Vincent Martinez’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update

A indirect trait in my book is that Cornillus is always trying to gain something for himself. He will always put his needs above others. HE does this sneakily and a lot of the time people wont even notice

Cornillus’s motivation in the story is to keep his family afloat and maintain his social status. To try and do this he pretends to have more money than he does so his peers will think highly of him. He also tries to have excellent grades in school to get more opportunities for money to help his family.

A archtype in my book is the hero. I think cornillius fits this role. I think it is fit for him becuase he is the one trying to get his family out of poverty and back to where the once were.

The inciting incident is the war. The war is the inciting incident because it is what puts Cornillus into the fight for food and warmth. It also has him trying to fight to keep his social status of family of the president.

In the the first page it tells us about Cornillus, He is a high rank in society but is poor due to a war. The war was against places called the capitol and the districts. This book seems to be based in the future because these seem to be the only two places