Now, the cat has somehow made it from District 13 back to District 12 on foot. Katniss yells at it because the cat reminds her of Prim and she's sad about Prim's death.
Katniss saw Buttercup as another mouth to feed, so she tried to drown him in a bucket of water before Prim begged for his life. After that, Buttercup tended to hiss at her, though he stopped when she started to give him entrails from the game she hunted. Still, Katniss thought he was the ugliest cat in the world.
In the books, her little sister, Prim, had rescued a cat who she named Buttercup. Katniss thought the cat was the ugliest thing who took food away from them, and tried to scare it, make it run away, even drown it, but since Prim loved it so much, she lets her keep it.
Buttercup. Prim's cat, Buttercup, is a symbol of survival and a parallel to Katniss herself. Buttercup, though unfriendly, survives again and again, much like Katniss. He is not a particularly affectionate or attractive cat, but Prim loves and protects him, and that is enough to make Buttercup loyal and loving to Prim.
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.
Before the Capitol battle, Gale had explained to Katniss his series of bombs designed to feed off human compassion: a small bomb would go off, and then when medical aid rushed in, a second bomb would go off, killing those people as well. Incidentally, it's this exact type of bomb that took Prim's life.
Answer and Explanation: Prim is killed by a bomb at the very end of the battle. Alma Coin sees an opportunity to turn the Capitol troops against Snow, and she decides the resulting loss of life from her plan is a worthwhile price to pay.
Katniss purchased that goat after Rooba came by and said that she, in fact, didn't want the goat; then she winked at Katniss. Together, Katniss and Gale deliver the goat to Prim who was all too excited to care for it.
Author Suzanne Collins asked to have it changed to the orange variety she had described in the books. And director Francis Lawrence has followed through with the orange cat in the following two installments. Two cats were used in filming, one "mellow" actor cat for most scenes.
Katniss is told to put on her Mockingjay uniform and join Gale and Finnick for some filming of the destruction aboveground. Coin wants to make it clear that the Mockingjay lives. But Katniss can't perform for the propos because she's too upset about Peeta and grows increasingly distraught.
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.
Prim's cat is named Buttercup. He is a ragged-looking yellow cat with a surly disposition, except when it comes to Prim. Buttercup adores Prim because she rescued him and nursed him back to health. Through Prim's connection with Buttercup, Collins establishes the young girl's caring nature early in the novel.
Snow can't stand to see a young woman betray a young man's affection—his view of what happened 65 years ago. And so he takes out his old, festering wound on Katniss.
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.
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 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.
Reasoning: Yes, Gale designed a weapon, and this weapon went on and killed Prim. But this was war. Gale was trying to win, and he had no idea that Prim would be there. If I recall, he was extremely upset when he found out.
Prim's death was necessary for Katniss to see the true evil of Coin. This also allowed Katniss to hate Coin on a higher level and have a motive to kill her. Finnick's death was also necessary because he protected Katniss and the others of the Star Squad during the lizard mutt attack.
Because she doesn't want to get other people in trouble by connecting them with her illegal hunting, she says she got the money for the goat by selling her mother's old silver locket, but in reality she and Gale killed a large buck and sold it at the Hob.
Prim is Katniss' younger sister who was selected in the reaping for the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, but Katniss volunteered to serve as tribute instead. She works with her mother as a healer in District 12 to care for and cure the starving, sick, and wounded. Katniss is determined to protect Prim throughout the novel.
How many times was Prim's name entered for the reaping?
Katniss, who is sixteen, will have her name in twenty times, and Gale, who is eighteen, will have his in forty-two times. Katniss's sister, Prim, is only twelve and has taken no tesserae, so her name is only in once.
Even if Gale didn't intend to murder Prim specifically, he certainly intended to murder somebody. The two-phase bombs that he and Beetee invented were very clearly made with the intent of targeting medics and other civilians trying to save those wounded during the first phase of bombing.
No, Gale didn't kill Prim, he holds a small fraction of responsibility, Gale didn't kill Prim. Did Gale mean to kill Prim? No, Gale did not mean to kill prim but he still designed the bomb. But, although he holds a small fraction of responsibility, he never meant for Prim to get hurt.
