Summary
A year after winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and her partner, Peeta must go on what is known as the Victor's Tour which is a visit all the districts. Before leaving, Katniss is visited by President Snow who fears that Katniss defied him a year ago during the games when she chose to die with Peeta. With both Katniss and Peeta declared the winners, it is fueling a possible uprising. He tells Katniss that while on tour she better try to make sure that she puts out the flames or else everyone she cares about will be in danger. Unfortunately, she fails to do that. Her failure to do what Snow says causes him to enact what is known as the Quarter Quell, the right to make a change to the Hunger Games. Snow decides to hold an edition of the Hunger Games in which previous winners will compete again. Katniss and Peeta's mentor, Haymitch, thinks their best chance to survive is form an alliance with some of the others. They decide to align themselves with Finnick and his partner, Mags. However, Snow is secretly hoping Katniss will be killed.
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Character Analysis
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Katniss-Katniss is the main character of Catching Fire. She is a seventeen year old girl living in District Twelve, one of the twelve districts ruled by the infamous Capitol. When the book opens, Katniss has returned home after winning the dreaded Hunger Games with her fellow tribute Peeta. The Hunger Games forced Katniss to kill for the first time. They have changed her, forcing her to face life outside the woods of district twelve where political oppression and her own defiant acts in the Games are slowly giving rise to public uprising. Katniss begins Catching Fire with a quiet spirit, wanting only to return to her old life and forget the Games. But as the book continues, she realizes that her actions in the Games have made her the people’s icon. She cannot go backward even if she wanted. Katniss is forced to contend with the unrest in the districts, an unrest that she isn’t sure she wants to stop. At the very end of the book, when Katniss is forced to choose, she realizes who she must be, who she already is; the mockingjay.
Peeta-Peeta is a seventeen year old boy, also from district twelve. He is the son of a baker and has a great skill with frosting cakes and camouflaging himself, a skill which became a tool and a defense in the Games, for Peeta is also Katniss’s fellow tribute, now a victor of the Hunger Games. Unlike Katniss, Peeta fire is not bright and catching. Instead, he is the steady support behind Katniss. An expert with words, Peeta can sway a crowd towards or against, according to his will. He is deeply in love with Katniss but does not try to push or pull her towards him. Once more contrasting with Katniss, Peeta does not try to forget the Games. Instead, he paints them in an attempt to rid himself of the horrors he has witnessed. Peeta attempts over and over to rescue Katniss from the flames she fuels, doing everything in his power to keep her alive.
Gale-Gale is Katniss friend from district twelve. He lost his father in a mine explosion and has been forced to provide for his family ever since. He did not fight in the Hunger Games but like Peeta he is in love with Katniss. Gale has a somewhat different attitude toward the capitol however. Instead of staying and living quietly, Gale is determined to escape the capitol’s reach. He encourages Katniss to run away with him, but when he hears about the potential uprisings in the districts, he changes his mind, declaring he will stand and fight. Gale has a fire in him that Peeta does not have. He is ready to stand up to the capitol no matter what the cost.. Although Gale gets one or two kisses from Katniss in Catching Fire, he never completely gets her love. Gale knows she cares, but also knows there will always be someone else with whom he will have to compete with.
Prim-Prim is Katniss’s sister. She is the reason that Katniss volunteered to enter the Hunger Games in the first book, The Hunger Games. Though not a large character in Catching Fire, Prim continues to remind Katniss that the life she had was not good enough. Prim becomes the reason that Katniss hesitates in extinguishing the fire she is fueling. Katniss longs for a better life for Prim and others like her and this longing keeps her moving forward even when she feels defeated. Prim seems to serve as a symbol of all the poor, starving children in the world.
President Snow-Snow is president of the twelve districts of Panem. He rules the capitol and is in charge of everything action occurring in the twelve districts. He is Katniss's main enemy. He tells her in the beginning of Catching Fire that she must convince him she is not defying the capitol. At first Katniss does all she can to please him because she wants peace in her district and her old life back. However, as she sees the effects of Snow's power alongside the effects of her own power, the fire within her grows. In the book final, Katniss finally realizes that it is not the tributes that she is fighting when she is in the arena, it is Snow. He is the true enemy. He is the evil master who seeks to control all and has ways of knowing exactly what his people are doing at all times. Snow controls the districts uses fear and horror to control his citizens.
Peeta-Peeta is a seventeen year old boy, also from district twelve. He is the son of a baker and has a great skill with frosting cakes and camouflaging himself, a skill which became a tool and a defense in the Games, for Peeta is also Katniss’s fellow tribute, now a victor of the Hunger Games. Unlike Katniss, Peeta fire is not bright and catching. Instead, he is the steady support behind Katniss. An expert with words, Peeta can sway a crowd towards or against, according to his will. He is deeply in love with Katniss but does not try to push or pull her towards him. Once more contrasting with Katniss, Peeta does not try to forget the Games. Instead, he paints them in an attempt to rid himself of the horrors he has witnessed. Peeta attempts over and over to rescue Katniss from the flames she fuels, doing everything in his power to keep her alive.
Gale-Gale is Katniss friend from district twelve. He lost his father in a mine explosion and has been forced to provide for his family ever since. He did not fight in the Hunger Games but like Peeta he is in love with Katniss. Gale has a somewhat different attitude toward the capitol however. Instead of staying and living quietly, Gale is determined to escape the capitol’s reach. He encourages Katniss to run away with him, but when he hears about the potential uprisings in the districts, he changes his mind, declaring he will stand and fight. Gale has a fire in him that Peeta does not have. He is ready to stand up to the capitol no matter what the cost.. Although Gale gets one or two kisses from Katniss in Catching Fire, he never completely gets her love. Gale knows she cares, but also knows there will always be someone else with whom he will have to compete with.
Prim-Prim is Katniss’s sister. She is the reason that Katniss volunteered to enter the Hunger Games in the first book, The Hunger Games. Though not a large character in Catching Fire, Prim continues to remind Katniss that the life she had was not good enough. Prim becomes the reason that Katniss hesitates in extinguishing the fire she is fueling. Katniss longs for a better life for Prim and others like her and this longing keeps her moving forward even when she feels defeated. Prim seems to serve as a symbol of all the poor, starving children in the world.
President Snow-Snow is president of the twelve districts of Panem. He rules the capitol and is in charge of everything action occurring in the twelve districts. He is Katniss's main enemy. He tells her in the beginning of Catching Fire that she must convince him she is not defying the capitol. At first Katniss does all she can to please him because she wants peace in her district and her old life back. However, as she sees the effects of Snow's power alongside the effects of her own power, the fire within her grows. In the book final, Katniss finally realizes that it is not the tributes that she is fighting when she is in the arena, it is Snow. He is the true enemy. He is the evil master who seeks to control all and has ways of knowing exactly what his people are doing at all times. Snow controls the districts uses fear and horror to control his citizens.
Catching Fire: The Movie
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For example, near the begginning of the book Katniss meets a couple of runaways from District 8 who encourage her to look closer at the District 13 footage. Katniss never gets confirmation of District 13’s existence in the book, but the idea is planted in her and the reader's mind. These fugitives do not exist in the movie. Also, we don’t learn about District 13 until Katniss is removed from the arena. Another difference between the book and movie is that the book contains a scene in which Katniss gets drunk during a pre-Quarter Quell rampage and barfs on Peeta. The most major difference is that the book tells how Plutarch Heavensbee, Haymitch, Finnick, Johanna, Beetee, and a handful of other tributes were all working together in order to save Katniss and recruit her for the revolution. The movie makes this clear at the very end, but only gives us a glimpse of Katniss’s rage. We don’t watch her spend days in a medicated haze, as we do in the book. We don’t watch her mourn with Finnick; we don’t watch them discuss how their loved ones are better off dead. The movie skips straight to Gale’s announcement that District 12 is no more, and Katniss takes about 30 seconds to go from grief to furious determination.
The movie is ver y suspenceful and intriguing.Also, it is a remarkably faithful adaptation o f the book. Whole scenes and chunks of dialogue are left unchanged. If anything, the movie skimps a little on the love triangle going on between Katniss, Peeta and Gale Still, as with any adaptation, there are definite differences between the book and movie. Katniss's Motivation
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Katniss has a sole person whom she does everything in her life for--Primrose Everdeen, her little sister. Katniss's will to survive during both Hunger Games was due to the need to come home to District 12 to care for her little sister. Katniss believes Prim is small and unprotected. She is afraid that Prim will not be able to live without the help of her big sister. Loving Prim dearly, Katniss convinces herself and others that she will survive at all costs to come home for the sake of Prim. Also, in the beginning of the first book, Katniss takes the place of Prim, having herself be part of the dangerous Hunger Games instead of Prim. In Catching Fire, Prim's living conditions are the reason that Katniss hesitates in extinguishing the uprising she is fueling. Katniss will stop at nothing to keep harm out of Prim's way and survive herself so that she can carry out her self-imposed duty of protecting Prim to the best of her ability.
Comparison of President Snow and Jack Merridew
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Jack Merridew, a character in Lord of the Flies, and President Snow from Catching Fire share many similarities and differences. For example, both characters are the leaders of a society full of savagery and chaos. They both are disliked by many other characters and are portrayed as the bad guys of the books. Another shared characteristic of the two is their abuse of power to get what they want no matter what the cost.Both characters can also took part in the "hunting" of the main character. However, President Snow and Jack have a substantial difference in age and amount of power. President Snow rules over thousands of people while Jack is the leader of only around 10. Additionally, President Snow can be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of people while Jack only was involved with the death of one person.