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Cato presumably killed Thresh (book) and outfoxed Foxface to make the final three. At this point, gamemakers sent in mutations representing the dead tributes (book) and dogs (film) which drove Katniss, Peeta, and Cato to the cornucopia, where Cato is seen to have received full body armour. After a brief fight on the cornucopia, Cato captured ...
Katniss's first name comes from the edible arrowhead plant, [4] which was known as katniss in the language of the Lenape. [5] Her last name comes from Bathsheba Everdene, the central female character in the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. According to Collins, "The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing ...
Wes Bentley was cast as gamemaker Seneca Crane. [37] Stanley Tucci was cast as Caesar Flickerman, Panem's celebrity host. [38] Donald Sutherland was cast as Coriolanus Snow, Panem's president. [39] Willow Shields was cast as Primrose Everdeen, Katniss' younger sister. [40] In July 2012, the cast for the second film was announced.
Panem is a dystopian nation divided into twelve districts and ruled by its Capitol. As punishment for a failed rebellion seventy-four years before, each district must choose two tributes, a boy and a girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until only one is left alive and declared the “Victor.”
Every summer, movie studios try to launch the next Harry Potter , Twilight , or The Hunger Games franchise by digging through best-selling young adult (YA) novels. The efforts have been hit and ...
Katniss reluctantly agrees to be the "Mockingjay” – the symbol of the rebellion – for rebel propaganda, on the condition that District 13's President Alma Coin grants immunity to all surviving Hunger Games tributes, including Katniss's friend Peeta Mellark and Finnick's lover Annie Cresta, and agrees that Katniss will have the right to ...
The libertarian Cato Institute counts the biggest-ticket items this way: $3.19 trillion in transfer payments; $1.15 trillion in aid to states; $950 billion in interest payments on national debt; $840 billion in purchases of goods and services; and $560 billion to pay federal workers.
Peeta urges Katniss to run and stays to fight fellow tribute Cato while she escapes. He survives the encounter with Cato but suffers a stab wound on his leg. He camouflages himself into the rocks and mud alongside a riverbank, slowly dying of blood poisoning until Katniss finds him days later.