#61, Fin
Complete this response after you have finished reading The Hunger Games.
The ending of the The Hunger Games was indeed puzzling. The rules were changed when the competition had been whittled down to five tributes, allowing two winners for the first time in the history of the Games. With Cato's passing, just Peeta and Katniss remained, supposed victors, until the rules were cruelly restored to their original state. What was the Gamemaker's motivation for making that final amendment?
The following excerpt starts on page 342 of The Hunger Games.
A mockingjay gives the long, low whistle, and tears of relief fill my eyes as the hovercraft appears and takes Cato's body away. Now they will take us. Now we can go home.
But again there's no response.
"What are they waiting for?" says Peeta weakly. Between the loss of the tourniquet and the effort it took to get to the lake, his wound has opened up again.
"I don't know," I say. Whatever the holdup is, I can't watch him lose any more blood. I get up to find a stick but almost immediately come across the arrow that bounced off Cato's body armor. It will do as well as the other arrow. As I stoop to pick it up, Claudius Templesmith's voice booms into the arena.
"Greetings to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games...
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Re-write the ending of The Hunger Games starting from the ellipsis (...).
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