Meeting #4 Summarizer ch. 14-17

Chapter 14

The chapter begins with Rue pointing to the Tracker Jacker nest above Katniss. Katniss decides to devise a plan to drop the nest on the Careers to escape the tree she's been trapped in. Just after Katniss decides to drop the nest on the Careers at dawn, the sponsors give her her first gift- Burn medicine, which she uses on her hands and ankle. She drops the nest on the Careers, and Peeta and a few others make it away with a few stings, but Glimmer and another girl go mad and are killed. Katniss runs away from the scene at first, then returns to retrieve the bow and arrows from Glimmer's body. Peeta returns before the other Careers and tells Katniss to run, saving her life; she'd been stung was beginning to hallucinate, and Cato was making his way back to the scene.

Chapter 15

When Katniss comes to after the Tracker Jacker incident, she wakes up in a hole she'd fallen in and several days had passed. Katniss begins to think about Gale back home, and how he suggested they run away earlier in the book. She wonders why Peeta helped her, or if he even did, because she'd been starting to hallucinate. Katniss, now with her bow and arrows is now able to really participate in the Hunger Games rather than just run and stay alive. She manages to hunt some game and sets up a small fire to cook them. She notices Rue watching her, and suggests they form an alliance. Rue accepts and shares her knowledge of the groosling (the bird Katniss was now cooking) and also treats her Tracker Jacker stings with herbs she'd picked up. Rue and Katniss spend time talking about the differences between their districts, and they learn that they aren't so different. Rue tells Katniss about the sunglasses she'd picked up in her orange backpack- they help in darkness rather than helping you see in the sun. Rue and Katniss realize the Careers probably don't know how to hunt or gather food, and that they would probably starve to death if they didn't have the food from the Cornucopia, so they plan a way to get rid of their stash.

Chapter 16
Katniss and Rue have decided to trust each other, and fall asleep in a tree side by side. They're woken up by a cannon going off, and sit down and have breakfast. They devise a plan to take out the Career's food. Rue tells Katniss all about the Career's camp, since she'd been watching them. Rue explains she loves music, and tells Katniss the mockingbird pin on her clothes is the reason she decided to trust her. Katniss decides to have Rue run around and set up campfires as distractions. Katniss and Rue seperate, and Katniss gives Rue her sleeping bag. Katniss heads to the Career's camp. She discovers the food is out in the open, with only a net to guard it against wildlife. While she observes the camp, she overhears the Career's conversation and finds out Peeta is out in the woods, badly wounded. Before the Careers run off to go 'hunt', though not using names, Cato exclaims he wants to kill Katniss. After the Careers leave, Katniss waits a while, and the foxfaced girl comes out of the bushes. She does a wierd little dance, careful with her footing and approaches the food, steals just enough that wouldn't be noticed, does her wierd little dance out and dissappears. Katniss thinks over the possibilities, and realises the ground around the food is mined. Apparentally the boy from District 3 was able to re-enable the mines from the start of the Games. Katniss struggles for a plan for a while, and then sees a bag of apples in the pile of food and gives herself three arrows to do the job. The apples spill out of the bag and Katniss is thrown back by the explosion.

Chapter 17

The blow knocks the wind out of Katniss, making her escape less than speedy. She realises she can no longer hear out of her left ear. She decides to remain hidden in the bushes next to the camp, since she's unable to move anyway. Just after she's safely hidden, Cato storms back into the camp furiousely. He quickly kills the boy from district 3 purely out of rage. At first, the Careers believe whoever destroyed their supplies to be dead, until the sky proves them wrong when only the two faces the Careers had killed appear. Katniss waits. She counts the remaining 8 tributes on her fingers, and then falls asleep among the leaves and pine needles.
When she wakes up, she can hear out of her right ear again, just not her left. She hears a laugh, and looks through the bushes to find Foxface, laughing at the destroyed supplies. She heads away from the camp, and waits for Rue at their meeting place, eating some of the food she'd hunted and gathered. She waits a few hours, and then goes to the third campfire site Rue was supposed to light. The wood is ready for a fire, but it seems it had never gotten lit. Katniss begins to get worried, and goes looking for her. Mockingbirds sing Rue's notes, telling her she's safe, but when she finds Rue she'd been caught in someone's net, she screams Katniss' name, and then a spear hits her.