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Selected for syntactic complexity (the accumulating physical details building tenderness — arms, neck, shoulder), thematic weight (the reversal of protector and protected as Prim clings to Katniss), and vocabulary density (toddler, wraps). A quiet moment of love before forced separation.
My sister and my mother come first. I reach out to Prim and she climbs on my lap, her arms around my neck, head on my shoulder, just like she did when she was a toddler. My mother sits beside me and w...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell someone what happened in this chapter in order. When you get to the most important part, slow down and tell it carefully — what happened, why it mattered, and what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- Katniss spends her goodbye time giving her mother and Prim instructions about how to survive without her — selling cheese, trading herbs, staying in school. Why does she focus on instructions instead of just saying how much she loves them? What in the story makes you think so?
- Katniss tells her mother, 'You can't leave again,' meaning she cannot shut down with sadness the way she did when their father died. Was Katniss being too harsh, or did she need to be this direct? What in the story makes you think so?
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