![]() With this chapter, Collins considers what it means to be human and what it means to be beautiful. ![]() Katniss and Peeta have been presented to the crowd as a beautiful, luminescent team, and when Peeta tells her that all eyes were on her, she decides that she'll play along and gives him a kiss on the cheek. At the procession's end, the other tributes shoot them dirty looks, and it is clear that District 12 is the favorite. She begins to believe that maybe she has a chance, that there is hope for her to survive after all. She smiles and waves and even blows kisses, all the while gripping Peeta's hand. They win the crowd over, and Katniss relishes the love and affection from the crowd. Cinna directs them to hold hands, and they enter the procession to wild cheers. She looks at Peeta and sees that he looks dazzling in the flames, and decides she must too. Peeta and Katniss are nervous about the synthetic fire that Cinna wants to use, both of them convinced that they will be burned alive, but when Cinna lights their capes, Katniss feels only a slight tickling. The tributes get into their horse-drawn chariots and wait to be announced to make their way through the streets. Instead of emphasizing coal, though, Cinna and Portia (Peeta's stylist) focus on fire, dressing them in black unitards and capes of red, orange, and yellow. Katniss worries that they will either wear miners' jumpsuits or, worse, appear completely naked and covered in black dust. Every tribute's costume must reflect his or her district's principal industry for District 12, this means coal. Cinna says that he and the other Capitol people must seem despicable to Katniss with their lavish living.įor the opening ceremonies, Cinna and Portia (Peeta's stylist) decide to dress their tributes in complementary costumes. She can't imagine what she would do with so much time if she didn't have to devote it to hunting and gathering. ![]() They eat lunch together and Katniss thinks about how long it would take her to replicate these meals in District 12. She finds out that this is Cinna's first Games and that he requested District 12. He compliments her braided hair, the only thing that her prep team didn't touch, and she tells him that her mother did it. Instead of someone who is dyed, stenciled, and surgically altered, he is a young, normal-looking man dressed in simple black clothes. She meets her stylist, Cinna, and he isn't at all what she expects. She knows, though, that they have her best interests in mind and thanks them for helping her look so nice. Katniss feels vulnerable in her plucked skin, but doesn't mind standing naked in front of her prep team since they are hardly human with their dyed hair, dyed skin, and high-pitched accents. It is a long, painful process, but Katniss follows Haymitch's advice and lets her prep team, Venia, Flavius, and Octavia, do as they see fit. Katniss is in the Remake Center, getting her body scrubbed and waxed and her nails polished.
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