The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
By: Gracie Swayze and Ashlyn Mohling
Summary
The second installment to the epic Hunger Games series. Katniss Everdeen has won the 74th hunger games along with her fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. With the 75th annual hunger games nearing comes the Quarter Quell, where the games are dangerously changed, and because of the uprisings she has helped create, President Snow is aiming to punish her.
Point of View
This novel is told in first person point of view. We know this because it uses the pronouns, I me, my, they, he, and she. It is told from the point of view of Katniss Everdeen, and it shows her thoughts and feelings.
Characters:
Katniss Everdeen
Katniss Everdeen is the main character in Catching Fire. She along with Peeta was the 74th Hunger Games victor, and they both helped create a rebellion. She becomes the Mockingjay in this book.
Peeta Mellark
Peeta Mellark is a close second to the main character. He won the 74th Hunger Games with Katniss. He is from District 12 and worked as a baker with his family there. He loves Katniss.
Gale Hawthorne
Gale Hawthorne is from District 12 and is a close friend of Katniss. His father like Katniss's died in a mining accident. He secretly loves Katniss. He helped Katniss while she was in the games, by feeding her sister and mother.
Literary Devices
1.) "I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air".......Imagery
2.) "buckets of money, far more than enough to feed both [her and Gale's] family".....Hyperbole
3.) "nose wrinkles in disgust".....Personification
Book By: Suzanne Collins
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Primrose Everdeen
Prim is the sister of Katniss Everdeen. Her home is District 12. She is a 13 year old medic in training. She owns a cat, Buttercup, and a goat, Lady.
Finnick Odair
Finnick Odair won the 65th Hunger Games at the age of 14, the youngest to ever win the games.He and his fellow district victor Mags, enter the 75th games together.
Haymitch Abbernathy
Haymitch was Katniss and Peeta's mentor in the first games. Haymitch was a former winner of the 50th Hunger Games, which was also a Quarter Quell, he is called to fight in the 75th Hunger Games, but Peeta volunteers in his place.
Johanna Mason
Johanna Mason is from District 7. She enters the Quarter Quell along with Peeta and Katniss, and although she has a deep hatred for Katniss, she becomes their ally.
Mags
Mags, an eighty-year old woman is from District 4. She enters the Quarter Quell with fellow victor Finnick, after volunteering in somebody else's place.
Beetee
Beetee is from District three. He won his Hunger Games by electrocuting a majority of the game's tributes. He enters the Quarter Quell with fellow victor Wiress.
What we thought if the story...
We each have read all three of the books in the Hunger Games series, and we agreed on Catching Fire to be our choice for a summary because it was both of our favorites in the series.
Cashmere
Cashmere is from District 1. She won the 64th Hunger Games and went into the Quarter Quell alongside her brother, Gloss, who was also a victor of one of the Hunger Games. She was killed in the Quarter Quell.
President Snow
President Snow is the ruthless leader of Panem. He is a cruel dictator and has total control of the capital and all the districts.
Wiress
Wiress is from District 3. She participated in the Quarter Quell alongside fellow victor Beetee, and was killed.
Gloss
Gloss is from District 1. He won the 63rd hunger games, and enters the Quarter Quell with his sister, Cashmere. He is killed in the Quarter Quell.
Cinna
Cinna is Katniss's stylist through the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. He is from the capital. He is killed under President snow's orders, after he made Katniss the symbol of rebellion.
Buttercup
Buttercup is Prim's cat.