Theme

As I finished Catching Fire, during her second time in the arena you could see how she recognized the theme. Which was for her is that remember who the enemy is.  Which for us since we don't really want to have enemies, is mainly knowing whats/whos right and wrong. For Katniss the real enemey is the Capitol not the other tributes and victors. For us, it is knowing what the right thing is or who is the good person and telling them apart from the bad decision and the bad person so you don't do the wrong thing. Because Katniss wants to do the right thing by overthrowing the Capitol because they are doing everything wrong. To us, we want to make the choices and meet the good people instead of friending the bad people and doing the bad decision. Since she was trying to save Peeta, she was trying to shoot Enoboria but realized that the Capitol was the real enemy, not her. The capitol was the one who makes people starve and have children fight to death for entertainment while they watch and live in luxury. In the beginning she was trying to not start a revolution for President Snow because she did not want any of her family and friends to get hurt. But for her that was the enemy and she should be fighting against them instead of working for them. In the book, President Snow comes to visit Katniss to talk about trying to halt the uprisings because she thinks she the enemy and President Snow tells her,"Convince Me," (Collins 29). All she wants is no one to get hurt while she can continue to live for the rest of her life. But once she hears she has to go back into the arena, all she wants to do is protect Peeta because hes not in trouble. After the arena on the way to District 13, she realizes who the enemy is. Another example that explains the theme is, "Enemy. Enemy. The word is tugging at a recent memory. Pulling it into the present. The look on Haymitch's face. 'Kaniss when you're in the arena...' THe scowl, the misgiving. 'What?' I hear my own voice tighten as I bristle at some unspoken accusation. 'You just remember who the enemy is,' Haymitch says. 'That's all," (Pg 378). This quote reinforces the theme that I brought out. She really wants to save Peeta but Enovoria is not the one that is going to torture him, it would be the Capitol, which makes her shoot at the force field instead of her. For us, by Katniss doing that, she would just be doing the wrong thing which would do nothing for Peeta.