Dialectical Journal #20: Catching Fire

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “As we near the force field, Finnick suggests I take the lead. ‘Katniss can hear the force field,’ he explains to Beetee and Johanna. ·         ‘Hear it?’ asks Beetee ·         ‘Only with the ear the capital reconstructed,’ I say. Guess who I’m not fooling with that story? Beetee. Because surely he remembers that he showed me how to spot a force field, and probably it’s impossible to hear force fields anyway. But, for whatever reason, he doesn’t question my claim.”	·         362	·         (R) I’m curious to why Beetee didn’t question Katniss on the “super hearing” she seems to have. He seems like the type that would take any opportunity they had to learn something new. Perhaps he was smart enough to figure out that Katniss wanted to keep the ability to see force fields a secret. I’m not exactly sure why she wants to keep it a secret, anyway. Maybe just so she can have something on the Capital that they don’t know about, like how to make out force fields.