Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Reading: Catching Fire

So much to do with not near the amount of needed time. Really sorry I haven't had the time to make reading logs lately, but here's one from 326-354.

For every hour that passes on the clock something horrible (done by the Gamemakers) happens. They have nicknamed this "the clock theory." They've all gotten up and are on the move away from the the Gamemakers' troubles. Katniss relates the events back to her run in with Plutarch Heavensbee when he flashed her his mockingjay watch and hinted that "it starts at midnight."
Meanwhile Katniss likes having allies this time in the games even though she keeps trying to forget that she'll have to kill them. Peeta has been able to scratch out a map of the areas in the arena they've been in. The arena is shaped like a clock and he's able to match the destruction element to the literal hour on the clock and the hour (as in the location) on the clock
The Careers sneak up on Katniss and her alliance. The Careers manage to kill Wiress while Katniss's group kills Cashmere and Gloss. Katniss has thought about the previous action taken by other victors in the arena and she's come to realize that the others are trying to keep him alive. She thinks that Haymitch has said something and bribed the other victors who are with them.
Katniss hears a scream and thinks it's Prim, but for the first time she sees a jabberjay---the father of her beloved and treasured mockingjay. As they continue on Finnick also hears a scream, only it sounds like Annie, (you find out later that Annie won one year because she was the best swimmer and she went insane when her district partner was beheaded) it also turns out to be a jabberjay. They're aware that the Capitol is playing tricks on them. Another bird screams, this time it's Gale.
The two wonder why the others in the alliance haven't come to help them. It turns out Katniss and Finnick have been trapped by a clear thick glass wall. It has them trapped from the four-five o'clock hour on the clock and they'll be stuck there til the hour is over. Jabberjays come and start to fill up the entire enclosed area.
On the positive side, the victors have figured out seven of the twelve hours on the clock. The cannon fires and announces the recently killed victors: Cashmere, Gloss, Wiress, Mags, District 5 Lady, Morphling, and District 10 Man. Two thirds of the tributes have been killed.
Katniss and Peeta take look-out and take some time to talk. Peeta decides that since Haymitch has made promises to both of them and they should assume he's lying. Peeta reminds Katniss that without her he has no reason left to live in District 12 because she is his reason to live. Peeta reveals his gold chained locket necklace.He opens it and there's a picture of Prim and Katniss's mother and another picture of Gale. To stop Peeta from diminishing himself she kisses him and gets "that feeling" again, the one she's only felt one other time when she really felt the kiss. They keep kissing and Katniss wants more.
Back into reality, Peeta makes a comment about the baby when Finnick wakes up and switches guard with Katniss.

I wonder how long the baby act will go on before the audience realizes it's a fake. Will Peeta really give his life and everything up for Katniss? We'll see.

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