Thursday, February 10, 2011

Reading: The Hunger Games

Still summarizing The Hunger Games, but I'm almost done! Here's one from page 262 through page 302. Advanced apologies for any mistakes (spelling or word misplacement) my computer has been acting up and likes to rearrange my words...

Katniss feeds Peeta the hot brother, they kiss a little more (The question is, are they kissing for sponsors, or are they kissing for their pleasure?), and they settle in the night. In the morning Peeta's fever is down and he takes over the watch position while Katniss rests. Peeta's leg is so wounded he is likely to get blood poisoning and kill him without the assistance of medicine. At her new shelter Katniss sets up new snares and cooks food for her and Peeta.
Peeta asks Katniss to tell him a story of the happiest day she can remember. At first she wants to tell him about Gale, but then she decides that the sponsors and audience wouldn't like that, she tells him a story about Lady, Prim's goat. Katniss shot a buck and took it to the Hobb, there she saw the goat man. Katniss knew a goat would provide her family with milk and cheese, so she bought it for Prim. The goat was wounded, but when Katniss brought her home, her mother began to use her healing techniques and began to fix the goat.
The emcee of the games, Claudius Temlpesmith, invites the tributes to a feast. He tells them that they will all need something that will be in a backpack marked by their district's number. Peeta instructs Katniss that she will not being going to the feast, and this totally pisses Katniss off. The two 'lovers' get into a fight, it's ok, everyone fights. Peetas warns her that he'll follow her to the feast if she dares to go, and because she knows Peeta is stubborn she actually listens to him.
While she cleans the soup pot, another parachute falls bearing a gift from the sponsors. It's sleep syrup. She makes a mixture of the sleep syrup and mashed berries, which she manages to slip to Peeta. He doesn't know what's going on until he's slowly slipping away. Before she leaves, Katniss camouflages the shelter and thinks strategy, her plan is to kill a few from far away and to quickly grab a backpack.
As she falling asleep Katniss remembers Gale. She wonders what he thinks about her and Peeta's love story. She gives Peeta a kiss before she takes off. While waiting by the Cornucopia, Katniss sees a table with backpack, and before she can think someone is already darting towards the backpacks. Katniss discovers that it was Foxface, she had the smart idea of hiding inside the Cornucopia. Although I'm in favor for Katniss winning the games, I have to admit, this was a very strategic move Foxface! It's Katniss's turn. She takes off for the Cornucopia dodging knives on her way. She's so talented she managed to accurately shoot an arrow into the girl who threw the knives! After grabbing the backpack, Katniss gets cut by another knife and is knocked to the ground by the knife-thrower, Clove.
The two get into a fight and words start to fly. Katniss tells her that Peeta is out hunting Cato right now, we know this isn't true, but Clove thinks Katniss is a liar and tells her that they'll kill her just like they killed Rue. As Clove begins to cut Katniss's mouth, Thresh, the boy from Rue's district, attacks Clove. Getting his revenge, he hits Clove in the head with a rock. Before Thresh can attack Katniss with the rock, she explains how she and Rue were allies, and Tresh lets her go.
As Cato is nearing Katniss heads off to the woods. When she makes it back to the cave she pulls a hypodermic needle from the backpack and gives Peeta the shot. Because she's still been bleeding from her head, Katniss suddenly blacks out. Peeta nurses Katniss until she finally wakes up. Strangely enough, he's not angry with her for drugging him. She tells him everything that happened at the Cornucopia, about Tresh letting her go. The feeling of owing someone a debt, like the one Katniss has for Peeta, is what Tresh has for Katniss.
The two eat the remains of the food and realize that the way to more food is to turn up the romance. So putting on her best girlfriend act, Katniss apologizes to Peeta for drugging him while holding his hand. The next thing we know the two are, of course, kissing, but only this time, it's for real! Katniss admits that that was the first kiss from Peeta that's ever made her want another one. The two love birds cuddle up in Katniss's sleeping bag and get some rest for the night.
When they wake up they're still very hungry, so they play up the romance once again. She asks Peeta when exactly he started crushing on her. He admits that it was the first day of school, and that his dad wanted to marry Katniss's mom (ok random, but whatever works). This whole time Katniss can't help but wonder if Peeta is actually telling the truth or not. She leans in for another kiss when she hears a noise outside the shelter. The romance has paid off, outside sits lamb stew and rice.

What's to come of this fake romance? Hopefully some real romance! Thanks for reading.

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