The Hunger Games: Chapters 19-21

Chapter 19 Summary:

Kat regrets calling out Peeta’s name
She guesses that the audience must love the “star-crossed lovers” story so much, which is why they changed the rules
Kat goes to sleep
She wants to find Peeta
She starts a fire to distract others to go to it, and she heads off toward the stream to track down Peeta
She sees blood on a rock, and some fabric
Finds Peeta, lying in mud under leaves, completely camouflaged, leg badly injured, he can’t move
Kat rolls him to river bank, slowly cleans him up
He doesn’t want to eat, she makes him
Kat tries to fix his leg as best she can
They walk 50 yards, he can’t go any further
They find a cave, Kat puts Peeta in sleeping bag in cave
He’s talking like he’s going to die, she tells him to stop
She kisses him (her first kiss)
Parachute comes down with a pot of broth
Kat understands that one kiss = one pot of broth
She kisses Peeta awake

Chapter 20 Summary:

Peeta eats some more, falls asleep, Kat keeps watch
Next morning, Kat tends to his wounds, then she goes to sleep
Peeta’s fever breaks, but his leg looks bad – blood poisoning
Kat decides to make soup, Peeta doesn’t want her to light a fire
Kat goes to stream – finds hot rocks in the sun, puts them in pot and makes a soup, goes back to Peeta in the cave
Peeta asks her to tell him a story – she tells him how she got Prim’s goat “Lady” – she tells Peeta that she sold her mother’s locket to get the goat. The real story was that Gale and Kat shot arrows at a buck, and sold it to the butcher, then bought an injured goat, and Kat’s mom and Prim got him healthy.
Suddenly, they hear Claudius Templesmith inviting them for a feast
Kat doesn’t want to go, then Claudius announces that they all need something desperately (medicine for Peeta’s leg)
Kat wants to go, Peeta wants to go with her
Silver parachute comes down – a vial of sleep syrup
Kat mashes berries, mint leaves and syrup, goes back to Peeta, gives him the “sugar berries”
He questions them, and at his 3^rd mouthful he realizes it’s really sleep syrup, he gives Kat an evil look, then he loses consciousness.

Chapter 21 Summary:

Kat camouflages Peeta in cave, prepares her weapons, water
Crawls back into cave with Peeta, doesn’t want to sleep, afraid she’ll miss dawn
She sets off for arena, no one’s there at first
A table with backpacks pops up in front of cornucopia with the District’s numbers on them. Kat’s is tiny and orange
Foxface then jumps out of cornucopia, grabs hers, runs off into the woods – clever
Kat runs in for hers next. A knife comes at her, she deflects it with her bow, shoots a bow at Clove’s heart, she turn and it hits her arm instead
Kat now gets a 2^nd knife in the forehead (from Clove). Clove pins her down, taunts her with talk of Peeta and Rue
Kat calls out to Peeta, nothing. Clove knows he’s not guarding her
Clove starts to put her knife in Kat’s mouth (to kill her), and suddenly she’s being lifted off of Kat by Thresh
Clove shouts out to Cato (ally), but he’s too far away
Thresh hits Clove’s head with a rock, she dies
Thresh learns that Clove killed Rue, which is likely why he killed her. He also discovers that Kat tried to help Rue, so he spares her life, says they’re even
Thresh tells Kat to run, she does
Thresh takes his own backpack, and Cato’s backpack as well
Kat goes back to Peeta (with tiny backpack)
Inside backpack is a needle, and she gives Peeta a shot.

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