In "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins,  Katniss is changed by the games. When she pulled out the nightlock berries, because she didn't want to have to kill Peeta, one small act of defiance a spark that could catch and turn into a full scale rebellion. Because of this act of defiance other districts had small uprisings, Katniss is forced to convince President Snow and all of Panem that she was madly In love with Peeta, and she couldn't bare to not live with Peeta. Before she would never talk to Haymitch, she hated him. For example, On page 13 she went In to Haymitch's house, when she was delivering him more liquor her face wrinkled up In disgust, she didn't want to go anywhere near him. But now she went to him first, before talking to her closer friends, like Gale, or Peeta, or Cinna, who she trusts. She told Haymitch about her talk with President Snow. This shows that Katniss is being changed by the games.        

       


NOTE: The act of defiance where Katniss almost killed herself with the berries occurred In book 1 of the Hunger Games series, but It had a huge affect on this part of the second book, Catching Fire.
P.S: This was posted at 4:30 not 2:30. :)

The Hunger Games. Important Quote

A line in this story, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins  that made me think was on page 114. "Betrayal . That's the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous . For there would have to have been trust first. Between me and Peeta. And trust has not been part of the agreement. We're tributes. But the boy who risked a beating to give me bread, the one who steadied me in the chariot, who covered for me with the redheaded Avox girl, who insisted that Haymitch knew my hunting skills... was there some part of me that couldn't help trusting him?"  The word betrayal In this quote makes me think that Katniss actually cares about Peeta. At the beginning of the book Katniss hated Peeta's guts, literally she wanted to kill him. Before she was just doing everything she did, like holding hands with him on the chariot and acting like the team. She was faking all of it just to please the Capitol. This quote showed me that in this book Katniss is hiding her feelings, she isn't even aware of it. In the real world people have feelings that they hide or don't realize they even have.