Dialectical Journal #37: Mockingjay

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch because he loves Peeta too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he’s there, holding me and patting me on the back. ‘It’s okay. It’ll be okay, sweetheart.’ He sits me on a length of broken marble and keeps an arm around me while I sob. ·         ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ I say. ·         ‘I know,’ he says. ·         ‘All I can think of is -what he’s going to do to Peeta- because I’m the Mockingjay!’ I get out. ·         ‘I know.’ Haymitch’s arm tightens around me. ·         ‘Did you see him? How weird he acted? What are they-doing to him?’ I’m gasping for air between sobs but manage to one last phrase. ‘It’s my fault!’”…	163	·         (R) It’s about time that chick took responsibility for her actions! Even though, it’s very hard to stay angry with her when she’s bawling her eyes out. It must be hard though. If she doesn’t help the rebels, the resistance might flicker out and all of the citizens of Panem will go back to doing the wretched things they were doing before. If she does go along with the rebels a plan (which is what she’s doing) anyone with any connection to her will be punished severely. They bombed her whole district. They punish the man she “loves” and then force him to do talk shows just to rattle her. Though I don’t like Katniss very much most of the time, I have to admit that she is in a really horrible situation, even if she isn’t getting tortured by the Capitol like my Peeta.