Book Summary: Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins

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Catching Fire Have you ever wondered what it was like to pretend to love someone in order to keep you and your loved ones alive? Or having to go back to the nightmares that you try so hard to get away from? In the book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, seventeen year old Katniss Everdeen is to keep up an act that she is in love with fellow District 12 victor, Peeta Mellark. Katniss had just won the seventy fourth annual Hunger Games and is getting ready to compete once again in the seventy fifth Hunger Games otherwise known as the Quarter Quell, a special edition of the usual hunger games In which she was chosen to be a tribute in result of her defying the Capitol. In chapter 1, the president of Panem;President Snow payed a visit to Katniss' new house in the Victor Village. He explains to her that her stunt at attempting to commit suicide during the hunger games has started a revelation among the other districts. He tells her that she must convince the other districts that she did not choose to make those actions to defy the Capitol, but because she did not want to kill the love of her…show more content…
In result of becoming a victor from the hunger games, you are saved from becoming a tribute for the rest of your life. In chapter 12 however, President Snow announces that for the Quarter Quell the tributes will be from each district's pool of previous victors. Since Katniss is the only living female victor from district 12, she has to compete in the Quarter Quell. Katniss hates every reminder she has of the games. Although she knows she will never truly get away from it, she is glad that being a victor means that she will never have to deal with being chosen to be a tribute. The Quarter Quell was kind of a slap in the face for Katniss. She just competed in the previous year, she has to compete

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