The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (book 2) is divided into three parts. The first part lets readers know how people are feeling in the districts after Katniss and Peeta both managed to survive the Hunger Games. Readers will also find out how Katniss, Peeta, Gale, and Haymitch have been handling the pressure, their families, and each other. Hunger Games 2 starts off with a bang, or actually, a spark.
Quote number one:
At the end of chapter 2, President Snow calls on Katniss at her house. He tells her that she may have started uprisings by defying the Capitol and that she needs to convince the districts that she really loves Peeta when they go on the victory tour:
"President Snow rises and dabs his puffy lips with a napkin. 'Aim higher in case you fall short.'
'What do you mean? How can I aim higher?' I ask.
'Convince me,' he says."
The significance of this quote is that it shows how President Snow is a tyrant. He has all the power. The ultimate person that Katniss must please is President Snow, the ruler and most powerful person of the Capitol.
Quote number two:
Near the end of chapter four when Katniss and Peeta are in District 11 on their victory tour, Peeta says he will give some of his winnings to this district. Katniss talks about Rue out loud. When they are finished:
"There's a long pause. Then, from somewhere in the crowd, someone whistles Rue's four-note mockingjay tune . . .By the end of the tune, I have found the whistler, a wizened old man in a faded red shirt and overalls. His eyes meet mine. What happens next is not an accident. It is too well executed to be spontaneous, because it happens in complete unison. Every person in the crowd presses the three middle fingers of their left hand against their lips and extends them to me."
Katniss and Peeta don't really know what this means when it happens, but she does know that President Snow will not like this tribute to the girl who defied the Capitol and outsmarted the Gamemakers. Katniss realizes too late that she has elicited an act of dissent from District 11 citizens, and this is the very thing that President Snow wanted her NOT to do.