Chapter's 14-16 Questions

 Chapter 14

1. Who helps Katniss escape from the Careers? How?

       A girl named Rue helps her. She doesn't say much at first when she comes. But then Rue told Katniss of the tracker jackers on the branch. Which Katniss later drops on top of the careers. But also getting stung herself.

2. What does Haymitch send Katniss?

       Haymitch gives her a medical ointment  for the burns she got from the fire. Which helps her when she's cutting the branch with the tracker jacker's nest on it.

3. What does Katniss get from Glimmer's body? Why is this so important to her? 

     Katniss gets the bow and arrows that Glimmer had gotten. There important to her because it is an advantage she has.She can take out careers with it from a far. And she can hunt with it now. So now she has an actual chance at winning unlike before where she only had a knife.

4. What does Peeta do when he finds her?

       He tells her to run because the other careers where coming behind him.Which is weird because he was suppose to be helping the careers. So maybe he isn't that evil like Katniss thought at first when she saw him with them. 

5. What are the effects of the tracker jackers stings on Katniss?

     The stings injected a venom into her. The venom affected her in the brain making her have illusions of her worst fears like Prim dieing which she saw countless times while she was poisoned. It also made her feel weak and  wobbly. Then after a while the stings will swell up.

 QUOTES

 "Given my circumstances, I guess it doesn't matter what type of wasp nest it is. I'm wounded and trapped." (pg 186)

"Oh Haymitch, I whisper. Thank you . He has not abandoned. Not left me to fend entirely for myself" (pg 188)

" I trip and fall into a small pit lined with orange bubbles that hum like that tracker jacker nest. Tucking my knees up to my chin I wait for death." (pg 194) 

"Peeta Mellark just saved my life. Then the ants bore into my eyes and  I out." (pg 194)

Chapter 15

1. Who forms an alliance with Katniss?

 She teamed up with Rue the twelve year old girl from district ll.

2. How does this alliance benefit both parties?

Katniss knew how to hunt animals with her bows. She could set up snares. Rue knew of some medical plants. She knows some good hiding places. Also she knew how to send messages through mocking birds

3. What are some differences between District 11 and District 12?

 In district eleven the death penalty is more serious. Like the kid who took some night vision glasses. Or when a person steals food from the farms. In district twelve when Katniss hunts she gives the peacekeepers meat and it is okay 

QUOTES
1."You know they're not the only ones who can form alliances, I say. For a moment, no response. Then one of Rue's eyes edges around the trunk. You want me for an ally." (pg 200)

2."Watch. the closer we get to the end, the more people will realize how clever you are." (pg 201)

3."They don't need to. They have all those supplies, Rue says.Say they didn't. Say the supplies were gone. How long would they last? I say. I mean it's the hunger Games right." (pg 206)

4."An offensive plan I think we're going to have fix that Rue" (pg 207)

Chapter 16

1. What is Katniss' offensive attack?

     She said she was going to destroy the careers supplies. Which would be an offensive attack because she attacking them instead of waiting for them to attack her.

2. In what ways are the Careers at a disadvantage?

     The careers were always well fed. So they don't know how to feed themselves. If they have no food supply they can starve.Which is why Katniss is going to try to destroy their food supplies.

3. What important information does Rue provide? 

       She tells Katniss that there are supplies near the lake the careers are at. There stacked up in a pyramid surrounded by crates. When the careers leave they leave the boy from district 3 in guard with a spear. But he isn't near it much for a reason. hen that there is a good hiding spot near the lake where the careers can't see you.

4. What is Rue's favorite thing? How does this connect to Katniss?

    Her favorite thing is music. Rue likes to sing with the mocking birds in her farm. It connects with Katniss because sang with the same birds with her dad. Then they both know they can mimic notes you sing.

5. Why can't Katniss get to the bounty of supplies? How is she able to destroy it? 

      She can't get Some supplies because they placed mines around it. They were put there by the boy that was guarding it. She destroyed the supplies because she shot some arrows at a sack of apples hanging on the basket. Then when it fell it blew up a mine that triggered the others.

Quotes

• "Today we take out the careers' food. I say. Really? How? You can see the glint of excitement in her eyes." (pg 210) 

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• "Don't worry I'll think of something. Destroying things is much easier than making them." (pg 211)

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• "My proximity to the careers' camp sharpens my senses, and the closer I get to listen to them, and the more guarded I am, pausing frequently to listen for unnatural sounds, an arrow fitted into the string of my bow." (pg 214)

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• "For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air." (pg 221)