Guide to the Hunger Games: the World of the Hunger Games by Caroline Carpenter

Author:Caroline Carpenter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780859658850
Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd.

DAY TWO

Although the death toll at the Cornucopia bloodbath wasn’t as high as it is some years, the Gamemakers’ deadly interventions mean that the rate of deaths doesn’t slow down on the second day.

BLIGHT, DISTRICT 7 Male

When Katniss is keeping watch for the rest of her group in the early hours of the second day, the cannon signals another death. She doesn’t take much notice, but even if she had known it was announcing Blight’s passing, it probably wouldn’t have made much more of an impact on her. Blight didn’t make a big impression during the preparatory stages of the Games, having been absent during the training sessions.

After the game starts, Blight escapes the Cornucopia with his district partner Johanna and the District 3 victors Beetee and Wiress. Blight and Johanna saved the pair from District 3 in an attempt to win Katniss over because Haymitch said Katniss wanted them as allies. The group are in the jungle when it starts to rain. At first they think this will bring relief from their dehydration as they have not been able to find any fresh water, but the ‘rain’ turns out to be blood, which gets into their mouths and eyes. Unable to see, Blight walks into a force field and dies.

Johanna’s casual attitude to losing Blight suggests that he didn’t have many useful skills. Maybe he was old, another addict or he was just lucky to win his year’s Games.

MAGS, DISTRICT 4 Female

At around eighty, Mags was alive before the Hunger Games started and was one of its earliest victors. Despite her old age, she is a fearless woman. She proves this first in the Quarter Quell reaping, where she volunteers to take the place of a young woman from her District (Annie Cresta). Being from the fishing district, she shows great skill at making fishhooks from whatever materials are available and also has vast knowledge of the Hunger Games from her many years of mentoring other District 4 tributes. This knowledge helps her to recognize some edible nuts that provide a food source for her alliance.

Mags cannot communicate very clearly through words but her carefree attitude and keen sense of humour still come across. She walks with a cane outside of the arena and is at a physical disadvantage in the Games, having to rely on Finnick to carry her when they need to move quickly. However, it is ultimately Mags’ courage that leads to her death.

When her alliance is attacked by an artificial poisonous mist, they try to run away from it as fast as they can. Finnick carries Peeta, who is still weak from hitting the force field, and Katniss takes Mags. Eventually, though, the gas begins to cause their muscles to spasm and Katniss can no longer cope with the burden. Finnick is not able to carry both ailing tributes in his debilitated state so Mags bravely sacrifices her own life to give her friends a chance of escaping the fog. After kissing Finnick goodbye, she walks into the jungle and allows her body to be consumed by the deadly mist.

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