Shanel
asked:
Coriolanus Snow was 18 during the 10th Hunger Games in this book. Katniss doesn’t come along until the 74th Hunger Games, making Snow 82 years old. Am I correct in thinking that? (This whole book I didn’t think it was about the ACTUAL President Snow because the dates didn’t seem to add up.)
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Beth Houts
I kept thinking the same thing. But he was in the Capitol so they probably had some technology that kept him from aging.
Brooke Joiner
ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one trying to figure out the age. He was 18 during the tenth HG's and the 74th HG's had to be 62 years later because the 25th and the 50th HG's were Quarter Quells so they happened twice in one year. Making Snow 80 years old in the first book. That's what I came up with anyway.
Pam
He could have easily been 80 in the first book. They must have thought he was close to 80 when they cast Donald Sutherland to play him.
Chiara
Why would there be two games in a Quarter Quell year? It’s not called ## “annual” Hunger Games because it’s catchy. The QQ is a “special edition” because of the jubilee and at the 2nd Quarter Quell there was double the amount of tributes but no where is it stated that there’s 2 games in one year. Snow is 18 during the 10th games, in mockingjay Finnick jokes “welcome to the 76th Hunger Games” so that’s 66 years late, making snow (18+66) 84 years old. Also in SOTR (50th games) they state "For once, despite his cosmetic treatments, he looks his fifty-eight years." 58+26 is still 84. So in the “first” Hunger games book he’s 74+8 he’s 82.
Mwrogers
America has an 80 president so IDK why this is hard to believe?
Alina
I did this math in my head last night lol...That's what I thought! Snow was 18 during the 10th Hunger Games, making him 8 when the first Hunger Games took place. This means that during the 74th Hunger Games, he was indeed 82 (74+8). So he died at 83 in "The Mockingjay," since that was during the 75th Hunger Games...however, some people are saying that Quarter Quells happen twice in one year...so he could be 80.
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