Chapter 22
Pages 290-302
I’m not really sure how to ramp up the romance. The kiss last night was nice, but working up to another will take some forethought.
Summary:
Honestly, not a lot goes on this chapter.
Katniss dreams of her mother, and even thought she still can’t trust her because of what she did, she misses her. Kat wakes up in the cave and Peeta appears to be doing much better. There’s a nasty storm going on outside, complete with thunder and lightning, and Peeta wonders who the target is. Kat thinks it’s Thresh and Cato, since they’ve got their cave and ol’ Foxface is probably warm in her den somewhere. Katniss fills Peeta in on what happened at the feast and her partnership with Rue, all that. Peeta calls himself dim and no one objects.
Peeta again tries to get Katniss to understand that he really likes her, it’s not some act just to get stuff from sponsors, but our goddess of paranoia still can’t come to grips with the idea. Katniss is sad for Thresh, she thinks he’s a good guy, and in a rare instance of humanity Kat tears up at the idea of anyone else dying. She covers it up by telling Peeta she’s just really ready to go home, but we know the truth. Don’t worry Katniss, everyone else wants to get to know the other tributes better as well.
They talk and canoodle awhile, Peeta tells Kat his father was in love with her mom, Kat realizes how much she doesn’t want to lose Peeta. Peeta tells a cute story about Katniss singing in a plaid dress when they were kids and how he was too nervous to ever talk to her. She’s not exactly sure what that means at this point, but she doesn’t want him to die. And she sort of realizes it’s not just all about the sponsors. Maybe all this lovey-dovey crap has been real?
They kiss again and pay a ton of attention to each other and finally Haymitch sends them a huge meal, complete with that lamb stew Katniss ate approximately 37 bowls of in the Capitol. Peeta’s like “Sweet! We won’t starve now!” And Katniss is like “Dude. I’m getting tired of whoring myself out for food.”
Thoughts:
This was a nice chapter. It gave us a closer look at the Katniss/Peeta relationship. At least we have a little bit better of an inkling as to why Peeta likes Katniss. Kat is finally starting to trust Peeta and come around to the idea of maybe, possibly, in three or four years, going out on like half a date with him. And now they’re fed and rested and not dying, so they should be raring to go for the final showdown pretty soon here. There’s only Cato, Foxface, Thresh, Peeta, and Katniss left. And we’re on to chapter 23/27, so something got to go down.
This is the first time that I really believed Peeta actually was in love with Katniss and it wasn’t just some trick on his part. I don’t think he’s quite the mastermind I thought he was in the beginning.
I have to admit, I’m much more partial to the survival/action chapters than chapters like this.
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