Catching Fire Plot Structure

9/23 10 mins, 9/25 1 hr, 9/27 1 hr 20 mins  118 pages (Mockingjay)  

The plot structure of Catching Fire uses the Freytags Pyramid because of its action and sequence of events.  The story starts off a little slow but quickly gets into the rising action.  The action rises for a while before the climax, falling action, and resolution take over and occur very close together.
     It starts off describing what had happened in the Hunger Games and tells about the characters.  Also, it explains the setting and how there are different districts in which the tributes that must participate in the games are from.  The rising action starts when Katniss finds out she will participate in the games again because of the Quarter Quell, an event in which all of the previous winers of the games must return to  the arena to fight again.   The climax of the story is when Katniss shoots a wired arrow at the force field that encloses the arena, trying to break through.  She blows up the whole arena and wakes up in a hospital.  The falling action is when she wakes up in the hospital and walks around with a syringe trying to kill her love, Peeta, before she thinks he will be tortured.  She walks around until she overhears a conversation between the game makers and her mentor, Haymitch.  The resolution of this story begins here, when they explain to Katniss that it was all a setup for her to blowup the arena because the game makers disagree with the whole Quarter Quell idea.