Katniss and Peeta are taken into custody and are allowed time to visit with their loved ones before they leave. Prim and her mother visit Katniss, which gives Katniss the time to leave Prim with specific instructions while she’s gone. Gale and Katniss have already made an arrangement; he is supposed to get the family herbs while she is gone. On the other hand, Prim makes Katniss promise to at least try to win during the games.
Peeta’s father then visits Katniss and gives her a sack of cookies and promises he’ll watch over Prim from her. Next Madge, the mayor’s daughter and an acquaintance of Katniss, comes in and gives her a circular gold pin that has a small bird on it.
Katniss recognizes the bird as a mockingjay. Funny how one of the other books in this series is titled Mockingjay. Also, in the picture I put on here, I'm assuming the gold pin represents the one from Madge. Lastly, Gale visits her. He tells her that she needs to find wood as soon as she gets into the games to make a fire and a bow. Gale boosts her confidence telling her the games are just like hunting with him in the woods.
The two competitors are forced to leave their families and to board a train that will take them away to the games. On the train they, along with Effie Trinket, eat a luxurious dinner while watching the other districts’ reapings from the day.
Haymitch shows up to the dinner drunk, and Peeta and Katniss help Haymitch to his feet and back to his room. Peeta tells Katniss he’ll take care of and clean Haymitch. Katniss makes a note of how kind Peeta is acting, but she forces herself to forget about it, just like the bread incident; in addition to this, she also threw the cookies from Peeta’s dad out the train’s window.
Katniss has a flashblack to the year when Peeta gave her family the bread; when she got hope from a dandelion, and was able to feed her family off of those. She also tells of how she found the root, in which she was named after, in a pond. She knows these katniss roots are eatable, because when she little her father always told her, ”As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
Katniss wakes up and attends breakfast. During the meal Katniss discovers a starting hatred towards Haymitch. She believes he isn’t good at supporting the District 12 tributes or at finding them sponors. I bet we can all think of someone who is similar to Haymitch. When Katniss branches out to asked Haymitch for advice, he simply tells her to “stay alive.” Well duh, obviously she’ll try to do that, but can’t you give her a little more help there buddy? Peeta, Katniss, and Haymitch come together and make a pact; they promise that if no one interferes with Haymitch’s drinking, he’ll try to stay sober enough to help them during the games, if the kids do exactly what he says.
When the train arrives at the station there are people everywhere who have been waiting for their arrival. Katniss has a little moment by herself and realizes that Peeta might actually have a plan for these games, and that his plan most likely involves killing her.
Once off the train Katniss is at the Remake Center getting her legs waxed, but she’s already been cleaned and had her nails done. After Katniss’s wax is finished, she has to wait for her stylist, Cinna. He is the new stylist for District 12 in the Hunger Games.
I’ll be back with more summaries on The Hunger Games as soon as I can! Thanks for reading.
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