Hunger Games Catching Fire

                                                           Hunger Games Catching Fire

                                                       Acts of Defiance

 

 An act of defiance is when someone goes against authority.  IN the book Catching Fire there are a lot of acts of defiance against the capitol.  Most of which involve Katniss.

            In Katniss’s privite session, she hung a dummy by a hangmen’s noose.  There’s nothing bad about that right?  But then she wrote Seneca Crane on the hanging dummy in a blood red color.  This is defiant because President Snow killed Seneca Crane and no one was supposed to know about it.

            In Peeta’s private session, he made a painting of Rue in the ring of flowers that Katniss put around her after she died in the Hunger Games last year.  This is defiant because it is the capitols fault that Rue is dead.  Also, in Peetas interview he talked about him and Katniss already being married and expecting a baby.  This is defiant because now the capitol people feel guilty and don’t want the games to go on.

            Cinna made Katniss’s wedding dress turn into a mockingjay during her interview.  This is defiant because the mockingjay is a symbol of rebellion/the uprising and the interviews were to be televised, but now they had to be canceled.

            I feel that what Cinna did was the most defiant.  I feel this way because the mockingjay is the thing that President Snow looks at as a sign of rebellion.  Katniss is already a sign of rebellion herself.  So when she is turned into a mockingjay President Snow knows this is meant as an insult and this makes him furious.