The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesanswers a few questions about Katniss ' later narration , but it also creates some challenging mysteries . Though center on a young President Coriolanus Snow , theHunger Gamesprequel also introduces a District 12 girl who has quite a destiny in vernacular with Katniss Everdeen . Lucy Gray is different in personality and mental attitude from the female child who would become the Mockingjay , but they both share a cryptical knowledge of eatable plants and euphony , andThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakessuggests that this is because of a share sept connector . Still , there are some problem with this .
Throughout Snow ’s fourth dimension in District 12 inBallad of Songbirds and Snakes , we see several conversant features ofThe Hunger Games . The Hob , which was a position that Katniss would trade in the original series , is where Lucy Gray Baird and the other Covey penis would do , and the lake in the woods where Katniss ' father used to take her to swim as a kid is bring out to have been a secret lam for the musical Covey tenner earlier . Even Katniss ' name has a connectedness to Lucy Gray sinceshe was seemingly the only one in District 12 who knew this was what the swamp Solanum tuberosum surrounding the lake were forebode . However , theBallad of Songbirds and Snakesmoviemakes this point puzzling .
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes explore the earth of Panem before Katniss Everdeen but will there be a sequel to the prequel ?
How Did Katniss Get Her Name After Lucy Gray Disappeared?
TheHunger Gamesmovies never advert where Katniss ' name come up from , so theBallad of Songbirds and Snakesfilm was the first that katniss roots were note on screen . Lucy Gray told Snow about the edible swamp white potato and tell she prefer to call the katniss . This would , of course , suffer out to audiences since this was the name of the girl who would go on to be President Snow ’s downfall . However , sinceLucy Gray implies that others seldom call these tubers katniss , it ’s surprising that Katniss Everdeen would receive her name nearly 50 old age after .
The lake near District 12 was far beyond where the citizens were permitted to go , so the Covey were the only ones during the upshot ofThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeswho knew about its location . to boot , scrounge was illegal , and by Katniss ' day , she and Gale were among the few in the District with enough knowledge to do it safely . Since Lucy Gray vanish atthe end ofThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , it seems that the info about katniss plant would have disappeared with her . However , Suzanne Collins’Hunger Gamesbooks , includingBallad of Songbirds and Snakesprovided several more hints about how this hidden plant became Katniss ' namesake .
Maude Ivory Could Be How Katniss Gets Her Name In The Hunger Games
In theBallad of Songbirds and Snakesmovie , Lucy Gray say only Snow about the name she liked to call swampland spud , but that was n’t necessarily the casein paint the Good Book , where Maude Ivory was a far more prevalent character . The small lady friend was to Lucy Gray what Prim was to Katniss — someone she feel responsible for for keeping alive . Therefore , anything Lucy Gray get laid about survival would have been passed on to her fellow Covey fellow member . Though Snow ’s lover bequeath District 12 and disappeared always , Maude Ivory was still there , and it ’s intemperately implied in the books that she had a connection to Katniss .
Katniss ' father was the only otherHunger Gamescharacter besides Katniss who knew about the lake near District 12 . It was the only wetland in the region and , therefore , the only spot the katniss plant could acquire . Since he knew this exceptional name for the edible tubers , Katniss ' Padre must have known Maude Ivory or was at least her desendent . This is never confirmed in either theBallad of Songbirds and SnakesorHunger Gamesbooks , but givenLucy Gray ’s fade and possible death , it ’s the most viable answer for how Covey knowledge , such as the name of swampland potatoes , lasted through the class all the way to Katniss .
Lucy Gray Herself Could Still Return After The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes
Maude Ivory is tell to have a nigh - stark memory inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , particularly for Song dynasty , and this entropy would only be relevant to reader if it were mean to suggest that she was responsible for the continuation of Lucy Gray ’s noesis . However , since the prequel story never reveals precisely what pass off to Snow ’s buff , it ’s always potential that she finally returned to District 12 . Lucy Gray even told Snow that she did n’t cerebrate she had it in her to extend away and that she would finally return to the Covey . Possibly , after survive in the woods , she would have return after enough clip had passed that no one would call up her .
If this were the lawsuit , it might have been Lucy Gray who give-up the ghost on the noesis of her secret lake and katniss roots to Katniss ' father . There are eventheories afterThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesthat Lucy Gray was Greasy Sae , the onetime woman who took Katniss under her backstage inThe Hunger Games . However , if this were honest , then all the study Collins did in the book to set up Maude Ivory as a character would have been for nothing . Additionally , the whole point of Lucy Gray ’s conclusion is that , regardless of whether she lived or died , she was liberal from Panem ’s oppression ( just like in " The Hanging Tree Song " ) . take back to District 12 could belie this .
The Ballad Of Songbird & Snakes Missed Opportunities To Connect Katniss To The Covey
The only fashion Katniss ' begetter could have learned " The Hanging Tree Song"—or about the plant that would inspire Katniss ' name — would have been through a connection with the Covey .
The mystery of Katniss ' name is far less equivocal intheBallad of Songbirds and Snakesbook than in the moviesince theHunger Gamesbooks had already give that Katniss ' sire possessed a rarified sympathy of the eatable plant life and the locations fence in District 12 . Since the prequel novel explain that only the Covey own this kind of noesis 50 years before Katniss ' day , it ’s discernible that Mr. Everdeen hadsomeconnection to Lucy Gray ’s people , though what exactly this connection is was only implied . unluckily , theHunger GamesandThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesmovies missed the opportunity to work these links .
Another example of howThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesdropped the ball regarding Katniss ' association to Lucy Gray is " The Hanging Tree Song . " In The Hunger Games Bible , Katniss explains that the song was banned in District 12 and that her father teach it to her . In theBallad of Songbirds and Snakesbook , it ’s reveal that right away after Lucy Gray ’s disappearance , when she had only perform the song one prison term , Commander Hoff banned it and discontinued the Covey ’s performances at the Hob . This means that the only style Katniss ' Father of the Church could have learned " The Hanging Tree Song"—or about the works that would inspire Katniss ' name — would have been through a connexion with the Covey . Unfortunately , this impingement was nearly exclusively lose inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesmovie .
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The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel movie set 64 years before the consequence of the original movie with Katniss Everdeen . The film center on a young Coriolanus Snow ( Tom Blyth ) and shows his rise to power as the leader of Panem . take place during the 10th Hunger Games , Snow is task with mentoring Lucy Gray Baird ( Rachel Zegler ) , the tribute from District 12 .
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel movie set 64 years before the events of the original movie with Katniss Everdeen. The film centers on a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and shows his rise to power as the leader of Panem. Taking place during the 10th Hunger Games, Snow is tasked with mentoring Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the tribute from District 12.
