The Hunger Games Summary Part 2 and Connection to the World

Katniss figures out that they were protecting their food with a series of explosives. To set them all of at once without dying, she knocks over a bag of apples with her bow and arrow that going rolling over all the explosives. The explosion makes fly back in the air and when she lands, the wind is knocked out of her. She is dizzy but is able to crawl to a tangle of bushes for hiding. She can’t hear at first but eventually she can hear again out of her right ear but not her left. Right after she gets in the bushes, the crew comes back and is very mad that all of their food and supplies are blown up. Katniss stays in the woods that night and all she knows is that Rue is still alive because she wasn’t shown in the death report. She decides to go looking for Rue but finds her in a trap, about to be attacked by the boy from District 1. He stuck a spear in Rue’s stomach before Katniss could get to him but right after, she shot him. When Rue was in the process of dying, she told Katniss to win for her and had Katniss sing her a song. While Katniss was singing, Rue passed. To show that Rue was a person and not just a piece in the Hunger Games, Katniss wreathed her body in flowers. The next night, Katniss finds out that two people from one district can live and be victors together, according to a new rule. As soon as she gets up, she goes out looking for Peeta. To keep himself alive he had used his cake decorating skills to camouflage himself near a stream. Katniss had to use her water to clean him off because she couldn’t get him to the stream. After she cleans out his wounds, she finds out that he has a fever when she kisses him to play up the lover act. After she kisses him, Haymitch sends a pot of broth for Peeta. The next day, Katniss finds out that there is going to be a feast to give each player/ team what they need most. Peeta doesn’t want her to go but Haymitch sends sleep syrup to knock him out long enough for her to go to the feast. When Katniss gets there, she decides to run in and out, grabbing the backpack that contains the vital supplies. On her way back, a girl who was in the crew with the supplies and explosives tries to kill Katniss but Rue’s district partner grabbed the girl before she could kill Katniss. He let Katniss run because of how she treated Rue, but killed the other girl. Katniss had received medicine for Peeta. When she gets back to Peeta, he is glad that she is alive but upset that she went. He got over that quickly and they continued playing the role of star-crossed lovers. The next day the weather stinks and Peeta and Katniss spend the day inside, sleeping and keeping watch. While they are in the cave, Peeta says something to Katniss that makes her believe that he’s not acting when he says he loves her. In a day or two, they go out to the woods. They had some leftover cheese and bread from a gift from Haymitch. Peeta gathers some berries and before Katniss can tell him that they are poisonous, a girl who has been sneaking around and taking small amounts of other people’s food, stole some and ate them. Immediately after, a cannon fired pronouncing her dead. Katniss and Peeta figured it out right after. They headed back to the cave and spent the night there.

*SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON READING THE HUNGER GAMES STOP READING RIGHT NOW!*

The next day, Peeta and Katniss find that every stream has been drained dry. The gamemakers want them to go to the lake, which is where they were first entered the arena. They see Cato, the other tribute left, who is in full body armor. Then they see the mutations. They are like wolves with claws but each one has the eyes and characteristics of tributes that had passed on. Peeta and Katniss got onto the Cornucopia, which is a giant metal cornucopia that was previously filled with food, supplies and weapons. They fought off the mutts from up high but Cato also made it. He gets Peeta in a headlock with the mutts snarling below. Katniss considers shooting him but knows that Peeta will go down with him. Instead she shoots his hand so that he releases Peeta but then falls into the crowd of mutts. Peeta got his wound reopened so Katniss makes him a tourniquet with her last arrow. The mutts are hurting Cato but haven’t killed him quite yet so she has to take the arrow out the tourniquet. She shoots Cato and he dies. They wait but there is nothing saying that they have won. Just after they jumped off the cornucopia, they hear that there can no longer be two victors, only one will win. Katniss decides that they should each eat a poison berry so that the Capitol can’t have a victor at all but right before they eat them, there is another announcement saying that there could be two victors and that they had just won. They keep up the act of lovers after they’ve won but Katniss lets it slip that she was only acting when she was kissing Peeta and telling him that she loved him. Then the book ends.

I have connected this book to the TV show, Survivor. It is a reality show where contestants are isolated in an area like the arena. Instead of killing each other in this show, they vote each other off the island. I don’t watch this show so I don’t know a lot about it but I do know that in some ways, Survivor is different because in the Hunger Games, when you kill someone, it’s between you and that person but on Survivor, it’s between the majority of the people, you and that person. You can’t singlehandedly get rid of a contestant.