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Tigris is Coriolanus’s cousin. She’s a few years older than Coriolanus and has been living with him and the Grandma’am since the war, when she was also orphaned. Tigris is kind, caring, and intelligent. Tigris has always taken it upon herself to look out for Coriolanus. This meant that she learned to cook as a young child during the war—but she also implies that at several points, she’s turned to sex work to make ends meet. Her dream has always been to work in fashion, which she’s doing in the novel’s present. Though she’s supposedly working as an apprentice, Coriolanus suggests that her employer treats her more as a grunt, making her do unsavory or dirty tasks rather than teaching her how to make clothes. Despite this, Tigris is resourceful and excels at upcycling old garments—she manages to transform one of Crassus Snow’s stained old shirts into a gorgeous, classy garment for Coriolanus to wear to the reaping. As the Hunger Games approach and begin, Tigris becomes increasingly skeptical of the Games and of Coriolanus’s involvement in them. Particularly as she develops sympathy for Lucy Gray—and later, after she realizes Dr. Gaul forced Coriolanus into the arena, putting him in danger—she expresses that the Games are wrong and not fair to any of the children involved, mentors or tributes.
Tigris Snow Quotes in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Chapter 3
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Coriolanus thought about his grandmother’s roses, which were still prized in the Capitol. The old woman nurtured them arduously in the roof garden that came with the penthouse, both out of doors and in a small solar greenhouse. She parceled out her flowers like diamonds, though, so it had taken a good bit of persuasion to get this beauty. “I need to make a connection with her. As you always say, your roses open any doors.” It was a testament to how worried his grandmother was about their situation that she had allowed it.
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Chapter 13
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But Lucy Gray was his tribute, headed into the arena. And even if the circumstances were different, she’d still be a girl from the districts, or at least not the Capitol. A second-class citizen. Human, but bestial. Smart, perhaps, but not evolved. Part of a shapeless mass of unfortunate, barbaric creatures that hovered on the periphery of his consciousness.
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Tigris Snow Quotes in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Chapter 3
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Coriolanus thought about his grandmother’s roses, which were still prized in the Capitol. The old woman nurtured them arduously in the roof garden that came with the penthouse, both out of doors and in a small solar greenhouse. She parceled out her flowers like diamonds, though, so it had taken a good bit of persuasion to get this beauty. “I need to make a connection with her. As you always say, your roses open any doors.” It was a testament to how worried his grandmother was about their situation that she had allowed it.
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Chapter 13
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But Lucy Gray was his tribute, headed into the arena. And even if the circumstances were different, she’d still be a girl from the districts, or at least not the Capitol. A second-class citizen. Human, but bestial. Smart, perhaps, but not evolved. Part of a shapeless mass of unfortunate, barbaric creatures that hovered on the periphery of his consciousness.
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