Mockingjay Chapter 9

Mockingjay Part 1: The AshesChapter 9I stop trying to sleep after my first few attempts are interrupted by unspeakable nightmares. After that, I just lie still and do fake breathing whenever someone checks on me. In the morning, I‘m released from the hospital and instructed to take it easy. Cressida asks me to record a few lines for a new Mockingjay...

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Mockingjay Chapter 8

Mockingjay Part 1: The AshesChapter 8Boggs appears and gets a firm lock on my arm, but I‘m not planning on running now. I look over at the hospital—just in time to see the rest of the structure give way—and the fight goes out of me. All those people, the hundreds of wounded, the relatives, the medics from 13, are no more. I turn back to Boggs, see...

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Mockingjay Chapter 7

Mockingjay Part 1: The AshesChapter 7The hovercraft makes a quick, spiral descent onto a wide road on the outskirts of 8. Almost immediately, the door opens, the stairs slide into place, and we‘re spit out onto the asphalt. The moment the last person disembarks, the equipment retracts. Then the craft lifts off and vanishes. I‘m left with a bodyguard...

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Mockingjay Chapter 6

Mockingjay Part 1: The AshesChapter 6The shock of hearing Haymitch‘s voice yesterday, of learning that he was not only functional but had some measure of control over my life again, enraged me. I left the studio directly and refused to acknowledge his comments from the booth today. Even so, I knew immediately he was right about my performance.It took...

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Mockingjay Chapter 5

Mockingjay Part 1: The AshesChapter 5Another force to contend with. Another power player who has decided to use me as a piece in her games, although things never seem to go according to plan. First there were the Gamemakers, making me their star and then scrambling to recover from that handful of poisonous berries. Then President Snow, trying to use...

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