Chapters 10-15  Summary of the Hunger Games 


This book is amazing, I love it so far. I recommend instead of watch the movies, don't get me wrong THE MOVIE IS GREAT, but the book gives way more description and creates a very vast mental image for the reader. As we left off, we witnessed Peeta's confession of love for Katniss. She is mad, yells at him, and  pushes Peeta into an urn, cutting his hand. Though, Haymitch reveals he was on for the deal of revealing his crush, for sponsors of course. They argue more into the night. The next mourning they prepare for the game, both Cinna and Haymitch give advice on how to stay alive. They are given trackers, and flown to the arena. The Games Have Began. 

Katniss stands on the platform, waiting for the gong to ring and start the game. Katniss has a lot of thoughts running through her head. Whether to run or go to the Cornucopia, get a bow or a bag. She chooses to go get a bag and dash.  A knife is thrown at her backpack while running  away from another tribute. She heads to the forest and checks her bag, she finds a sleeping bag, food, matches, wire, iodine, sunglasses, and a water bottle. For the night, she stays in a tree and hears the canon. The canon is shot 1  every time a tribute dies. One shot, two shot, they keep coming, twelve shots. Half of the tributes are dead. In the mourning she wakes up and hears some of the other tributes and Peeta's.

She watches the tributes kill one of the other girl tributes. She witness the gruesome murder. She checks her snares she set last night and finds a rabbit. She cooks it on the recently deiced tribute's fire.  She keeps going in the forest and can't find any water. Katniss's finds some berries, but doesn't due to doubt if they are poisoned. She sleeps another night, thirsty and parched. Katniss is dehydrated, but finally a break is caught. She finds a pond, puts the water in the bottle with a drop of iodine, waits and enjoys the moistness of the water in her mouth. She can only stay for a little bit though. She walks a little bit before a fireball is coming straight for Katniss. She realizes that the fire is no accident and  it must be the Gamemakers. Katniss's jacket catches  on fire, then she vomits.   Katniss stumbles across the pond and gets some relief from her burns by jumping in. the pond.  Katniss hears feet and  runs to climbs up a tree. The pack of  tributes has found her. She stays up there all night in the agony inflicted by her burn. Midway through the night she notices that a tribute from District 11 Is in the tree next to her.  

The two in the trees create a plan to make the others leave. While up there Katniss receives a gift from Haymitch, healing ointment.  Rue, the girl from District 11, sees a hive of bees on the tree.  These are not any ordinary bees though, they are Tracker Jackers. They are genetically modified killer bees, whose sting causes powerful hallucinations. Katniss takes her knife and cuts the limb off with the hive on it. While cutting it she takes a few stings from the Tracker Jackers. As soon as the hive got the tributes below, frantically ran off. One did not make it though, a Career Tribute by the name of Glimmer, got killed by the massive amount of stings on her body. Katniss is dizzy and now the stings are setting in.  Katniss wakes up from her dreams of Gale and Peeta, after two days. After healing the wounds with the ointment from Haymitch, Katniss searches for food and water.  She got some birds to eat and shares them with Rue. While eating they decide to share supplies and start talking about the other survivors. Katniss finds out the other tributes went and took all the supplies from the cornucopia and the two come up with a plan.