Catching Fire
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Who was the real enemy?

Was anyone else confused about this??? So right before the hovercraft picked up Katniss, she remembered what Haymitch said about remembering who the enemy is... Was it Beetee? She made it sound like that, and when she was back in the hospital or whatever, she tried to kill Beetee with the syringe. So who was the real enemy? And WHY would it be Beetee?
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I think he was reminding her that the Capital was the real enemy, not the other Tributes. He wanted her to work with the Tributes because he'd planned the whole break-out with them.
Gwynneth made a spelling error but is otherwise correct. Haymitch meant to remind Katness that all of the Tributes were just pawns in the Capitol's games. The Capitol (inc the Game Makers) was the real enemy.
Her recalling that reminder was what prompted her to fire her arrow at chink which let in the Rebel hovercraft to pick her up rather than go and fight with any of the remaining Tributes.
Her recalling that reminder was what prompted her to fire her arrow at chink which let in the Rebel hovercraft to pick her up rather than go and fight with any of the remaining Tributes.
christina she didnt attack beetee she attacked haymitch i think he ment by "remember who the enemy is" i think he ment the careers and gwynneth capitol is spelled capitol not capital
when haymitch said remember who the enemy is, i thought he was kind of sending a hint to katniss that the enemy is not the other victors, it is the capitol. but as the story goes on, boggs kind of leads katniss to wonder, if the real enemy is also district 13.
i say that the enemy was the capitol and district 13.
i say that the enemy was the capitol and district 13.
I think Haymitch meant The Capitol. He didn't know that most things Coin did were just cause she wanted to be President again. But yes, I agree that with the way District 13 knew things-not the world outside their jail-like confinement which is Panem- that made them an enemy who would be very controlling in the future of Panem.
The Capitol is the real enemy of course. The Capitol force's the Districts into the Games, makes them kill each other and revels in the bloodshed, treats the Districts as slaves, keeps them downtrodden using Peacekeepers and lets them starve while the people of the Capitol lead lives of shallow excess. They are cruel and heartless. That was what Haymitch wanted her to remember and why Katniss shot the arrow into the forcefield. It was an act of defiance. She was telling the Gamemakers 'you may force us to kill but you are not all powerful, we have found a chink in your armour, and before I die I am going to expose your weakness.' (of course at that stage she had no idea what would happen next :)
she was gonna kill beetee so that he couldn't be tortured, right?
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