The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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In Catching Fire, many things occur as a result of Katniss outsmarting the Capitol. Katniss is warned by President Snow that she is being watched. Katniss has to show the Capitol that her love for Peeta isn’t fake. Katniss tells Haymitch about the conversation she had with President Snow. She eventually tells Peeta, but he gets mad that he is left out of things. Peeta is in a way used by the Capitol and Katniss. Peeta likes Katniss a lot, but Katniss does not know if she loves him or not. Katniss is being put through so many things by the Capitol. Even Katniss’s Mockingjay pin is used as an accessory in the Capitol, while other people use it as a symbol for the rebellion going on in the Districts of Panem. The main themes through out this whole book are interdependence vs. independence. Interdependence is when two people are respectively relying on each other. Independence is when someone is acting alone or free of control. Katniss and Peeta are interdependent because they are helping each other survive. They are trying to show the Capitol that they are truly in love. They are showing that everything they do together is not a game even though it kind of is to Katniss. They are trying to do what they can to help the other one survive. This is causing them more danger to one another especially in the arena during the Quell. Besides being interdependent on each other, Katniss and Peeta are also interdependent on other characters in the book such as Johanna and Finnick during the games. The sponsors and Haymitch are also helping Katniss and Peeta survive as well by sending those gifts. Plutarch Heavensbee helps Katniss by allowing her to take a glimpse of his watch revealing the Mockingjay fading in and out of the background. The watch that Heavensbee shows to Katniss for a previous moment comes back to her during the games that the arena is a clock. Everything that
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