Characters
Louella
“Poor baby . . . poor little bird . . . who will sing your songs now?”
Lenore Dove
Incompetence
Noun: Inability to do something successfully.
The dead mockingjay chick at the beginning represents Louella.
Symbolism
300lb tribute guy from District 1
Panache Barker
“You are on a high horse, mister. And someday someone will knock you off it straight into your grave.”
Haymitch
Trifle
Something of little value or importance.
Haymitch’s thought about knocking Snow off his high horse
Foreshadowing
12 year old tribute that tries to make an alliance with Haymitch
Ampert Latier
“About forty to one.”
Wyatt
Extending out sharply
Haymitch’s memory of the mockingjay chick and his description of Louella as a “broken little bird body”
Metaphor
The winner of the 49th Hunger Game
Wiress
“I followed the light beams.”
Wiress
Erect
Upright; straight in posture.
Haymitch stands before President Snow, applauding defiantly with Louella’s body at his feet, believing he is making a powerful statement, but Snow only finds him “foolish” and “amusing.”
Irony. Because the tribute's act of rebellion are usually swallowed by the capitol's indifference.
Owns a fake trident
Urchin from District 4
“I can’t hardly look at this. Makes my eyes cross.”
Sid, Flashback
Stiletto
A long, thin, high heel on a shoe.
“Her vacant eyes confirm this as I slide the lids closed”
Personification, eyes are confirming(an action)