The Hunger Games ~ Ch. 13

Chapter 13

1. What new threat does Katniss face?
~The new threat that Katniss faces is a big wall of fires. She wakes up and sees a lot of smoke and flames all around her. The fire is everywhere. The smoke makes it hard for her to breath and see anything. These are the kinds of things that the Gamemakers do to make things more exciting when things get boring or when nothing seems to be happening. She has to get out of this huge fire!

2. How do the Gamemakers control the events of the Games?
~The Gamemakers can control the events of the games by doing whatever they want. They can mess with the weather and animals. Like if the games aren't going anywhere interesting they make it more interesting for them and the viewers. They can even kill some of the tributes if they want by like "natural " disasters that they make.

3. What slows Katniss down?

~Katniss gets slowed down by her breathing and the fire balls. Then out of nowhere fireballs come out of the sky, the gamemakers did this so they can make the Hunger Games more interesting because it was getting boring. The fire balls hurt her on the calf and she feels the horrible pain in it. She can't breathe that well because of all the smoke that is in the air.

4. Who finds her?

~The Career tributes are the ones who find Katniss. She is in the woods when they find her so she starts running. when they catch up to her she has already climbed a tree. When they see her high up in the tree they try and climb it with no success. Once they figure out that she isn't coming down, they decide to camp near the tree. After all they know she can't escape. Their plan was to kill her in the morning.

Important Quotes

~ "The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment. I pull the top of my shirt up to cover my nose, grateful to find it soaked in sweat, and it offers a thin veil of protection."(Pg. 172)

~ "The flames that bear down on me have an unnatural height, a uniformity that marks them as human-made, Gamekeeper-made. Things have been too quiet today. No deaths, perhaps no fights at all. The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Gamess are verging on dullness. This is the one thing the Games must not do."(Pg. 173)

~  "I sit on the ground, a few yards from the blaze set off by the fireball. My calf is screaming, my hands covered in red welts. I'm shaking too hard to move. If the Gamekeepers want to finish me off, now is the time."(Pg. 176)

~ "I'm another thirty feet in the air when I hear the crack and look down to see Cato flailing as he and a branch go down. He hits the ground hard and I'm hoping he possibly broke his neck when he gets back to his feet, swearing like a fiend."(Pg. 182)