Search EnFlourish:
Resources for Language Arts Classrooms
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
A fire from a bomb engulfs Katniss and puts her in a dreary, dreamlike state. She sees herself as the Mockingjay who has been set on fire. Under immense pain, she feels like she’s flying above everything else. Eventually, she feels herself falling and she lands in the ocean. Around her are bird-like figures, people who have died before her. They try to coax her into dying too.
Still in her dreamlike state, the thing that keeps her from joining the others in death is a bird that has Prim’s voice. Eventually, bird-Prim goes away as do the others and Katniss is left in a watery ocean by herself for what feels like years. She eventually awakens from her dream-state. The magic that doctors have performed on her has brought her back from the brink of death. Her hallucinations come to an end.
Katniss awakens to learn of the fate of the Capitol: it has fallen and Snow has been imprisoned. The rebels are now in charge of Panem. Katniss’ remaining squad members, Cressida, Pollux, Gale, and Peeta, are all alive. Peeta and Katniss are the only ones who were burnt. Gale was shot a few times, but his wounds have healed.
Following her emotional distress, Katniss is unable to speak. Her mother works all the time to escape her own emotional pain.
Katniss is in the hospital for a while. Later, she lives in the president’s mansion where she spends her time wandering the hallways and the many rooms. One day as she wanders around, she reveals why the two Everdeen women are feeling such mental anguish. The fire that injured Katniss killed Primrose.
Katniss is issued sessions with a psychologist, Dr. Aurelius. He sleeps through their sessions together. The only two things that seem truly therapeutic to Katniss are wandering the mansion and the thought
of avenging herself by killing Snow.
One day as Katniss wanders the mansion, she comes across a guarded area where Snow once grew his roses. The scent of roses draws her in. District Eight soldiers guard the door to the roses; however, their commander gives the okay for Katniss to enter.
Katniss is mesmerized by the rows and rows of roses that she finds inside a greenhouse. She finds herself a perfect white rose and cuts it off at its stem.
After she has the rose, she realizes that Snow is imprisoned there in his own quarters. She finds him. A number of discretions have been made to prevent his escape (shackles, tracking devices etc.).
Snow gets to talking right away. He apologizes for Primrose’s death, and he points out that he wasn’t the one who released the exploding parachutes. He points out that it would have been pointless for him to kill his own people at that point. It was, in fact, President Coin and Plutarch who ordered the parachutes. Snow’s last supporters then turned on him since they thought he was the one who killed the kids.
According to Snow, Coin planned the war so that she could eventually become the leader of Panem. He makes Katniss sound like nothing more than a pawn that was used in Coin’s plan.
Katniss lets him know that she doesn’t buy his words.
MOCKINGJAY -- CHAPTER 25
BROWSE CONTENTS
by Suzanne Collins
Connect with EnFlourish
Note: To purchase our products, you must have a teacherspayteachers account. These accounts are free to create and use at www.teacherspayteachers.com.
©2016, Enflourish Publishing, All Rights Reserved.
