Katniss And Peeta Are So Similar To Maysilee! | Annotating The Hunger Games | Chapter 4

[00:00:03][music] Hey guys, what's up? I am CJ and welcome back to my galaxy. Today we're back with my annotating series where I'm annotating the Hunger Games. Today we're focusing on chapter 4. If you guys don't know what this series is, basically I'm doing a deep dive analysis of the Hunger Games series. And like I said, we're up to chapter 4 where I read out the chapter for you guys and I look at annotations I've made previously on a live stream series that I do. I do my annotations live on this channel as well if you guys want to check that one out.

[00:00:40]But I'm doing like an analysis of these annotations so I can go through with you guys what I've done in the past and kind of make it a little bit more concise for all of you guys. You can read along with me, make your own annotations, feel free. And that way I'm going to be going through like one chapter at a time because that's basically how long that my videos normally are. They're about like 40 minutes long. These ones are going to be like 40 to 60 minutes long instead of like 20 to 40 minutes like my other videos. But before we get started with today's annotations, I wanted to let you guys know that I'm trying to reach 5,000 subscribers. And we're so close. We're like literally so close.

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[00:01:48]Okay, so we're up to chapter 4 today, like I said in the intro. And this one is about 15 pages long. And I'm just going to read out to you guys what is happening in the chapter. And then when we get to the annotations, I'm going to read out the paragraph for the most part and say the annotation at the end. So, and also apologies. I'm very sorry if I knock my camera because I'm actually sitting in a in a way that it is very easy to knock my camera. And so let's let's hope I don't but I definitely will. So chapter 4. Can you guys see it properly? Hopefully. Maybe. Maybe this way. No, I think that's fine here. All right. Hopefully. For a few moments, Peter and I take in a scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his stomach.

[00:02:44]The reek the reek of vomit and raw spirits almost brings my dinner up. We exchange a glance. Obviously, Hamage isn't much, but Effie trinket is right about one thing. Once we're in the arena, he's all we've got. As if by some unspoken agreement, Peter and I each take one of Hamish's arms and help him to his feet. I tripped. Haish smells bad. He wipes his hand on his nose, smearing his face with vomit. That is disgusting. Hey, Mitch. Let's get you back to your room, says Peter. Clean you up a bit. We half lead, half carry Hamage back to his compartment since we can't exactly set him down on the embroidered bedspread. We haul him into the bathtub and turn the shower on him.

[00:03:25]He hardly notices. It's okay, Peter says to me. I'll take it from here. This is where Peter tells Hitch about Katniss. I would say that Hamage can still very much he's he's not completely coherent or whatever like he doesn't he can't [clears throat] make sense of a lot of things obviously when he's drunk but I do think that Hamage has a way he's learned to have this way of making sure that he knows what's going on when he's drunk so he can like be alert to some extent and I do think that Hamish is capable of remembering anything Peter told him during this period of time even if Peter thought he wouldn't. So possibly Peter is there upset about how he got reaped and how bad his day has been. And maybe Hamitch even said like, "Oh, I've had a bad days." Like he's remembering his own reaping day since, you know, he's met Katniss properly officially for the first time. And he it's giving him flashbacks to his own games. So it means that at some point maybe Hitch says something to Peter, maybe Peter says something to Hamitch and they have a little bit of a conversation about what their strategy will be going forward. that Katniss is not in on. That is my belief that Peter mentions something to Hay at this point and they have some sort of conversation that we aren't aware of that really develops Peter and Hamitch's relationship. Okay, let's move on. I can't help feeling a little grateful since the last thing I want to do is strip down Hitch, wash the vomit out of his chest hair, and tuck him into bed.

[00:04:49]Possibly Peter is trying to make a good impression on him to be his favorite once the games begin. But judging by the state he's in, Hay Mitch will have no memory of this tomorrow. He does remember you. I think that I am of the personal belief that he does remember and just because of the way he reacts and the strategy he comes up with when it comes to Peter. All right. I say I can send one of the capital people to help you. There's any number on the train cooking for us, waiting on us, guarding us. Taking care of us is their job. No, I don't want them, says Peter.

[00:05:21]And once again, he doesn't want them because he wants to be able to he's genuinely a very caring character. And this is one of the first inst instances that we actually begin to see that from Katniss's perspective. And I think that it has everything to do with the fact that Peter just wants to be like he doesn't necessarily want to be around someone who's drunk, but he knows how to handle it. and he knows how to like he knows how to care for people and he wants to just like have a little bit of a menty bee and be like this this day has been bad just to a drunk hamage that he thinks won't remember what actually happened the night before. I nod and head to my own room. I understand how Peter feels. I can't stand the sight of the capital people myself and I just don't think that's what Peter was like what Peter meant. But making them deal with Hitch might be a small form of revenge. So I'm pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Hamitch.

[00:06:14]And all of a sudden, I think it's because he's being kind, just as he was kind to give me the bread. And once again, Katniss doesn't realize kindness when she sees it immediately cuz she has trust issues. Her attitude changes later in the series that she can't stand the side of capital people, but she yeah her attitude very much changes when she understands the capital people in the way that they've brought up been brought up a little bit more. The idea pulls me up short. A kind Peter Malar is far more dangerous to me than an unkind one. Pe kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there and I can't let Peter do this. Not where we're going. So, I decide from this moment on to have as little as possible to do with the baker's son. When I get back to the room, the train is pausing at a platform to refuel. I quickly open the window, toss the cookies Peter's father gave me out of the train, and slam the glass shut. No more. No more of either of them. And she's literally rejecting kindness here. That's so brand for Katniss. Unfortunately, the pack of cookies hits the ground and bursts open in a patch of dandelions by the track, which is a progression here of the dandelions, uh, the dandelion motif, as in Peter is the dandelion in the spring.

[00:07:31]So, I've highlighted the location in which it happens, where the, um, dandelion motif is brought back up. I only see the image for a moment because the train is off again, but it's enough enough to remind me of that other dandelion in the schoolyard years ago.

[00:07:47]and she goes into the backstory of the dandelion motif. I think this is essentially the beginning of the motif.

[00:07:53]I love the motif of the dandelion in the spring and the hope that the dandelion brings. It's my favorite motif that I've ever seen in like any literature. I've also highlighted some bits here. Kind people have a way of working their way into Katniss's heart because I wanted to emphasize this area. I have highlighted a lot of things you'll find that I just wanted to emphasize and be like prone to when I look back at the annotations. I can't stand the side of capital people because it's connected to Katniss's attitude changing later. Um, once again, Katniss's um or her thoughts about Peter's kindness. Uh, and I've highlighted that because trust issues and it's something that really adds to the way in which Can thinks of the way she trusts people. So, I wanted to emphasize that by highlighting it. And then what we're doing here is getting into the backstory, more of the back story. We saw a little bit about the backstory of Peter and Katniss in I believe chapter 2 and how they met with the burnt bread and we're getting into the following day after the baker's son threw her the bread. I had just turned away from Peter Malark's bruised face when I saw the dandelion and you hope wasn't lost. I plucked it carefully and hurried home. I believe Oh no. Did we get into it in chapter 2 when you know Oh no. I was going to say this is like the dandelion in the spring and how she's never been able to like separate the uh Peter and the dandelion, but I can't remember if it's in chapter 2 that we've already read because I'm filming this on different days. So, we'll have to come across it. If I see it again, I'll mention it. But basically, she can't separate the dandelion from Peter and the bread that gave her hope. And this is extending on it as let's Okay, let's let's move on. I plucked it carefully and hurried home. I grabbed a bucket and Prim's hand and headed to the meadow. And yes, it was dotted with the golden headed weeds.

[00:09:48]After we'd harvested those, we screded along inside the fence for probably a mile until we found the bucket with dandelion green stem until we filled the bucket with dandelion green stems and flowers. That night, we gched ourselves on a dandelion salad and the rest of the bakery bread. And I said the beginning of the dandelion motif. I've said it in like a really messy way. I was still learning to how to write in a book properly as well. Dandelions symbolize hope and I just once again it is like my favorite symbolism that's used in any literature that I've come across so far because I just I love the uh natural element to it and associating nature with it's a very uh romantic period kind of symbolism. And if you don't know what the romantic period is, the romantic period refers to a period where you're discussing a lot of the natural landscape and going really in depth with descriptions of the natural landscape and there's like a lot of other elements to it. It goes hand inhand oftent times when it goes it goes with like the Gothic genre as well. So, it it the romantic genre is very extensive, but I just love the natural element of the romantic period and that extends into the Hunger Games and when elements like that pop up. And that's something that Susan Collins really does with Katniss's character is attach her to nature because she's a hunter. And Peter also is attached to natural elements around Katniss. What else? Prem asked me. What other food can we find? All kinds of things I promised her. I just have to remember them. My mother had a book she'd brought with her from the apothecary shop. And that's why I've um highlighted this because it has to do with the history of the Everdine and the I don't remember Astrid's last name, but Astrid's um her family. It has a lot to do with Cannice's family's history. The page were pages were made of old parchment and covered in ink drawings of plants. Neat handwritten blocks told their names, where to gather them, when they came into bloom, their medical uses. But my father added their other entries to the book. Plants for eating, not healing. Dandelions, pocked, wild onions, pines. Prem and I spent the rest of the night pouring over those pages.

[00:12:00]The next day, we were off school. For a while, I hung around the edges of the meadow. But finally, I worked up the courage to go under the fence. It was the first time I'd been there alone, without my father's weapons to protect me. But I retrieved the small bow and arrows he'd made me from a hollow tree.

[00:12:17]I probably didn't go more than 20 m into the woods that day. Most of the time, I perched up in the branches of an old oak, hoping for game to come by. After several hours, I had the good luck to kill a rabbit. I shot a few rabbits before with my father's guidance, but this I'd done on my own. We hadn't had meat in months. The sight of the rabbit seemed to stir something in my mother.

[00:12:39]She roused herself, skinned the carcass, and made a stew with the meat and some more greens Prim had gathered. Then she acted confused and went back to bed. But when the stew was done, we made her eat a bowl. The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bit further into its arms. It was slowgoing at first, but I was determined to feed us. See, Peter essentially was like the savior of this family. Not only because of the burnt bread, but because of the dandelion.

[00:13:05]Since Peter represents the dandelion and the nature that gave Katniss the ability to feed her family, that means that like in every way Peter saved Katniss and Katniss eventually saved Peter and they eventually like saved each other at the end of the rebellion and many many other ways. I stole eggs from nests, caught fish and nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew and gather the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. Plants are tricky, many are edible, but one false mouthful and you're dead. And that's very important later on. This line is there there to essentially plant in our minds that one mouthful of the wrong berry such as the nightlock berry and then you're dead. So there there's like little bits of foreshadowing from Susan Collins to really set us up for later chapters which like comes in handy like that's how you write especially when it comes through early chapters of a novel. You need to really set up for things later in the story. I checked and double-checked the plants I harvested with my father's pictures. I kept us alive. Any sign of danger I didn't howl.

[00:14:07]The inexplicable break of a branch sent me flying back to the fence at first.

[00:14:12]Then I began to risk climbing trees to escape the wild dogs that quickly got bored and moved on. Bears and cats lived deeper in, perhaps disliking the city of our district. On the 8th of May, and I've highlighted that because that's important for Katniss's character.

[00:14:24]That's the day of her birthday. I went to the justice building, signed up for my tesseray, and pulled home my first batch of grain and oil in Prim's toy wagon. On the 8th of every month, I was entitled to do the same. I couldn't stop hunting and gathering, of course. The grain was not enough to live on, and there were other things to buy. Soap and milk and thread, what we didn't absolutely have to eat. I began to trade at the hob. It was frightening to enter the place without my father at my side, but people had respected him and they accepted me. And I think that I highlighted that because of Katniss perception, Katniss's perception of people like respecting and accepting her. And we discussed in the last video that Katniss essentially does doesn't have any idea of exactly what is going on in District 12 and all of her relationships. She doesn't have a real idea of what's going on and how important she is to District 12. And you'll see that I actually have an annotation here. Katniss was largely supporting District 12. I'm a very strong believer that Candace's meat and gale gale hunting as well, they were very much supporting district 12 with the fresh meat that they brought in. So if any at any time the capital, which we see this happen actually in catching fire that at any time when the district 12 the capital has decided that district 12 will not receive resources because they've rebelled in some way or they the capital wanted to oppress them for some reason. Then they were able to rely on what happened with Katniss and Gail's hunting. So they could still bring in food to District 12 to trade to keep District 12's economy running and keep people running in the district. So in Catching Fire, when the fences are electrified 24/7 and they aren't able to hunt, they aren't able to sustain the population. At the same time, they also have the capital not bringing them resources and when they do, the food is spoiled. So, they aren't maintaining District 12 properly and people are starving. So, I do believe Katniss and Gail's uh hunting is sustaining District 12 quite a bit. And yes, the capital brings them resources, but it aids District 12 in knowing that they have a source of like meat and food that isn't where they don't have to rely on the capital. Game was game after all, no matter who'd shot it. I also sold at the back doors of the wealthier clients in town, trying to remember what my father had told me and learning a few new tricks as well. So, this is once again about Katniss's relationships. So, let's pay attention to her relationships here and how she's built them. The butcher would buy my rabbits, but not squirrels.

[00:17:01]The baker enjoyed squirrel, but would only trade for one if his wife wasn't around. The head peacekeeper loved wild turkey. The mayor had a passion for strawberries. So, there's lots of things that she learned and built relationships with. Yes, they were like basically work related relationships, but at the same time, she was still able to build those relationships. District 12 is like Candace is incredibly important to District 12. And I haven't annotated a whole lot here because I'm still like learning at this point. So, I definitely have to go back and like annotate properly when it comes to like the earlier chapters of The Hunger Games.

[00:17:36]So, I need to like add things. And that's also a good thing about like rereading novels that you're able to go back and figure out things that you missed while annotating the first time or you miss just while you were reading even if you're not annotating. So I I think this is really good to be able to do and especially this series. That's really good for me to realize and just analyze really in depth what's going on.

[00:18:00]So let's move on to the next paragraph.

[00:18:02]In late summer, I was washing up in a pond when I noticed the plants growing around me tall with leaves like arrowheads. Funny how like there's leaves like arrowheads. And that's the I wonder if that's the reason Suzanne Collins chose the name Katniss is because she wanted the person or like what came first, Katniss' name or the bow and arrow characteristic or the skill that Katniss has with the bow and arrow arrow head. So like there's an arrow head that the Katniss plant has.

[00:18:29]So, you know, what came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first, Katniss or the skill with bows and arrows? The character skill with a bow and arrow. So, that's probably why she's named after Katniss by Susan Collins.

[00:18:42]Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small bluish tubers that don't look like much, but are boiled but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. Katniss, I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for.

[00:19:00]And I heard my father's voice joking, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve." I spent hours stirring up the pond bed with my toes and a stick, gathering the tubers that floated to the top. That night, we feasted on fish and catnas roots until we were all for the first time in months full. Singing is for freedom. Where? Why have I Oh, I've highlighted it and just written it up here. See, I was definitely just learning how to annotate here because I was I've put the annotation like very far away. Okay, let's let's read this paragraph and then discuss. Slowly my mother returned to us. She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in the winter. Some people traded with us or paid money for her medical remedies.

[00:19:47]One day I heard her singing. Now singing is for freedom and uh and for safety actually. Ash had finally felt safe after her husband died or a little bit safe I guess within the confines of District 12. Now other times that um singing comes up. There's a lot of different times that singing comes up and one that I can think of mostly is at the end of Mocking Jay that we can discuss more once we get to Mocking Jay that we actually um hear or we don't hear in the movies we don't actually get to hear this scene but we see or we can read Katniss as she begins singing during this after she's killed Coin and she's been imprisoned and she essentially wants to die at this point.

[00:20:28]She's given up [clears throat] on life.

[00:20:30]What she wants to do is give up. But finally, she feels free because Coin isn't coming back in with a new oppressive regime after they've overthrown Snow. Coin can't do anything.

[00:20:42]Katniss is free. Even if she's imprisoned, she starts singing because, as we know, Lisa Gray says it's not over until the mocking Jay sings. At that point, Katniss in some in some way, even though she's still in prison, she feels safe. She feels free. So singing is also very important within the Hunger Games series. Throughout the entirety of the Hunger Games series, not just with the original trilogy, we see it both in Song Birds and Snakes and Sunrise and the Reaping. All right. Prim was thrilled to have her back, but I kept watching, waiting for her to disappear on us again, which obviously is trauma based because she did disappear. I didn't trust her, and some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again. Imagine being 12.

[00:21:35]Yeah, she's 12 at this point. 12, 13ish, maybe even at that point. No, I think she'd just be 12 still. Uh 12 at this point, so she's very, very young. She's very little and she's essentially been parentified. She'd had to grow up very fast. That's very It's very upsetting.

[00:21:49]It's very sad. Poor Katniss. Now, I was going to die without that ever being set right. I and she even regrets it by that line as well. She's going to die without ever setting her relationship right. And she actually tries to improve her relationship with her mother that now that she's survived by catching fire after her first Hunger Games. So she tries she she makes an attempt to set that right later on. I thought of how I had yelled at her today in the justice building. I had told her I loved her too, though, so maybe it would all balance out. For a while, I stand staring out of the train window, wishing I could open it again, but unsure of what would happen at such high speed. In the distance, I see the lights of another district. 7 10 I don't know. I think about the people in their houses settling in for bed. Imagine my home with its shutters drawn tight. What are they doing now? My mother and Prim. Were they able to eat supper, the fish stew, and the strawberries? Or did it lie untouched on their plates? Did they watch the recap of the day's events on the battered old TV that sits on the table against the against the wall? I'll discuss this highlighted part in a second. Surely there were more tears. Is my mother holding up being strung for prim or has she already started to slip away leaving the weight of the world on my sister's fragile shoulders? I've said here about the TV. How's the TV provided? How was the pre TV provided to them? I've speculated essentially I think when I originally highlighted it as well in like my live stream or at least maybe I thought it to myself. I don't know. I think I think I did speculate that potentially there are two options here. The capital provided them with their TV in order to force them to watch the Hunger Games and the Capital News so they continue can continue being oppressed through the TVs. And we know in the ballot of song birds and snakes that often times people don't have functioning TVs so they don't watch the Hunger Games anyways. So in some way they made it mandatory and in doing so in making it mandatory to watch the Hunger Games and ensuring everyone had to have a TV. Did they provide them? I doubt it. So it's likely that it was mandatory to own a TV, but you had to pay for it yourself. So it was another way to financially oppress the people of the districts. Prim will undoubtedly sleep with my mother tonight. The thought of that scruffy old buttercup posting himself on the bed to watch over Prim comforts me. If she cries, she he will nose his way into her arms and curl up there until she calms down and falls asleep. I'm so glad I didn't drown him.

[00:24:16]I I kind of like lowkey love that line.

[00:24:19]It's kind of funny. I'm so glad I didn't drown him. Good job, Katniss, for not drowning your sister's cat. Imagining my home makes me ache with loneliness. This day has been endless. Could Gail and I have been eating blackberries only this morning. Seems like a lifetime ago, like a long dream that deteriorated into a nightmare. Maybe if I go to sleep, I will wake back in district 12 where I belong. Probably the drawers hold any number of night gowns, but I just strip off my shirt and trousers and climb into bed in my underwear. The sheets are made of soft, silky fabric. A thick, fluffy quilt gives immediate warmth. I'm going to cry. Now is the time to do it because she's not in front of anyone. And she just she even says that she can wash it off but in the morning all the tears. So she once again here is saying that they're not going to use her tears for entertainment the same way that Hamri says it more explicitly in Sunrise on the Reaping. By morning I'll be able to wash the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else.

[00:25:27]So I let the train rock me into oblivion. Gray light is leaking through the curtains when the wrapping rouses me. I hear Effie Trinket's voice calling me to rise up, up, up. It's going to be a big, big, big day. I'm trying and imagining for a moment what it must be like inside that woman's head. What thoughts fill her waking hours? What dreams come to her at night? I have no idea. This is Katniss once again. I think I found this funny because like Katniss, this like teenage 16-year-old Katniss is being like, "What the hell is going on in her head? What then? Who is this crazy capital lady? Because the capital people act so different to Katniss. And the capital people, they don't they make sense of things in a completely different way to Katniss. And she's trying to make sense of it herself. Like Katniss is trying to make sense of the differences between herself and the capital people because she hates it. She hates the oppression. like there's lots of, you know, like things that biases and prejudices she has going into the capital and the Hunger Games that she eventually learns more about.

[00:26:28]And this is one of the ways she learns more about the capital is being like imagining and putting trying to put herself in the shoes of Effie and being like, "God, what is happening in her head?" Even if she's being very judgmental, she's being like a little judgmental teenager. I put the green outfit back on since it's not really dirty, just slightly crumpled from spending the night on the floor. My fingers trace the circle around the little gold mocking jay and I think of the woods and of my father and of my mother and Prim waking up having to get on with things. I slept in the elaborate braided hair my mother did for the reaping. And it doesn't look too bad, so I just leave it up. It doesn't matter.

[00:27:05]We can't be far from the capital now.

[00:27:07]And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for this opening ceremonies tonight. Anyway, I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion. I've said ill and I've done like a little arrow down to this annotation. Indications of trafficking paring um not paring parading nude children around because why are they why is nudity in associated with children in the capital? Quite frankly, there's one reason for it, and it's to do with how Finnick was trafficked. And the capital people, they're acting as though these children aren't actually children simply because they're district and they're beneath them. As I enter the dining car, Effie Trinket brushes me with a cup of black brushes by me with a cup of black coffee. That's it essentially means the same thing. She's muttering obscenities under her breath. Oh, hey Mitch. Hey, Mitch. Hey, Mitch. Hey, Mitch. Hey, Mitch. His face, puffy and red from the previous day's indulgences, is chuckling. Peter holds a roll and looks somewhat embarrassed. What did he do exactly? Does he What is Hitch done?

[00:28:10]Like made it like done something that Effie like disapproves of. Bad manners perhaps that Effie disapproves of. What was she doing anyway? Sit down. Sit down, says Hamitch, waving me over. The moment I slide into my chair, I'm served an enormous platter of food. eggs, ham, piles of fried potatoes. A tin of fruit sits in an in ice to keep it chilled.

[00:28:31]The basket of rolls they set set before me would keep my family going for a week. There's an elegant glass of orange juice. At least I think it's orange juice. I've only ever tasted an orange once on New Year's Day when my father bought one as a special treat. A cup of coffee. My mother adors coffee, which we could almost never afford, but it only tastes bitter and thin to me. a rich brown cup of something I've never seen.

[00:28:56]And we I'll read the next line before we do the annotation. They call it hot chocolate, says Peter. It's good. And I love that they've never actually seen hot chocolate before. And they really they bring up hot chocolate again multiple times. It's clearly something that both Canis and Peter enjoy and they enjoy together. It's like very cute.

[00:29:14]They love hot chocolate, these two. Um evidence other countries exist outside Panama. I even made a video about it. A lot of people disagreed with me in that video, but sure it like look I am of the strong belief that they are importing coffee beans and cacao beans into the country because it's not actually possible at least really in this day and age to be able to I know this is a dystopia. I know people that's one of people's arguments. It's a dystopia.

[00:29:40]It's not really possible to to grow coffee beans and cacao beans in an area that is not the right climate to grow such a plant. So basically what's happening what I think is happening is that they're importing it. And people people in my comments of that video also like I think a greenhouse would fix this but I actually did some research and I think that uh like for that video and I think maybe I needed to explain it better that uh when it comes to like green houses it actually doesn't create like the right sort of environment at least at this day and age that you can't actually create beans and coffee beans in green houses at least from the research I could see they need very specific environments in like the uh like places near the equator. So they need to be grown in very specific places and specific climates which is the reason why chocolate nowadays is actually extremely expensive because there's very specific conditions that chocolate is actually grown in. So when it comes to chocolate specifically and possibly even coffee that means that they're importing the Panama the capital is importing chocolate and coffee which is one of the reasons that it's like the the districts like and with we see with Peter and Katniss have never seen something like hot chocolate before because chocolate is something imported and therefore very expensive that the capital has chocolate is very difficult to grow. Cacao beans are very different difficult to grow otherwise like chocolate wouldn't be so expensive as it is now in the real world. So yeah, just personally I think they're importing from other countries and other countries exist simply based on chocolate and coffee. But you know disagree with me in the comments if you want to. But that's my personal belief and I might make another video explaining it a bit better for everyone because I'm going to double down on that belief for you guys. All right, let's move on to the next paragraph. I take a sip of the hot, sweet, creamy liquid, and a shutter runs through me. Even though the rest of the meal beckons, I ignore it until I've drained my cup. Then I stuff down every mouthful I can hold, which is a substantial amount, being careful not to overdo it on the richest stuff. One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again, and I said I won't unless I bring it home.

[00:31:47]That shut her up. That's a very teenage thing to do, but also like she's trying to survive, so that's fair from Katniss.

[00:31:54]When my stomach feels like it's about to split open, I lean back and take in my breakfast companions. Peter is still eating, breaking off bits of roll and dipping them in chocolate. Now, I've highlighted this bit. I highlighted this bit because I want everyone to know, and I needed to emphasize this for myself later on. I've tried this specifically with sourdough. It is so good. Highly recommend sourdough, like a a bread that is like sturdier, that's not going to be like really gross when it's soggy, if you know what I mean. Like so you want to get like something like sourdough that also has a bit of flavor to it. So you want to get sourdough, dip it in some hot chocolate and it is really good. Highly recommend. Hitch hasn't paid much attention to his platter, but he's knocking back a glass of red juice that he keeps thinning with a clear liquid from a bottle. And as well with um sourdough potentially like sourdough crust, like bread crusts. Highly recommend. Like I'm just I'm telling you guys how to like eat bread and hot chocolate. It's like I highly recommend take some sourdough cross and dip it in hot chocolate. Okay, thank me later.

[00:32:58]Judging by the fumes, it's some kind of spirit. I don't know how much, but I've seen him enough in the hob tossing handfuls of money on the counter of the woman who sells white liquor. He'll be incoherent by the time we reach the capital list. Now that we have Sunrise on the Reaping and we know that Hamish has been in the vicinity of Katniss, it's almost like he wanted to maybe make sure she wasn't starving to death, but didn't want to get too close at the same time to end up like having Snow kill her since he knows that he was Hitch was associated with Berdo. So, he didn't want to get too close and kill like the beloved daughter of Berdo. So yeah, I see like he could have like revolved around her, especially since he was in the hob. He was a seam person. So he did revolve around like Katniss, but he didn't want to get too close. He was supposed to be Uncle Hitch. And it's very disappointing he didn't get a chance to do that. But at the same time, he kind of became a father figure later after the rebellion anyway, or I guess during the war as well. Like he becomes a father figure to both Peter and Katniss. I realize I detest Hitch. I wonder what Berdo would think of that.

[00:34:06]No wonder the District 12 tributes never stand a chance. It isn't just that we've been underfed and lack training. Some of our tributes have still been strong enough to make a go of it. But we rarely get sponsors and he's a big part of the reason why. The rich people who back tributes either because they're betting on them or simply for the bragging rights of picking a winner expect someone classier than Hamitch to deal with. So, you're supposed to give us advice. I say to Hamitch. Here's some advice. Stay alive, says Hamish, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peter before I remember I'm having nothing more to do with him. I'm surprised to see the hardness in his eyes. He generally seems so mild. That's very funny, says Peter. Suddenly, he lashes out at the glass and Hamish's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the blood red liquid running towards the back of the train. Only not to us.

[00:34:55]Actually, Peter doing that is very funny that he actually he's like, "That's not funny to us because Katniss is going to survive. We're going to make a deal hamage and Katniss is going to live. And then what I have here is love Peter's banter. Everything they they excluded that from the movies. Like Peter has like the best oneliners in this novel and they excluded that from the movies and I'm forever mad about it. Okay, let's read this line and then we'll read the annotation. Hitch considers this moment, then punches Peter on the jaw, knocking him on his from his chair.

[00:35:27]Similar to Maisley and her fight with Dusilla, he does. Hitch knows he's considering in this moment the the reason he considers this a moment is because he's considering it and thinks about he thinks because he's seeing these comparisons with Peter and Katniss to the 50th hung games the tributes he went into his games with he's considering it and went you know what made Masley look stronger a bruise the bruises the welts all over her face from the attack from Drusilla I don't think she ended up necessarily with a bruise I think there were welts on her face because Drusilla actually attacks her with her shoe and then she ends up with like welts on her face. So, she he's thinking back. Hitch is thinking back and going, you know what's going to make this guy look tough? If he's going to be so much like stubborn like Masley, then you know what's going to happen? He's going to act like Masely. His life is what's going him going into the capital.

[00:36:18]What's going to happen? He's going to look like Maisley. And he's going to give him a fighting chance because that's what Maisley was like. She was stubborn, just like Peter's acting like in this in this scene. When he turns back to reach for the spirits, I drive my knife into the table between his hands and the bottle, barely missing his fingers. I brace [clears throat] myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come.

[00:36:39]Instead, he sits back and squints at us.

[00:36:41]He's realizing in this moment that these two are exactly like Masily. This is a really good comparison. Now that we have Sunrise and the Reaping, we can see this and think to what Suzanne Collins was thinking in this moment. We think to Sunrise on the Reaping and realize, hey, this is exactly like Maisley. And I think that's amazing. Well, what's this?

[00:37:02]Says Hamage. Did I actually get a pair of fighters this year? Peter rises from the floor and scoops up a handful of ice from under the fruit tine. He starts to raise it to the red mark of on his jaw.

[00:37:12]No, says Hitch, stopping him. Let the Bruce show. The audience will think you've mixed it with up with another tribute before you've even made it to the arena. That's against the rules, says Peter. Only if they catch you that bruise will say you fought. You weren't caught. Even better, says Hamitch. He turns to me. Can you hit anything with that knife besides a table? Well, this is highlighted to really emphasize the fact that there's a connection to Masily here. The bow and arrow is my weapon, but I've spent a fair amount of time throwing knives as well. Sometimes if I've wounded an animal with an arrow, it's better to get a knife into it, too, before I approach it. I realize that if I want Hitch's attention, this is my moment to make an impression. I yank the knife out of the table, get a grip on the blade, and then throw it into the wall across the room. I was actually just hoping to get a good solid stick, but it lodges in the seam between two panels, making me look a lot better than I am. Now, I have a couple of annotations ending off the chapter, so we're going to discuss those. We're going to discuss quite a bit of like analysis on this. So, first of all, let's have a look at this annotation.

[00:38:17]Oh, actually it's to do with the the highlighted bit. So, let's read this paragraph and then I'll read the annotation. Stand over here, both of you, says Hitch, nodding to the middle of the room. We obey and he circles us, prodding us like animals at times, checking our muscles, examining our faces. Well, you're not entirely hopeless. Seem fit. And once the stylist get a hold of you, you'll be attractive enough. Hey, Mitch, come on now. Be a little bit nicer. So, I've said reflects how the capital will treat them. So essentially, Hamitch is treating them like animals at times because Hamitch knows essentially that they are treated like animals in the capital that they're seen as inferior. So Hamitch was treated like an animal when he entered the capital. So he's essentially preparing them the best that he can and he know like the best way he knows how to prepare them. So he he's treating them the way that he he expects them to be treated by the capital civilians, the capital stylists. Peter and I don't question this. The Hunger Games aren't a beauty contest, but the best looking tributes always seem to pull more sponsors. Then I have an annotation here. More illusion to the trafficking.

[00:39:18]So obviously like the more attractive they are, like Finnick was considered very attractive only at 14, which is disgusting. But that meant he got the most expensive sponsor gift that the Hunger Games has ever seen, which of course is the Trident. So they were only able to see that the trident because of how attractive Finnick was and that's basically what leads the sponsors because it is so gross the way the capital works or at least some of the capital. All right, I'll make a deal with you. You don't interfere with my drinking and I'll stay sober enough to help you, says Hitch. But you have to do exactly what I say. It's not much of a deal, but it's still a giant step forward from 10 minutes ago when we had no guide at all. Fine, says Peter. So help us, I say. When we get to the arena, what's the best strategy at the cornucopia for someone, one thing at a time, in a few minutes, we'll be pulling into the station. You'll be in the you'll be put in the hands of your stylist. You're not going to like what they do to you because, you know, if we if we think to Hamitch's games, but no matter what it is, don't resist, says Hamage. But I begin, no butts. Don't resist, says Hamitch. Now what we know from Sunrise and the ripping now that what happened to Hamage like Cameas and Peter don't get it as bad. They're sprayed with what I think is insecticides. Yeah. So essentially insecticides because the capital's treating the tributes as like animals.

[00:40:44]So they spray them with insecticides to get rid of what they think would be insects on them which is kind of like it's so gross that they would assume that just of these district people. But that is what ends up happening anyways when it comes to Hamish's games. There's a very big difference between the 50th and the 74th Hunger Games. As we see in in in the Hunger Games, even when we compare the books, he takes the bottle of spirits from the table and leaves the car. As the door swings shut behind him, the car goes dark. There are still a few lights inside, but outside it's as if night has fallen again. I realize we must be in the tunnel that runs through the mounds into the capital. The mountains form a natural barrier between the capital and the eastern districts.

[00:41:23]It is almost impossible to enter from the east except through the tunnels.

[00:41:27]This geographical advantage was a major factor in the district's losing the war that led to my being a tribute today.

[00:41:34]You know, I feel like if we were to get a dark days perspective or some sort of perspective from Panama prior, the dark days, we would realize that District 12 actually led the rebellion. I get the feeling that the way that it's framed the rebellion. I think that district 12 and the reason why they have such a low population of just 8,000 is because they needed to be attacked by the capital to lower their numbers since that district 12 was the big their biggest competitors other than like the military force of district 13 because district 12 had the fiercest amount of rebellion in them. So they had they have dwindling numbers because the capital had to kill a lot of them since they were all rebelling and they were the leaders of the rebellion.

[00:42:18]and they had to kill as many of the leaders as possible. So that meant that most of District 12 was killed. That's my personal opinion. Let me know what you think in the comments down below.

[00:42:26]Since the rebels had to scale the mountains, they were easy targets for the capital's air forces. They improve on this during the rebellion. They actually end up overtaking District 2 and getting a hold of their air forces.

[00:42:36]So they could actually go over the mountains instead of having to go through them. So it's very easy for them to get through to the capital this way.

[00:42:43]I've also written in annotations here that the rebels take over district 2 for the capital's military first before attacking the capital itself. So obviously they learn from their mistakes, which is a good thing. Peter Malik and I stand in silence as the train speeds along. Weird how she uses his last name here. The tunnel goes on and on and I think of the tons of rock separating me from the sky and my chest tightens. I hate being encased in stone this way. It reminds me of the mines and my father trapped, unable to reach sunlight, buried forever in the darkness. Did they actually have a body to bury when it came to Berdo and all the other miners who died that day? But I'm curious about that. Did they actually retrieve their bodies eventually? The train finally begins to slow and suddenly bright light floods the compartment. We can't help it. Both Peter and I run to the window to see what we've only seen on television. The capital, the ruling city of Panama. The Cameroons haven't lied about its grandeur. If anything, they have not quite captured the magnificence of the glistening buildings in a rainbow of hues that tower into the air. The shiny cars that roll down the wide paved streets. The oddly dressed people with bizarre hair and painted faces who have never missed a meal. All of the colors seem artificial. The pinks too deep, the greens too bright, the yellows painful to the eyes. like the flat round discs of the hard candy we can never afford to buy at the tiny sweet shop in District 12. And I've added brackets here. Like I've highlighted these parts because I thought it was interesting to really dive into or like be like when I'm looking back at annotations, I wanted to be able to be drawn to how the colors are in the capital compared to maybe like with the districts. They're very incredibly bright colors. They're very artificial as Katniss tells us. And then what I have here, who continues to run the Donna family sweet shop since I've put in brackets the sweet shop in District 12. There's still a sweet shop, but who took over it? Because we know that Merrily is actually essentially bedbound, I would say. Like she's not able, she has pounding headaches and she's overwhelmed by the grief of losing her twin sister, Masily. So Merrily likely isn't still running it. Are her parents possibly still alive and running the sweet shop? Are there other family members that perhaps inherited the sweet shove? We don't know. Let me know what your speculation is in the comments down below. The people begin to point at us eagerly as they recognize a tribute train rolling into the city while pointing at the circus animals. God. I step away from the window, sickened by their excitement, knowing they can't wait to watch us die. But Peter holds his ground, actually waving and smiling at the gawking crowd. He only stops when the train pulls into the station, blocking us from their view. Snow started this tradition, but but when was it properly implemented? Since we know that Yeah. in Sunrise on the Reaping, we know that they don't actually they aren't greeted at the train station like Snow was. So, I wonder as they began making it more entertaining, more people it like the Hunger Games became more mainstream after the 50th Hunger Games.

[00:45:50]Perhaps it wasn't just drunk people showing up that people actually instead of just respecting the the tradition as we see by the 50 games, it is genuinely like entertainment for the whole of the capital. So they start showing up at the train station. What meant that they actually implemented it into like the tradition of greeting tributes at the train station or seeing them at the train station because we know it doesn't happen in the 50th games but snow does do it in the 10th hunger games. So like what's the difference there? Who started the tradition? We don't know. He sees me staring at him and shrugs. Who knows? He says one of them may be rich. I have misjudged him. I think of his actions since the reaping began. The friendly squeeze of my hand. His father showing up with the cookies and promising to feed Prim. Did Peter put that him up to that? His tears at the station, volunteering to wash Hamitch, but then challenging him this morning when apparently the nice guy approach had failed. And now the waving at the window already trying to win the crowd. You see, Kness. Can look. Listen, listen.

[00:46:50]That's that's just literally just how Peter is. Like he's a kind, caring person, but he has a very he has like that rebellious nature in him. He has the stubbornness of that's very similar to Maisley. He has he's has a very indepth personality that isn't trying to play a game like Katniss is trying to.

[00:47:09]She's just got trust issues. All the pieces are still fitting together, but I sense he has a plan forming. Katniss, come on now. You You are so clueless. He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peter Malog, the boy who gave me the bread, is fighting hard to kill me. You were so delusional, Katniss, trust issues, trust issues.

[00:47:32]What have I written? I've written quite a bit down here. Let's have a look at it. Katniss says, "Trust issues." And is expecting dishonesty. I My handwriting is so messy in this. Like I'm I'm learning to write in the books. It's so awkward to like write in annotations into a book. Peter's actions are based in charisma and thoughts of kindness towards Katniss. All of this is because he's actually trying to keep Katniss alive. We know that. And Peter is naturally very charis charismatic. So it that works in his favor and he's using that to his advantage because he knows that that's he knows that's the way that's going to keep alive that he has to play the game in order to sway the odds in his favor and therefore in the odds of Katniss. There is nothing malicious about his actions, but it adds to Katniss's characterization here as a traumatized, distrustful person. She's playing her her own game. Candace is playing this game that Peter isn't even aware of at this point. So Candace is like, "Oh, what's the game he's playing at?" Because Candace is playing this game. She's trying to manipulate like the capital Hitch. She's trying to get information out of Hamitch. So she assumes that Peter is like one step ahead of her and thinking one step ahead of her. And you know what? He kind of is. But it's not for the same motivation that Katniss is. Catnice is trying to survive. That's all she thinks about.

[00:48:47]But Peter's not thinking about that.

[00:48:49]He's thinking about Katniss's survival, which is what we find out later in the books. Which is why like I wish I could go back and read this for the first time again to really like be fooled into thinking that Peter has this level of deception with Katniss. And seeing the whole reveal of him working with the careers and then eventually seeing that he was actually doing it because of his love for Katniss and wanting to keep her alive. I just I wish I could read that again. But next episode, we are going to be doing chapter 5. So stay tuned for chapter 5 and that whole in-depth analysis. All right, guys. That is it for today's video. Hopefully you guys enjoyed my analysis of chapter 4 of The Hunger Games. And like and subscribe if you did. Emphasis on subscribe and comment down below. Did you read along with me? Annotate on your own novel or should I add more annotations and an analysis of chapter 4? Let me know in the comment section down below. Once again guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video, but I've been CJ and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye.

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