Quarter Quell is a Killing Games

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3. THE ANALYSIS OF THE STRATEGIES OF KATNISS STRUGGLE OF LIFE IN “QUARTER QUELL III GAMES”

3.1 Quarter Quell is a Killing Games

Katniss Everdeen is 16 years old. Katniss is having straight black hair, olive skin, and grey eyes. She was lived with her mother and sister, Primrose Everdeen Prim in District 12, one of the poorest districts in Panem, which charge of producing the products of mining, especially coal for the Capitol. Katniss is a highly skilled archer, hunter, and trapper. She must hunt and searching for food in the forest to fulfill necessary her life and to feed for her family. Katniss must struggle of life for her family in a killing games which this games was called “Hunger Games”. Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12-18 from each of twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a battle to the death to get money and food. The purpose of the hunger games is to relationship between districts and also to remember about them who were killed because of the rebellion in each district. The games in this novel “Catching Fire” is a continuation of the previous games that held last year namely the winners of the hunger games must compete again in the 75th games or also called Quater Quell III games. Quarter Quell is a Hunger Games celebration of the venerable held every twenty-five years. Quarter Quell this time is a celebration to commemorate the Hunger Games are the 75th. It can be seen from the following quote: “This is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it’s also a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the Universitas Sumatera Utara 13 anniversary of the districts’ defeat with over-the-toop celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes.”Collins, 2009:36 The Quarter Quell III seems will be different from the previous Quarter Quell. Because of its special, so that this year the tributes were taken from the previous Hunger Games winner. The names of the tributes in this game are: 1. Tribute of District 1 are Cashmere and Gloss 2. Tribute of District 2 are Brutus and Enobaria 3. Tribute of District 3 are Beetee and Wiress 4. Tribute of District 4 are Mags and Finnick Odair 5. Tribute of District 5 unnamed tribute 6. Tribute of District 6 unnamed tribute however, described as men and women who had a morphine addiction 7. Tribute of District 7 are Blight and Johanna 8. Tribute of District 8 are Woof dan Cecelia 9. Tribute of District 9 unnamed tribute 10. Tribute of District 10 unnamed tribute however, they are wear cow costume with volcanic belt 11. Tribute of District 11 are Chaff and Seeder 12. Tribute of District 12 are Katniss dan Peeta Katniss and Peeta are tribute of District 12 who has won Hunger Games the 74 th . Universitas Sumatera Utara 14 The conclusion of the above statement is Katniss Everdeen was 16 years old. Katniss is having straight black hair, olive skin, and grey eyes. Katniss is a highly skilled archer, hunter, and trapper. She comes from district 12. Katniss must struggle of life for her family in a killing games which this games was called “Hunger Games”. Quarter Quell is a Hunger Games celebration of the venerable held every twenty-five years. The tribute of Quarter Quell III games is the winners who have won the Hunger Games which has been held for seventy-four years. The steps of Quarter Quell III games are the first is the tribute were given a sign trackers in their bodies. The second is dispatched using a special plane to the arena game. The third is a game started with a bang gun made by President Snow. The fourth is run, hide, fight and to set the strategy for survival in the games. And the last one survival so that she or he will be winner.

3.2 The Strategies of Katniss Struggle of Life