CatchingFirePartOneAndTwo

Since Alameda's spring break was included to our reading assignment and Mr. Sutherland didn't assign homework except for finishing part one and two (which I already read before it was assigned!), so that was an easy assignment. So in this literature circle letter, I have to combine part one and two together in one blog post. Two parts, one blog post. Okay so on with the actual assignment.
We last left off when Katniss and Peeta won their first Hunger Games. Yay! Not. Because it's not over that fast. In this book, Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta re-enter the games as returning players or the tributes and they run across another problem. It's not a life or death problem but more of a love problem. Peeta already thinks that Katniss's love for him is fake and part of a show. But will Peeta notice that the one Katniss loves is none other than Gale, her childhood friend. In short, Gale loves Katniss, Katniss loves Gale, and Peeta is madly in love with Katniss. And the key strategy for winning the games is Katniss and Peeta's "romance". Well for Peeta, it wasn't a strategy. Gale must have felt really heartbroken watching Katniss and Peeta lovey-dovey in the games. And for the Victory Tour stage, they'll have to become lovers once again. I wonder what Gale felt when he found out Katniss and Peeta had to be lovers again. And it was a death match again. Hmm... the one you love having a fake "romance" with a boy from your district and the girl you love might die in a game. I wonder what he felt (Sarcasm).
Later on Katniss meets two older women of the age of thirty five or so. They were wearing peacemaker outfits/ uniforms. Katniss examined the girl's face, and asked who they were. Her name was Twill and the other was Bonnie. Apparently they recognize her from the games and knew who she was. They escaped district eight to go to district thirteen. But district thirteen was blown to smithereens!! The wanted to flee from district eight because of an uprising that happened there. Bonnie had an injured leg during the time Katniss met them. Katniss later gave them food, because Katniss is nice like that. And they were out of food at the time.
The mockingjay is once again brought up into the story. Is the mockingjay some mystical birdor just an ordinary bird? It is on the cover of every book! I think that the mockingjay is the main point of the trilogy. Because well the mockingjay might help save someone from a horrible death, or it has some mystical power. Everytime Katniss enters the game she wears her one mockingjay pin as a memory of the people back home. I wonder how they'll add the mockingjay pin and the theme into the next book, when they keep eliminating districts!! (Whoops, that was a spoiler for the ending!! xPP)
Here are some questions for my fellow readers:
1) What does the mockingjay resemble in this story?
2) Everybody, why do you think they eliminated that district in the end?
3) Uhh... I can't think of anymore questions for this part!