Katniss And The Mockingjay Chapter Summaries

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The book starts with Katniss visiting district 12, her former home. Katniss had just woken up from her long sleep that was started when she fired an electric arrow at the force field on the 75 annual Hunger Games. She was rescued from this by a district that was said to by dead a long time ago. This district did this because they wanted Katniss to be the face of their rebellion. While Katniss is at her home town she quickly finds out that president snow is watching her. After returning to district 13 Katniss agrees to be the “Mockingjay.” Katniss also finds out that her best friend Pitta is being tortured by the capitol. Katniss is told that she will have to make a promo for the rebellion and is sent to district 8 to visit a hospital that wounded people are staying at. …show more content…
This also spars a fire in her as she has just seen the capitol taka an entire hospital out. District 13 gets bombed by the capitol and is on lockdown for four days. District 13 soon rescues Pitta and finds out that Pittas mind has been high jacked and programed to kill Katniss. Distraught from Pitta hating her Katniss travels to district 2 to try to win over district 2. It works but Katniss gets shot and wakes up some time later. When Katniss wakes up she is delighted to see that Finnick and Annie are getting married. Pitta slowly improves and Katniss trains for the upcoming raid on the capitol. During training Pitta tries to kill Katniss again. The rebels decide that the best way to get to the capitol is underground and they start their journey. Katniss and her soldiers get chased after by crazy dogs and Finnick gets killed. They eventually make it to President Snow and he is taken captive. In that madness Prim is killed along with many other children. Katniss in the execution kills president coin and later snow dies by choking on his own

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