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Selected for vocabulary density (hunched, swollen, sunken, squat, cinder), syntactic complexity (participial phrases and sentence fragments building a cumulative portrait), thematic weight (the dehumanizing effects of poverty), and mechanical instruction value (commas in a series, contrast with 'But').
Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. Men and women with hunched shoulders, swollen knuckles, many who have l...
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Narration Prompt
In your own words, tell the story of this chapter. What were the most important moments? What made them important — and how do you know?
Discussion Questions
- Katniss describes herself as someone who learned 'to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.' What does Katniss gain by hiding her true feelings from others, and what might she lose by doing this?
- When Gale confronts Madge about having only five entries in the reaping, Katniss thinks, 'That's not her fault.' Who sees the situation more clearly — Gale, who resents the unfairness, or Katniss, who recognizes Madge did not create the system? Could they both be right in different ways?
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Something designed to discourage or prevent people from doing a particular thing
Item 2
Hidden carefully so that no one would discover or notice it
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Increasing by adding more each time, building up over time so the total keeps growing
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