On Saturday night me and my mother went to the cinema to watch the latest Hunger Games film. I had seen the first one and thought it was outstanding, so I definitely had intentions of seeing the second one. There is a series of books for the Hunger games which are excellently written even though I haven’t read any of them I have been told that they are well written and adrenaline filled. This has made me decide that i am going to read them when I finally get the time as I do love a good book.
The Plot of Catching Fire
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have survived the 74th Hunger games and return home to District 12, their home town. From the first Hunger Games movie, Katniss and Peeta inspire the people in the Districts across the world as they threaten suicide with exploding berries which instantly kill you, they both shared some in their hands and counted so as to take them at the same time, so that the game ends with either both alive (if they get stopped) or both dead and there is no winner. In the end the games were stopped and both won. Their relationship is also a ‘show’ as they are in a whirlwind romance for the on screen entertainment for the people of the Capitol. This makes Katniss and Peeta memorable to the spectators.
Snow, the master of the whole Hunger Games is frustrated with Katniss as she inspired rebellion among the districts and he orders her to go to the Districts and convince the country that her and Peetas love is ‘real’. Katniss and Peetas mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, tells Katniss and Peeta the “show” of their relationship must continue for the rest of their lives. Katniss suggests a public engagement between herself and Peeta, which is carried out and celebrated at Snow’s home in the Capitol. This pleases the Capitol as the tributes of the Hunger Games like the drama to watch of the relationships of the tributes as they are like animals in a cage.
Peacekeepers crack down in District 12 to maintain and order the rebellion and Katniss’s close friend Gale is publicaly whipped by an angry peacekeeper. Snow announces a special Hunger Games which is held every 25 years which involved previous victors, Katniss is picked again but she knows she will be enduring it again, and Peeta volunteers himself as he is in love with Katniss and wont let her go on her own, even though she doesn’t want him to as she wants him to be safe and live.
Katniss and Peeta have their pre games interview in the Capitol where Katniss wears her wedding dress which she would have work in her marriage to peeta if it wasn’t for this next hunger games. This created the best impression for her as the crowd love her. Her stylist Cinna creates the dress so that it turns into a deep blue dress with wings which resembles a mocking jay when she spins. He supports Katniss and assures her everything is going to be okay. As a punishment for the scene it caused, Cinna is savagely beaten seconds before an onlooking Katniss enters the arena. Traumatizing Katniss and putting her is a state of shock and remorse just before she is about to be in the Hunger Games.
The games begin and Katniss straight away goes in search for Peeta and some kind of weapon which she can use to protect herself, her bow and arrow. She fore alliances with some other people from another District and they sacrafice each other to save each other. I don’t want to give the excitement away so I’ll leave the details of each attack to when you watch it for yourself.
In the end Katniss fires an arrow with a wire attatched to it connected to lighting, to the sky where there’s a force field and the Hunger Games gets a power failure and the arena is destroyed.
Katniss awakens in an aircraft where she finds Haymitch, Finnick and Plutarch Heavensbee, the head gamemaker, revealed to be a rebel against Snow. She is frantically asking where Peeta is as Haymitch promised he wouldn’t let him die, she lashes out at Haymitch and threatens him with a syringe. She then finds out that Johanna and Peeta were taken away by the Capitol and she’s in such a state that Plutarch sedates her and she wakes up days later with Gale next to her and he tells her their District 12 has been destroyed but her family is safe.
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