KATNISS EVERDEEN’S REASON TO BE THE MOCKINGJAY IN THE HUNGER GAMES : MOCKINGJAY BY SUZANNE COLLINS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii
ABSTRAK ... iii
3.1 The Reason of Katniss Everdeen joining the Rebellion ... 14
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Study
In 1998,the students of Indonesia are united action astounding, they depose
Soeharto who was a president in Indonesia, they depose Soeharto, because Soeharto
at the time it makes Indonesia experienced a prolonged economic crisis and the
regime. These students set up the posts of resistance in various campus to invite all
students are united in the ouster of the president, this action also received from the
government respond to the kidnapping of several activists, beating students who took
to the streets to revolt until at its peak a few students were shot, due to of action that
the public had come to move on and come together with students by doing vandalism,
robbery and rape and looting in some places in Indonesia as a form of support of the
student movement, until finally making the situation in Jakarta is the capital city of
Indonesia is not controlled, then the students simultaneously occupying symbols
legislative government to finally make Soeharto backwards from office. Students
resistance of events conducted in 1998 to depose Soeharto period, then get a
reasonable actions like shooting and kidnapping for the rebellious also reflected in the
novel The Hunger Games Mockingjay which also tells of the struggle of the District
13 which is led by the president of Alma Coin, Katniss Everdeen which invites the
whole district to unite and fight it out to rebel liberate the whole district of the Capitol
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The Hunger Games Mockingjay is a novel which tells the story of the
struggle of Disrict 13, led by the President Alma Coin through Katniss Everdeen. She
is a girl who has survived two times in the deadly Hunger Games to undermine the
Capitol which is the capital of the State of Panem ruled by the cruel and authoritarian.
Actual rebellion has begun since time immemorial by District 13, a district
considered to have been destroyed by the capitol, this continues to go back and
continue his preparation in the basement. This revolt is starting to show its action
after action that destroys arena Katniss Hunger games to 75 as a form of
disagreement with the implementation of unscrupulous games that take a lot of
casualties this. After the destruction of the arena, Katniss and Peeta, her boyfriend,
unconscious. Katniss rescued by rebels of District 13 while Peeta and several other
participants were arrested by Capitol. After Katniss conscious, Coin explain all plan
their rebellion and asks Katniss becomes a symbol of rebellion they were called
Mockingjay. Katniss initially refused in the end to accept the offer of President Coin
with some reservations, then began their movement. In this rebellion, they have two
main strategies: uniting the whole district and offensive. In uniting the whole district,
Katniss asked to stop in some districts and make video recordings to be broadcast to
the entire district as a means to evoke the spirit of rebellion. In the midst of their
action, it turns Capitol also prepare a plan to prevent the resistance. They make a
show interview broadcast on tv using Peeta who have been brainwashed to suppress
their movement. Seeing this, the president Coin asked District 13 to send soldier to
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it turns out Peeta has really marred sense and mind, and indoctrinated to kill Katnees.
After the first successful strategy, they began to attack to the capitol, led by Boogs.
But before enter to the Capitol, Boogs exposed by a trap from Capitol. At the end of
his life, Boogs reveal the secrets of President Coin who did not like Katniss. Then
katniss replace Boogs led the attack. After struggling desperately against Capiol, they
finally managed to win and capture President Snow. In accordance with the
agreement with Coin before the attack, Katniss welcome to execute President Snow
with her own hands. Then they held a public execution witnessed by everyone;
President Coin also present. Katniss take a position and be ready to release her arrow
to Snow. But something surprising happened; Katniss changes the direction of the
arrow and kills Coin. It is surprising everyone. But once traced, Katniss turns have
realized that Coin is not different with Snow. From the beginning of an uprising Coin
plan not merely to free the people from the hands of tyranny; the real purpose is to
control the entire Panem and into the next regime. And she did not intentionally kill
Katniss is beloved sister Prim. After the war ended, Snow died as a result of his
illness. Paylor then elected as the new president of Panem through voting. Peeta and
Katniss is married with two children. The writer interested in discussing the novel
because it has elements of prose that makes the reader to fancy, then the novel also
create imagination of a writer and the reader is increasing in each paragraph, while
poetry has only limited paragraphs and only set up a few line only. Later if the author
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The Hunger Games Mockingjay, the authors are interested in the character
because the character Katniss Everdeen is very inspiring story where a beautiful
young woman who was supposed to cook in the kitchen had to fight tooth and nail to
resist the regime and save the entire district of the capitol grip ruled with an iron fist.
In addition, she also had to fight against the man she loved because it has been
kidnapped and brainwashed by the capitol, this all feels like endless suffering.
Suzanne Collins, the author of the novel, tells the novel so interestingly, so excitingly
that readers cannot wait to read the next page and make the readers reluctant to move
from the chair before finished reading; she brings the readers into the novel.
Literature Roberts and Jacobs (1995:1) say that Literature is written or oral
compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and
advocate ideas. With the major genres being prose fiction, poetry, drama, and prose
non fiction. Poetry, drama, and prose fiction are imaginative literature.
The writer uses the work of intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren
(1997:139) that it manages to take the data from text itself.
1.2The Problem of the Study The problems of study are:
1) What makes Katniss Everdeen join the rebellion?
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The writer would like to focus on the reasons that Katniss Everdeen joins the
rebellion and the strategies of the rebellion.
1.4 The Purpose of the Study The purposes of the study are:
1) To find out why Katniss Everdeen joins the rebellion.
2) To find out how the rebellion is set.
1.5 The Significance of the Study The significances of the study are:
1) Theoretically, the significance of this study is the reader will understand about the
rebellion in a novel as literary work in addition to add study of literature of a novel
particularly about rebellion.
2) Practically, the study can be used as reference for learning and understanding
about rebellion in a novel besides to give contribution to some study of literature
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2. REVIEW AND RELATED OF LITERATURE
2.1 Literature
Taylor (1981:1) says, “Literature, like other arts, is essentially an imaginative
act, that is, and act of the writer’s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting
life-experience”. Taylor (1981:1) also says that literature reflects or comments on
actual experience; social, philosophical, psychological and moral concerns are
inescapable. Rees and Taylor tell us the same about literature, but they write in
difference style. Furthermore Taylor (1981:1) says “In the case of literature, words
are the medium of expression and it makes little difference whether those words are
recorded in the living memory of a people or by some mechanical means such as
writing, sound recording, etc.” It means that language is the medium of literature.
Actions, characters, and settings are the basic elements of literature and language
merely expresses these larger entities which combine to form a literary composition
(Taylor 1981:12). Narrative fiction, drama, and poetry are three major genre divisions
of literature. There are many subdivisions of narrative fiction, but they are divided
into two; traditional and modern narrative fiction. Folk tale, epic, romance, allegory,
and satire belong to traditional, novel and short story belong to modern narrative
fiction.
2.2 Novel
In this paper, novel is the source of the data. Novel according to Peck and
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away from an essentially religious view of life towards a new interest in the
complexities of everyday experience. Most novels are concerned with ordinary
people and their problems in the societies in which they find themselves. In fact,
novels tend to tell the same few stories time and time again. Novelists frequently
focus on tensions between individuals and the society in which they live, presenting
characters who are at odds with that society.
Plot according to Roberts and Jacobs in book Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (1995:88) said that plot is all the action or incidents, speeches,
thoughts, and observations are linked together to make up an entirety, sometimes
called an organic unity. The essence of this unity is the development and resolution of
a conflict in character. The plot is interactions of causes and effect as they develop
sequentially or chronologically. Plot of stories are made up mostly of actions or
incidents that follow each other sequentially. Finding a sequentially or narrative
order, however, is only the first step toward the more important consideration. The
plot is the controls governing the development of actions. In a well-plotted story,
things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks away, but more
importantly because effects follow causes.
From the statement above, concluded that plot is organized how actions
should be related to each other, how some events have relationship with the other
events. And the plot is interactions of causes and effects as they develop sequentially
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Character is one of intrinsic elements of novel especially main characters. Barnet (1983: 71) says, “Character has meaning as a figure in a literary work”.
(Bonazza 1982:3) says “Character refers to one of the persons in the story-the end
result of the author’s effort to create a fictional personality.” From that statement, we
can see that character is a person who is responsible for the thoughts and action
within a story, poem, or other literature. Characters are extremely important because
they are the medium through which a reader interacts with a piece of literature. Every
character has his or her own personality, which a creative author uses to assist in
forming the plot of a story or creating a mood. The different attitudes, mannerisms,
and even appearances of characters can greatly influence the other major elements in
a literary work, such as theme, setting, and tone.
From the above statements, concluded that character is any repsentation of
an individual being presented in dramatic or narrative work through extended
dramatic or verbal representation. Through action, speech, description, and
commentary, authors portray characters who are worth caring about, rooting for, and
even loving, although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even
hate.
Setting according Roberts and Jacobs in book Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (1995:158) said that setting is concerned with the places where
story take a place. Setting refers to geographical location of the story, time period,
daily lifestyle of the characters and climate of the story. Background elements can be
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the location of the place suggest the occurrence of the events recounted in a work of
fiction. The setting is important to give realistic impression to the readers, created a
certain situation at a glanced is really happened.
From the statements above, it is concluded that setting is the place or
location of the action. Setting refers to georaphical location of the story, time period,
daily lifestyle of the characters. The setting provides the historical and cultural
context for characters.
2.3 Intrinsic Approach
The intrinsic approach starts from the interpretation and analysis of literary
work itself. Wellek and Warren (1977:158) continues that the old methods such as
Classical rhetoric, poetika, and the dimensions must be learned and translated in
modern terms. New methods based on survey of modern literary forms have been
widely introduced. Such research will be widely used in France is the method of
explication de texts. While in Germany developed the formal analysis based on the
parallels between works of art and art history, which has been pioneered by Walzel.
Later, the Russian formalist movement and his followers in Czechoslovakia and
Poland greatly stimulate the development of literary studies. In the UK, followers I.A.
Richards began to focus on the text and the poetry critic in America began trying to
restore a group of primary concern in the study of literature. Many studies of novel
who not only see the connection works with the social structure, but studying the
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Intrinsic approach takes part from the literary work itself. Intrinsic approach
emphasizes the analysis intertext by describing the elemens of the prose that
explained before. Wellek and Warren (1977:139)
2.4 Rebellion
John Joseph Lalor (1884) said, “Rebellion is a refusal of obedience or order.
It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of
or taking over the position of an established
one hand the forms of
(overlapping but not quite identical) phenomena of
a
Those who participate in rebellions, especially if they are armed rebellions, are
known as "rebels".
There are a number of terms that are associated with rebel and rebellion.
They range from those with positive connotations to those with pejorative
connotations. Examples include:
1)
violence or paramilitary force
2)
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3) Armed
against an occupying foreign power
4) Revolt, a term that is sometimes used for a more localized rebellions rather than a
general uprising
5)
curren
6)
by spies or other subversives
7)
religious
From some kind of rebellions above, the author saw it when the kind of
rebellion that occurs in the novel this is a Revolution type, it is apparent from their
movements that want to drop the Supreme Head of Government in a country with a
radical action.
2.5 Mockingjay
A mockingjay is a bird that was created through mating of
female mockingbirds. Whe
to the mistake that caused their existence. This is why Katniss became "The
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A hybrid of mockingbirds and jabberjays, the birds were created by mistake.
The jabberjays - all male - were initially created to eavesdrop on the rebels i
Once they were discovered, the rebels fed endless lies to the birds, and sent them
back loaded with false information. After the lies were discovered, the Capitol closed
the laboratories and the jabberjays were released into the wild, in the hope that they
would die off. They did, eventually, but not before they passed on their genetic code
to female mockingbirds. This was unforeseen, because no one expected them to be
able to reproduce with other bird species. The offspring were called mockingjays,
and, while they had lost the ability to memorize words, they could mimic any sounds
from a child's high-pitched warble to a man's deep tones, and even songs with
multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing to them
those people, a
including mockingjays, fell silent, the sign that they liked the song or notes that were
sung. The mockingjay is so important to Katniss because her father had a special
bond with them, and so di
Like their jabberjay fathers, mockingjays are excellent mimics, and have the
ability to memorize and repeat both bird and human songs. They can perfectly copy
down to the last note, any human tune. They pick up tunes quickly, and often spread
them to other mockingjays. However, they only sing the songs of those whose voices
they enjoy. Katniss, her father, and Rue are singers that caused the mockingjays to
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11, the first worker to see the quitting signal whistles four notes. The mockingjays
will then begin to spread the notes, passing the message along to all the workers. The
simple melody is ingeniously designed to harmonize with itself as the different voices
singing it overlap. Rue practiced this, and may have even begun it. The
enjoyed whistling to the mockingjays, as it was the only auditory communication he
had achieved in a very long time.
The birds are found in District 11, in the orchards. They are also found in
various other districts, such as
Rue is said in the book to tell Katniss that they are a way of communicating through
the orchards in District 11. Mockingjays are described as being as tough as rocks,
being able to thrive in almost any environment. In the 74th Hunger Games, there
were mockingjays in the
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3. THE ANALYSIS
3.1 The Reason of Katniss Everdeen joining the Rebellion.
Katniss Everdeen (17) is a smart, brave, and half-cooked rice girl from
District 12. She has long hair, grey eyes, and olive skin. She loves to hunt; a pretty
good archer. She was saved by the rebels and elected as the leader of the rebellion
called Mockingjay. And the Capitol hate her so much for not obeying them.
Katniss Everdeen is asked to be the mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion,
which is managed by Districk 13 led by Coin. District 13 is a district which has been
assumed determinated by people after being bombed by the capitol for their rebellion.
It turns out that they survive and rebuild District 13 under ground preparing another
rebellion. This rebellion happens because district 13 want to end the capitol leading
recklessly, such as holding the hunger games. Hunger games is an annual game that
has to be participated by each district. Every district sends a man and a woman aged
12-18 through a drawing. Then the choosen candidates will fight to death in an arena
designed by the capitol. Worsely, the game will be broadcasted live so everyone can
see it. the capitol also does not hesitate to kill the candidate who does not obey them.
The capitol is led by President Snow. District 13 is the head quarter of the rebellion
which Katniss will set.
At first, katniss rejects District 13’s offer to make her the mockingjay. But
she finally aggrees because she think a case-fire could only result in a return to our
previous status. Or worse, and she have six conditions: 1. Her family are allowed to
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always in her side. 4. Once the war is over, Peeta and other candidates abducted by the
capitol must be given a impunity. 5. She wants to kill Snow herself. 6. The condition
she makes must be announced by Coin in public so everyone in district 12 and 13 who
is evacuating in district 13 knows. First, she asks a trivial request namely her family
can pet their cat named Buttercup. It can be seen from the following quote:
“My family gets to keep our cat.” (Collins 2010:38)
She asks that because of the tight regulations in district 13 that don’t allow
anyone to pet cats. Second, she requests that she can go hunting to the woods with her
close friend Gale. It can be seen from the following quote:
“I want to hunt. With Gale. Out in the woods,” (Collins 2010:39)
Katniss’ hobby is hunting but she is not allowed to get out of underground so
she asks that thing. Third, she asks that Gale must always be with her; she needs him.
It can be seen from the following quote:
"Gale. I'll need him with me to do this." (Collins 2010:39)
Katniss wants Gale to be always by her side because he is her best friend in
District 12 which is why she request that. Fourth, once the war is over, peeta and
other candidates kidnapped by the capitol must get impunity. It can be seen from the
following quote:
“When the war is over, if we've won, Peeta will be pardoned. The same goes for the other captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria.” (Collins 2010:40)
Katniss asks that peeta, her partner in the hunger game, and other candidates
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Coin wants to execute them. This request is first denied by Coin. But, she finally says
yes. It can be seen from the following quote:
“No, says Coin flatly. "Yes," I shoot back. "It's not their fault you abandoned them in the arena.Who knows what the Capitol's doing to them?" "They'll be tried with other war criminals and treated as the tribunal sees fit," she says. "They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full and resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!” (Collins 2010:40-41)
Because katniss threats, “Find another mockingjay!”, she finally
agrees..Fifth, katniss wants to kill snow when the war is over. It can be seen from the
following quote:
“Just one more thing. I kill Snow.” (Collins 2010:41)
Because of the chaos that he has has caused to her closest people and her
district, she wants to kill him. Sixth, katniss wants her conditions to be announced in
front of people in District 13. Because she is afraid that Coin breaks her promises,
katniss asks coin to announce them in public personally. It can be seen from the
following quote:
“But you'd better perform. "I'll perform when you've made the announcement," I say. "Call a national security assembly during Reflection today," she orders. "I'll make the announcement then. (Collins 2010:41)
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Katniss accepted the offer of the District 13 who wanted to make it the
Mockingjay with some conditions : 1. Her family are allowed to pet a cat. 2. She is
allowed to hunt in the wood with Gale. 3. Gale is allowed to be always in her side. 4.
Once the war is over, Peeta and other candidates abducted by the capitol must be
given a impunity. 5. She wants to kill Snow herself. 6. The condition she makes must
be announced by Coin in public so everyone in district 12 and 13 who is evacuating
in District 13 knows. After all her conditions are fulfilled, Katniss preparing to
become the Mockingjay for the rebels.
3.2 The Setting of the Rebellion.
After getting their mockingjay; Katniss Everdeen. District 13 is prepared to
do the rebellion against the capitol for leading cruelly, murdering those who do not
obey the law that they make, and holding an annual event called The Hunger Games
which causes many mortalities every year and opresses all districts in Panem. This
rebellion has been prepared by District 13 since long time ago, when 13 mutinied and
then they were terminated by the capitol but they could escaped by taking over the
capitol’s nuclear control center in the underground and aimed it to the capitol.
Finally, they made a deal with the capitol that the capitol let them live underground
so they would not fire; they would pretend to die to avoid panic in Panem. After they
agreed, the capitol cut all access to them so they would die on their own. However,
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discipline and tight defense until now they are preparing another rebellion against the
Capitol after they got their mockingjay.
After all the preparation done by District 13 to rebel at the capitol have been
prepared to do, and they have now had her Mockingjay, they have District 2 of the
plan outline that is through propaganda videos to unify the entire district and assault
to the Capitol after successful invites the entire district united in revolt. But before
running their first plan that is making video propaganda to rally the entire districts,
they are start of their rebellion with make over Katniss. It can be seen from the
following quote:
“Plutarch and I have been talking about how on earth we can pull this off. We think that it might be best to build you, our rebel leader, from the outside...in. That is to say, let's find the most stunning Mockingjay look possible,and then work your personality up to deserving it!" she says brightly. "You already have her uniform," says Gale.” Collins 2010:44)
After dressing Katniss, they are preparing to make the propoganda video to
unite all districks. And then they are ready to run their first plan.
3.2.1 Making Propaganda movies
They made the first propaganda video in District 8 when it is recently got
attacked by the Capitol. It can be seen from the following quote:
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over. "I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there's a cease-fire, you're deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do." Back to me now, my hands lifting up to indicate the outrage around me. "This is what they do! And we must fight back!" Now comes a truly fantastic montage of the battle. The initialbombs falling,us running, being blown to the ground—a close-up of my wound, burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?" We're with the camera, tracking to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse. Tight on the Capitol seal on a wing, which melts back into the image of my face, shouting at the president. "Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!” (Collins 2010:105-106)
Katniss team take video that shows evidence of the cruelty of the Capitol at
the time they are there is no attack from the capitol through the aircraft right after
they visit to the hospital that is filled with the victims of the unarmed and helpless,
the hospital was in the bomb until there is nothing left anymore, Katniss with full
emotions showed evidence of the cruelty of the Capitol, and commemorates not to
return in their hands! After the success of taking videos on district 8 they return to
District 13 to wait for the next, apparently the propo mission video propo in District
12 home to Katniss, Peeta and Gale that has devastated the attack of the Capitol,
while on a trip on board the plane headed for District 12 Pltarch happy broke the
news she said if the rebels had already successfully controlled the District 3 and
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do a video capture in several places in District 12 starting from House of Katniss and
Gale.It can be seen from the following quote:
“Cressida directs the team to start with me at my old house. I
ask her what she wants me to do. "Whatever you feel like,"
she says. Standing back in my kitchen, I don't feel like doing
anything. In fact, I find myself focusing up at the sky--the
only roof left--because too many memories are drowning me.
After a while, Cressida says, "That's fine, Katniss. Let's move
on.” (Collins 2010:120)
Katniss does not know what to do in her house so she just takes a short video
then goes to Gale’s house and catches up the memories of the past before the attack
from the Capitol. It can be seen from the following quote:
“Gale doesn't get off so easily at his old address.Cressida
films him in silence for a few minutes, but just as he pulls
the one remnant of his previous life from the ashes--a twisted
metal poker--she starts to question him about his family, his
job, life in the Seam.” (Collins 2010:120)
Gale could not resist the sadness of seeing his old home now have become
dust and Cressida utilize this moment to do the questioning without script with Gale.
Then they continued running from home Gale towards the meadow and then enters
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where they accidentally get Katniss sing with mockingjjay birds. It can be seen from
the following quote:
“As I glance sideways, I see Castor has been taping me.
Everyone is watching me intently. And Pollux has tears
running down his cheeks because no doubt my freaky song
has dredged up some terrible incident in his life. Great. I sigh
and lean backagainst the trunk. That's when the mockingjays
begin their rendition of "The Hanging Tree." In their mouths,
it's quite beautiful. Conscious of being filmed, I stand quietly
until I hear Cressida call, "Cut!".” (Collins 2010:126)
Katniss who unknowingly recorded by Castor, apparently unknowingly
managed to make a very nice video, when she sang with the birds and make the
Mockingjay Pollux crying. And then when they were on the way home and passing
through the town square, suddenly Katniss asks Cressida to record something that
turned out to be the home of Peeta. “Take Cressida to the rubble of the bakery and
ask her to film something.The only emotion I can muster is exhaustion. It can be seen
from the following quote:
"Peeta, this is your home. None of you family has been
heard of since the bombing. Twelve is gone. And you're
calling for a cease-fire?" I look across the emptiness. "There's
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Katniss like to indicate on a Peeta has been kidnapped by the Capitol and
told to invite the rebels to save him, Katniss would like Peeta to see how Capitol has
destroyed his house and the District 12. And if nobody will want to make peace with
the Capitol after all this. Then after recording a Katniss in front of Peeta’s house,
suddenly Cressida ask something because seeing a pile of metal that were scattered
in front of his house who turns out it was the gallows place Gale ever tortured by
Capitol. It can be seen from the following quote:
“As we stand before the lump of metal that was the gallows,
Cressida asks if either of us has ever been tortured. In answer,
Gale pulls off his shirt and turns his back to the camera. I
stare at the lash marks, and again hear the whistling of the
whip,see his bloody figure hanging unconscious by his
wrists.” (Collins 2010:129)
Gale ever tortured at that place by the Capitol, leaving wounds that made an
impression on the whole body. Then after much getting videos on District 12, they
went back to District 13. After returning to District 13, they got the good news
because the propagada videos now can be broadcasted on Capitol. It can be seen
from the following quote:
“Beetee thinks he's found a way to break into the feed nationwide," says Finnick. "So that our propos will air in the Capitol, too.” (Collins 2010:131)
Beetee finally managed to make video propo broadcasted also in the
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suddenly lit up and showing Peeta abducted by Capitol warned would occur if the
assault by the Capitol tomorrow morning. And it turns out that the attack has indeed
occurred, the Capitol bombard District 13 with the plane, but the District 13 already
anticipate and all safe underground. Then they rise to the top District 13 to record
new propaganda videos and evidence of the cruelty of the Capitol that had attacked
13 bombs with the explosive large powerless. Following up on the surface of the
District 13, they found a large hole former bomb consisting of very large and court
offices were destroyed, not much damage that occurs due to attacks from the Capitol
because all of his existing in 13 are under the ground and secure. Cressida asks
Katniss to do a scene for inclusion as a pro video that shows the Mockingjay is still
alive and still fighting for the rebels. It can be seen from the following quote:
"So, what exactly do you need from me again?" I ask. "Just a few quick lines that show you're alive and still fighting," says Cressida. (Collins 2010:161)
Katniss who can't perform good because Peeta is still located in the Capitol,
and he was afraid of any propaganda video made will culminate in torture Peeta.
District 13 trying to save Peeta and other Hunger Games winner from Capitol,
Katniss is not allowed into the team, Katniss and Finnick help from District 13 by
making video propo above District 13 in order to divert attention at the Capitol when
the assault, starting from the last Katniss Finnick. It can be seen from the following
quote:
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dead." I talk about that awful day when I tried to sell the babyclothes in the rain, how Peeta's mother chased me from the bakery door, and how he took a beating to bring me the loaves of bread that saved our lives. "We had never even spoken. The first time I ever talked to Peeta was on the train to the Games." (Collins 2010:163)
Cressida gave Katniss question how initially he met up with Peeta and the
story was interesting enough to broadcast. Then go to Finnick. It can be seen from the
following quote:
"President Snow used to...sell me...my body, that is," Finnick begins in a flat, removed tone. "I wasn't the only one. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a
reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money. If you refuse, he kills someone
you love. So you do it." (Collins 2010:170)
Finnick tells if President Snow never sell his body for the people there, it
wasn't until Capitol Finnick had another great secret snow. It can be seen from the
following quote:
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say...Snow has a list and no one knows who will be next.” (Collins 2010:171)
Finncik makes people shocked with his stories about corruption, Snow, and
the story of yesteryear surely will make the rebels increasingly blazing. After taking
the video propaganda, Katniss and the team went back to the basement District 13
pending the outcome of the rescue team Peeta camera crew and editing the video
above District 13. After waiting a few moments and broadcast the footage above
District 13, Finnick into the spotlight with his story, suddenly Haymitch came and
preached the rescue team is back and they managed to bring the peeta and Katniss,
when come to the Peeta which happens is she suffocating Katniss to Katniss should
be getting intensive treatment. When Katniss recover from treatment after a few days,
he got word from Plutarch if insurgents have gained throughout the district except as
District 2. Katniss and the team moves on to District 2. Upon arrival at District 2 they
see condition District 2 which is divided into two, half in the hands of rebels and half
in the hands of the Capitol. Places that have yet to join in the rebellion is Nutt, it is
the capitol of the new military plans and Gale and Boggs was undermining Nutt but
not close the way out for the rebels who are in to get out so they could engage them
United in revolt. It can be seen from the following quote:
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Gale's plan succeeds, Nutt was successfully knocked out all who were there
running around exit towards the town square, the rebel troops have been waiting
there to engage them. Katniss welcomed the rebels through a microphone in the
square, but Katniss even down to the square because the rebels and those who have
not joined in the revolt will fight, he was shot by an unidentified person from the
crowd as he was calming the residents of District 2 and persuade an elderly
gentleman who is invited to join in the rebellions and not do war. Katniss suddenly
was shot and lying there. When he realized how Katniss in the hospital, she got word
when District 2 is already successfully mastered. the Capitol is ready to be carried
out because all of the districts have been unified. Katniss had a message for Snow.
And they send the camera crew to record it and then sends it to the Capitol. It can be
seen from the following quote:
“Rumors of my death have been running rampant, so they send in the team to film me in my hospital bed. I show off my stitches and impressive bruising and congratulate the districts on their successful battle for unity.Then I warn the Capitol to expect us soon.” (Collins 2010:223)
The Conclusion of the above statement is Katniss managed to unify all
districk joined the rebellion through propaganda and direct video down to districts,
Katniss commemorating their arrival will be the Capitol. District 13 also make fake
wedding finnick and annie to make the capitol is getting hot. The video showed the
mockingjay are happy because all the district has united and happy dancing with in
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District 13 is ready to attack after all districk was join in rebellion, Katniss
was joined in the team named the forces leading the Boogs, but Boogs died of
accidental mine-affected and the Katniss choose Boogs led the troops. They got their
attack in the form of gas black melt all that was spent from the capitol, to make them
separate from the groups of the rebel team to another, and hiding in the apartments
until the black gas is gone then Katniss led a team headed next because the
apartments are not well linger there and sure enough their apartment that were
previously in the mash by Snow, because think Katniss still there and already killed ,
he announced that Mockingjay was killed, they get an advantage because it has been
thought to be killed by Snow and Gale find ideas for through the underpass which is
a suggestion of Gale. But before they move to the underground, Katniss asked all
there in the room to come along with her to the Capitol without landing a Coin or a
return to the place early in order to join the other rebel forces all agreed, would like
to join with Katniss, then they move to the underground passageway leading to the
Capitol. It can be seen from the following quote:
"Well, that's a moot point. We're withbyou now," says Jackson. "So, we can't stay put.bWe can't move up. We can't move laterally. I think that just leaves one option." (Collins 2010:296)
They chose the path of the underground to get to the Capitol, because they
cannot pass the street to the Capitol, many traps and they also cannot pass the roof
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for the moment. And after going through the journey on the underground for 6 hours
of their existence was eventually known by Snow and snow ever directly send them
to hunt down the killer of Mutt to the underground, but because they already trip
hitchhiking for six hours, they can still be ran a search for a way out of the Hall. But
Mutts go very fast and attacking them, Katniss made it out of that alley and overcome
Mutts by throwing his Holo and make a huge explosion which destroyed the Mutt. It
can be seen from the following quote:
“I slide the Holo from my belt and choke out "nightlock, nightlock." Release it. Hunch against the wall with the others as the explosion rocks the platform and bits of mutt and human flesh shoot out of the pipe and shower us.” (Collins 2010:313)
Katniss destroying Mutt who much it with Holonya, Pollux closing
meetings of underground road hole and now all that's left now only live Pollux, Gale,
Peeta and Katniss, Cressida. Finnick, who has sacrificed and perished along with
Mutt, get trapped and then exploded in a hallway. Then they go into women's
apartments are magenta-haired, for help as she was, without a doubt Katniss shot him
with an arrow, there they found equipment like the fake hair and jacket, they are
disguised. And when they come out of the apartments, they were surprised, because
they apparently already up in busy areas of the Capitol, not to mention in a war zone.
They walked like Capitol and residents seeking shelter, the Cressida is a native of the
Capitol have friends who can be believed, he took another and Katniss to where the
Tigris tigris in their place, put diruangan its underground Capitol unnoticed so that if
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Tigris they got word that the rebels managed to overwhelm the block for the sake of
the block. Residents of the Capitol took refuge in the front of the presidential
mansion. Katniss and the others make use of this moment, they are born and posing
as residents of the Capitol and then infiltrate into the presidential mansion Snow to
kill her. Tigris any clothe them. It can be seen from the following quote:
“She spends the next hour the five of us. She redresses us so regular clothes hide our uniforms before we even don our coats and cloaks. Covers our military boots with some sort of furry slippers. Secures our wigs with pins. Cleans off the garish remains of the paint we so hastily applied to ourfacese and makes us up again Drapes our outerwear to conceal our weapons. Then gives us handbags and bundles of knickknacks to carry. In the end, we look exactly like the refugees fleeing the rebels.” (Collins 2010:337)
They are dressed by the Tigris in order to blend in with the crowd unnoticed.
In the chaos, Gale was caught by soldiers of the Capitol and only managed to
infiltrate Katniss entered the gates of the mansion. Upon arrival in the mansion,
Katniss look at children who are locked up and then all of a sudden the bombs fall
from the sky and blow up the kids. Including Prim, his younger brother who became
a medical team, was also slain in the second explosion. Katniss also unconscious
because of trying to save a bomb before it exploded Prim but failed.
When Katniss is aware, she was already in the hospital and got the info if the
rebels succeeded in taking over the Capitol; Snow was arrested and was sentenced to
death. Before the day of execution arrived, Katniss accidentally met with Snow and
Snow explains if that killing his brother is a Coin and that makes the Hunger Games
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used the Katniss as a pawn, so that afterwards he who reigns in Panem. The day of
the execution of any Snow arrived, Katniss is preparing to direct his bow to the head
of the Snow, and instantly, the arrow it melucur very quickly towards the heart of the
Coin. Katniss does so because she remembers on the agreement that he made together
with Snow, if they will not lie to each other, Snow died with his own due to toxins
that Yes drank at the time party at the Capitol.
In short, it can be concluded that Katniss led an army named the star armies
after Boogs, who previously was the captain of the team died when making fake
propo video for broadcast. Katniss’ team lead his move without landing a Coin to the
Capitol, he made it to the Capitol despite the loss of some of the people he got
through all the obstacles she unconscious in front of the gate of the Capitol because it
wanted to save his brother who died burst because the bombs dropped from aircraft,
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
After doing the analysis, it is proved that Katniss Everdeen’s reasons to be
the Mockingjay in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, are describe in the novel.
Katniss Everdeen is asked to be the mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion, which is
managed by Districk 13 led by Coin. District 13 is a district which has been assumed
determinated by people after being bombed by the capitol for their rebellion. It turns
out that they survive and rebuild District 13 under ground preparing another
rebellion. This rebellion happens because District 13 want to end the capitol leading
recklessly, such as holding the hunger games. Hunger games is an annual game that
has to be participated by each district. Every district have to send one man and
woman aged 12-18 through a drawing. Then the choosen candidates will fight to
death in an arena designed by the capitol. Worsely, the game will be broadcasted live
so everyone can see it. the capitol also does not hesitate to kill the candidate who does
not obey them. The capitol is led by President Snow. District 13 is the head quarter of
the rebellion which Katniss will set.
She aggrees became a Mockingjay because she think a case-fire with Capitol
could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse, and she have six
conditions: 1. Her family are allowed to pet a cat. 2. She is allowed to hunt in the
wood with Gale. 3. Gale is allowed to be always in her side. 4. Once the war is over,
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wants to kill Snow herself. 6. The condition she makes must be announced by Coin in
public so everyone in district 12 and 13 who is evacuating in district 13 knows.
Setelah Katniss bersedia menjadi Mockingjay, 13 have 2 plans: master all the districts
through video propaganda that shows the cruelty and corruption of the Capitol and
then assault to Capitol, they easily conquered the districts except District 2 which is
central to the defense of the new Capitol. But with the great effort they managed to
get the District 2, and Katniss got an injury.
After all the districts have been unified, the rebels are ready to assault the
Capitol, Katniss the Mockingjay walked into a team that was given the name star
army, Boggs led the troops but Boogs almost died because the affected mines at the
time they made the videos propaganda, they got attacked by the Capitol through the
black gas that destroys anything in it is path, they took Boggs and others entering the
apartments to shelter from the black gas last Apartments in Boggs, handed the Holo
who is the symbol of the squad leader to Katniss, Katniss led an army without a
referral from the Coin, they pass through the underpass leading to the Capitol, to
make it more secure, because the main roads of the many mines in the form of
capsules containing mutt and invisible mines that could kill them at any time. After 6
hours of their existence is known to the Snow, Snow sent a Mutt that is similar to
monster animals mengerjar those in the tunnel. Katniss, Peeta, Pollux, Cresida and
Gale escaped the pursuit that Mutt and detonating them in tunnels, Finnick and
another died trying to resist the Mutt to not teach Katniss and the other, after coming
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the Capitol, they hid and rested at home companions Cressida namely the Tigris,
which is a fashion stylist. Tigris clothe them so they could hang around with other
Capitol residents who want to get into the presidential mansion Snow, in front of the
presidential mansion Snow filled by residents of the Capitol that was running because
of the rebel force has managed to take the blocks for the sake of the block in the
Capitol. They diverged, lots going on the attack because the State is very chaotic,
Katniss lost Gale abducted children fruit Snow, Katniss who don't know which way
to walk without realising how in front of the presidential mansion, there he saw a pile
of children who are locked up, and then not long airplane above them and drop boxes
that make them ecstatically, as they hold that box explosions a medical team from the
rebel forces came, saw her younger sister Prim, Katniss when she ran a Prim
approach is helping children who still survived, the second explosion occurred.
Katniss look at her younger sister's body destroyed to pieces and he is also
unconscious. When Katniss was conscious in the presidential mansion, he got word
that the rebels managed to take over the Capitol and the Snow was sentenced to
death.
In the end, Katniss who was determined to kill Snow instead kill Coin which
was her partner. She shoot her right on her heart, because she realized if Coin utilized
her, she wanted to the new president of Panem and she made her lovely elder sister,
Prim died because the bombs dropped by aircraft in front of the presidential mansion.
Snow died by itself due to the toxins that have long settles on his body when it
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Gale lived in District 2, Katniss and Peeta is married and has two children, they live
in District 12.
4.2 Suggestions
The writter hopes that this paper can help the readers who want to know about
Katniss Everdeen’s reason to be the Mockingjay in the novel The Hunger Games :
Mockingjay. The writter hopes that the readers know the story of this novel.The
writter realizes that the paper work is still far from being perfect and finally hopes the
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APPENDICES
A. Biography of Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins was born into a military family, the youngest of four on
August 11, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. The job demands of her father, a
Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force who had seen active duty in Vietnam, caused the
family to constantly move around the eastern United States before finally settling
down in Alabama where Suzanne attended high school at the Alabama School of Fine
Arts. Collins attended Indiana University where she graduated with a double major of
drama and telecommunications before earning her M.F.A. (Masters of Fine Arts) in
dramatic writing from New York University shortly after.
Focusing mostly on acting between the ages of 12 and 20, it was then when
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Her passion quickly grew from that moment. In 1991, Suzanne Collins began her
professional career writing for children’s television. She worked on the staffs of
several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy-nominated hit Clarissa Explains it
All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. For preschool viewers, she penned multiple
stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. She also co-wrote the
Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Santa, Baby! with her friend, Peter Bakalian, which
was nominated for a WGA Award in Animation. Most recently she was the Head
Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days,and a freelancer on
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she
met children’s author and illustrator James Proimos, who talked her into giving
children’s books a try.
Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how
pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings.
In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole
and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. What you might find...? Well,
that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part fantasy/war
series, The Underland Chronicles,which became a New York Times bestseller. It has
been sold into 21 foreign territories.
The idea for her first story series, the critically acclaimed Underland
Chronicles, came to Collins as she pondered Alice in Wonderland and thought one
was much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole. Published by
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series following the adventures of an eleven year old boy named Gregor and his time
in the fictional world of Underland.
In 2008, Collins published the first story in her next book series, the Hunger
Games, which follows the story of 16 year old Katniss Everdeen as she attempts to
survive the Hunger Games, a government enforced battle which pairs twenty-four
teenagers in a battle to the death. Collins has said that the inspiration for the Hunger
Games was a combination of the Greek myth, Theseus and the Minotaur, and time
spent channel flicking between reality television and coverage of the Iraq war. The
adjacent sequels in the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire and Mockingjay were
released in 2009 and 2010.
Movie rights for the Hunger Games were purchased by North American
entertainment corporation Lions Gate, who will release a film adaptation of the book
on March 23, 2012 starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson
as Peeta Mellark, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. Suzanne Collins
currently lives in Connecticut with her husband, actor Cap Pryor, two children, and
two feral cats that previously wandered their backyard. Much to her success with the
Hunger Games, Collins was named as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in
the world in 2010. As of March 16, 2012, Suzanne Collins became Amazon Kindle’s
best-selling author of all-time.
Lionsgate released a film adaptation of THE HUNGER GAMES on March
23, 2012, directed by Gary Ross who also shared screenplay credit with Suzanne and
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highest-grossing North American release of all time on its way to generating nearly
$700 million at the worldwide box office. Lionsgate released the second installment
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE worldwide on November 22, 2013,
directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael
DeBruyn and bringing back stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam
Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Willow Shields, Paula Malcomson,
Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz along with new cast members
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone and Jeffrey Wright. It was the
highest-grossing domestic box office release of 2013 and the 10th highest-grossing
domestic release of all time. Lionsgate will release THE HUNGER GAMES:
MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 on November 21, 2014 and THE HUNGER GAMES:
MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 on November 20, 2015, also directed by Lawrence.
In September 2013, Suzanne released a critically acclaimed
autobiographical picture book, YEAR OF THE JUNGLE, illustrated by James
Proimos. It deals with the year she was six and her father was deployed to Viet Nam.
It has been sold into 12 territories in 11 languages. Her first picture book, WHEN
CHARLIE MCBUTTON LOST POWER, about a boy obsessed with computer
games, was illustrated by Mike Lester and came out in 2005. It has been sold into 4
40 B. Summary of the novel
The novel opens with Katniss wandering through the ashes of her decimated
district, District 12. It’s been a month since Katniss was rescued from the Quarter
Quell arena after shooting an arrow at the force field, the same time her district was
bombed by the Capitol. During that month, Katniss lived safely underground in the
highly regimented District 13, where the heart of the revolution resides, powered by
President Coin, whom Katniss doesn’t completely trust. Katniss is trying to make
sense of this new world amidst a rebellion and is still quite unstable as she recovers
from the physical and emotional trauma she underwent in the arena.
Katniss’ coming to District 12 was her own idea. She wanted to see her
home and mourn for those who were killed. She feels great guilt for everyone who
died. Gale heroically led as many people as he could, including Katniss’ mother and
sister, Prim, to the Meadow and into safety. Now, the District 12 refugees have been
welcomed into District 13, whose population is waning because of a pox epidemic
that killed many of the district’s citizens and left a great number of them infertile.
Gale waits for Katniss overhead in a hoverplane. Katniss is still trying to make sense
of her feelings for Gale, and it is especially hard now as she worries constantly about
Peeta, who was captured by the Capitol, wondering if he is alive or dead.
Along with Katniss, the others rescued from the Quarter Quell arena were
Finnick Odair and Beetee, who had been part of the rebel plan organized by Head
Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. Now, Katniss is experiencing great pressure from
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defiance of the Capitol has helped inspire. It’s a role that Katniss isn’t sure she can
fill. She wonders if she would do more damage than good.
Eventually, Katniss does agree to be the Mockingjay, but it’s only after she
sees Peeta on a televised interview calling for a cease-fire, which makes him a traitor
even though Katniss is sure Snow made him say it. Katniss creates a list of demands,
all of which she requires in order to be the Mockingjay. On that list is Peeta’s
immunity. Katniss learns that clothing designer Cinna, before he was killed, had
already designed and created all of her Mockingjay uniforms. Katniss discovers her
prep team imprisoned in District 13’s cells deep underground; they’ve been horribly
abused and mistreated. She saves them and grows increasingly wary of Coin and the
way she runs District 13. Katniss continues to see major parallels between District 13
and the Capitol.
Coin calls an assembly per Katniss’ request, not only to announce Katniss’
acceptance of her Mockingjay role, but also the immunity of Peeta and the other
captured tributes should the rebels win. Coin adds, however, that should Katniss
deviate from her Mockingjay role, immunity will be revoked and all tributes,
including Katniss, will be subject to the laws of District 13.
Katniss’ first propo, short for propaganda spot, is an utter failure. It’s staged
and stilted, and Katniss doesn’t even recognize herself. Haymitch, now sober since
District 13 doesn’t allow alcohol, laughs at the propo and points out that Katniss is
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bodyguard team, and a camera crew to District 8 that day to get some more realistic
propos.
Katniss and Haymitch are still angry at each other. They both think the other
failed to protect Peeta in the Quarter Quell arena. Upon talking, however, they realize
neither one of them could have made any other choice. Now, they will work together
to win this war and rescue Peeta.
On her way to District 8, Katniss learns that the rebels have control of every
district except for District 2, which has always been favored by the Capitol. The rebel
plan was to take over each district, ending with 2, cutting off supplies to the Capitol.
If the rebels win, the new government will be a republic.
In District 8, Katniss meets Commander Paylor and visits the wounded in a
makeshift hospital. The patients call out to her by name, invigorated by the mere sight
of her. They want to touch her and talk to her, and suddenly Katniss realizes that she
hasn’t been fighting against the Capitol alone. She also recognizes that she does
possess power, the kind of power that Snow is afraid of because it inspires unity and
hope. Just as Katniss and her team are leaving District 8, another airstrike arrives,
targeting the hospital. Katniss and Gale disobey orders and climb to the rooftop on a
nearby building to shoot down the bombers. Once the attack is over, Katniss surveys
the destroyed hospital. There are no survivors. She is enraged at this disregard for
human life and an attack on the defenseless and weak. She delivers a fiery message to
Snow, all of it captured by her fearless camera crew. Back in 13, Katniss and Finnick
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and is hurt. Katniss and Finnick pretend they didn’t see the interview, and nobody
tells Katniss about Peeta, not even Gale. Katniss eventually gets Gale to confess, but
she feels betrayed. Gale and Katniss, growing farther and farther apart, return to
District 12 to film more propos. Katniss remembers how she used to be happy there
