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The Hunger Games chapters 16-21 pages 208-289

Rue is a new character that is introduced. Her purpose is to assist Katniss in helping her to win the Hunger Games so they team up. In theory, she does not want to sacrifice herself so that Katniss can win, but we find out later that because of Rue's accidental death, Katniss is more motivated to win the games for her and for Rue. If Rue had not been killed soon after they teamed up, then Katniss might have not had the motivation to defeat the careers and the rest of the tributes.
 * __ Describe any new characters that are introduced? What is their purpose? __**

__** Why would you (or why wouldn't you) recommend this novel to a friend? **__ I would recommend this novel to a friend because this book is very adventurous and it is very exciting to read. The book has a lot of detail written in and I think most readers would be able to understand the novel. Also, even if the person does not like adventure, they still would like it because this book just grabs the reader's attention and the reader will keep on reading it until they put the book down. Another thing is that this novel reflects a bit of modern world and that why I think another reader will like to read something that is relatively similar to our society even though it has a lot details in it that are a little outrageous.

__**Why did(or didn't) the novel meet your expectations?**__

This novel met my expectations because when I first read the start, I thought it wasn't going to be very exciting and that the plot would not have been very good. However, I was wrong and the plot outline was very good and it was pretty exciting the way the main characters tried to outsmart each other. Also, the novel had a lot of elements inside that made it interesting to read, for example, mystery on Peeta and Katniss' choice on to kill Peeta or not. Another expectation I had was that this novel has an opened ended conclusion and this book does have that because it ends with the Gamemakers very angry and Katniss and Peeta"s adventure did not seem to end just in this book.

__**Plot**__ Rue and Katniss team up and the first thing that happens is Rue nursing Katniss back to health from plants that she recognizes. Then, Katniss decides to destroy the career's supplies stash so that the careers will be given a loss and will have to do a lot of things by hand instead of relying on the supplies. However, the supplies stash is well guarded by mines that were set up by a boy from district 3 which means that the supplies are almost impossible to reach even though there is no careers guarding it. Just when Katniss is trying to figure out on how to get in, a girl tribute comes in a jumps over all of the mines and somehow managing to get away with some supplies without getting killed. Then, Katniss figures out a way to destroy the supplies by shooting the land mines. After she does that, the careers come back very angry that this happened and the district 3 boy was killed because of Katniss. The careers know that this person was probably Katniss because she is the only one that has the ability to do this and the fact that she got them stung. The careers decide to hunt down Katniss or anyone else that did this and just when Katniss started her way back to Rue, one of the careers found Rue and stabbed her in with a spear. Katniss, instantly killed him, but Rue was now beyond saving and so she sang Rue to sleep and gave the promise that she will win the games for both of them. Later, the head game maker announces that people from the same district can now win together. This is good news for Katniss because she can now find Peeta since she has found that the careers stabbed him after he let her go and now the two of them can team up. However, the two careers that are left are from the same district and they start hunting. Very soon later, Katniss finds Peeta and she heals him and then she goes hunting for food, but she meets Therash who is from Rue's district and a career fighting, Therash kills the career and was about to kill Katniss when she told him she sang Rue to sleep. Therash lets Katniss go and tells her that they owe each other nothing anymore. Just then, the last career tribute comes running in and both of them run in different ways. the chapter ends with Katniss running back to her and Peeta's hideout and then passing out.