The Hunger Games Scene 11 Summary

The Bees' Knees

  • At dawn, Katniss wakes before the rest of the pack.
  • Rue is in a nearby tree with her eye on something important.
  • The media interrupts to explain the terrifying nest of tracker jackers— poisonous, genetically modified wasps—lurking in Katniss's tree.
  • Katniss manages to saw the heavy limb down and drop the tracker jackers right on top of the pack.
  • She's stung repeatedly, but hangs on until the limb is down.
  • In the panic and suffering that unfolds below, Katniss manages to get down from the tree and tries to escape. The stings make her hallucinate.
  • She gets a bow and arrows from a fallen Career, and passes in and out of her trippy visions.