Leo Martinez 10/25/15 Ms. Robison Periods 3 and 4 Reader’s Response Journal #3 Novel: Mockingjay Question: Think of a problem that a character had to face. Write the problem and how the character solved it or is working to solve it. If you were that character, what would you do differently? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. Katniss and Johanna continue training. They’re filmed for promotion while going through training. Things continue normally, until Peeta joins them. Plutarch says it’s for promotion purposes and they’re attempting to make them reunite, something that Katniss is against. Meanwhile, Johanna and Katniss are planned to take their pre-combat test. During Katniss test, she realizes that this (the test) is an attempt from the rebels to see if she’s able to follow their instructions while in the middle of battle. This goes against her instincts, but she continues to do so in order to pass. She’s sent to …show more content…
They actually do rescue Peeta, and he is returned safe. “Alive and well – maybe not well but alive and here. Away from Snow. Safe. Here. With me. In a minute I can touch him. See his smile. Hear his laugh.” It is later followed by: “Peeta’s awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as a trio of doctors reassure him, flash light in his eyes, check his pulse. I’m disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke, but he sees it now. His features register disbelief and something more intene that I cant quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feet, and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His hands are reaching for me, too, to caress my face, I think. My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.” This shows that now Katniss has a new problem: to get Peeta out of Snow’s ‘spell;’ to snap him out of trying to kill