The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesgives context to what happens during the events ofThe Hunger Games , but the theories that have stemmed from the prequel change everything . If any of these theories are true , they give deeper and darker motivations to President Snow ’s actions duringThe Hunger Gamestrilogyand make Katniss ' ( Jennifer Lawrence ) fate seem even more like destiny . Many speculations revolve around what encounter to Lucy Gray Baird after the end ofBallad of Songbirds and Snakes .
Told from the perspective of a young Coriolanus Snow ( Tom Blyth ) , the prequel follows the events of the 10th Hunger Games , and the testimonial , Lucy Gray Baird ( Rachel Zegler ) that Coriolanus mentors . They quickly form a pixilated bond , and their lives become irreversibly intertwined , but in the remainder , it ’s Coriolanus ' betrayal and thirst for might that makes him into the President Snow ( Donald Sutherland ) ofThe Hunger Games . There ’s no motion thatwithout the events of the 10th Hunger Games , Katniss would n’t have become the Mockingjay .
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ends ambiguously for one major quality . We break down the prequel ’s ending & what ’s next .
10Lucy Gray Baird Is President Alma Coin’s Mother
She gives birth after escaping to District 13
Whether or not Coriolanus is Coin ’s ( Julianne Moore ) father is up for disputation , butthe timeline does match up for Lucy Gray to be her female parent . Both of them are the veracious ages to be mother and child in the events of the books . If Lucy Gray lived after running from Coriolanus in the woods at the end ofBallad , she may have escape to District 13 .
There she would have conform to someone , fell in love , and had a child who grow up to be President Coin , explain Coin ’s thick hatred of President Snow and The Capitol . If Lucy Gray discovered she was significant after get away and Coriolanus was her father , it would explain the unaccented eyes and hairsbreadth of Coin ’s appearance . This would connect Coin ’s knowledge of District 12 and desire for power directly to the events ofBallad .
9Maude Ivory Is Katniss Everdeen’s Grandmother
Making Katniss a relative and descendant of Lucy Gray
Maude Ivory is a pocket-size part of both the film and the book but is a penis of the Covey , and Lucy Gray ’s full cousin . The Covey are the peregrine singers that Lucy Gray is part ofwho terminate up trap in District 12 after the state of war . InBallad , Maude Ivory is picture to bang music and see the name " Katniss " from Lucy Gray , as well as the lyric to her other song . If Maude Ivory later impart birth to Katniss ' mother or father , this would explain her cognition of the songs and her name . Additionally , Maude Ivory had light-haired fuzz and blue eyes , two traits that Katniss ' sister Prim inherit .
8Lucy Gray Became Greasy Sae
Returning to District 12 after leaving Coriolanus in the woods
Greasy Sae is a much with child part of the Scripture than in the movies and is shown to be an ally to Katniss in many way throughout the narration . She is a mainstay of the black marketplace , the Hob , in District 12,and is afterwards chosen to be on President Coin ’s little council inMockingjay . If Lucy Gray decide to return to 12 after a few years and change her name and appearance , it ’s plausible that no one would recognize her . Few multitude remembered the events of the 10th Games because the Capitol never re - transmit them . As Greasy Sae , Lucy Gray would have been in Katniss ' Hunger Games all along .
7Tigris Turned Her Back On Coriolanus Snow Because of Finnick’s Games
Because she saw herself in Finnick
It ’s connote in theBalladnovel that Tigris used gender oeuvre as a way to get solid food and resource for her and Coriolanus during their metre of poverty after the war . After the events ofBallad , Tigris became a hairstylist for the Games , and it ’s possible that she was involved at the clock time of Finnick ’s ( Sam Claflin ) Games . Finnick was only fourteen when he won his Games but was forced into sex work by The Capitol not long after that . Witnessing Finnick have similar maltreatment because of Snow after already have sympathy for the Districts would be enough to make Tigris well-chosen to see Snow dead inMockingjay – Part 2 .
6Lucy Gray and Coriolanus Are Katniss' Great Grandparents
But Snow doesn’t know
Unlike the theory that Katniss is related to Maude Ivory , this placesKatniss as the unmediated descendant of both Lucy Gray and Snow . If Snow was aware of this connection , it would make his actions all the more despicable . However , it seems more likely that he is merely reminded of Lucy Gray by Katniss , and that ’s why he hat her so much .
Lucy Gray pay parentage to Snow ’s small fry in 12 and that small fry later being a parent to Katniss ' mother or father is a more plausible timeline than Lucy Gray being her grandmother or mother . The two subversive apportion many traits , but it ’s up for argument whether this is genetic science or the reality of living under an tyrannical regime . Being so closely connected to Lucy Gray would only make Katniss ' victory even more exultant and Snow ’s spiral into subversion more tragical .
5Lucy Gray Is President Coin
She will stop at nothing to get revenge on Snow
Instead of being Coin ’s mother , some theories point to Lucy Gray becoming President Coin if she get by to District 13 afterBallad . For this to be true , she would have to have used the sophisticated technology of 13 to slow her ageing and have in full committed herself to the track of revenge . Coin turns out to have the same corrupt desire for great power as Snow , and to be as pitiless a dictator . Though Lucy Gray ’s past with Snow cart track with Coin ’s hate of him , Lucy Gray never require to be a drawing card or to enact violence , she only wanted to be free .
Katniss may have had her center on President Snow , but President Coin was the true baddie of The Hunger Games . gratefully , Katniss noticed the clues .
4Tigris Was Inspired By Lucy Gray In Creating Capitol Fashion
She used it to secretly undermine Snow all along
It ’s clear by the ending ofBalladthat although Tigris and Snow are still family , she ’s start to see him in a different Light Within and is growing untrusting of what he will become . Her fears and suspicion were easy affirm over the years , and that could have led to Tigris retaliate in the only mode she could . Tigris was a stylist for the Games and part of a powerful Capitol family .
Through this , she used her influence to create the colorful and flamboyant fashion that was all the rageby the clock time of Katniss ' Hunger Games . When Lucy Gray appeared in rainbows and medallion it was hardly the style of the sentence , but Tigris may have weave her memory and vogue into the textile of the Capitol to subtly penalize Snow . Though the memory of Lucy Gray and her Games was largely erased by the Capitol , Tigris was too kind to let her disappear for honest .
3Lucy Gray Died In The Woods
Or disappeared into legend
Though not the most playfulness possibility , it ’s plausible thatLucy Gray plainly died that day in the Wood when she attempt to escape from Coriolanus . Or , sometime after that , when she was experience in the wood by herself . It would have been unmanageable to find District 13 or secretly reenter District 12 on her own , and while she knew how to live off the land , it ’s a hard life sentence to have .
Part of what drives Snow screwball is the mystery of what happen to her , and if she died alone and in obscureness she would forever remain that mystery . It would also signify that her memory and legacy were brawny enough on their own to be clear on to Katniss through the tradition of 12 . Or , perhaps she was still out there go well into one-time age and outlive in the Natalie Wood all those eld .
2Snow Was The Head Gamemaker In The First Quarter Quell
To solidify the legacy of the Hunger Games
When Snow returned to the Capitol after being a Peacekeeper in District 12 , Dr. Gaul ( Viola Davis ) hold him under her annexe and had him work on the Games . InBallad , Snow is depict to be a giving part of bringing newfangled elements to the Games , like reckon and sending parachutes to the tributes in the stadium . Snow would have been in his early 30s at the time of the 25th Hunger Games , andhe was being groomed to become Head Gamemaker ahead of time on . Due to this , he could have made his mark on what the Quarter Quell would represent , and the events ofCatching Firefrom the very first .
1Snow Planned For Prim’s Name To Get Called At The Reaping
He knew who Katniss was all along
Another angle of the theory that Katniss and Prim are descendant of Lucy Gray , is that Snow was aware of this the whole time . He purposely planted Prim ’s name to be promise at the reapingfor the 74th Hunger Games to finish Lucy Gray ’s lineage . Prim ’s name was only in the reaping bowl once , so there was a very svelte chance of her being called without there being something louche going on behind the scenes .
InBallad of Songbirds and Snakes , Lucy Gray ’s name is called by the Mayor of District 12 on purpose to punish her . This would be an intriguing parallel between the 10th and 74th Hunger Games . In doing this , Snow would have inadvertently sealed his portion of being overthrown by Katniss and losing controller of Panem .
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