Lit Role: Summarizer, 02/01, Ch.10-13

Ch.10 starts out with PEEta confessing to Katniss infront of live TV as part of a plan to make her and Peeta more popular at the interview. Katniss is completely shocked/angry by his supposedly fake affection towards her, but eventually agrees that it works in their favor. Just before the two are sent off into the games, Cinna gives Katniss the mockingjay brooch that she lost on the train, and the hunger games begin.

Katniss, feeling she's competent to reach the conch that holds all the supplies before anyone else, aims for it. But before she can start she gets distracted by Peeta's unnaccepting gaze and has to resort to grabbing the orange bag in front of her. She grabs the pack at the same time another boy does, but he has no chance of receiving the pack because he gets stabbed in the back by another tribute. She then runs away from the girl pursuer with the knives and sets up camp in a tree for the night. In the night a girl tribute lights a fire, calling on the carreers to come hunt her down. Unable to move from her tree, Katniss stays there and finds that not only did the careers come and kill the girl, but Peeta formed an alliance with them. Katniss feels a hint of betrayal by Peeta and is confused as to why he would join them.

Later, the careers are in pursuit of Katniss when she climbs a tree and leaves the others on the ground to form a plan to capture her. In the middle of the night she finds that Rue, the 12 year-old tribute, is in the tree next to her pointing to something above Katniss' head. It's a venomous bees nest that she then uses to drop onto the careers campsite so she can escape.
end of Ch.13