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Post got removed before for speculating about future books, so I’m reposting as just a general observation, throughout the whole series district 2 is really commonly featured as a foil for 12/generally given some extra attention despite having no real main characters (with the exception of SOTR)

In the first book, Cato and Clove are set as the foil to the star crossed lovers, Katniss’s narration features them heavily from the first time she sees them in the reaping recap (mostly Cato) and she views Cato as her only true opponent and his death is the one that plagues both her and Peeta’s nightmares the most.

In catching fire, Brutus and Enobaria are again given a moment in the narration when Katniss watches the old games, the reaping recaps, and Brutus’s games are what Peeta is watching when she joins him in the train car before watching Haymitch’s games. Brutus is also what draws Peeta off from the lightning tree and causes him to miss the rendezvous point.

In Mockingjay, a large portion of the book is spent on Katniss’s time in 2. There’s the sequence of her and Gale there, the time spent discussing the Nut, Lyme as a victor and rebel leader, and her exchange with the miner before she gets shot on live television. It functions for me as the emotional core of the book that propels us into the endgame. 2 is literally framed as the last obstacle before bringing down the capitol, or in Katniss’s eyes killing Snow.

In ballad we explore the implications of how 2 came to be in the capitols pocket, but they certainly aren’t yet. It’s made very clear by all of the Plinths that they are not just in the capitol because of the wealth, they are so hated in 2 that they could probably never hope to go back. The video I watched (by Megan Talks on tt) argued that this could allude to a very direct betrayal by Strabo that might have changed the tide in the war significantly. Marcus makes it his hill to literally die on that he will not accept anything from Sejanus, and the 10th games kick off with his body crucified on the goal post in the arena. Sejanus functions as a foil to Coriolanus throughout the book, with S as the Lockean philosophy and C as the Hobbesian. There’s a lot more to their relationship but in the interest of keeping things somewhat concise I’ll end on the point that Coriolanus is then adopted by the Plinths and arguably learns some of his manipulation tactics he uses later from Strabo’s example.

There’s no major focus on 2 in sunrise that I recall but that could be a point of its own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TLDR: district 2 gets a lot of narrative attention that I don’t think people notice

I know it’s a pretty popular opinion that if SC does a third prequel book like so many think she might that it’s going to center on Plutarch or Finnick or Tigris, but after seeing a video someone made about how Strabo Plinth probably had a big hand in the rebels losing the first rebellion, I think if there is another book coming it might center on district 2.

In the first book, Cato and Clove are set as the foil to the star crossed lovers, Katniss’s narration features them heavily from the first time she sees them in the reaping recap (mostly Cato) and she views Cato as her only true opponent and his death is the one that plagues both her and Peeta’s nightmares the most.

In catching fire, Brutus and Enobaria are again given a moment in the narration when Katniss watches the old games, the reaping recaps, and Brutus’s games are what Peeta is watching when she joins him in the train car before watching Haymitch’s games. Brutus is also what draws Peeta off from the lightning tree and causes him to miss the rendezvous point.

In Mockingjay, a large portion of the book is spent on Katniss’s time in 2. There’s the sequence of her and Gale there, the time spent discussing the Nut, Lyme as a victor and rebel leader, and her exchange with the miner before she gets shot on live television. It functions for me as the emotional core of the book that propels us into the endgame. 2 is literally framed as the last obstacle before bringing down the capitol, or in Katniss’s eyes killing Snow.

In ballad we explore the implications of how 2 came to be in the capitols pocket, but they certainly aren’t yet. It’s made very clear by all of the Plinths that they are not just in the capitol because of the wealth, they are so hated in 2 that they could probably never hope to go back. The video I watched (by Megan Talks on tt) argued that this could allude to a very direct betrayal by Strabo that might have changed the tide in the war significantly. Marcus makes it his hill to literally die on that he will not accept anything from Sejanus, and the 10th games kick off with his body crucified on the goal post in the arena. Sejanus functions as a foil to Coriolanus throughout the book, with S as the Lockean philosophy and C as the Hobbesian. There’s a lot more to their relationship but in the interest of keeping things somewhat concise I’ll end on the point that Coriolanus is then adopted by the Plinths and arguably learns some of his manipulation tactics he uses later from Strabo’s example.

There’s no major focus on 2 in sunrise that I recall but that could be a point of its own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TLDR: I think it’s highly possible that if Suzanne Collin’s writes a third prequel book to round out the series it could center on district 2

Well after six months of chemo my dad is going into surgery tomorrow May 15th at 5:15 in the morning. Six months of chemo resulting in 70% reduction of a tumor on his sigmoid colon and 20% reduction of a liver met, and now they’re going to go ahead and cut em out. If anyone has some words of advice or comfort I would really appreciate it. I know they wouldn’t cut if they didn’t think it was the right thing to do, but I can’t help being scared something terrible will happen. Love to all of you and yours, keep us in your thoughts if you’ve got the space <3 just had to get this out somewhere to people who understand.

Has anyone here talked about how s1e9 Ricky was prepared to kill a man over illegal fish trading? Badass and honestly she should’ve cooked his ass