Sunday, October 17, 2010

Hunger Games chapter 17 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 17

1. What happens to Katniss in the explosion?
During the explosion, it sets Katniss off flying back. She lands covering her face from all the exploding things flying, with her elbow. She gets up very dizzy and is unable to walk. However she doesnt here alot at that moment. She finds her ear bleeding severely . Later she realizes the explosion caused it to bleed. She is afraid that she might of got death from it. She hopes later on she gets her hearing back. 

2. Why does Katniss leave the rendezvous point?
Katniss leaves the rendezvous point because she see's that Rue is not their. Katniss waits and waits for her but there was no sign of her showing up. Katniss is pretty worried. She thinks she's hiding in some tree right now. So she's goes looking for her at the other fire spots Rue was supose to lit. Katniss just hopes nothing bad happened to Rue. She doesn't want her to get killed. 

3. What happens to Rue?
Katniss hears Rue's mockingjay song to let katniss know she's all right. Katniss follows where the song comes from. all of a sudden she hears screaming and she knows it Rue. She yells for her name and Katniss Finds Rue entangled in a net set up for a trap. A boy from district 1 shoots a spear right through Rue small body. He kills her:'(

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body." (pg.232)
2. "Dangling up in the tree, with the sun warming me, a mouthful of mint, my bow and arrows at hand . . . this is the most relaxed I've been since I've entered the arena."  pg. 238
3. "Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real." (226)
4. "I'm dizzy. Not the slightly wobbly kind,but the kind that sends the trees swooping around you and causes the earth to move in waves under your feet."  pg. 222

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