The Unofficial Hunger Games Companion
“Not only does Katniss know which plants to gather for eating and which ones to avoid, she’s lucky to have a mother who is, for all practical purposes, a medicine man, or as I think of her, a medicine mom.
On the flip side are the poisons, most notably, the nightlock berries used by Katniss and Peeta to fake-out President Snow and his cronies. But of keenest interest are the poisons that do not involve plants, such as the tracker jacker venom that hijacks Peeta.
Katniss’s mother is an expert with medicinal herbs and basically serves as District 12’s healer. In Catching Fire, she and Prim use all sorts of herbs to cure Gale after he’s whipped for possessing a turkey. As mentioned in chapter 2, “Repressive Regimes and Rebellions,” real-life governments have starved millions of their own people to death, they’ve stolen food from citizens, and they’ve mercilessly beaten people for infractions as ludicrous as “thinking” the wrong ideas. So it’s not a stretch that a regime as tyrannical as t...he Capitol would whip someone into unconsciousness over a turkey.MoreLess
On the flip side are the poisons, most notably, the nightlock berries used by Katniss and Peeta to fake-out President Snow and his cronies. But of keenest interest are the poisons that do not involve plants, such as the tracker jacker venom that hijacks Peeta.
Katniss’s mother is an expert with medicinal herbs and basically serves as District 12’s healer. In Catching Fire, she and Prim use all sorts of herbs to cure Gale after he’s whipped for possessing a turkey. As mentioned in chapter 2, “Repressive Regimes and Rebellions,” real-life governments have starved millions of their own people to death, they’ve stolen food from citizens, and they’ve mercilessly beaten people for infractions as ludicrous as “thinking” the wrong ideas. So it’s not a stretch that a regime as tyrannical as t...he Capitol would whip someone into unconsciousness over a turkey.MoreLess
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