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Katniss returns to the remnants of her old home briefly to see what remains of District Twelve. The Capitol destroyed Katniss’ old home district when a new rebellion took place during the last Quarter Quell competition. Now, Katniss takes refuge at the center of the rebellion, District Thirteen.
While she walks about District Twelve, Gale follows her from a hovercraft above. He offered her his company as she searched the ground; however, Katniss would prefer to see her old home by herself. She walks forward, towards a familiar road that leads into town. As she goes along, she is haunted by the remains of the victims of the firebombing. She believes it was her actions that lead to their deaths.
During the Quarter Quell, Katniss rebelled against the Capitol by using one well-aimed arrow to destroy the entire arena where the Quell was taking place. At the sight of this act of defiance, the majority of Panem rose up in their own rebellion against the Capitol. Katniss’ home and its inhabitants were destroyed out of retribution from the Capitol.
Katniss knows that some of the District Twelve inhabitants escaped to District Thirteen, yet she still feels guilt at the thought of them losing their homes.
To make matters more complicated was the fact that District Twelve did not even rebel. The only crime District Twelve committed was the fact that it was the home of Katniss Everdeen.
Immediately following the fiasco at the Quarter Quell, hoverplanes reigned over the sky of District Twelve and bombed it to smithereens. Luckily, Gale was able to usher out some of its inhabitants to the Meadow and from there they moved to a lake in the forest. The lake was a secret spot that Katniss once shared with Gale. Eventually, all survivors were found by District Thirteen and they were taken there to the underground shelters. The survivors are now well taken care of in District Thirteen.
District Thirteen has an ulterior motive, though, as to why they eagerly accepted these new refugees. As Katniss recollects, a refugee who came to Thirteen from District Ten told Katniss of a plague that devastated District Thirteen years back, killing many people. Now, they’re more than eager to replenish their population’s losses with new people.
Katniss, who had been lost in thought, has by now made it into town. When she makes it to the bakery that Peeta’s parents owned, she unveils the fate of Peeta’s family: they are all dead.
Katniss then begins to worry about Peeta and his current whereabouts. In mental anguish, she departs from the middle of the town and she finds her way to the Victor’s Village. This is the area of District Twelve where she once lived with the other victors of the Hunger Games, Peeta and Haymitch. Her old home has not been destroyed and she finds her way inside of it.
Once inside, Katniss begins to ponder her options. People now want Katniss to become the voice and the persona behind the rebellion. She seems to be feeling great pressure from Alma Coin, the president of District Thirteen to act this part.
Beetee and Finnick, the other victors who were rescued from the arena, could not play the part of the voice of the rebellion like Katniss could. Beetee, who rigged the wire that helped bring down the Quarter Quell arena, is older, a bad orator, and too focused on building weapons. Finnick, who helped save the life of Peeta during the Quell, is facing physical and mental strain that keeps him asleep most of the day.
Without these two other victors to be the voice of the rebellion, all the pressure is on Katniss’ shoulders. Katniss fears, though, that she might end up causing death or injury to more people if she were to take on the role. She’s tried to do so before and it just led to things such as the destruction of District Twelve and the probable death of her friend Cinna.
Katniss’ flow of thoughts is interrupted by an appearance of a District Twelve survivor, Prim’s cat. Buttercup somehow survived the bombing. Katniss coaxes Buttercup over and puts her inside her old hunting bag. Then, she makes her way to her room to grab her dad’s old jacket from her closet.
Katniss is stunned to find a white rose in her room. It’s a fresh rose that must have been placed in her room recently. She instinctively knows that President Snow must have somehow left it there for her.
Katniss quickly makes it back onboard the hovercraft. She doesn’t mention the rose to anybody, but now she is tormented by her fear of President Snow’s revenge on her.
MOCKINGJAY -- CHAPTER 1
BROWSE CONTENTS
by Suzanne Collins
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