The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

by

Suzanne Collins

Tributes are the children who compete in the Hunger Games. Each district sends two tributes, one male and one female.

Tribute Quotes in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes quotes below are all either spoken by Tribute or refer to Tribute. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Lucy Gray Baird, Tigris Snow, The Grandma’am
Related Symbols: Roses
Page Number: 38
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By now the smell of the car, musty and heavy with manure, had reached Coriolanus. They were transporting the tributes in livestock cars, and not very clean ones at that. He wondered if they had been fed and let out for fresh air, or just locked in after their reapings. Accustomed as he was to viewing the tributes on-screen, he had not prepared himself properly for this encounter in the flesh, and a wave of pity and revulsion swept through him. They really were creatures out of another world. A hopeless, brutish world.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow
Page Number: 41
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Chapter 4 Quotes

Now he was trapped and on display, for the first time appreciating the animals’ inability to hide. Children had begun to chatter excitedly and point at his school uniform, drawing the attention of the adults. Faces were filling all the available space between the bars. But the real horror was a pair of cameras positioned at either end of the visitors.

Capitol News. With their omnipresent coverage and their saucy slogan, “If you didn’t see it here, it didn’t happen.”

Oh, it was happening. To him. Now.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird, Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Page Number: 48
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Chapter 5 Quotes

A self-important little girl marched up beside them and pointed to a sign on the pillar at the edge of the enclosure. “It says, ‘Please don’t feed the animals.’”

“They’re not animals, though,” said Sejanus. “They’re kids, like you and me.”

“They’re not like me!” the little girl protested. “They’re district. That’s why they belong in a cage!”

Related Characters: Sejanus Plinth (speaker), Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird
Page Number: 64
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Chapter 6 Quotes

“Who cares about these kids one way or another?”

“Possibly their families,” said Sejanus.

“You mean a handful of nobodies in the districts. So what?” Arachne boomed. “Why should the rest of us care which one of them wins?”

Livia looked pointedly at Sejanus. “I know I don’t.”

“I get more excited over a dogfight,” admitted Festus. “Especially if I’m betting on it.”

“So you’d like it if we gave odds to the tributes?” Coriolanus joked. “That would make you tune in?”

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Sejanus Plinth (speaker), Arachne Crane (speaker), Festus Creed (speaker), Livia Cardew (speaker)
Page Number: 82
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“Hardly rebels. Some of them were two years old when the war ended. The oldest were eight. And now that the war’s over, they’re just citizens of Panem, aren’t they? Same as us? Isn’t that what the anthem says the Capitol does? ‘You give us light. You reunite’? It’s supposed to be everyone’s government, right?”

“That’s the general idea. Go on,” Dr. Gaul encouraged him.

“Well, then it should protect everyone,” said Sejanus. “That’s its number-one job! And I don’t see how making them fight to the death achieves that.”

Related Characters: Sejanus Plinth (speaker), Dr. Volumnia Gaul (speaker), Marcus
Related Symbols: Panem’s Anthem
Page Number: 92
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Chapter 8 Quotes

It was like the Hunger Games. Only they weren’t district kids. The Capitol was supposed to protect them. He thought of Sejanus telling Dr. Gaul it was the government’s job to protect everybody, even the people in the districts, but he still wasn’t sure how to square that with the fact that they’d been such recent enemies. But certainly the child of a Snow should be a top priority. He could be dead if Clemensia had written the proposal instead of him. He buried his head in his hands, confused, angry, and most of all afraid. Afraid of Dr. Gaul. Afraid of the Capitol. Afraid of everything. If the people who were supposed to protect you played so fast and loose with your life…then how did you survive? Not by trusting them, that’s for sure.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Sejanus Plinth, Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Clemensia Dovecote, Arachne Crane
Related Symbols: Snakes
Page Number: 116
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Chapter 9 Quotes

“My condolences on the loss of your friend,” the dean said.

“And on your student. It’s a difficult day for all of us. But the procession was very moving,” Coriolanus replied.

“Did you think so? I found it excessive and in poor taste,” said Dean Highbottom. Taken by surprise, Coriolanus let out a short laugh before he recovered and tried to look shocked. The dean dropped his gaze to Coriolanus’s blue rosebud. “It’s amazing, how little things change. After all the killing. After all the agonized promises to remember the cost. After all of that, I can’t distinguish the bud from the blossom.”

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Dean Casca Highbottom (speaker), Arachne Crane, Brandy
Related Symbols: Roses
Page Number: 131
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Chapter 12 Quotes

His girl. His. Here in the Capitol, it was a given that Lucy Gray belonged to him, as if she’d had no life before her name was called out at the reaping. Even that sanctimonious Sejanus believed she was something he could trade for. If that wasn’t ownership, what was? With her song, Lucy Gray had repudiated all of that by featuring a life that had nothing to do with him, and a great deal to do with someone else. Someone she referred to as “lover,” no less.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird
Related Symbols: Roses
Page Number: 172
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Chapter 13 Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird, Tigris Snow
Page Number: 194
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“But surely, you’re not comparing our children to theirs?” asked Lucky. “One look tells you ours are a superior breed.”

“One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care,” said Dean Highbottom. “Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.”

Related Characters: Dean Casca Highbottom (speaker), Lucky Flickerman (speaker), Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird
Page Number: 199
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“My cousin said to remember this isn’t of our making. That we’re still children, too.”

“That doesn’t help, somehow. Being used like this,” said Lysistrata sadly. “Especially when three of us are dead.”

Used? Coriolanus had not thought of being a mentor as anything but an honor. A way to serve the Capitol and perhaps gain a little glory. But she had a point. If the cause wasn’t honorable, how could it be an honor to participate in it? He felt confused, then manipulated, then undefended. As if he were more a tribute than a mentor.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Lysistrata Vickers (speaker), Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Page Number: 202
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Chapter 15 Quotes

Another student, or even the Coriolanus of a couple of weeks ago, would have protested this situation. Insisted on calling a parent or guardian. Pleaded. But after the snake attack on Clemensia, the aftermath of the bombing, and Marcus’s torture, he knew it would be pointless. If Dr. Gaul decided he was to go into the Capitol Arena, that’s where he would go, even if his prize was not at stake. He was just like the subjects of her other experiments, students or tributes, of no more consequence than the Avoxes in the cages. Powerless to object.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Sejanus Plinth, Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Marcus, Clemensia Dovecote
Page Number: 229
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Chapter 16 Quotes

“What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”

Related Characters: Dr. Volumnia Gaul (speaker), Coriolanus Snow, Bobbin
Page Number: 243
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“So, if I’m a vicious animal, then who are you? You’re the teacher who sent her student to beat another boy to death!”

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Bobbin
Page Number: 244
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Chapter 25 Quotes

“I believe I said you could fight for the tributes, meaning you might be able to procure more humane conditions for them,” Coriolanus corrected him.

“Humane conditions!” Sejanus burst out. “They’re being forced to murder each other!”

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Sejanus Plinth (speaker), Lucy Gray Baird, Billy Taupe
Page Number: 397
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It reminded me of my stint in the arena. It’s one to thing to speak of humans’ essential nature theoretically, another to consider it when a fist is smashing into your mouth. Only this time I felt more prepared. I’m not as convinced that we are all as inherently violent as you say, but it takes very little to bring the beast to the surface, at least under the cover of darkness. I wonder how many of those miners would have thrown a punch if the Capitol could have seen their faces?

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Page Number: 400
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Epilogue Quotes

“Because we credit them with innocence. And if even the most innocent among us turn to killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent,” Snow explained.

Related Characters: Coriolanus Snow (speaker), Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Dean Casca Highbottom
Page Number: 515
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Tribute Term Timeline in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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Chapter 1
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...grand staircase. If he does well as a mentor to one of the Hunger Games tributes, he’ll win a prize that should cover tuition at the University. Mentors are new this... (full context)
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...As Dean Highbottom goes down the list, Coriolanus begins to worry: he hoped for a tribute from Districts One, Two, Four, or 11, as tributes from those districts tend to win.... (full context)
Chapter 2
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...Mayor Lipp, pulls a slip from a burlap sack and announces that District 12’s girl tribute is Lucy Gray Baird. The camera turns to focus on a curly-haired girl in a... (full context)
Chapter 3
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Coriolanus is used to seeing the tributes on TV, but the stench of the dirty livestock cars is unexpected. He’s repulsed. The... (full context)
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...Sensing that he’s losing his chance, Coriolanus asks the Peacekeeper if he can accompany the tributes to their lodgings. The drunk Peacekeeper assents. Seeing Lucy Gray watching him, Coriolanus takes a... (full context)
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...him, but Coriolanus knees the boy in the crotch. The boy then asks the other tributes to help him kill Coriolanus—but Lucy Gray asks them not to, since Coriolanus is her... (full context)
Chapter 4
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...look worse if he panics, Coriolanus tries to look bored. But he sweats as the tributes circle and taunt him. Lucy Gray rescues him when she says, “Own it.” Casually, Coriolanus... (full context)
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...she draws Lepidus’s attention to Coriolanus. Coriolanus says he takes his job of introducing his tribute to the Capitol seriously, though his teachers didn’t give him permission to be here. (full context)
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...him to the biology lab. On the door is the list of mentors and their tributes, which makes Coriolanus feel like an afterthought. (full context)
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...of students. Laughing, Dr. Gaul recites a children’s rhyme of sorts about Coriolanus and his tribute falling in a zoo cage. She encourages Coriolanus to finish the rhyme—and when he does,... (full context)
Chapter 5
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...rats and raccoons. As Coriolanus approaches the monkey cage, he finds Sejanus trying to coax tributes to take a proffered sandwich. Coriolanus approaches and Sejanus says the tributes unsurprisingly don’t trust... (full context)
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...Then, Lucy Gray tells Jessup to accept a sandwich. After Jessup takes his, the other tributes rush Sejanus for theirs—all except Marcus, the District Two boy. (full context)
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...Coriolanus’s thoughts by thanking him. He reveals that he can’t help imagining himself as a tribute as bales of hay roll down a chute into the monkey house. Sejanus says if... (full context)
Chapter 6
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...the war, but Arachne Crane argues that they cared about that—but nobody cares about the tributes. Festus and Coriolanus suggest people would care if they could bet on the tributes. (full context)
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After lunch, the mentors have an initial meeting with their tributes to fill out a questionnaire. Coriolanus and his classmates walk onto a balcony in Heavensbee... (full context)
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...to see Marcus ignoring both Sejanus and the roast beef meal on the table. Other tributes are crying. (full context)
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The mentors head for the biology lab. Clemensia laments that her tribute wouldn’t tell her anything but his name, Reaper. Arachne says her tribute only spoke about... (full context)
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At Dr. Gaul’s prodding, Sejanus says he fed the tributes because he doesn’t think they should torture them. He insists the tributes aren’t really rebels,... (full context)
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...group projects. He, Arachne, and Clemensia decide to meet up later, after they visit their tributes at the zoo. Coriolanus has dinner at home and then takes a cup of soup... (full context)
Chapter 7
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...on the proposal. He proposes that sponsors can purchase food, which will be delivered to tributes by drone. He suggests a panel to vet the food and a panel for betting.... (full context)
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...Demigloss. The professor starts by passing out an updated sheet listing the mentors and their tributes—now, the tributes’ names are listed, rather than just their genders. Coriolanus crosses the District 10... (full context)
Chapter 8
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The tributes are shackled in their cage, and at first Coriolanus can’t find Lucy Gray. But then... (full context)
Chapter 9
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...Once Coriolanus agrees, Satyria asks how Lucy Gray is. Coriolanus says Lucy Gray—and the other tributes—are terrible, since the Capitol isn’t feeding them. Satyria promises to try to fix this. (full context)
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...a crane on it—and the District 10 girl’s body hangs from the crane. The other tributes are shackled to the truck bed. This, Coriolanus knows, will remind the districts that they... (full context)
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...students that the Hunger Games are still on—and the mentors are supposed to take the tributes to tour the arena later, to show the districts the Capitol isn’t weak or afraid.... (full context)
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...The field is full of bomb craters and there’s rubble everywhere. During the Hunger Games, tributes are locked inside with weapons. Afterwards, Capitol workers remove the bodies and weapons but do... (full context)
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Peacekeepers lead the mentors and tributes through a dark passageway. Coriolanus takes the opportunity to slip the fried chicken to Lucy... (full context)
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Lucy Gray whispers that before the tributes’ participation in the funeral procession this morning, they got food. A few kids passed out... (full context)
Chapter 10
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...before, and there’s no way to tell how the bombs were triggered. The District Six tributes died, as did Pollo and Didi Ring. Two of Coriolanus’s classmates are in the hospital... (full context)
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...asks if Lucy Gray is okay. Tigris says she’s not on the list of dead tributes: in addition to the District Six tributes, the District One tributes were shot, the female... (full context)
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...about them, but he does know they got a vet out to care for the tributes. Coriolanus sleeps for the next day. He enjoys the hospital food and catches up on... (full context)
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...Coriolanus’s anthem performance from Arachne’s funeral. In the last few days, the two District Nine tributes died from their injuries, as nobody would let the vet admit the tributes to the... (full context)
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Later, as Coriolanus stands on the balcony, he thinks of the dead tributes. Those who are still alive look terrible. Lucy Gray coughs and looks unwell, but her... (full context)
Chapter 11
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...food sponsorship and gambling programs, performs a few magic tricks, and then invites the first tribute on. The first tributes and mentors try to give memorable performances. Lucy Gray and Coriolanus... (full context)
Chapter 13
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...his home, which he can’t do). But the fact remains that Lucy Gray is his tribute—and a girl from the districts, who’s “human, but bestial.” Lucy Gray has to be an... (full context)
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The seven mentors whose tributes participated in the interviews get to appear on the pre-show. Lucky Flickerman lets Coriolanus talk... (full context)
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...the mentorship program. He notes that the mentors have learned to respect and appreciate their tributes and that the district children are strong, smart, and courageous. Lucky is surprised Highbottom is... (full context)
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...a bit disturbing, given how somber this occasion usually is. At a table, a Gamemaker distributes badges and communicuffs, which will allow the mentors to select food items and send them... (full context)
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...the special mentor section in the auditorium—they don’t want cameras in their faces when their tributes die. On the giant screen, Lucky Flickerman is introducing the districts. Suddenly, Coriolanus notices Clemensia... (full context)
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...it). Then, Lucky announces the start of the 10th Hunger Games. The screen shows the tributes positioned in a circle in the arena, Panem’s flag flying in the stands. The camera... (full context)
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...look away. This represents a new level of violence; the Capitol has always let the tributes kill each other. This is Dr. Gaul’s doing. Heavensbee Hall suddenly doesn’t feel like a... (full context)
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A half-hour later, Lamina, Pup’s District Seven tribute, creeps in front of the barricade erected where the bombs opened the arena to the... (full context)
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...in the evening, Lucky interviews Dr. Gaul. Dr. Gaul insists that since most of the tributes died before the Games started, they’re actually at the same place they were last year... (full context)
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...to sneak in and get Sejanus. It’s the only way to protect him from the tributes, who will no doubt try to kill him. Peacekeepers fit Coriolanus with a bulletproof vest... (full context)
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...two stare at Marcus’s body and Sejanus implies that he entered the arena so the tributes could kill him. Coriolanus says Ma is waiting for Sejanus outside, but Sejanus humorlessly says... (full context)
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...on TV. Coriolanus encourages Sejanus to leave the arena so he can fight for the tributes and stand up to Dr. Gaul. He can hear the tributes closing in. Sejanus agrees—but... (full context)
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...again and again. Sejanus shouts for Coriolanus to leave Marcus and run—they can hear more tributes coming for them. The boys race around the barricade as Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner run... (full context)
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...like, and Coriolanus says it was terrifying. Then she asks what he thought of the tributes and points out they had nothing to gain by killing him. Coriolanus admits he underestimated... (full context)
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...The cameras cut back to Lucky, who celebrates since they’ve hit the halfway mark; 12 tributes are dead. Lepidus interviews Juno, who insists Bobbin died under suspicious circumstances and demands to... (full context)
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...in the arena all morning; Coral and Mizzen collect food and water, but the other tributes stay hidden. After lunch, the mentors learn that only those with living tributes will sit... (full context)
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...Academy, nobody wants to talk about the Games except for Hilarius. Hilarius wonders if his tribute, Wovey, is dead in a tunnel somewhere, since she hasn’t shown herself. Lucky starts the... (full context)
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...from the barricade to speak to Lamina. Coriolanus notices that Lamina is badly sunburnt. The tributes barter and then seem to come to an agreement. Reaper climbs the flagpole and hacks... (full context)
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...the addition of the drones means the audience is basically in the arena with the tributes. The rest of the morning is boring, but after lunch, Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner approach... (full context)
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...the mentor dais. Around lunchtime, Reaper inspects Wovey’s face and carries her to the dead tributes. Coriolanus believes Reaper suspects Wovey didn’t die of hunger. (full context)
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...directions. Clemensia leaps up and screams; Coriolanus holds her and tells her she’s okay. The tributes in the arena run, but the snakes attack Circ and kill him. Teslee tries to... (full context)
Chapter 20
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...the meaning of the song as the snakes huddle around Lucy Gray, and the other tributes climb to a safe height. The speaker in the song agrees to follow someone to... (full context)
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On the screen, Lucky lights sparklers to celebrate the final three tributes and ends up lighting his curtains on fire. The cameras cut back to the arena,... (full context)
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...Gray walks to Treech’s body and starts to drag him to the line of dead tributes. Reaper seems to suddenly come to as he runs over, scaring Lucy Gray away, and... (full context)
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...the base. Coriolanus is enraged. They argue about what it means to fight for the tributes, and Sejanus insists it’s no big deal to check in on Lil. Coriolanus accuses Sejanus... (full context)
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...with the Gamemakers. They’ve taken Coriolanus’s suggestions to give food to everyone in the winning tribute’s district, and a house to the winning tribute. This will increase engagement and yield better... (full context)