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CATCHING FIRE -- CHAPTER 10
Upon closer inspection, Katniss sees that there’s a mockingjay printed on the piece of bread. Another female Peacekeeper appears behind Katniss and then the truth is revealed. These two women aren’t true Peacekeepers. The women are escapees of District Eight who stole the uniforms they wear. Their names are Twill and Bonnie. Apparently, they left the rebelling district to head to District Thirteen.
Katniss has a bag full of food that she shares with the two escapees. The food was intended for her hungry friends in District Twelve, but she decides to give all of it up to help out these women.
As they eat, Twill and Bonnie share their story. Twill, a teacher, and Bonnie, her student, worked a second job at a factory where Peacekeeper uniforms were created. At the factory, Bonnie was able to steal their current uniforms piece by piece. Apparently, whispers of rebellion were spreading in the district and Twill and her husband had planned to sneak out to spread news of the rebellion to other districts.
When everybody was out and about one night, the night they were forced to watch Caesar Flickerman interviewing Katniss and Peeta, the rebellion began. The rebels took over important buildings in District Eight and they overwhelmed the Peacekeepers. However, new Peacekeepers came in from the Capitol and the rebellion was quickly squashed. People who were deemed to have started things were killed. The factory where Bonnie and Twill worked was even blown up with everybody inside since that’s where the idea of the rebellion began. Bonnie and Twill were fortunately not there at the time of the explosion, but they lost loved ones in the blast.
With their loved ones gone, the two escaped in their stolen Peacekeeper uniforms. They are moving on towards District Thirteen because they have a hunch that there is more there than what the Capitol has led them to believe. The Capitol continually uses old footage of District Thirteen after its destruction to make people aware of what the Capitol is capable of. They know it’s the same footage because in it the same mockingjay continuously flies by in the same route. Seventy-five years has passed since District Thirteen was demolished, so the district might have been rebuilt, perhaps underground. District Thirteen also had an advantage over other districts; its specialty, the thing that they made, was nuclear power. If they had rebuilt, the Capitol wouldn’t want to mess with a district with nuclear capabilities.
Katniss believes the two girls’ story about District Thirteen is complete science fiction. However, Katniss helps the two by teaching Twill how to hunt, by making a crutch for Bonnie (Bonnie twisted her ankle because her Peacekeeper boots are too big), and by teaching them how to make a good fire.
On the way home, Katniss realizes that no matter how much pretending she did during the Victory Tour, the uprising in District Eight could not have been prevented; also, she realizes that President Snow must have known this.
Katniss finally gets to the fence that borders her home district. Just before she goes underneath it she realizes that the electric fence is actually operational.
by Suzanne Collins
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