Study Guide - Mockingjay: The Hunger Games - Book Three (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is full of characters and plots; if you need help keeping track of it all, then this can help. The perfect companion to Suzanne Collins' "Mockingjay: The Hunger Games - Book One," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BookCaps
• Release date: Dec 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465841636

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Suzanne Collins’

Mockingjay

The Hunger Games – Book Three

Golgotha Press

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© 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

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Historical Context

Suzanne Collins was born in Connecticut in 1962. In the 1990’s, she wrote from some children’s TV shows on the Nickelodeon network. While working on a kids’ show called Generation O! she met writer James Proimos who inspired her to start writing children’s novels. Her first novel, Gregor the Overlander was the first in a series of critically acclaimed books known as the Underland Chronicles and was inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

The Underland Chronicles were published between 2003 and 2007, and they earned Collins notoriety in the literary world. In 2008 The Hunger Games was published as the first book in a trilogy that was followed up by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010); the trilogy has been wildly successful.

Collins’ idea for the books of the Hunger Games series came from watching reality television, reading war coverage, and influencing from the times of gladiator battles. The world of Panem, where the novels take place, is a dystopian society in the future where all of the districts in which people are dictated by the President who lives in the Capitol; a place far different from the poor districts which exist solely to provide goods for those who live in the Capitol. Every year the Capitol takes two teenagers from each district as tributes to compete in the Hunger Games, a gladiator-type reality show where only one tribute comes back alive. Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the series, begins a battle against the Capitol that propels itself to a catastrophic degree in an effort to live a life of freedom.

Plot

After being rescued from the Quarter Quell by a District 13 hovercraft Katniss has learned that District 12 has been destroyed and Peeta has been taken by the Capitol. Katniss is taken to District 13, where she is amazed to learn of the underground world that has existed in District 13 ever since the district was supposedly destroyed and is being led by its own president, President Coin.

District 13 Katniss finds it hard to focus on the strict schedule she is given and her task as the Mockingjay, the face of the rebellion, because she is too worried about Peeta. As the Capitol begins airing interviews with an increasingly lifeless Peeta, Katniss becomes even more worried about him, and it fuels her desire to contribute to the rebellion.

Katniss, Finnick, and Gale film television spots that Beetee manages to interrupt Capitol broadcasts with and they visit the other districts that are in various stages of rebellion so Katniss, the Mockingjay, can give them hope. After Peeta tips Katniss off about an attack on television District 13 decides to rescue him and to hide further underground. To Katniss’ dismay Peeta has been brainwashed by the Capitol and not only distrusts her when arrives in