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The boy from District 1 has plunged a spear into Rue and consequently, Katniss shoots him with an arrow. He dies immediately; however, Rue’s death takes a bit more time. Katniss brings Rue close to her and she sings her a lullaby. It’s a very old song from her district that she would sing to Prim when she was sick. It’s a song about a hopeful future. Rue dies half way through the song, but Katniss still finishes singing for her.
Katniss reflects upon the death of Rue and she begins to blame the Capitol for doing this to them. It was the Capitol that put them in the situation where people like Rue would be killed. Gale has spoken to Katniss in the past about the cruelty of the Capitol and now his thoughts are mirrored in her head. Katniss doesn’t even blame the boy from District 1 for killing Rue. Instead, she blames the Capitol.
Katniss wants to one up the Capitol to show them that she is her own individual and she does not belong to them. In a show of her own personality, of her own individuality, and to prove that she isn’t in the Game just for the killing and lack of caring that other tributes show, Katniss adorns Rue’s body with an array of beautiful flowers. They will have to show the body of Rue to the viewers when they take her away and in doing so they will show the love and compassion that belongs to Katniss. Such feelings cannot be owned by the Capitol.
Katniss walks away from Rue’s body and a mockingjay lands in front of her. Earlier, when the girls created a plan to destroy the Career Tributes’ supply pyramid, Rue had taught the birds a song that would signal to Katniss that she was okay. Now, that same song was being sung by this one bird. Katniss sees it as a sign that Rue is now okay.
She presses forward, walking without any place in particular to go. She is ready to kill any tribute that confronts her now, for she is hard-pressed with anger and hatred. She figures she can avenge Rue by killing the Career Tributes.
Suddenly, when Katniss is about to climb a tree to sleep for the night, a supply parachute makes its way down to her. She finds inside a loaf of bread that resembles the type of loaf that people from District 11 enjoy. Rue was from District 11. Somehow the people of District 11 must have scrounged enough money together to send her this loaf. Originally, it may have been meant for Rue but now Katniss figures that it has been sent to her as a token of gratitude. Katniss looks upward and thanks the people of District 11 out-loud for their gift.
Katniss makes her way to a tree top for sleep. She bundles up in her sleeping bag and dozes off. That night she dreams of Rue. In the dream, Rue is her same-old, happy self. Later, Katniss wakes up only to feel empty especially without Rue there. She thinks about Prim at home to perk herself up and get moving.
Katniss looks over the supplies that she gathered from the boy from District 1. One thing that especially infuriates Katniss is the fact that the boy only carried a small bag of dried fruit with him to sustain himself. He had the option of carrying around much more food, but he was arrogant enough to think that his supply of food would always be available. He only chose to carry around very little since he had a whole supply pyramid back at the Career Tribute camp teeming with food. Katniss hopes that the other Career Tributes carried around just as little food.
Katniss begins to make her way back to the stream, stopping to hunt groosling, and stopping to cook them at the unlit firewood that Rue had set up. Katniss takes a long time cooking the birds, hoping that it will attract somebody she can kill. Katniss is still angry at Rue’s death and she is out for revenge.
Eventually, Katniss decides to take shelter for the night up in a new tree. She begins to think about her first kill. She intentionally took the life of the boy from District 1. All of her feelings of regret are luckily diminished by the fact that this same boy killed her friend, Rue.
Before she nods off to sleep, there is a surprising announcement blasted out to all of the tributes. It is a change in the rules of the game, which Katniss finds odd since the Game really doesn’t have any rules. The Game’s announcer, Claudius Templesmith, lets the competitors know that if both people from a district are the last sole survivors that they will both be declared winners.
THE HUNGER GAMES -- CHAPTER 18
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