Catching Fire – Chapter 1 Summary
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Katniss and Peta – and all the others from the
team – have to go on the Victory Tour. Visiting all the other 11 Districts.
Which Katniss doesn’t like because she is forced to because she has to remember
the one girl she partnered up with in the Hunger Games (she got killed in the
Hunger Games)
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Katniss is forced to be part – again – of the
Capitol’s media manipulation. President Snow is the head of the Capitol. He is
a wicked man and nobody likes him.
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Katniss wants to leave all the memories – of the
Hunger Games – behind her. Go back to her ‘old life’. It isn’t possible
anymore, because she is ‘owned’ by the Capitol.
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Her hunting friend Gale (Katniss used to go
hunting with him illegally) is still very poor and because Katniss won the last
Hunger Games has a better life than him. She lives where – if tributes win of
the District – get to live there. Even though she has got a new life, she still
goes hunting in the woods. When she gets back, she always goes to Gale’s Family
house and brings them her catch.
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She never thought that she would win the Hunger
Games, but she did. She does like it on one side; but on the other she doesn’t.
She misses the old times – the time before she had to go into the Hunger Games –
when she and Gale hunted every Saturday/Sunday. She misses having a lot more
freedom.
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She never thought that the Hunger Games could
change Gale and her ‘special friendship’ so much.
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In the first book of the Hunger Games, Peeta and
Katniss only get saved because they pretend to be in love. They aren’t really,
and both Peeta and Katniss have to face a lot of problems; a problem like
camera people always there to film them, and lots more.
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At the end of the Chapter, President Snow visits
her house. He forces her to continue acting as if she was in love with Peeta.
That’s the way he manipulates the whole population, showing everybody that
everything is ‘perfect’ and that there aren’t any problems. President Snow
tells Katniss, if she won’t do it, her family would get harmed. She assures him
that she won’t do anything that could harm her, her family of the Capitol.
