The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Chapters 19 – 21 Catherine Strangis, Martin Evans, Tommy Ballard

The Hunger Games Chapter 19 Katniss claps her hand over her mouth, but realizes no one heard her. She realizes the Gamemakers must have changed the rules because they wanted to play up the star-crossed lovers thing. Peeta must have been working this angle all along, she decides. She smiles so the camera can see. OK, so who is left? Foxface, whose fellow tribute is dead. Thresh, who is from Rue's district. And then Cato and the girl from District 2. They'll be teaming up for sure. In the morning Katniss sets out to find Peeta. Where would he be? Probably the stream. Katniss follows the stream until she finds some bloodstains. She calls out Peeta's name and then suddenly she hears a voice: "You hear to finish me off, sweetheart?" (19.19). It's Peeta and he's camouflaged like crazy in the mud and leaves of the stream bank. That must have been one of his skills. He's also wounded VERY badly. Katniss starts to help him out of the mud when Peeta whispers to her that they're supposed to be in love so it's OK for her to kiss him. Katniss laughs. Katniss washes Peeta off and then tends to his wounds. She digs out the tracker jacker stingers and applies the leaves like Rue did for her. Next, she applies the burn cream and then fever reducer.

The Hunger Games Chapter 19 cont.. Then? The wound Cato gave him in his legs. Oozing and festering, it looks terrible. What to do? She uses some of the leaves to draw the pus out, then ointment and bandages. As Katniss washes Peeta's shorts in the stream, she learns that Peeta hasn't gotten anything from the sponsors. Peeta comments that Haymitch favors her – because they're just alike. Realizing Peeta can't move very far, Katniss constructs a shelter from some of the cave-like rocks, which she camouflages. Peeta is burning with fever and when he starts talking about not making it, Katniss gives him a kiss to shut him up. It works. She steps out of the cave for a moment and what does she see? A pot of hot broth. The message from Haymitch: romance = sponsors. More kissing! Katniss comes back to the cave ready for romance. She kisses the sleeping Peeta awake and shows him the broth.

The Hunger Games Chapter 20 Katniss feeds Peeta, and then settles in to keep watch for the night. In the morning Peeta's fever is down. Katniss feeds him some berries she's collected, and then Peeta makes her rest while he keeps watch. Katniss wakes in the afternoon, upset she slept so long. She makes Peeta drink water since he has a fever. She looks after wounds. His leg looks was mangled Katnis knows she needs to get some medicine for Peeta because he could get blood poisoning and could possibly kill him. With temperature rising, Katniss uses some of the hot rocks outside to cook up a stew. She also sets some snares. Back at the cave, Peeta asks Katniss to tell him a story. He asks her to tell him about the happiest day she can remember. Katniss had a bunch of money from when she and gale shot a buck in the woods and sold it to the butcher, Rooba. Since poaching is illegal her could’n says this on camera. So she changes it somewhat...

The Hunger Games Chapter 20 Cont.. Katniss continues with the story; she saw the Goat Man at the market who had a goat that is wounded with a mauled shoulder. Knowing it would be good for milk and cheese, she wanted to buy it for Prim. The Goat Man said that the butcher, Rooba, was buying her. Rooba showed up and let Katniss buy the goat instead of her. Gale and Katniss brought home the goat. Katniss bought a pink ribbon for its neck and Prim was excited about that. She and Mother began brewing up something to heal the goat. The announcer, Claudius Templesmith invites all tributes to a feast. He mentions that there will be something at the feast that each of the tributes need in a book bag marked with their district's number. Peeta remarks to Katniss she’s going. They argue and fight a bit about this and Peeta says he'll follow her if she goes. Katniss knows he's stubborn enough to do it. Katniss goes out to get the soup, which Peeta eats up hungarly. Katniss is washing some pots and looks up to see a parachute floating down from the sponsors. What is it? Sleep syrup – to knock Peeta out while she goes to battle it out at the feast. Katniss mashes up the sleep syrup with some berries and manages to get Peeta to take it. He realizes what's happening as the syrup knocks him out.

THE HUNGER GAMES CHAPTER 21 CHARACTERS

The Hunger Games Chapter TONE : Pessimistic – Expecting the worst. Darkness and Light – What you can and can’t see as things were happening. THEME : Strength and Skill – Candidate of the game has to show their own against each other. Competition – Each person has to compete with each other. Sacrifice – Sacrificing one self to fight to live. Will to survive – Doing everything you can to make it until the end of the Game. SYMBOLS : Camouflage – Hiding from the enemy Love – It is feeling for one another.

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