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CATCHING FIRE -- CHAPTER 9
Katniss wakes up to find Peeta with warm bread. She has fallen asleep alongside Gale. Peeta has Katniss go to bed while he looks over Gale.
Katniss goes to sleep soundly, but she has a nightmare. In the nightmare, she dreams of the Hunger Games and of Clove. Clove cuts her cheek at the same spot that was recently whipped. Katniss wakes up scared, but she is relieved to find that there’s a blizzard brewing outside. If there is any retribution for her reaction in the square, at least the blizzard will keep the Peacekeepers at bay for a while.
Katniss has some time to think on her own. She figures that all the pain and suffering that the Capitol has caused her and her family is enough justification to rebel. Katniss knows that she has been placed in a position in which she can lead the people of District Twelve to retaliate against the Capitol, yet she is plagued by self-doubt.
Katniss goes back to Gale and finds her mom and Prim treating his wounds with a cool mixture of medicine and snow. Her mom gives her some of the mixture for her own facial wound and it works wonders.
Learning that Peeta has gone home, Katniss takes a moment to call him to make sure that he made it back okay in the blizzard. He has. She wants to talk to him further about her rebellious ideas; however, she knows the phones are tapped.
A few days later, Katniss gets the chance to talk to both Haymitch and Peeta as they walk to the village together. Haymitch dismisses Katniss’ talk of starting an uprising, and he instead speaks of her wedding preparations. He is pretty convinced that any uprising would end in failure.
Once they make it to the square, they see how it has been transformed. Thanks to the new Head Peacekeeper, it is heavily guarded and it even now contains an area where convicts can be killed publicly. In the distance, a fire burns where the Hob once was. Peeta is understandingly worried about his family, and Katniss is worried about Hazelle. Katniss and Peeta run off to check on Hazelle and Peeta’s parents. Haymitch has already run off to find alcohol.
Soon after, Katniss and Peeta find Hazelle taking care of one of her children who has caught the measles. Hazelle reveals a couple of stunning truths: the mines are closed for now, and nobody wants to do business with her.
Two weeks pass all the while the mines are closed. When they do open, pay cuts occur and food shortages are plentiful. People begin getting punished for things that they never got punished for when the old Peacekeepers reigned over the district.
Gale gets better and returns home. To help Gale’s family out, Haymitch hires Hazelle to clean up his house.
With all the difficulties going on, Katniss’ mom is as busy as ever with people seeking her healer’s hands.
Katniss has her own difficulties too to deal with, like the arrival of wedding dresses. The dresses serve as the catalyst for her to trek out to the woods, something the others don’t dare to do anymore with the strictness of the Peacekeepers.
Katniss slowly makes her way to the small house at the lake, and she is almost there when she hears a weapon’s click from behind her. She turns around to find a Peacekeeper. Katniss is ready to shoot the Peacekeeper with an arrow, but the Peacekeeper, oddly, holds out a circular piece of bread. The Peacekeeper also asks Katniss not to shoot her.
by Suzanne Collins
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