History. Some time after her father's death, Katniss worked up the courage to go under the fence and retrieve the small bow and arrows her father had made her. Within a few hours, she managed to shoot a rabbit. Katniss later met Gale in the woods and taught him how to shoot, eventually giving him one of her bows.
When Katniss was a child, her father would bring her out into the woods, beyond District 12 to teach her how to hunt with a bow and arrow, as well as how to forage for edible plants. He would sometimes bring her to a lake far into the woods where she learned how to swim.
Notably, she is responsible for feeding her family, which she does by hunting and foraging, skills she learned from her father before his death in a mine explosion years earlier. Hunting, however, is illegal and punishable by death. Katniss does it anyway, indicating a rebellious streak in her.
According to Katniss's memory, Mr. Everdeen was an amazing man, who liked to sing, swim, hunt, and had a very level head. He taught Katniss all of these things, and many songs as well.
Summary: Chapter 7. It is the first day of training. For three days, the twenty-four tributes will all practice together, then on the final afternoon they perform in private in front of the Gamemakers, the officials who run the Games.
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.
Katniss is escorted into the Justice Building and left in a room. Her mother and sister are brought in to say their goodbyes, and Katniss makes her mother promise not to fall apart again. She tells them she loves them as they're led out. Peter Mellark's father, the baker, comes in.
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.
Answer and Explanation: Gale is eighteen in The Hunger Games, two years older than Katniss. Since the citizens of the Districts cannot be selected after they turn nineteen, this is the last year when Gale can be chosen as a Tribute.
Though her family is now very wealthy and has plenty of food to eat due to her having won the Hunger Games, Katniss still illegally hunts every day in the woods outside of District 12 because she needs to provide food for Gale's family.
A gun is a firearm designed to be used by an individual. Guns are never used in the Hunger Games—because they would give the wielder an unfair advantage—but are instead used by Peacekeepers and the Panem military. They are manufactured in District 2, which is also where most Peacekeepers and soldiers come from.
The next morning, they head out to hunt, but Peeta is loud and scares away all of the animals, so they separate. He goes to gather roots and berries, while Katniss searches for prey. They work out a bird whistle to signal one another that they're okay, and when Peeta doesn't answer, Katniss runs to find him.
After she is selected twice to be in the games and survives, she teaches her readers the importance of courage, nerve, and never, ever compromising yourself or your beliefs. It is one of the only pieces of advice Katniss' Hunger Games mentor, Haynitch, imparts to her.
Who is the first person Katniss intentionally kills?
Katniss kills Glimmer, Marvel, and Cato in The Hunger Games. Glimmer's death occurs by chance. Katniss drops a tracker jacker nest on the Career Tributes' camp while they are sleeping, and Glimmer is stung to death before she can get away. Marvel is the first person that Katniss intentionally kills.
District 12 has the most Hunger Games victors, with five winners, including Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, and Lucy Gray. Finnick Odair is the youngest winner in history, winning at just 14 years old.
Peeta is the same age as Katniss, making him 16 years old in The Hunger Games and 17-18 in Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Peeta is of "medium height, stocky build" and has "ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead." He has blue eyes.
The only information the audience has about Katniss' future is that she and Peeta have a child together 15 years after their experiences in the Rebellion (at 33 years old) and that five years later, they have a second child.
Katniss feels betrayed, most of all by Haymitch, who used her and Peeta. Eventually she wakes to find Gale there. He's badly injured and tells her the Capitol bombed District 12 after the Games. He got Prim and Katniss's mother out in time, but the District 12 is gone.
He became a blithering drunk because the woman he loves was now certain she felt nothing, eventually falling for and marrying the coal miner Mr. Everdeen. Both Haymitch and Mrs. Everdeen knew who Katniss' real father is, which is why Haymitch is so protective of her even before she is the Mockingjay.
In the 74th Hunger Games, Clove was the only Career tribute who came close to killing Katniss twice — at the Bloodbath and at the Feast, and certainly seemed to have a deep hatred for her, perhaps because Katniss received a higher score than her.
What are the two gifts Katniss is unexpectedly given?
The gift of cookies from the baker symbolizes a fondness that he holds for Katniss' family, foreshadowing facts about Peeta's father that Katniss will learn later in the novel. The mockingjay that Madge gives Katniss symbolizes many things.
In the end, Katniss and Gale grew apart, as many childhood friends and young loves do. She needed something different in her life, and with Gale's link to Primrose's death, Katniss found a reason to cut ties. If Katniss ever wanted to find comfort again, she knew she had to return to Peeta for the long term.
