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Selected for rhetorical sophistication (the dramatized inner dialogue between conscious analysis and intuitive knowledge), thematic weight (the chapter's most important interpretive moment), and the syntactic structure that enacts the work of figuring something out by question and answer.
Despite my anger, hatred, and suspicions, a small voice in the back of my head whispers an answer. Maybe he's sending you a message, it says. A message saying what? Then I know there's only one good r...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Summarize this chapter, then explain what you think the author most wanted the reader to notice or feel. What techniques did the author use?
Discussion Questions
- Collins constructs Haymitch's withholding of water as a piece of dramatic irony — the reader recognizes the message before Katniss does, but Katniss eventually figures it out. Examine the staging. Why does the author make Katniss go through the entire process of anger, hatred, suspicion, and exhaustion before she arrives at the correct interpretation? What is the author teaching about the relationship between desperation and insight?
- Katniss has now received three pieces of evidence about Peeta in the arena: he was bandaged and limping (i.e., he fought at the Cornucopia despite Haymitch's instructions), he is with the Careers, and he has not told them about her bow skill. Examine her interpretation of this evidence. Why does Katniss persist in reading Peeta as a traitor when the evidence supports a more complex reading?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Required to answer for actions or failures, with the implication that consequences will follow from the answer
Item 2
To lose so much body water that physiological function progressively deteriorates; the slow death Katniss is racing against in this chapter
Item 3
In a state of confusion that resists resolution because the mind cannot find a framework adequate to the available evidence
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