Poetic Device

Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010. Print.
Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games, New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.
  Collins, Suzanne,Catching Fire, New York: Scholastic Press, 2009. Print.


  In the book Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins symbolism is used quite frequently. A symbol is an object that is used to represent something else. In the series the Mockingjay pin is used to symbolize a sign of trust and a sign of rebellion. In The Hunger Games Cinna, (Katniss' stylist) gave her the Mockingjay pin that she brought to the Capitol when she was in the first Hunger Games. In the first book, when Katniss meets Rue for the first time in the games she decides trusts Katniss because she is wearing the Mockingjay pin. This began to show that the Mockingjay is a sign of trust. In Catching Fire Katniss and the new head game maker, Plutrach Heavensbee, are dancing when Plutrach pulls out his watch "...and for just a moment an image  appears, glowing as if lit by candlelight. It's another mockingjay. Exactly like the pin on my dress. Only this one disappears. He snaps the watch closed." (P.83) This gesture was to show that Pultrach was trustworthy and part of the rebellion as well. In the same book Haymitch (Katniss' Mentor) signaled to Katniss by using the Mockingjay that Finnick Odar was also part of the rebellion and someone who she could trust as well. Through out the series the Mockingjay is used as a sign of trust and sign of rebellion.          



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Significance Of

Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010. Print.


Significant Elements
1. The Mockingjay
2. District 13

The Mockingjay is significant to the story because they are a sign of the rebellion. When the Capitol created the Jabberjay they meant for that bird to go back and forth form the rebels to the Capitol in order to repeat every word back to the Capitol. When the rebels had found out about the secret of the Jabberjay the rebels feed false information to the bird. The Capitol then for the birds useless and freed them into the wild where the would mate with mockingbirds to create the Mockingjay, a bird that the Capitol never meant to make. Mockingjay's were never supposed to exist so they are a sign of rebellion. Katniss has now agreed to be the Mockingjay, the sign of rebellion. "I take deep breath. My arms rise slightly-as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me- then come to rest at my sides. 'I'm going to be the Mockingjay' " (31)

District 13 is also siginificant to the story becuase it shows the lies and deals that the Capitol has made since the dark days. In Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins we are told, by the Capitol, that District 13 was destroyed in the first rebellion and all that was left of the district was ruins from when the bombs were dropped on them. But District 13 still does exsit, but it is operational underground. The Capitol made a deal with District 13 that the Capitol would let them operate freely without and disturbances in exchange District 13 would not drop any necluear bombs on the Capitol. The Capitol then lied to the nation of Panem and said that District 13 was destroyed by the bombs and that there was nothing left to create another district from in order to keep the deal with District 13. "To have a new home at all is seen as a wonder since, up until a short time ago, we hadn't even known that District 13 still existed."        

 

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