Connie

Pages read: 1-103 Title: Tough Preparation 4.29.10 Significant quote: "It's such a joke! Peeta and I going along pretending to be friends! Talking up each other's strengths, insisting the other take credit for their abilities. Because, in fact, at some point, we're going to have to knock it off and accept we're bitter adversaries." (p. 92)

I chose this as my significant quote because I thought that Katniss' internal analysis about the situation between her and Peeta was an important foreshadowing for how she will act around Peeta. She will probably be harsh towards him because she thinks that he's trying to lure her in and make easy prey of her.

HOT Q: What is making Katniss so skeptical about the status of her and Peeta's friendship?

Katniss wonders if they are truly friends and to what extent they are, if they are, bceause earlier, on page 72, Peeta gives her a compliment and it really touches her, but then a warning bell in her head goes off and reminds her that in the arena, they will be oppononents that must fight to the death. And another example that shows that she may have understimated him, which could be fatal, Peeta made a remark about how maybe one of their sponsors will be rich and so they must play up the act that they are friends, which makes her wonder if it's a legitimate friendship.

The connection I make to this is how with friends, you always have to figure out if you're really friends or not because there are many fake friends out there in the world. I've been in Katniss' situation before, wondering if I'm being used for the other person's benefit or not and contemplating if it's a real friendship.