The biggest problem that the main character Katniss has is trying to stay alive.
Katniss is constantly faced with challenges that involve life or death situations, and how she handles them can win her the Hunger Games. When all the tributes were sent to the terrain, everybody was faced with life or death. You either run for the weapons and materials that could help you win the game and face everybody else that is trying to run for the same thing, or you run away and hide, and not have any materials that could help you survive.
When reading more into the book, Katniss is faced with more problems, and she finds out that Peeta had joined an alliance with other Districts. She is being shot down with fireballs, that are controlled by the Game makers, who lure tributes together to cause a fight. After being hit with one, she has a minor burn on her leg that is enough to put her in pain everytime she takes a step.
Katniss immediately climbed up a tree so that she could hide, and in the end the alliance found her. They could not reach her, they figured she wouldn't stay up there forever, so they set camp. Luckily Haymitch found sponsors to provide Katniss with a medicine to treat her burns, but now she is surrounded by tributes that want to take her life.
Katniss had found a nest of "Tracker Jackers" and they were sedated from all the smoke. The jackers were just waking up. She had a decision to make, either saw off the branch and risk being stung by the wasps, and have a chance of survival, or stay up there and have a small chance of survival. So she started to saw, and at the final moment the branch fell off, the wasps started to wake.
The nest hit the ground and the angry nest started to look for prey. The alliances started to run off, but two were not so lucky. When stung multiple times they started to twitch hysterically on the ground for a few minutes, and than they would start to swell, and ooze. Two tributes were killed, and the rest were stung only a few times, and survived.
Fortunately, Katniss was only stung 3 times, before the nest had crashed to the floor. She started to become woozy, and green liquid started to ooze out of the places that the stingers were. She started to enter a nightmare, she sees Prim die, reliving her fathers death, her body being ripped apart, ants begin to crawl out of the her blisters, and she is covered with them. This is the effect of the venom that the Tracker Jackers carry. To target the fear that lives in your brain.
So she was able to escape and survive, this was one of the biggest challenges that she faced, and she was able to overcome the problem, even though she was injured, and weak.
Do you think that you could ever survive in this type of game, being chased by tributes who want to kill you, being shot down, constantly hungry, thirsty, resting and not knowing if you will survive or not?
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No i couldnt handle that!
ReplyDeletei mean if it was to stay alive of course your going to try and fight! its for your life!
I agree I couldn't handle that either. I don't think I can survive in that game.
ReplyDeleteI dont think I could survive in a game like this but that would not stop me from trying to fight for my life.
ReplyDeleteThough the chances of surviving are slim to none, I would fight for my life. Even though I would not have supplies, I would try to get away from all of them. I would try and make some weapons which could have helped me. In the end I don't think I would survive unless I was to have an alliance.
ReplyDeletewell that is a very good question,to deal with these things you would have to be able to do as little as posible with a high amout of effectiveness and still be able to protect your self. And all that is really hard, I don’t think anyone except Rambo would be able to over come these disadvantages easily.
ReplyDeletethough it would be very hard, i would try my best to survive for as long as possible. i would try not to get myself involved with something like that in the first place.
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