Saturday, January 12, 2013

Catching Fire... Putting Them in an Arena... Let Them Extinguish Each Other

This is the blog post I have never gotten around doing. I read Catching Fire LAST YEAR... and now I'm writing about it THIS year... the new year... I almost forgot... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! I'm writing about Catching Fire in 2013... the year the movie is coming out!!!!!!! (November 22nd 2013) But, of course, the wait will take 11 months. The movie is still being made. This post is going to be a review, and what I think Catching Fire means.

In the story, Katniss and Peeta are both the victors of the 74th annual Hunger Games. For the next Hunger Games, or specially known as the Third Quarter Quell, the special feature will be... a Hunger Games full of victors. They will be reaped from the existing victors in each district, one male, and one female. And since Katniss is the only female victor, she's going back into the arena. Haymitch is reaped as the male tribute, but Peeta volunteers.

Katniss and Peeta start the game, and they form an alliance with other tributes. They figure out that the arena is in the shape of a clock, with each hour bringing new horror and torture. For example, muttations, acid rain, and screaming jabberjays.

One day, Katniss's alliance goes all around the arena, hooking up electrical wires, to blow up the borders of the arena. Well... the girls go. The boys stay back and work on survival and other things. When Katniss and the girls get back, the arena is exploding. Peeta is screaming for Katniss from far away, but Katniss gets annoyed. A District 13 hovercraft arrivess and takes her and a few other tributes away. Peeta is left behind, a captured by the Capitol.

In Catching Fire, nothing catches fire. So what could the title mean? It means Katniss truly knows what she wants at the end. She catches fire, the fire of the Capitol, and knows that she has to get her revenge and break free from their reign of terror and torture. Katniss, the girl on fire, has really caught fire.

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