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The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in theaters November 17th.

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Official Trailer
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in theaters November 17th.
The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross
Make sure they remember you.
The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross
The Hunger Games on Stage
#Repost from Instagram @ thehungergamesonstage
Meet our Girl on Fire: KATNISS EVERDEEN = Mia Carragher 🔥
Haymitch and his ducklings
lucy gray taking a bow after her reaping song. haymitch applauding snow while presenting him with louella’s corpse. katniss twirling around in a flaming dress in front of the entire country. peeta painting a portrait of rue for the gamemakers.
district twelve really said, “you want a show? we’ll give you a show.”
“the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.”
Although there are so many things that make Suzanne Collins' writing so good, one thing that I love is how different each protagonist's narration style is. Katniss, Snow, and Haymitch not only are so different from each other in personality, but in what they reveal about the world around them, specifically district 12.
Rereading the original trilogy, it's clear that Katniss, by necessity, keeps herself very closed off. She's not an optimist, and I think that this makes sense in the original trilogy because we're reminded over and over that she isn't a hard-wired rebel or some cunning mastermind, she's just an angry teenage girl whose only goal is to make it to the next day. She can't really afford to get too comfortable because not only is District 12 full of negative emotions for her, but if she takes a day or two off hunting her family will starve.
Meanwhile, Haymitch lives in a District 12 that existed 24 years before that, where people still had the luxury to have parties, play music, and spend money on candy. I'm not saying it was good by any means, it was still a nightmare in many ways, but I was taken aback my first time listening by how much brighter it seemed in contrast to the District 12 I remembered.
This just means that over time, the streets got dirtier, luxuries became sparser, and people got hungrier, and over time those simple human necessities were stripped away by Snow until people couldn't afford a loaf of bread to survive on, let alone a bag of gumdrops.
And then of course, there's Snow's perspective. He's been raised his entire life to view the Districts as inhuman and backwards, but there's a constant internal struggle as he grapples with reminder after reminder that people from the districts are just as human as he and any other capital resident. He sees how Lucy Gray and the Covey bring joy to the coal miners in 12 with their music, and how Lucy's pretty dress made her stand out (making her more of a person in the capital's eyes). These simple human things that you lose sight of when you're too hungry to think straight.
What I'm getting at is that Snow realized at some point that if he could utilize that animalistic survival instinct he felt in the arena when rescuing Sejanus, making an entire nation of people constantly feel that fear and desperation, he could make the capital view them as animals and make them feel like animals themselves.
Suzanne Collins gets pretty heavy handed with this, the prep team using non human terms for both Haymitch and Katniss, the ways they think about themselves, the messaging with dehumanization is pretty clear.
Dehumanization is the first step in control. It's the way to guarantee implicit submission.
And yet, people find a way to hold on to these hopeful symbols. They make their purpose a little pretty. They latch on to a cause. They find a way, and that humanization is also the first step towards freedom.
THE COVEY'S + THE MOCKINGJAYS & JABBERJAYS
i wrote about how every subsequent Hunger Games book feels like Suzanne Collins grabbing a certain section of readers by the scruff of the neck and shaking them to finally get the fucking point
She’s always been writing about philosophy and war theory — but now she’s demanding you pay attention
Underrated Snowbaird moments requested by anon
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
SOTR SPOILERS
Anyway, this book made a hole in my chest so I need to talk to someone about the things that made the most impact on me. (I will also post my favourite parts in another post)
-Lenore Dove being Maude Ivory's daughter (probably).
-The fact that Maude Ivory, Lucy Gray and Lenore Dove died as a consequence of their love.
-The birds imagery. Doves, canaries, mockinjay.
-Burdock and Asterid. The fact that Burdock saved Ortho. The fact that if Haymitch didn't drive Burdock away he probably would have been an uncle for Katniss. Everything about their names (Burdocks being a "useful" plant, like Katniss, Asterid and Primrose being flowers.)
-The fact that while we see Katniss in Haymitch, he saw her first and foremost as Louella.
-The reaping being rigged. He was almost free. All of his games were avoidable. He could almost have a "normal life".
-Honestly everything about Maysilee and Merrilee, when she asked if she was always going to be a twin I almost cried. (My sister died not too long ago so this hit me like a train)
-The fact Louella died before the games???? And they didn't even bother telling her family?? Is her body still in the capitol? Did they give her body back?
-my god Ampert. They sent beete's boy to die, to punish him. And he knew he wasn't going to come back, that he could never save him.
-President Snow projecting his insecurities into Haymitch. That man Is fucking obsessed with Lucy Gray still. I hope seeing Katniss singing covey's songs gave him an aneurysm.
-Wyatt protecting Lou Lou even tho he knew he was gonna die. He knew it, because he is so good at calculating odds. We are led to believe he will use this skill to survive, and instead...
-When Haymitch stole Louella's body, thinking about the little bird Lenore Dove found. That almost drove me insane.
-Haymitch almost getting a "decent" ending with Lenore Dove, just to watch her die poisoned from something he thought was his own.
-Haymitch going to her house in the middle of the night like a madman asking where she is
-haymitch thinking Merrilee is Maysilee
-The covey's graves. That almost took me out.
-Loulou and Maysilee dying in his arms. Foul play honestly.
-THE FACT THAT HIS STORY IS REWRITTEN, AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HE REALLY DID DURING HIS GAMES.
-Effie being nice and kind to him, but absolutely detached from reality, the propaganda really did a number on her.
-Ma and Sid dying litterally the evening he came back
-Katniss being the one that procures him the geese's eggs.
president snow is literally THE incel. had a failed situationship ONCE and decided that no woman could ever love a man and that women cannot be trusted
warned haymitch about lenore dove
was convinced katniss didn’t love peeta
64 years later and he was still bitter
THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING (2025)
Um, PARALLELS, you say?!!
What in the actual...Lucy Gray Baird=Lenore Dove; Haymitch Abernathy=Katniss Everdeen; Rue=Louella/Ampert, etc. etc. etc.
snow really convinced himself lucy gray didn't love him (after she wrote a whole song about him and tried to run away with him) and then forty years later told sixteen year old haymitch abernathy that dying in the arena would be dodging a bullet compared to loving a covey girl. top 10 situationships gone horribly wrong