CliffsNotes on Collins' The Hunger Games by Janelle Blasdel

Author:Janelle Blasdel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Summary

Katniss and the other tributes stand in a ring around the Cornucopia, a giant golden horn filled with supplies that will help them in the Games. The tributes have 60 seconds to take in their surroundings before the gong sounds and the Games begin. Moving too early triggers land mines. Haymitch instructed Katniss to run away from the Cornucopia immediately, but then she sees a tent and a bow and arrow and starts to think about how she could get to it before anyone else. As she’s trying to make her decision, Peeta catches her eye. It looks to her as if he’s shaking his head, telling her not to try for anything, to turn and run. Distracted by him, Katniss misses the gong and hesitates. She runs a bit of the way in and grabs a piece of plastic and some bread and fights with a boy over an orange pack. The boy is hit with a knife and dies, and Katniss takes off running. She lifts the pack behind her, protecting her head, and feels a knife embed itself there. Now she has a weapon.

She spends the rest of the day moving, putting space between herself and the other tributes. Being in the woods calms her, and she focuses on finding a source of water. She hears the cannons in the late afternoon, each shot signifying a dead tribute: eleven dead in all, leaving thirteen in the Games. The Capitol will project the faces of the dead later that night, so Katniss doesn’t immediately know who’s left. She’s overwhelmed thinking that Peeta could be dead already, but decides that perhaps it would be better that way, that it was over with for him and that they wouldn’t have to face one another.

She takes stock of her knapsack’s contents, a sleeping bag being her prized possession, and surveys the land around her, noting the animals and plant life. When night falls, she still hasn’t found any water, but she picks a tree, climbs up, and makes a bed in one of the branches, belting herself in. When the death recap airs in the sky that evening, she watches for Peeta’s face and is relieved to know that he has made it through the first day. She falls asleep and then wakes to the sound of twigs snapping. Someone is making a fire, something that will surely lure other tributes to their camp. Katniss is angry with the fire starter for being so ignorant and for endangering both of their lives. Soon enough, a pack of the Career Tributes who have formed an alliance finds the girl camped out near Katniss and kills her. Katniss nearly falls out of the tree when she hears Peeta’s voice among them.

Analysis

Tension is high in this chapter as Katniss tries to decide what course of action to take. She second-guesses what Haymitch has told her to do, thinking about how much of an advantage might come from getting the bow and arrow. Peeta, though, makes her hesitate too long and keeps her from making the big dash in to retrieve them.

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