The tributes are all getting prepared for the blood battle that will partake in as soon as the gong sounds at the sixty-second mark. They don't hold the camera on Katniss for long since there are others to focus on as well so I only get a glimpse of her now and then. But in those brief shots I can see her calculating her moves. She is trying to find the best strategy that will keep her alive. The other tributes are planning as well, which makes me nervous. Hopefully Katniss will think of the better plan.
The gong finally rings out and all hell breaks loose. Katniss seemed to hesitate a little at the platform and because of that I feel her plan of action just completely diminished and now she is just going on instinct. I feel my hands clench into fist and my breath starts to run ragged. I'm so anxious that it feels like I'm the one in the games.
I can't get a clear visual of Katniss because the cameras are trying to capture all the fighting and gore that is going on between the tributes. I'm scared that at any second the camera will change to a picture of Katniss being killed by another tribute. But as the battle keeps going there is no sign of her being injured. The camera is now focused on Katniss and she has run towards some supplies that are scattered around the Cornucopia. Since she hesitated at the start of the games she can't get too close to the Cornucopia or else it's like saying she wants to die, but in the stack of resources in the Cornucopia there is a silver sheath full of arrows and a bow that must being calling out to her. That must have been what she wanted at first, yet now she can't take the risk because it's surrounded by other tributes that are wielding around dangerous looking weapons.
Instead she runs and scoops up a sheet of plastic and a loaf of bread and then goes towards a bright orange backpack at the same time the boy from District 9 goes in to grab the same bag. I see Katniss try the yank the bag from the boy's grip, but he doesn't budge. They struggle until all of a sudden the boy spurts out a mouthful of blood and he falls to the ground with eyes wide. As he falls you see a knife sticking out of his back. Katniss takes this chance to haul the bag unto her back and start to run away from the chaos.
The girl from District 2 is a couple of feet from katniss and she is clenching a half of dozen blood soaked knives in her hand. Katniss doesn't look back, but I suck in a short breath as one of the knives jams itself into the bag that's on Katniss' back. She doesn't even flinch and just like that she disappears into the woods. I can't see her any longer and now I have to painfully watch the tributes that are still at the Cornucopia fight to the death in order to get the supplies they want.
Every year watching the games never gets any easier. To think that people enjoy this makes me sick. I don't understand how this can be amusing to people. Nothing makes sense anymore. This game is nothing but a joke to the people who created it. They just want to make the districts suffer in the agony of losing not only children but they're pride and dignity.
As we watch tribute after tribute fall and take their last breath, I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief because Katniss has made it out safely. She survived what seems to be the worst, but in this game you can never really know what the worst is. Hopefully she's getting far away from this death pit. After what seems like eternity, all fighting has seized. The Cornucopia is practically picked clean of all that was necessary for survival. Bodies are now being taken away and the cannon rings out eleven times, indicating eleven deaths. The bodies may be gone, but the blood that was spilt is still visible.
I wonder what the parents of those tributes must be feeling. Here, Mrs. Everdeen is crying tears of happiness for her daughter who is still alive. Are those parents crying in remorse or are they silent with dismay? Whatever they may be feeling, I'm glad I don't have to feel that way. I am sorry for them, but right now all I want to do is celebrate.
But I know that now is not the time to celebrate because it doesn't mean Katniss is safe from harm. Right now the cameras are on the tributes of District one and two and a few other people I can't make out, but I'm guessing they are District four tributes. They seemed to be making an alliance with each other and are trying to come up with a plan to put into action. This happens all the time and is nothing knew to the viewers, but they don't switch to another tribute that is on their own, they stay on them, which makes me curious as to why they aren't leaving.
Then I see why they are focusing on the group that has decided to fight together. They are filming because among the group is Peeta. I really don't what to think or feel at this moment. This boy who confessed his love to the person I love with all my being, has now sided with the enemy.
I'm enraged. I feel the heat rising in my body. Prim who has been seating in my lap, must feel my irritation because she takes hold of my hand and gives it a tight squeeze. It jolts be back to my original self and I tell myself to breath. I concentrate on him and try to figure out his motives. Yet, no matter how much I think about why he sided with the people he should steer clear from the most, nothing practical come to mind.
If he thinks that by joining in the alliance with Districts 1, 2 and 4 will save Katniss, he is more than wrong. They will surely without a doubt stab him in the back when they get a chance and I'm speaking figuratively and literately. While they're planning Peeta only pitched in an idea now and then, but they never really took his opinions into account. That should be a sign to him that they are not people to put your trust into.
The audience in the Capitol must have started getting bored with the alliance only planning and not actually achieving anything because they move onto other tributes. The ones they focus on are not doing anything out of the ordinary and are just trying to find shelter along with food and water. They show the girl from District 5 silently creeping her way through the woods, which is full of every tree you can think of. Just by the way she is stealthy moving I can tell she is one to watch out for.
They also follow the youngest tribute Rue, from District eleven as well as the boy from the same District. Rue doesn't take the ground route, but instead travels by jumping from one tree to another. I'm amazed and so is everyone at how fluidly she can move through the air. I here Prim say," I want to learn that." And everyone shakes their head in agreement. Even though she's small, I can she is a force to be reckoned with.
The other tribute from District eleven is the exact opposite of the fragile looking Rue. Thresh is his name and he is all muscle and seemed to have the personality of a statue. However, even though he is intimidating on the outside, I feel he is someone who is not as he seems. They watch him for a bit while he sets up his camp, but after a bit they switch to the person I've been waiting to see.
Katniss seems to have been walking for quite awhile now. She wipes away sheen of sweat that rested on her forehead. She then stops walking and sits down where she was standing. She shrugs her pack off her shoulders and puts it in front of her to inspect the supplies inside. Katniss first pulls out a thin black blanket, which seems to reflect body heat. This will be a good asset for her during the harsh temperature change from day to night.
She continues and pulls out a pack of crackers, dried beef strips and bottle of iodine, wooden matches, a small coil of wire, a pair of sunglasses and a half a gallon plastic bottle that doesn't have a drop of water in it. I could see that the lack of water was taking a toll on Katniss because she looked at the water bottle with dissatisfaction.
She places her supplies back into her pack with a look of exhaustion taking over her features. It's starting to get dark and the camera doesn't let me see her next move since it shifts to another tribute that seems to be going through a mental breakdown at the moment.
Watching a kid slowly lose their insanity is all a part of the Games. There is always one who can't take the pressures and hits that it provides. This kid who I believe is from District 10 is trying to muffle his sobs by shoving his hands into his mouth. He wants to cry, but he's too scared to make noise since it could lead people to him. It's sad that our world has come to this and as much as I want it to come to an end, I can't stop it myself.
The kid has cried himself to sleep so the camera has turned black, but is quickly replaced with the seal of the Capitol and the anthem plays for while then fades out. We are about to be told the names of the tributes who have died. Here, we get a full coverage story on the way the kids from each District died. It's terrible to watch because it's brutal footage that you don't want to see twice. Eleven tributes died and we got to see the girl from District 3 get stabbed repeatedly from the girl from District 2 and the boy from District 4 get brutally beaten by the boy from one and two. The career tributes are ruthless and will do whatever it takes to win.
The boy from District 5, both tributes from 6 all perished in a harsh death that made everyone in the room fall silent with remorse. The boy from 5 was wielding around a mace and one of the tributes from district 6 was fighting back with a gun looking mechanism, which seemed to be filled with a type of poison as well as a whip. Right as the boy from 8 was about to hit the girl with the gun, the boy from 6 intervened by blocking the girl from the blow and instead got hit square on the head. The girl then pulled the trigger, which released a dart that pierced the boy's neck. The girl was about to get away, when the girl from District 2 came out of nowhere a plunged a knife into the girls neck. They all died instantly.
The tributes from 7 both died by the hands of District 1, the boy from 8, both from 9 and then the last person to show up on the screen was the girl from District 10. That means that there are only 13 left in the Games. The camera then fades out and returns back to the Games. Everyone in the room straighten up in hopes of seeing Katniss again. But instead of seeing Katniss we are following a girl tribute from I think District 8.
She has her arms wrapped around her waist, in hopes of keeping herself sheltered from the icy whip of the nights wind. You can see her whole body shiver and her teeth clatter lightly together. She falls to the ground and crawls on her hands in feet trying to find anything to keep her warm. The pack she has is nothing like the one Katniss has in her possessions. It's made out of flimsy material, which wouldn't keep anything warm. She pours out the contents inside and you see she has a box of lighters. She takes hold of them and stumbles onto her feet and goes searching for something. She picks up some twigs and that's when I realize she is going to light a fire.
I want to walk right through that T.V to where she is and shake her until she understands how idiotic lighting a fire during the night is when your in the Games. There's nothing anyone or I can do though and we have to watch as this girl signs the contract to her death. She has piled the wood together and is now proceeding to light it. She doesn't get it on the first try and I pray she won't be able to light the match. However my prayers weren't answered because on the fourth match it caught aflame and she has lit the wood. You can see the immediate relief on her face as she huddles herself next to the fire. I hope she realize being cold is better than being dead.
The heat must have started to make her sleeping since her eyelids keep shutting without her permission. She surveys the area around her and when she feels its all clear, she finally lies down on the ground and has fallen asleep just like that. The camera doesn't move away from her for a long time. It only moves to show shots of other tributes sleeping. I get a glimpse of Katniss who has made shelter in a tree. She is curled up in her sleeping bag and is invisible up in the tree. I'm proud of her for using what she does best into good use.
But the happiness is quickly diminished as we go back to the sleeping girl near the fire. It's silent and everyone in the room right now is all preparing for the worst. The careers along with Peeta appear out of thin air. The boy from District 2 signals the others to stop. He then carefully makes his way forward to the girl and then he just stands over her as if he's waiting for her to awaken. He waits and waits and the slowly the girls eyes open and go from sleepy to terrified in the spilt of a second. The other careers then rush forward and she screams. "Please. Please don't do this" is all I here before the boy from 2 takes a knife from his fellow tributes hand and thrusts it into the girls stomach.
She screams out in agony and he doesn't stop he keeps going, one stab after another. The girl keeps screaming these terrible screams, but the last scream comes out as a gurgle and blood streams from her mouth. The boy then laughs and bows to the others, who clap and say, "Twelve down and eleven more to go!" They search through her supplies and take the food she had. The boy who killed the girl says," Better clear out so they can get the body before it starts stinking." With that they walk away from the girl.
The camera then switches away from the laughing pack to Katniss who is fully awake. Even though the camera has switched to Katniss you can still hear the faint laughter of the careers and that's when I realized they're heading straight towards her. The careers stop walking and one of them perks up saying, "Shouldn't we have heard a cannon by now?" They all agree that she must not be dead because nothing else would prevent it from going off." The boy who struck her disagrees, however they dismiss him. "Someone should go back. Make sure the jobs done." More nods in agreement. The boy from 2 lashes out, " I said she's dead!"
This is when I am reminded that Peeta is among the group because he says," We're wasting time! I'll go finish her and let's move on!" After Peeta spoke the camera switches back to Katniss who face is masked with shock and to hear him among them must be so shocking to her because she rolls out of the tree.