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Lenore Dove’s uncle, Clerk Carmine,
Who is her mom??
Well, half for the dead girl called Lenore in this old poem and half for a shade of gray, which I found out the day I met her.
She wasn’t one of Burdock’s Everdeen cousins, but I knew he had some distant ones on his ma’s side.
Clerk Carmine and her other uncle, Tam Amber, have raised her since her ma died in childbirth, seeing her pa’s always been something of a mystery. They’re not blood kin, her being a Baird, but the Covey look out for their own.
WHO IS HER MOM??!!
“Maybe not. But I try to. Because the reaping’s going to happen no matter what I believe. Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.” Lenore Dove frowns. “Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.” “Is it?” I say. “Because it’s kind of how people plan out their lives.” “And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.” “I guess. But I can’t really imagine the sun not rising tomorrow.”
Foreshadowing??
Symbolism of the sun rising = hope, a new day, renewal, life, etc…??
The Capitol has all the power and that’s that.
So interesting that this is where he starts when we know he ends up being a major player in the rebellion (Mockingjay)
She touches the snake’s head, then the bird’s, in turn. “It takes a lot to break these two. They’re survivors.”
Burdock collected these in the woods. Of late, he’s added wildcrafting to his game business.
Town girls don’t marry Seam boys, not unless something really goes haywire.
Peeta (Town) and Katniss (Seam) only ended up together beause something went "really haywire"
July 4th,
And if Sid should ask, “But why do I have to do this?” We can only say, “Because this is the way things are.” Lenore Dove would hate that last bit. But it’s the truth.
In fifty years, we’ve only had one victor, and that was a long time ago. A girl who no one seems to know anything about. Back then, barely anyone in 12 had a television, so the Games were mostly hearsay. I’ve never seen her in the clips of the old shows, but then those early efforts are rarely featured, as they are said to be badly filmed and lacking in spectacle. My parents weren’t born yet, and even Mamaw couldn’t tell me much about the girl. I brought our victor up with Lenore Dove a few times, but she never wanted to discuss her.
I sang it to her in an old house by the lake in front of a fire.
he gave them pure gold pins that had belonged to his mother. They’d been fashioned by Tam Amber over thirty years ago. I never saw them, but Merrilee’s featured a hummingbird and Maysilee’s a mockingjay, birds being one of the Covey’s great loves.
We never, none of us, had any choices.”
No choices in the districts, no choices in the Capitol - who does get to choose?
They will not use my tears for their entertainment.
Louella is my one and only sweetheart.
BUT HE CALLS KATNISS SWEETHEART :(((
“No, I do. I see the hangings and the shootings and the starvation and the Hunger Games. I do,” Plutarch says. “And yet, I still don’t think the fear they inspire justifies this arrangement we’ve all entered into. Do you?” We stare at him. He’s not taunting or mocking us, he’s genuinely asking.
The broadcast to the public ended when that firecracker went off. The Capitol News coverage is presenting the opening ceremony as flawless.” “I doubt that people who take Capitol News seriously will spend much time questioning that,”
Why not? I think about how the districts outnumber the Capitol by far more than three to one.
“We don’t have to buy into their mind game, that somehow they will always defeat us,” Ampert declares. “Everyone acts like the odds aren’t in our favor, but I’m sure we can beat those odds!”
Districts 3 & 5-12 vs the Careers as an allegory/symbol for Capitol vs Districts??
a desire for freedom is not limited to the districts. And your misfortune does not give you the right to assume so. I hope after tonight you’ll consider this.”
he mentions the tools that were abolished and incapacitated in the past, ones deemed fated to destroy humanity because of their ability to replicate any scenario using any person. “And in mere seconds!” He snaps his fingers to emphasize their speed. “I guess it was the right thing to do, given our natures. We almost wiped ourselves out even without them, so you can imagine. But oh, the possibilities!”
Is this Collins commentating on AI?
Fire is catching,
“I know but . . . what I’m thinking . . . you and me . . . You remember what Ampert said when you made his token?” There’s a long pause before she says, “Sure. I’ll be your sister.” Our hands reach out at the same time, clasp, and then release. “’Night, Sis.”
This will be what breaks me
A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.
Proserpina wasn’t born evil; she just had a lot of unlearning to do.
A horn of plenty for the few. Desperation for many. Destruction for all.
Newcomers land on top.
“Listen, Haymitch, we don’t have long. This attic is the only spot in the entire Justice Building that isn’t bugged.”
