us through the front door of the Justice Building. Maybe tributes have tried toe scape in the past. I’ve never seen that happen though” (34). – “I try to prepare for the next hour. The time allotted for the tributes to say goodbye to their loved ones. I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option” (34). – Her mother and sister are brought in to say their goodbyes, and Katniss makes her mother promise not to fall apart again. She tells them she loves them as they’re led out. – “Whatever you see on the screen. You have to promise me you’ll fight though it!” (35)
Katniss’s Other Visitors – Peter Mellark’s father, the baker, comes in. Katniss often trades him squirrels for bread. He gives Katniss cookies and promises to make sure Prim is being fed. – Next, Madge enters. She gives Katniss a pin with a gold bird in the center and asks Katniss to wear it into the arena. – “’They let you wear one thing from your district in the arena. One thing to remind you of home. Will you wear this?’ She holds out the circular gold pin that was on her dress earlier… it’s a small bird in flight” (38). – The pin is a token of their district
Katniss’s Other Visitors – Gale enters. He tells Katniss to find a bow if she can, and he says he won’t let Katniss’s family starve. – “We spent one Hunger Games watching the players freeze to death at night. You could hardly see them because they were just huddled in balls and had no wood for fires or torches or anything” (39). – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAal6- tvckw&index=2&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo-V5sZExERhVkbxSDctJIr(1:30 – 2:00)
The Train – Katniss is driven to a train station where she meets Peeta, and they board a train and begin their journey to the Capitol – This is Katniss’s first time in a car and on a trade. Travel between districts “is forbidden” (41). – “I’ve been right not to cry. The station is swarming with reporters with their insectlike cameras trained directly on my face. But I’ve had a lot of practice at wiping my face clean of emotions and I do this now” (40). – “Peeta Mellack, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and increasingly does not seem to be trying to cover it up. I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting” (40 – 41).
Madge’s Pin: The Mockingjay – Katniss realizes the pin Madge gave her is of a mockingjay, a type of bird that the Capitol once bred to spy on rebels in the districts. – It could remember and repeat entire conversations, but when the rebels found out, they started using the birds to feed the Capitol false information. – The Capitol stopped breeding the birds, but they survived. – The pin is a small sign of rebellion. – “Something of a slap in the face to the Capitol. During the rebellion, the Capitol bred a series of genetically altered animals as weapons. The common term for them was muttations, or sometimes mutts for short. One was a special bird called a jabberyjaythat had the ability to memorize and repeat whole human conversations” (43).
Madge’s Pin: The Mockingjay – It took people a while to realize that the birds were spying on the and then they “ fed the Capitol endless lies ” (43). – “The jabberways mated with female mockingbirds, creating a whole new species that could replicate both bird whistles and human melodies… And they could recreate songs” (43). – Katniss’s father used to whistle or sing to the birds and they would sing back to him. – “I could never bring myself to continue the practice after he was gone. Still, there’s something comforting about the little bird” (43).
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