Ducks are aquatic birds, of course, contrasting the cool, calm Prim with her sister, the “girl on fire” who is both Mockingjay and Phoenix, thanks to Cinna’s amazing costumes. The bird connections here may be far more complex and meaningful than an untucked blouse, as the duck is replaced by the Mockingjay.įor one thing, it’s specifically a duck tail, rather than some other bird or animal. It’s the trigger that sends her “flying” to the platform to take Prim’s place. That’s a very poignant scene, in my mind, as Katniss is so concerned about Prim’s shirt coming untucked, what she calls a “duck tail.” At first, I thought this just a throwaway, a moment of tenderness and levity as the girls quack at each other before the Reaping, but, as I pondered it further, I noticed that it is the sight of Prim’s “duck tail” that specifically incites Katniss to volunteer. Everdeen pinning Katniss’s old Reaping outfit on Prim. Thankfully, we got it out and discarded before anyone needed a tetanus shot, but it started me thinking about Mrs. The poor thing is pretty bare in spots, and, as Isabella was patting the soft fur, she noticed an old, rusty straight pin stuck in the hem. We were doing a memorial service for Civil War soldiers on a particularly chilly evening, so I wrapped my daughter up in an old fur cape, cast off from a college theatre department, which looks charming with her 1860s garb (in our neck of the woods, we tell folks it’s bearskin, though I guess it’s mink). I wasn’t even thinking about HG, strangely. This week, however, a bird connection occurred to me that I had not pondered before, and it seems like one we might want to address. In a March post on bird images in The Hunger Games, I hit some of the highlights of bird connections with the two segments of the trilogy we have thus far, knowing that I wouldn’t get every single reference, of course, but happy to see that we had some great conversations on our feathered friends in Panem. No piece of critical writing is every truly comprehensive, covering every possible base.
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