10 Questions about The Hunger Games | Literature

Answer: Put three fingers to their mouth and then up

The three fingers is a sign for goodbye. It is mostly used at funerals, to say goodbye to your loved ones, but this time the crowd uses it for Katniss, because she is brave to save her little sister.

Answer: Peeta saved Katniss's life by giving her bread

When Katniss' father had just passed away they had nothing to eat, so she tried to trade Prim's old baby clothes, but it didn't work out so well. When it started to rain she dumped the clothes and sat under a tree near the bakery. She heard yelling inside and then Peeta walked out, holding two burned breads and with a bruise on his cheek.

He was supposed to throw the breads away but he tossed them to Katniss.

Answer: Gale is her best friend and they hunt together

She knows Gale since she went to the woods and studied his snares when he appeared saying to "not steal his game." Since then they went out to the woods together to gather food for their families. In the book is said that he is her cousin though he isn't but they said it because she can't have such a handsome best friend with the romance going on.

Answer: They looked like the dead tributes

Katniss gets extremly scared by the Mutts because one Mutt looks exactly like Rue, with it's curly brown fur and brown eyes, or with Glimmer, with the blonde fur. All Mutts also had a collar with their District number on it.

Answer: Buttercup

Prim found this old cat starving and with a lot of bugs. Katniss tried to drown it because she didn't want another mouth to feed, but Prim was so heartbroken she and her mother healed the poor animal. Because of its yellow fur Prim called it Buttercup, like the flower.

Answer: When you turned it there was a poisonous spike

Katniss' pin was almost denied because you could stab someone with it, that was what Cinna told her. He then told her too that Glimmer's was denied because it was poisonous and could give her an advantage.

Answer: She whistles a couple of notes

Since Katniss' father died, she doesn't sing anymore, not even the four notes of Rue's song, so she whistles some notes to sent to Rue through the Mockingjays.

Answer: Stay alive.

When they are having breakfast Peeta and Katniss ask him for some advice and all he says is "Stay alive." He is too drunk to actually give good advice, so this is all they got.

Answer: When they are attacked by the Mutts

When they are racing towards the Cornucopia to not get eaten by the Mutts, they climb on top of the Cornucopia. They try to catch their breaths and don't attack each other in that moment when they are still unsure if the Mutts are capable of climbing. Peeta actually translates something Cato said that Katniss couldn't hear.

Answer: They look like each other

Peeta says they aren't good with each other because they look so much like each other. They kinda hate each other, but not that bad. They always argue and are absolutely not good friends.