This is exactly the point Iâve been trying to make for years. Okay, so the revolution gets itâs kindling with Katniss. She volunteers, well thatâs new, she rebels in the display of talents by shooting the apple. This triggers her perfect score, okay. These arenât really âRevolutionaryâ though.Â
Itâs not even revolutionary when Peeta professes his love, because, letâs face it, the rules of the game havenât changed. Theyâre still just two kids who would have to KILL each other to win. Without a doubt, it would bring some interest to the games, so the Capitol makes propaganda about it. The âStar Crossed Loversâ in a game of life and death.
But what changes the game is Rue. Right away from her introduction in the books we know Rue is going to be somewhat of a big deal. She was compared to the most important character to Katniss, Prim, so thatâs a huge indicator. Sheâs small, young, sheâs what Prim would have been.
So Katniss instantly feels a subconscious pull toward her.Â
When they meet in the trees, Katniss could have killed Rue easily, and Rue probably could have pulled a sneak attack or alerted the Careers of Katnissâs presence. Instead, Rue points out the Tracker Jacker nest.
Then it escalates, Rue and Katniss become an odd team, theyâre an alliance, which is never new in the Hunger Games, as forming teams and then betraying them at the end seems to be a common, but thereâs is different. Itâs close, itâs sisterly, protective.
And then Rue getâs impaled. Katniss kills her first tribute with ease after that. Comparing it to hunting game. Katniss holds Rue, she cries, and then she sings. She sings for Rue a song of promised safety and warmth, something completely absent in the arena.Â
And this is where the metaphorical canon fires. Katniss could have left Rue, the hovercraft would have been along to pick her up, but she canât. Sheâs morally obligated to love this girl as much as possible. And this is where the revolution starts.Â
She honors the dead. She honors a dead tribute from a district sheâd never seen, a person sheâd known for only a short period of time. But she throws away Hunger Games norms. She rejects them completely.
In the Hunger Games youâre supposed to kill mercilessly and leave the victims for the plain box theyâre shipped home in.Â
Katniss gives Rue a funeral in the Games, she decorates the body, she makes it look like Rue is sleeping. Like no harm had come. Katniss just ignited the coals that Rue had placed.
Rueâs District sends a parachute. Homemade bread.Â
Then Thresh kills Clove and distracts Cato by taking his bag.Â
The fire is going now, and the actions in Catching Fire are even more obvious.
The Speech for Rue. Peetaâs painting. Everything eludes back to this one little girl who became Katnissâs family.
So the revolution never started with Katniss, she was just the tinder for Rueâs ignition.Â
Rue was the real Mockingjay.
ellievsbear
stormborns
kianamaiart
baratheonpilled
