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"That's when I remember the wire and how important it was to him. I look around frantically...My stomach contracts at the thought of what I must do next...There's nothing I can do then but close her eyelids, whisper goodbye, and swim away."

Katniss Everdeen, Catching Fire pg 334

Katniss immediately realizes Beetee doesn't have something that's important to him, that's likely his main weapon and ignores the repulsion she feels to get it anyway. Not only does she risk herself for it, she treats Wiress with respect and says goodbye. Does that sound like someone cold or selfish? Do people need a refresher in basic definitions? Did we not read the same book? Is there some secret underground version written by mutt!Peeta Mellark?? If so please send me a copy because I have questions and he has probably answered them in that version of THG. Anyway, thanks for reading the latest installment of Iconic Katniss.

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"'Wait, let me get Johanna up,' says Finnick. 'She'll be rabid if she thinks she missed something this important.'"

Finnick Odair, Catching Fire 358

I feel like even without the foreshadowing of the next line in Katniss' thoughts about how she'd be rabid too if she was excluded from a plan (because it seems obvious to me that would be her reaction) this is meant to parallel Katniss + Johanna. I forgot to mention it in my post about Johanna yesterday. There are lots of clues in these chapters about these two. Maybe Johanna is meant to show us what Katniss would have been without Peeta.

Something else that's noteworthy, jumping back a few chapters, even though Johanna slapped Katniss, Katniss still shows concern and respect for her. When she warns her not to go in the jabberjay section and by not trying to exclude her from being part of the discussion. Iconic Katniss strikes again, cause let me tell you the last person to slap me like that as a teenager did not fare well. Katniss is a better person than I. I'm wondering where that restraint is coming from. There's always a lot of discussion about how the events of THG didn't change Gale, it just exposed who he was inside. Whereas with Katniss we see her intellectual struggle, mainly in the first book. So was this restraint always there? Did the events shape this in her? Is this a post Games development? I'm curious if under different circumstances, say in D12, would Katniss have reacted to someone slapping her this way? Or would she still hold back?

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"I load an arrow as I twist and get a glimpse of a dripping-wet Gloss letting Wiress slide to the ground, her throat slit open in a bright red smile."

Katniss Everdeen, Catching Fire pg 333

I've always wondered why this was the chosen way to describe this injury. Thoughts?

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Why would Plutarch hint to Katniss that he is a rebel when she isn't supposed to know anything about a rebellion?