Dialectical Journal #21: Catching Fire

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “When I swim back into semiconsciousness, I can feel I’m lying on a padded table. There’s the pinching sensation of tubes in my left arm. They are trying to keep me alive because if I slide quietly, privately into death, it will be a victory. I’m still largely unable to move, open my eyelids, raise my head… yet I manage to swing my arm around until I rip the tubes out. A beeping goes off but I can’t stay awake to find out who it summons ·         The next time I surface, my hands are tied down to the table, the tubes back in my arm…. Directly across from me I see Beetee with about 10 different machines hooked up to him. Just let us die! I scream in my mind. I slam my head back hard on the table and go out again."	·         382	·         (R) 1) WHERE IS PEETA???? ·         2) Even though I know Katniss must be scared out of her mind, being picked up by a hovercraft that she believes is filled with capital witches and all, but I can’t help feel she’s taking things a bit too far. Slamming your head on a table? Really? Then again, on top of all the stuff that’s happening around her, PEETA IS MISSING! Suzanne Collins can never leave that boy alone! It’s not fair! I wish Katniss would stop being sick and crazy and go find him. I mean, where would this story be without the boy with the bread?