Katniss tries to remember that her mother must have really loved her father to leave her home to move to the Seam, but she still feels angry about the way her mother became unresponsive after the mining accident that killed Katniss's father.
Katniss makes her way to the Meadow, then through the fence that is meant to keep the people of the impoverished District 12 inside. Though it's forbidden, Katniss hunts and gathers food in the woods using the skills her father, who died in a mine explosion when she was 11, taught her.
What bothers Katniss about the boy from District 1?
She finds it hard to quit thinking about the boy from District 1 and realizes it's because he was her first true kill, the first person she took action against knowing that her strike would kill him. It bothers her to think of his friends and family and how she's hurt them, how maybe they want revenge upon her.
Why is Katniss worried at the start of the chapter?
Katniss spends the rest of the day crying on her bed. She believes that the Gamemakers will punish her for what she's done, that they'll make her an Avox and cut out her tongue. She imagines all of the possible scenarios, but is most fearful that the Capitol people will go after Prim and her mother.
Her father died when she was 11 from a mine explosion. She meets Gale, her close friend. They catch fish and trade them for bread and salt. It is the reaping for the Hunger Games: treated like a festive event.
Katniss has a conflicted relationship with her mother. Following her father's death, her mother fell into deep depression and now rarely speaks. As a result, Katniss has a difficult time feeling love and affection for her mother, even as she recognizes that her mother is a kind and intelligent woman.
Katniss remembers the hunting skills he taught her. She refers to his book for instructions on the plants she can eat. Her father's influence is seeped into every page when she is hunting in the woods.
When Peeta talks about how he hopes someone else will kill Thresh, Katniss starts to cry because she doesn't want anyone else to die, which is unacceptable from a tribute in the Hunger Games. Instead, she disguises her tears as homesickness.
Katniss is at first so angry with Peeta for his comments, believing that he made her look weak, that when they get off on floor 12, she shoves him. He knocks an urn over, shattering it, and then falls and cuts his hands on the shards.
Katniss comes close to crying, something she knows she mustn't do because it would indicate weakness to the other tributes and make her look vulnerable; thankfully, Haymitch distracts the crowd and the cameras by stumbling off stage.
Then she hears Rue scream. Katniss, disregarding her own safety, yells Rue's name and sprints into a clearing. Rue, tangled in a net, says Katniss' name just before the spear enters Rue's body. Cato has already expressed multiple times that he wants to be the one to kill Katniss.
Before the girl was taken, she locked eyes with Katniss and called out for help, and Katniss still feels guilty for doing nothing to help her. Katniss was a bystander, as if watching the Hunger Games herself.
How does Katniss feel in the beginning of the book?
At the start of the book, Katniss is in a very tenuous place. She's devastated at the consequences of her actions, although she's relieved to hear Prim survived the bombing of District 12. She discovers that District 13 isn't quite the wasteland she was led to believe.
Katniss and Peeta Win The Hunger Games | The Hunger Games - YouTube. Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley) revokes the rule allowing two victors from the same district to win, giving Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) the idea to eat nightlock berries at the same time.
Often, he would stare at her in school. Sometimes Katniss would make eye contact with him, only for his eyes to quickly flit away. During an interview with Caesar Flickerman preceding the Games, Peeta admits on national television to having a long-standing crush on Katniss.
Katniss made the choice to build her future with Peeta. If she didn't love him, she wouldn't have made that choice. Katniss made her whole world about getting the people she cared about to the next day, her choice to survive with Peeta proves her love for him.
Katniss's focus on survival and her family's safety prevented her from fully considering romance, but her feelings for Peeta and Gale diverged in the end. Katniss ultimately chose Peeta because he understood her trauma and she didn't want to lose him, proving her love for him.
Gale and Katniss' kiss is representative of the ongoing struggle between them, including their trying to reconcile their past with their present. Gale remembers that the last time Katniss kissed him was after he'd been lashed by a Peacekeeper.
It's only implied that they get it on via snuggling and other affectionate acts in close quarters — but if you have read the book, they really imply that they took their relationship to the next level.
During the interviews for the 75th Hunger Games, Peeta lied about Katniss being pregnant to try to protect her from the Games, and Katniss later stated that she miscarried due to an electric shock in the arena to avoid further questioning.
Many years later, Katniss and Peeta are parents to a daughter and a son. For nearly fifteen years, Katniss was hesitant about having children even though Peeta has wanted children for all those years.
