![]() ![]() Wiress reveals that the arena is arranged like a clock, with each danger occurring at a fixed time and place for one hour. Katniss and Peeta ally with Johanna Mason from District 7 and “exceptionally smart” Beetee and Wiress from District 3. Mags sacrifices herself to allow Finnick to save the weakened Peeta. Peeta is knocked out by the jungle arena’s force field, and the party later has to flee from a poisonous fog. Katniss and Peeta ally themselves with Finnick Odair from District 4 and Mags, his 80-year-old mentor. Before Katniss is sent into the arena, she watches helplessly as Cinna is beaten and dragged out by Peacekeepers. To the dismay of everyone, the games still go on. Peeta decides to try anything he can to halt the games by creating a lie that Katniss is pregnant. In the televised interview, Katniss's stylist Cinna transforms the white wedding gown Snow insisted she wear into a black dress of feathers resembling a mockingjay, a symbol of the rebellion. Katniss and Peeta do their best to taunt the Capitol in their private training sessions: Katniss presenting a hanging dummy of Seneca Crane and Peeta with a portrait of Rue. At the Capitol, Haymitch urges Katniss to find allies, but she bonds with the weakest tributes. Haymitch is chosen and is unable to stop Peeta volunteering in his place. As District 12's sole female victor, Katniss realizes she must compete alongside either Haymitch or Peeta. The Capitol announces the 75th Hunger Games, with a twist – tributes will be selected from the surviving victors of the previous Games. Preparing for her upcoming wedding, Katniss learns that Districts 3 and 4 have also risen up against the Capitol. Katniss is injured climbing back over District 12’s now live electric fence. They plan to reach District 13 – believed to be destroyed in the first rebellion against the Capitol – in the hope that the residents are actually underground. While hunting in the woods, Katniss meets Bonnie and Twill, refugees from District 8, whose uprising has failed. Gale is taken to Katniss's mother to be healed. Gale is caught poaching and is whipped in the town square until Haymitch intervenes. Returning to District 12, now overrun with harsher Peacekeepers to enforce the Capitol's rule, Katniss discovers an uprising has broken out in District 8. Katniss accepts, but Snow is dissatisfied with her performance, leaving her afraid for her loved ones. Hoping to placate Snow, Peeta proposes to Katniss during a televised interview in the Capitol. Katniss tells Peeta of Snow’s threat, and they continue the tour as normal. An old man salutes Katniss, joined by the crowd to her horror, the old man is immediately executed. Peeta announces that he will give part of his winnings to the families of Rue and fellow tribute Thresh, and Katniss delivers an impromptu, heartfelt speech expressing her gratitude to the fallen tributes. The tour’s first stop is District 11, home of Katniss's Hunger Games ally Rue. Katniss reveals this threat to her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, but not to Peeta. ![]() ![]() Snow demands that Katniss convince the country that she was acting out of love for Peeta, not against the Capitol, or her entire family and best friend Gale Hawthorne will be executed. Prior to Katniss and Peeta's "Victory Tour" of the country, President Snow visits Katniss and tells her that her televised acts of defiance in the previous Games have inspired rebellion among the districts. Six months after winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have returned home to District 12, the poorest sector of Panem. alone.Ī film adaptation, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was released on November 22, 2013. The book has sold more than 19 million copies in the U.S. According to critics, major themes of the novel include survival, authoritarianism, rebellion and interdependence versus independence. Catching Fire received mostly positive reviews, with reviewers praising Collins' prose, the book's ending, and the development of Katniss's character. The book was first published on September 1, 2009, by Scholastic, in hardcover, and was later released in ebook and audiobook format. Following the events of the previous novel, a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol has begun, and Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are forced to return to the arena in a special edition of the Hunger Games. As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Catching Fire is a 2009 dystopian young adult fiction novel by the American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games series. ![]()
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