But Seneca Crane instead announced them as winners and paid for it with his life. So now Snow is aware that both Peeta and particularly Katniss are symbols, and a threat. The film echoes the book in this regard, and to quote from the book :. You have no access to information about the mood in other districts. In several of them, however, people viewed your little trick with the berries as an act of defiance, not an act of love. And if a girl from District Twelve of all places can defy the Capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from doing the same?
I will. So at this Stage, Snow wants Katniss on board. He is hesitant to kill her, as it will stir rebellion - but he can't let her "go free", as she will stir rebellion. So he wants her to behave well and do as he says. Of course, this fails. She pays tribute to Rue in District 11 and sparks visible dissent. A man in the crowd is shot dead and tension is clearly rising.
At this point, Snow is even more concerned. Something the book mentions, which the movie does not, is the following scene which takes place in the mayor's house during her tour of the districts :.
I'm leaving the room when a beeping noise catches my attention. I turn back to see the screen of the television go black. Instinctively I know this is not for my eyes but something intended only for the mayor. I should go. Instead I find myself stepping closer to the television. An announcer I've never seen before appears. It's a woman with graying hair and a hoarse, authoritative voice.
She warns that conditions are worsening and a Level 3 alert has been called. Additional forces are being sent into District 8, and all textile production has ceased. They cut away from the woman to the main square in District 8. I recognize it because I was there only last week. There are still banners with my face waving from the rooftops. Below them, there's a mob scene. The square's packed with screaming people, their faces hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks.
Buildings burn. Peacekeepers shoot into the crowd, killing at random. I've never seen anything like it, but I can only be witnessing one thing. This is what President Snow calls an uprising. So there is full rebellions occurring now, across all of the suppressed districts. Snow's plan of keeping Katniss "on-side" has failed. Inadvertently, through her tributes to Rue and simply by her being strife is brewing and more signs of dissent are breaking out.
It's crossed my mind, too. But while I know I'll never leave that arena alive, I'm still holding on to the hope that Peeta will. After all, he didn't pull out those berries, I did. No one has ever doubted that Peeta's defiance was motivated by love.
So maybe President Snow will prefer keeping him alive, crushed and heartbroken, as a living warning to others. Now, at the start of the Catching Fire novel, Effey tells Katniss " In your very first year of being a victor, you get to be a mentor in a Quarter Quell!
But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown. So we know the Quarter Quell is designed to be special.
But given Effey's comments, and the knowledge that former winners are supposed to be exempt it seems almost overwhelmingly likely the rules were changed so as to trap Katniss in a situation where she could be killed without sparking further unrest. We don't definitively know. There were going to be Hunger Games that year. But it's overwhelmingly likely that the Games were altered to include Katniss.
After Crane was killed due to the debacle of 74th Hunger Games, we see Plutarch being appointed as head Gamekeeper and a very close associate of President Snow. Plutarch was giving an angry and anxious Snow valuable feedback and advice on how to tackle Katnis and defuse the uprising. It is only later we find out that Plutarch has ulterior motives in being so close to Snow and the Games itself.
We also find out that most of the tributes of 75th Hunger Games, all of them being previous Victors, are in on his elaborate plan. It is highly likely that the plan was brewing much before Katnis came on the scene, much before 74th Hunger Games. Because forming an alliance will take much time and effort and trust. They all were waiting for a right time and a right person to galvanize their fight against the Capitol.
And since Katnis served that purpose perfectly, Plutarch must have decided its time to implement his plan. Plutarch knew Katnis enough to know that she was impulsive and brave even under mortal fear.
He knew the Victory tour would not go according to Snow's plans, which were suggested to Snow by Plutarch himself. Every 25 years, there was a Quarter Quell edition of the Hunger Games. Quells marked the anniversaries of the districts ' defeat by the Capitol , and included special celebrations. Each Quarter Quell involved some sort of twist that made them even more disastrous or difficult to compete in or watch.
These instructions were planned at the founding of the Hunger Games, with plans in place for hundreds of Games. The president would select the appropriate card and read it on live television to announce the theme of that year's Quell.
In the 25th Hunger Games , the citizens of the districts had to vote on who would compete in the Hunger Games as a way of reminding the rebels that they were responsible for the Hunger Games, and it was their fault that their children died in the Games every year. This also gave the districts a chance to either get rid of their unwanted or to up their chances of winning the Hunger Games.
The victor is unknown. In the 50th Hunger Games , four tributes were chosen from each district instead of the usual two to remind the rebels that for each Capitol citizen killed, two rebels died. This put twice as many people in the arena and made it twice as brutal. This was to be a reminder that, allegedly, for every one Capitol death, the Districts lost two during the first rebellion. Every 25 years, there is a Quarter Quell edition of the Hunger Games.
The Games involves some sort of twist that makes them even more disastrous or difficult to compete in, or watch. The Quarter Quell is an especially brutal edition of the Hunger Games that occurs every 25 years.
Each Quarter Quell includes a different twist to the rules, to remind the districts about some aspect of the rebellion. Officially, many Quells were prescribed by the original creators of the Hunger Games at the end of the Dark Days.
When did the 25th Hunger Games take place? How did Haymitch use the force field in The Hunger Games? In the Second Quarter Quell, Haymitch uses the force field as a weapon against a District 1 tribute by bouncing an axe off it. In the Third Quarter Quell, Peeta accidentally hits the force field while walking through the tropical arena, stopping his heart and almost killing him.
Where was the twist in the 75th Hunger Games? Inside the room is a bright wall of polished lockers — each containing a twist for numerous Quarter Quells to come. Each locker box is marked with the roman numeral for that years game. Table of Contents. Post navigation Previous post. Next post.
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