Perspective Journal: The Hunger Games Catching Fire

Entry 1: Today Katniss and Peeta were at the Capitol for the Victory Tour. When they were being interviewed Peeta proposed to Katniss! Even worse Katniss said yes! I thought all of it was an act for the Games. Katniss said it was so why in the world would they be getting married now? The Games are over. Their strategy shouldn’t be needed anymore. Katniss can’t really be in love with Peeta can she? She couldn’t have lied to me that it was all an act during the Games.

If they are actually going to get married it has to be an act. Katniss said it was an act and I believe her so it has to be fake. Peeta and Katniss must have to get married for a very important cause. They can’t go through with it though right? If they do get married I’ll never even get a chance to be with Katniss. Her and Peeta will always have to be together and then we will lose whatever we have together right now!Entry 2:This morning Katniss told me that President Snow threatened to kill me and our families! She wants us to run away with our families. I liked the thought of this because I wanted to run away before the Games ever happened.

Then, she said she wanted to bring Haymitch, Peeta, and his family too. This set me off because this could have been my chance for it to be just Katniss and me with no other distractions. I could do with Haymitch coming but not Peeta. I don’t like Peeta being around Katniss at all.

I feel like he is pulling her away from me and towards him. She put the great thought in my head. Her family and mine getting out of District 12 and living in the woods. Then, she just blasted it away by wanting to bring Peeta and his family with. Sometimes I just wish Peeta would have been killed in the arena.

Demolished Entry 3:On my way back from my talk with Katniss in the woods I killed a wild turkey. I thought I would take it to Cray since he likes them and pays well. I went to his door and knocked but it wasn’t him that answered. A different person wearing the head peacekeeper outfit answered it. He was a tall, well built, mean looking man.

Before I could say a word my hands were cuffed behind my back! I told the new peacekeeper that I saw the wild turkey and stabbed it with a stick. It’s a far less of a crime than to be hunting in the woods. He brought me to the square and tied my hands to a pole. The new head peacekeeper made me confess to killing the turkey and then began to whip me. Agonizing pain shot through me. It kept coming time after time.

I had never felt any kind of pain like this before. I remember getting really light headed and then the next thing I know I’m at Katniss’ house.Entry 4:Tonight there was a mandatory programming for Katniss’ wedding dresses. Watching her on the TV looking so beautiful in all of the wedding dresses gave me a perplexed feeling. I got angry watching her. She told me that she picked me over Peeta so why can’t she and Peeta call off the wedding now? They were only doing it to try to break the tension in some of the districts which failed.

What’s the point of still getting married now? The only one I could think of is to keep the Capitol people happy and they shouldn’t need to anymore. It seems like everything that Peeta is involved with gets me stressed out and unhappy.Entry 5:Tonight after the show for Katniss’ wedding dresses President Snow announced how the games would work this year for the Quarter Quell. He said that one boy and one girl tribute will be chosen from the existing pool of victors.

When I realized that Katniss is the only female victor from District 12 and would have to go back into the Hunger Games I was in shock. I sat there watching the TV in disbelief. How could it be that Katniss is going to be taken away from me just like that? Right after she chose me over Peeta! It’s no fair! My feelings are so strong for Katniss now. I can’t imagine watching her die in the Games. She has to win again. She just has to!Entry 6:Today was the reaping.

Katniss was drawn first and then Peeta volunteered in place of Haymitch. I don’t like Peeta going back to the Games with Katniss because she won’t kill him. He’ll have to get killed by someone else. After Katniss and Peeta were taken into the Justice Building their families, my mother, and me were going to say our goodbyes to them but the peacekeepers wouldn’t let us in! They said that there were new procedures so we couldn’t say goodbye. This made me mad.

I don’t even remember the last words I said to Katniss. I had so many things I wanted to tell her before she left. I wanted to make it clear how badly I needed her to come back. Now she’ll never know how much I really care about her unless she wins and comes back.Entry 7:Today the tributes had their interviews. Pretty much all of them made it very clear that they didn’t want any part of these Games.

Then during Peeta’s interview he announced that there is a baby! This made me question what Katniss really felt for Peeta after the Games. They couldn’t have really done something like that. She would have told me if there was a baby, unless she didn’t mean to tell anyone about it to spare me of the pain. If she really didn’t want anyone to know then Peeta wouldn’t have announced it. I don’t think there is really a baby.

I’m sure it’s just another strategy of theirs and Haymitch’s that I dissent.Entry 8:Today the Hunger Games began. The arena had a lake in the middle with jungle surrounding it on all sides. Katniss and Peeta teamed up with two other tributes.

They were innocuous to me because all I could think of is Katniss. They were walking through the jungle and Peeta walked into a force field that stopped his heart. Katniss started freaking out and went into shock. One of the tributes gave Peeta CPR and brought him back to life. Watching Katniss’ reaction to all of this made me uneasy. It showed me how strong her feelings for Peeta really are.

I made a futile attempt to push these emotions aside. I don’t really know what to think about it right now. I just need to keep hoping that Katniss can win the Games.Entry 9:Tonight Katniss and Peeta were keeping watch when Peeta pulled out his locket and showed Katniss pictures of her mother, Prim, and me.

I think he was trying to get Katniss to know that he wants her to win the Games and go back to District 12. They got into a conversation about who needs them back home. Peeta was about to get into an argument with Katniss but she kissed him before he could start. They kept kissing and somehow I knew it was real. Hurt shot through me and I got up and left my home.

I knew Katniss had feelings for Peeta but I didn’t think they were this strong. It just hurts to think about it. I just wanted to sit down and cry but I held together paced around for a little bit and then went home.Entry 10:Today Katniss and Peeta’s alliance was setting up a trap for the enemy careers when something went wrong. They were all running all over the place making them hard to keep track of. Then, out of nowhere there were explosions like fireworks in the sky.

The Capitol stopped the transmission of the Games and that was it. Fear was running all over me. Did the Capitol just blow up the whole arena with all of the tributes still in it? With Katniss still in it? I don’t know what happened but something bad must have. I can’t help feeling like I’ve lost Katniss.Entry 11:This morning, the day after the Hunger Games went out, I woke up to my mother screaming. Planes were bombing District 12! I got my family out of our home just before it was consumed in a huge explosion.

I rushed my family to a place in the fence that a bomb took out. We ran out of District 12 and into the woods. After a while we stopped. When I looked back I could see deep black smoke rising from District 12. I thought to myself that the Capitol just destroyed the District. Why would the Capitol destroy District 12? We weren’t even uprising.

This made me belligerent. The Capitol just took everything but my family away from me. I knew right there that I would spend the rest of my life taking down the Capitol.Reflective Entry:The theme from Gale’s point of view in Catching Fire is Sometimes Things Are Not In Your Favor. I think this is a theme because it seems like things just don’t go Gale’s way in this book. Time after time nothing good comes his way.

From him getting caught with a wild turkey, Katniss being taken away from him, to his home being destroyed by the Capitol. Gale had always liked Katniss. He even said he loved her. As I got further into the book I think Gale’s lust for her grew stronger and stronger while it seemed as though they would never get to be together. I think Gale’s hatred of the Capitol grew stronger throughout the book too.

I think the real hatred started with the new head peacekeeper cracking down on District 12 starting with Gale’s whipping. Then, I think it progressed with Katniss being taken away from him and then was at an all-time high when District 12 was being bombed by the Capitol.