The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Dystopic Fiction
223/390
Gale and Peeta did make it out of the Capitol alive, but Peeta was in a bad condition. The Capitol had hijacked him; they used tracker-jacker venom that causes hallucinations and confusion between reality and imagination to alter the memories he has of Katniss. So now he thinks she an evil, mad person who killed all of his friends and family members, and he has forgotten he is in love with her. They try to reverse the hijack by doing the same thing except with good memories, so he will forget all about the "evil killer Katniss" and go back to the Katniss he loves, but it's not working. Peeta won't get better, at least not a lot. Katniss knows now that he will never be the same person again, and gives up on him. Instead she turns to Gale, now that the Peeta she knew is gone. She doesn't want to be in Thirteen anymore, so she goes to Two, the only District that is not on the rebels' side yet, and tries to get them to join. Katniss, Gale, Beetee, Boggs, and some other people set up a plan to destroy The Nut; the mountain where the Capitol keeps all its weaponry, hovercrafts, and its entire military training. This way, the Capitol won't have any access to its weapons supply, and it will be easier to defeat them. They will bomb the mountain, creating avalanches that will block all the entrances, ventilation shafts, and the launchpad, but not the train tunnel, so people can get out, and they do. Katniss and other rebels wait in the square for survivors to come, so they will have a chance to surrender. A wounded man comes crawling through the crowd, and Katniss runs there to help him, but instead he points his gun at her head and says, "Give me one reason I shouldn't shoot you." Everyone stops and listens, for the Mockingjay is at the mercy of a man with nothing to lose. She gives her reason, that they are not enemies, they all have one enemy, and it's the Capitol. Then she watches herself get shot on television.
I learned that Katniss truly is one powerful person, but that didn't stop the man from shooting her. This shocked me, because the mockingjay can't die. She can't. Now there's nothing left, without her, the rebels can't defeat the Capitol. They did everything for nothing. Katniss went so far, sacrificed everything for revenge, only to get shot by a man with nothing to lose. I can't get this thought out of my mind. It's over, everything is over. I don't know what to expect now. I really don't. I hope she didn't die, but how is it possible to survive a shot through the head? The book is great, and hopefully will be even better as I continue reading, but right now I am in the middle of a very confusing part.
The man says, "'I'm not the Capitol's slave.'
'I am,' I say. 'That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games'" (Collins 215).
This reveals that finally Katniss understands what Peeta said the night before the first Games, that he didn't want to be a piece in their games. She understands now what they do; they turn people against each other only to win themselves. No one ever wins except the Capitol, and everything, everyone is a part of their game. This passage makes me think, because Katniss has been unsure of things for a long time, and it seems that she has finally figured it all out. So she tells the whole country, everyone on her side, and everyone else, that she knows what the Capitol's rules are now, and she is not planning on playing by them anymore.
Suzanne Collins
Dystopic Fiction
223/390
Gale and Peeta did make it out of the Capitol alive, but Peeta was in a bad condition. The Capitol had hijacked him; they used tracker-jacker venom that causes hallucinations and confusion between reality and imagination to alter the memories he has of Katniss. So now he thinks she an evil, mad person who killed all of his friends and family members, and he has forgotten he is in love with her. They try to reverse the hijack by doing the same thing except with good memories, so he will forget all about the "evil killer Katniss" and go back to the Katniss he loves, but it's not working. Peeta won't get better, at least not a lot. Katniss knows now that he will never be the same person again, and gives up on him. Instead she turns to Gale, now that the Peeta she knew is gone. She doesn't want to be in Thirteen anymore, so she goes to Two, the only District that is not on the rebels' side yet, and tries to get them to join. Katniss, Gale, Beetee, Boggs, and some other people set up a plan to destroy The Nut; the mountain where the Capitol keeps all its weaponry, hovercrafts, and its entire military training. This way, the Capitol won't have any access to its weapons supply, and it will be easier to defeat them. They will bomb the mountain, creating avalanches that will block all the entrances, ventilation shafts, and the launchpad, but not the train tunnel, so people can get out, and they do. Katniss and other rebels wait in the square for survivors to come, so they will have a chance to surrender. A wounded man comes crawling through the crowd, and Katniss runs there to help him, but instead he points his gun at her head and says, "Give me one reason I shouldn't shoot you." Everyone stops and listens, for the Mockingjay is at the mercy of a man with nothing to lose. She gives her reason, that they are not enemies, they all have one enemy, and it's the Capitol. Then she watches herself get shot on television.
I learned that Katniss truly is one powerful person, but that didn't stop the man from shooting her. This shocked me, because the mockingjay can't die. She can't. Now there's nothing left, without her, the rebels can't defeat the Capitol. They did everything for nothing. Katniss went so far, sacrificed everything for revenge, only to get shot by a man with nothing to lose. I can't get this thought out of my mind. It's over, everything is over. I don't know what to expect now. I really don't. I hope she didn't die, but how is it possible to survive a shot through the head? The book is great, and hopefully will be even better as I continue reading, but right now I am in the middle of a very confusing part.
The man says, "'I'm not the Capitol's slave.'
'I am,' I say. 'That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games'" (Collins 215).
This reveals that finally Katniss understands what Peeta said the night before the first Games, that he didn't want to be a piece in their games. She understands now what they do; they turn people against each other only to win themselves. No one ever wins except the Capitol, and everything, everyone is a part of their game. This passage makes me think, because Katniss has been unsure of things for a long time, and it seems that she has finally figured it all out. So she tells the whole country, everyone on her side, and everyone else, that she knows what the Capitol's rules are now, and she is not planning on playing by them anymore.
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