In chapter 26, they spit the berries out and flushed their mouths with water. They can hear the roar of the crowd in the Capitol that’s playing live over the speakers. The hovercraft materializes and they get taken up into it. Peeta goes straight into surgery for his leg. They are taken back to the Training Center. She is a little crazy and wants to stay with Peeta, but she gets jabbed with a needle. When she wakes, she is clean and in her old bed. She also has several tubes attached to her arm. When the redheaded Avox girl comes to bring her food, she asks if Peeta made it out alive. The girl nods. Katniss is relieved that Peeta is okay and it hits her that she can go home now to Prim and her mother and Gale. When she is allowed to leave her room, she meets up with Effie, Haymitch, and Cinna. She hugs them and asks where Peeta is. Haymitch says that he’s fine and the Capitol wants to do their reunion live on air at the ceremony. She goes with Cinna to get ready. She is still the “girl on fire” in her yellow dress. The sheer fabric softly glows and even the slight movement in the air sends a ripple up her body. In the dress, she gives the illusion of wearing candlelight. She looks very simply like a girl – a young, innocent, and harmless girl. When she asks about it, Cinna says carefully that he thinks Peeta would like it better. But it’s not about Peeta, it’s about the Capitol and the Gamemakers and the audience. It’s a reminder that the Games are not quite finished. She senses a warning in his reply. When she is ready, she is taken into an area under the stage and put on a metal plate that will transport her upward. Haymitch comes to talk to her and when they hug, he begins talking very fast and very quietly in her ear with her hair concealing his lips. He tells her that she’s in trouble. The word is that the Capitol’s furious about her showing them up in the arena. He says that her only defense can be that she was so madly in love and she wasn’t responsible for her actions. She asks if he told Peeta and he says that he doesn’t have to because Peeta’s already there. She’s feels like she’s never been in such a dangerous place in her life. In the arena, she could only die. But now, Prim, her mother, Gale, the people of District 12, and everyone she cares about could be punished if she can’t pull this off.
In chapter 27, Katniss reunites with Peeta at the Closing Ceremony in front of the Capitol. During the ceremony, everyone watches a 3 hour recap of the Games. Afterwards, President Snow crowns them as the victors. Then Caesar Flickerman interviews Katniss and Peeta. The next day, Katniss and Peeta get on the train back to District 12. They barely have time to say good-bye to Cinna and Portia, but they’ll see them in a few months when they tour the districts for a round of victory ceremonies. It’s the Capitol’s way of reminding people that the Hunger Games never really go away. As she changes into normal clothes on the train, she begins to transform back into herself – just a girl who lives in the Seam, who hunts in the woods, and who trades in the Hob. When the train makes a stop for fuel, Katniss and Peeta take a walk along the track. She tells Peeta about how the Captiol didn’t like their stunt with the berries and how Haymitch has been coaching her so she wouldn’t make things worse. Peeta realizes how she could communicate with Haymitch and that the way she acted was all for the Games. He becomes very cold to her then. She is really confused about her feelings when they finally arrive back home.
That was a little sad. I really wanted Katniss and Peeta to stay together. Well, hopefully they will make up in the next book. I don’t like the Capitol at all. They are really cruel and I think there should be a rebellion or something because it would be just terrible to live in that world. Over all, I really liked the book. I thought it had a lot of action and mystery and romance at the same time. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone because I really enjoyed it.
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