Part II: “The Assault” Chapter 18 Summary Katniss and Johanna advanced to Simulated Street Combat (“the Block”) to practice missions. The scenarios are realistic, and Cressida and the crew are on hand to film propos. When Peeta shows up to join training, still guarded, Katniss worries, but Plutarch assures her that he’s there just for the cameras. …
Part II: “The Assault” Chapter 16 Summary Back in District 13’s hospital, Katniss chases Peeta through morphling dreams, hearing him say, “Always,” as he did when she took sleep syrup to dull the pain of her injured heel before the second reaping. She wakes to find that her left side hurts. Johanna plops down on Katniss’s bed …
Part II: “The Assault” Chapter 14 Summary Mountainous District 2 is large, made up of quarries, villages, and a central town; but its prize installation is a facility the rebels call “the Nut,” because it’s “tough to crack”: a “virtually impenetrable mountain that houses the heart of the Capitol’s military.” The leaders of District 2’s rebels …
Part II: “The Assault” Chapter 12 Summary Katniss knows that Peeta, Gale, or both could die on this day. Haymitch asks if she needs to be sedated. She does not; in fact, she wants to join the mission. Haymitch explains that they are long gone—and she is “too valuable and too vulnerable” to go. Understanding that she …
Part II: “The Assault” Chapter 10 Summary Katniss tries to scream, but who would hear her over the shouting in the Command room? Haymitch manages to be heard: “It’s not some big mystery!” Peeta just warned them of an attack, at great cost. Some don’t want to trust Peeta, but Coin, though she knows the Capitol is …
Part I: “The Ashes” Chapter 9 Summary Nightmares keep Katniss from sleeping, but in the morning she is released for light duty. She records audio for a propo and then heads to lunch with Gale. Still, no one has brought up the interview with Peeta with her or Finnick. Gale is working with Beetee again in weapons, …
Part I: “The Ashes” Chapter 7 Summary The hovercraft descends quickly and stays just long enough to allow the crew to exit. Gale, Boggs, and two other soldiers make up Katniss’s bodyguard. The television crew includes “a pair of burly Capitol cameramen with heavy mobile cameras encasing their bodies like insect shells,” director Cressida and her assistant, …
Part I: “The Ashes” Chapter 5 SummaryAs she soaks in soapy water, Katniss thinks through all the powerful people and groups who have forced her to subject her will to theirs: the Capitol and Snow, the Gamemakers, the rebels, and now Coin. She has “an agenda of my own,” and Coin reveals that she understands Katniss’s …
Part I: “The Ashes” Chapter 3 Summary Katniss enters her family’s compartment to see Buttercup, Prim, and her mother snuggled together much like on the morning of Prim’s first reaping. Katniss has her own bed; nightmares cause her to thrash too much to share it. That night, Katniss can’t sleep. She finds the mockingjay pin, Peeta’s locket …
Part I: “The Ashes” Chapter 1 Summary Katniss stands in the ashes of what was once her home in the Seam. Only a few moments after her arrow destroyed the Quarter Quell arena, the Capitol bombed and burned most of District 12 out of existence; only the Victors’ Village still stands, perhaps to house Capitol visitors …
