The Hunger Games - Dangerous Love

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The Hunger Games - Dangerous Love (original title: Catching Fire ) is the second volume of the three-part The Hunger Games series of novels by Suzanne Collins .

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Part 1 - The spark

After the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to District 12, plagued by nightmares . Both move with their families into a house in the village of the winner , which exists in each district. Katniss and Peeta are on the Tour of the Winners , where they visit each district to celebrate their victory in the Hunger Games. Again, it is a compulsory course. Before the tour, however, Katniss receives a visit from President Snow, the most powerful person in Panem. He fears that Katniss' “berry trick”, with which she changed the rules of the game in the Capitol and thus undermined its power, could lead to uprisings in the districts. Snow threatens her with killing all those she loves, should she fail to convince him of her love for Peeta on the tour.

With this knowledge she prepares for the tour of the winners . She receives support from her mentor Haymitch as well as the stylist Cinna and his crew. Katniss and Peeta take the train to their first stop on the tour, District 11, Rues and Thresh's home.

During the ceremony in Council Square in District 11, she addressed words of thanks to the people. In appreciation, an older man whistles the tune Rue whistled to keep Katniss safe. This acts as a signal to the residents, they greet Katniss with the gesture with which she said goodbye to the dead Rue. At the end of the ceremony the tributes are taken away, but Katniss and Peeta accidentally learn that peacekeepers are shooting the old man who blew the whistle. Two more shots are fired, the victims of which are unknown. Scared of the effects of their behavior during the Games and their words to District 11, the two winners continue the tour and notice the popular dissatisfaction with the Capitol building slowly. In an interview, Peeta tries to settle the dispute that has arisen between Katniss and President Snow. Peeta asks Katniss to marry him, and the president promises them a wedding in the Capitol.

Back in District 12, she tries to persuade Gale to go into the wild with her families, Haymitch and Peeta. Although Gale confesses his love to Katniss, he is later no longer convinced of it. He doesn't want to run away from the problems in the district, especially with Peeta. Surveillance in the district has been tightened to nip unrest in the bud. This is also related to a change in the Supreme Peacekeeper. Gale is later almost whipped to death by the new peacekeeper . Then the hob (a black market ) is burned down, working hours are extended, wages are cut and, in general, the laws are enforced much more strictly. For this purpose, various instruments are placed in the central square, including a. a pillory and a gallows . After a short time, the fence surrounding the district will also be permanently energized.

Part 2 - The jubilee

This year the 75th Hunger Games are coming up, which should be celebrated as an anniversary. That is why the tributes are chosen from among the winners of previous games. For Katniss this means, as the only female winner from District 12, that she has to go to the arena again. Haymitch is drawn as a male tribute, but Peeta volunteers to protect Katniss in the arena. However, this has the opposite goal, so she concludes an agreement with Haymitch, according to which this time they will both try - inside and outside - to save Peeta.

The procedure for the opening of the games from the first volume is repeated below. However, they hardly find allies among the other winners during training, as the two have very different ideas on this point. The organizers rate your chances of victory as almost certain. Those in charge hope that all tributes will pounce on Katniss and Peeta first in order to eliminate the greatest competition. In the last interview before the games, Peeta once again managed to pull the audience to his side when he claims that he and Katniss have long been married and that she is expecting a child from him.

Shortly before the start of the games the next day, Katniss watched on her way into the arena, as Cinna, who she staged as a symbol of the revolution - the bird called Mockingjay - is beaten half to death. However, it cannot do anything through the glass dome that encloses it and shortly afterwards it is already in the arena, a circular area that consists of water inside and is surrounded by a ring of land with dense jungle. As expected, the games turn out to be particularly brutal, not only because all tributes are very capable in their own way, but also because of the particularly frequent external dangers controlled by the playmakers. Peeta and Katniss join Finnick and Mags (an 80 year old woman). Mags dies in the first night from a "deadly fog" (poison gas cloud). The number of living tributes decreases rapidly due to external influences. The allies later join forces with Johanna Mason from District 7 and the two tributes from District 3, Beetee and Wiress. Wiress observes that the arena is like a clock and that every sector is haunted by a deadly danger for an hour. Later, Wiress is killed by Gloss from District 1. Katniss and Peeta survive as they are protected from most of the tributes. Especially Peeta seems to be under her protection, which gives Katniss hope that she will achieve her goal and Peeta can leave the arena as the winner.

Part 3 - The enemy

In the showdown, the tributes make use of the technical structure of the arena. With the help of Beetee's technical knowledge, Katniss finally manages to destroy the entire arena. It conducts electrical current into the force field that surrounds the arena and separates it from the outside world. As a result, it explodes and is completely destroyed.

She is rescued from the rubble by a hovercraft , which does not belong to the government, but to the independent people from the supposedly destroyed District 13. In fact, the residents only live in hiding as the district is in possession of nuclear weapons that are preventing the government from attacking. Inside are Haymitch, Beetee, Gale, Finnick and Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Supreme Playmaker, among others. Katniss learns of a long-standing, secret organization to overthrow the government. Despite this good news, Katniss is in despair as several tributes, including Peeta, have been captured by the Capitol. The book ends with Katniss' best friend, Gale, coming to see her and informing her that District 12 was bombed and destroyed but that he was able to save her family in time.

Tributes of the 75th Hunger Games

District people comment
1 Cashmere Cashmere is killed by Johanna by throwing an ax into her chest.
Gloss Gloss is killed by Katniss after killing Wiress
2 Enobaria Enobaria survives but is captured by the Capitol.
Brutus Brutus (according to the third volume) is killed by Peeta towards the end.
3 Wiress Wiress is killed by Gloss, who slits her throat
Beetee Beetee survives and is taken to District 13 by hovercraft.
4th Mags Mags kills herself by walking into a poisonous mist to save Peeta.
Finnick Finnick survives and is taken to District 13 by a hovercraft.
5 unknown The man is killed by Finnick with the trident on the first day, the woman dies on the second day.
6th The two Morfixers The man dies on the first day, the woman dies when she saves Peeta's life.
7th Johanna Johanna survives but is captured by the Capitol.
Blight Blight dies on the first night walking against the force field.
8th Cecelia Dies on the first day.
Woof Dies on the first day.
9 unknown Both are killed on the first day.
10 unknown The woman dies on the first day, the man is killed a few days later.
11 Seeder Seeder dies on the first day.
Chaff Chaff is killed by Brutus on the last day (according to the third volume).
12 Katniss She survived and was taken to District 13 by hovercraft.
Peeta He survives but is captured by the Capitol.

The arena

The arena from a bird's eye view

The third jubilee is celebrated in the second volume. The starting platforms of the tributes are surrounded by water. The cornucopia (which only contains weapons) lies on a sandbank in the middle of a large lake of salt water, from which paths radiate out to a beach that surrounds the lake. A jungle begins behind the beach. The arena is circular, two day's marches wide and divided into twelve parts, each of which carries a different danger. As the story progresses, the Tributes realize that the specific hazards in the parts of the arena are always activated at a specific time.

Time danger
12pm - 1am Lightning strikes a tall tree.
12 o'clock It's raining blood.
23 o'clock Toxic fog kills everything and everyone in the area.
3 - 4 a.m. Monkeys attack the tributes in the sector.
4 a.m. - 5 a.m. Chatterbox boobies mimick the screams of tortured tribute family members.
5 a.m. - 6 a.m. unknown
6 a.m. - 7 a.m. A "beast" tears up the tribute.
7 a.m. - 10 a.m. unknown
10 a.m. - 11 a.m. A wave floods the area.
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Dangerous insects eat the tribute.

Edition and issues

The book was first published on September 1, 2009 by the American Scholastic publishing house. The German translation was published on May 19, 2010 by Oetinger Verlag.

The US original edition comprises 391 and the German edition 431 pages.

English editions

German editions

Audio book

Awards

filming

On August 8, 2011, Lionsgate announced that there would also be a film version of the second volume of The Hunger Games trilogy, Dangerous Love . This celebrated its premiere in London on November 11, 2013. The roles of Katniss, Peeta and Gale were again played by Jennifer Lawrence , Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth .

Filming began on September 10, 2012 and ended on December 21, 2012. The film was first shot in Atlanta , Georgia , before filming was relocated to Hawaii .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] World premiere of The Hunger Games - Catching Fire
  2. ↑ a b Kim Masters: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' begins shooting in Georgia, before moving to Hawaii , insidemovies.ew.com, September 10, 2012, accessed September 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Ryan Arciero: 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' movie news: Cast confirms end to Hawaii filming. In: Examiner.com. December 22, 2012, accessed January 11, 2013 .
The Hunger Games
Books

Deadly Games  (2008) • Dangerous Love  (2009) • Flaming Wrath  (2010) • The Song of a Bird and a Snake  (2020)

Movies

The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games  (2012) • The Hunger Games - Catching Fire  (2013) • The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1  (2014) • The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2  (2015)