Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chapter 14 - Analyzing

Examine the wasp nest incident. Katniss sees a girl die in a horrible way. Do you think that Katniss felt accomplishment or something else? Connect the wasps to the war in A Separate Peace.
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  1. OwenMarch 17, 2010 at 6:46 PM

    I think Katniss felt some pity for Glimmer as she died from the tracker-jacker stings. She may also have felt relief at not having to actually kill Glimmer herself. Katniss was pretty loopy by the time she saw Glimmer die so we have no way of knowing how Glimmer really looked when she was dieing. Katniss had a burning need to get the bow and, in her unstable state, may not have really felt anything relating to her part in Glimmers death through her determination to get the bow.
    The Tracker-jackers connect to the war in ASP because in the beginning, (when Katniss first finds them) they are sluggish and don't feel like much of a threat, much like the war in the beginning of ASP. During the summer session none of the boys are very worried about the war. It is important but it will not be a problem until later in their lives. Also, the Tracker-jackers directly effect Kaniss's chances of survival. As the war affects the survival (in a slightly diferent way) of all the characters in ASP.

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  2. CarolineMarch 18, 2010 at 1:33 PM

    I like your connection to A Separate Peace, Owen. I think Katniss would have been more affected by Glimmer's death if it had been earlier in the games and if she was not also suffering from the tracker-jacker wounds. By this point in the story, Katniss had already come close to death in the ways of dehydration, burning, and a knife to the back (thrown by the girl from district 2). If Katniss had not undergone all of these experiences, I think she would have been much more traumatized by the fact that she had just brought around Glimmer's death. Also, the tracker-jacker wounds had started to affect Katniss. She couldn't trust anything she saw.
    I think the tracker-jackers connect to the war in ASP because they were unexpected. Peeta and the Careers were expecting an attack from Katniss, not an attack from vicious wasps. This is similar to the idea of Maginot Lines because the Careers protected themselves from what they thought was the enemy and ended up being attacked from a whole different perspective. In ASP, the surprise attack came from within Gene instead of from Finny which was where Gene anticipated the attack to come from.

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  3. ChloeMarch 21, 2010 at 1:26 PM

    Very good answers, Caroline and Owen! I think that in the very first moments of the games, Katniss felt guilt and sorrow for those who died, but as the games went on, she discovered that death was impossible to evade. Death is the meaning of these games. Once Katniss knew that every other person had to die for her to survive, she put compassion aside and became ruthless. Her only directive was survival, which meant death for whoever was in her way. Glimmer was in her way. I don't mean for Katniss to sound like a brutal killer, but over the course of the games, she bacame calloused with the fact that the other tributes would eventually die. So Glimmer meant nothing, especially combined with the tracker jackers. The bow was Katniss' prize. The wasps can be related to A Separate Peace because the wasps hunt the person who broke their nest. In ASP, the war in brought upon Gene by his own actions. His "inner death" is his own fault.

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  4. CarolineMarch 25, 2010 at 6:24 PM

    I like that idea, Chloe. It is almost as if Gene's secret is broken when Brinker interrogates him and his troubles come falling out. The nest falls from the branch and Finny falls down the stairs.

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  5. LivvieMarch 25, 2010 at 6:53 PM

    I think that Katniss felt accomplished but also mortified! She had just witnessed a human dying which meant she was closer to the finish line but there was also one less person in the world. This is also how Gene feels about pushing Finny out of the tree. He didn't really mean to but he did at the same time. He felt horrible about it but he couldn't reverse what he had done.

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