Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mockingjay, pgs 246-289

Katniss was cleared to go into battle with the Capitol and was assigned to a group of soldiers. She was not happy with the mission that her group was given though because they would not be allowed to go into intense battle. Katniss wants to be the one to kill the President Snow, the leader of the Capitol. Katniss and her squad of soldiers eventually leave District 13 and move to a camp near the Captiol. The Captiol is rigged with "pods" which are different kinds of traps that are capable of killing people if they are triggered. Some of these include metal darts shooting out, land mines, and a nets made of barbed wire that come out of the ground and dangle people in the air.

The first couple days they are not allowed to go anywhere dangerous but still to someones misfortune they stepped on a pod that shot a metal dart through her brain and killed her. During a simple clearing of one of the Captiol city blocks the commander of the squad stepped on a land mine that blew his legs off. Katniss went to his aid and unexpectedly the commander made Katniss the new leader of the squad and he told her to not to go back to the camp and "do what you came to do." Of the course the thing that Katniss came to do was to kill the leader of the Capitol.

Katniss was quick to lead her squad to a new location now that the Captiol knew their location because of the landmine that was set off. When they arrived at a different building a few blocks away they went inside to rest and think of a plan. While they were there the television came on and a Capitol broadcast showed them blowing up the building that the squad was just in. A few seconds later they pronounced that Katniss had and the rest of her squad was dead when in actuality they survived.

I am almost certain that Katniss is going to be able to find and kill President Snow but I do not think that she will be able to do it with a whole squad of soldiers. They have too many people in their group for a secret mission like this. I believe that somehow it will just end up being Katniss by herself trying to kill the president. Hopefully she is able to do this because Snow is a horrible man and deserves to die.

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