This poem is saying to just relax and live in the moment. Don’t worry about the past and don’t even think about thinking of the future. A father and son/daughter went camping and they built a fire. This person’s dad told them that if they look into the dire they could read their future. This person asked themselves questions before actually trying to see if it would work. They wanted to look but would they be satisfied with what they saw? Did they even want to see their future?

In the last stanza they are deciding to just not look. Enjoy the dancing flames while they lasted and the moment of peace. Rather than read the fire like a book. They wanted to take in the beauty of things, the beauty of now. This person wouldn’t want to ruin it for themselves and look into their future. It would be better to wait it out and maybe be surprised at how good or bad your life turned out. If you look into your future what if you try to stop what happens because you don’t like what you see?

If someone was to go to a palm reader and found out their future and didn’t like it they would obviously try and change the course of things. It’s good that the narrator didn’t look into the fire because whatever happens happens and it was meant to happen anyway. Your future is destiny. Why look ahead when it’s best to be surprised? Looking at your future is like ruining a surprise party. 

Catching Fire **SPOILER ALERT**

"But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me." "Katniss there is not District Twelve."



When I read the last lines of book two I was so upset. I was confused. “… There is no District Twelve.” I thought he meant they were living in District Thirteen the whole time because I remember when Katniss met Bonnie and Twill in the forest. They had assumptions that District Thirteen in fact actually did exist. Capitol was just keeping it a secret because they thought District Thirteen would die off eventually without the Capitol’s help.

Bonnie and Twill mentioned that they thought Capitol was showing the same footage of District Thirteen over and over again. They also thought it was done with a lot of other Districts. Therefore they didn’t really know what was going on in the country of Panem. They probably only knew what was going on in their district and what they thought they knew from the other districts.

After I started the last book everything fell into place. District Twelve was attacked by Capitol and all the District Twelve people moved to District Thirteen. Life has changed for Katniss. She feels like she’s lost everything she’s ever loved but all of those people are out of reach except for her “fiancé” Peeta. Capitol thinks he knows about the revolution but he doesn’t have a clue. When Peeta tries to give them signals about attacks he gets punished all while Katniss is watching and it’s only making things worse for her.