hunger games catching fire chapter 1 summary

Instead of running the wire down to the water, Katniss ties it to one of her arrows and fires at the roof of the arena just as lightning strikes the tree. Fearing Johanna and Finnick have turned against her and Peeta, Katniss changes the plan. A bolt of lightning strikes a tall tree at midnight and noon each day, and the group concocts a plan to run a wire from the tree to the only water source in the arena, hoping to electrocute the enemy tributes and wipe out the food supply.

Together, they discover that the arena is set up like a clock. Katniss and Peeta enter the arena and form an alliance with victors Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, Beetee, and Wiress. They meet the other victors from years past, and in a dramatic interview the night before the Games, Katniss’s white wedding gown transforms into a black feathered dress, a reference to the mockingjay symbol of the growing rebellion. Katniss and Peeta return to the Capitol and begin training for the Games. Snow tells Katniss that she must convince him and the whole country that she is madly in love with Peeta during their upcoming Victory Tour, so that her actions can be interpreted as romantic rather than politically motivated. Rather than fight each other as the last two surviving tributes, Peeta and Katniss threatened to eat poisonous berries and die together to avoid scandal and public ire, the Capitol declared Peeta and Katniss joint victors. Snow blames Katniss and says that this dissent is a result of her decision to defy the Capitol in the Games. President Snow, the ruler of Panem, visits Katniss and tells her about rumors of potential uprisings around the country. She is haunted by nightmares and knows that things can never truly go back to normal. In the months following her victory in the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen has returned to her home in the impoverished District 12 with her co-victor, Peeta Mellark and is trying to forget about the events in the arena. Every year, each of the 12 districts must send two children, called tributes, to fight in a televised battle to the death as punishment for a past rebellion. In the post-apocalyptic future, the North American nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts ruled by the Capitol, a wealthy and technologically advanced city in the Rocky Mountains.

Hunger games catching fire chapter 1 summary