The mentors enter the hall from the balcony again, another opportunity to demonstrate their power over the tributes. Coriolanus realizes that he can’t continue to diminish Lucy Gray. She is a person, she is brave, and she is kind—and most importantly, she deserves to survive. All the tributes, of course, deserve to survive, so the fact that this is such a huge revelation is a sign of how successful Panem has been at shifting the conversation away from questioning the Games’s morality.