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This is lore question thanks … he is a baker and he turns into a rock ??? Is it grey bread in him maybe ? How did he does this

This is brought to you by sleep deprivation and just finishing my first year of college after reading the hunger games for the first time.

I have been thinking about this way too much so please humor me.

Okay so wasp venom has shown to exhibit potent antimicrobial activity. While it is highly toxic it is possible to reverse its toxicity while preserving and even enhancing its antibacterial properties.

Some wasp venom compounds, as proteins or peptides, could bind specifically to cancer cell membranes.

Tracker Jackers are super wasps.

Would it be possible, to use tracker jacker venom to cure cancer?

I may have missed something in the books, but I only remember the peacekeeper saying his name is “Arlo something”. when did it say his last name was Arlo Chance? I didnt see any connection between Arlo and Woodbine.

As we know from sotr, the capitol ships the dead tributes back in a box to their district, but do they clean the bodies up?

Take wellie for example: she got decapitated by silka, did the capitol just restitch her head to her body and send it back? Or did they just send the body and head separately in the same box?

Or Cato, did they heal whatever was left of him? Did his family just get a piece of meat in a box?

Even maysilee, did they stitch up her throat wound and send it back?

Think about it: we knew the name of the victor of the 50th Games outright—Katniss tells us it was Haymitch in Catching Fire. If the 25th Games had gone off without a hitch, I feel like we would have known more about that victor as well. It would have been mentioned in Catching Fire, and Katniss would almost certainly have had the recording of the 25th Games. Why wouldn’t Effie have sent it to her if it were available? Effie wanted Katniss to win. So where was that video tape? Where is the name of the 25th victor?

I’m pretty sure that if Haymitch was being brought up, Katniss would have mentioned the 25th victor too. We would have at least gotten their name. We know these events are gigantic compared to regular Games—the Capitol goes completely over the top with the theatrics, almost like the Olympics. So you’d think the victor of the 25th Games would be celebrated, especially since the 50th Games went down so terribly. That disaster likely would have elevated the 25th Games in retrospect—the first successful Quarter Quell. Why wouldn’t that be talked about more than the 50th Games?

It stands to reason that if the 25th Games went correctly, Snow would have almost certainly focused on it more. I know the Games are highly edited, but we clearly see how angry Snow can get—though ordering all that punishment for Haymitch was probably just a normal Wednesday for him. So maybe they did focus on the 25th Games, and we just don’t know.

Half of Mocking Jay part 2 was spent on a useless inconsequential mission which only resulted in Finnick dying. I thought about it towards the end of the movie but then after the movie was in a 10minute bliss period thinking of how good that series was and then I just couldn’t stop thinking about how the main plot line of that movie was useless.

Aside from that I’m just excited to read the books, worried that I won’t get the same feel as the movies because the movies had such good actors, and worried that I won’t enjoy the movies and books that don’t feature Katniss

Edit: oh yeah and the plan to sneak into the mansion by blending in with the civilians was idiotic

Edit2: fair enough that the mission being useless was the point I just wish there was some time spent/dialogue talking about it so that it wouldn’t leave a bit of an empty unaccomplished feeling

That's it. That's the post. I want to play in the arena. I want to make allies and scrounge for food and get sponsors. PLEASE suzanne! I want to be a Victor and have to deal with tense relationships in the Capitol. I want to explore the districts we've never seen PLEASEEEEE.

I don't think Gale should have died instead of Finnick.

In fact I don't think Gale should die at all, it makes it too clean for Katniss. Because all that's left is Peeta so of course she chooses him. I think it matters more that both are available and she still chooses Peeta. Not because Gale unintentionally got Prim killed. Which it was unintentional, I don't think he ever meant for his bomb idea to actually be used. He was being groomed and used by Coin. She saw an angry and troubled boy and groomed him to be her perfect soldier. Used and manipulated him.

I don't hate Gale at all, but I know he wasn't the right match for Katniss. He was too angry, too hardened and too impulsive. Peeta encouraged Katniss to stop and think about things before acting. He comforted her and didn't tell her pretty lies. She chose Peeta because he was hope, a dandelion on a spring day just after the winter thaw.

Gale was gasoline, fuel for her fire.

Peeta was calm and warmth.

I've been wondering lately how restricted life in the Districts is in terms of jobs and whatnot.

Like are people in District 12 allowed to farm?

It seems to me that on a grander self-sustaining scale this is not something the Capitol would allow since that would lead to some more independence where it comes to relying on the Capitol.

Then again at the beginning of the second book it's mentioned that there's a Harvest Festival.

We know Katniss hunts beyond the fence and that people forage. The mines seem to be the only real employer there given that nearly every (male) adult goes to work in the mines some women included. For example Ripper, the one-amed woman who sells the moonshine on the Hob is said to have lost her arms in a mining accident. I presume there's some coal processing done manually as well or so and we know that overall the merchants do have different jobs, aka the Mellarks being bakers, Katniss' mother having been from an Apothecary family.

I would assume that means there are shoemakers, maybe butchers and a grocer or so. But are there farmers? And where would they fall in the grand scheme?

There is a distinct class division in District 12 between Merchants and ppl from the Seam and that seems to be something that would be deliberately allowed by the Capitol given that division among the people would lead to more inter-district tensions and distract somewhat from united 'hate' against their overlords.

But if, say someone tried to build a self-sustaining farm or so, do you think that'd be tolerated? Or are they simply taxed super heavily?

In career Districts children/teens are said to train and I wonder if the 'stronger' indoctrination allows for more variety when it comes to jobs. I would also assume they'd live comparatively more luxuriously/wealthy than other districts with less laborious jobs. Thus there has to be more Capitol loyalty to foster the kind of dynamic that would be preferable to the Capitol to foster amicable relationships.

The farming/grain Districts like 11, I'd assume would be heavily monitored. Basically similar to slave labour or a medieval feudal dynamics where they take over the role of serfs. Working the fields that 'belong' to the Capitol and getting granted only minimal cuts of the annual harvest.

What are your thoughts on that?

The book and movie was never mentioned,what happens if the choosen person rejects the Hunger Games?.Does he get death penalty or long prison time

I am unwell the movie theater employees think I’m crazy cause I’m so sat for the movie and it’s not till November (i did in fact cry)

Spoiler tag.

I thought BOSAS was rushed, at least they took the time to explain things better than text scroll.

Especially Haymitch, we don't even know why he's on the train because they don't explain that the living victors mentor the tributes. Or why he's drunk all the time. We don't get the backstory with the bread, just shakey flashbacks. With grown ass Jennifer and Josh. They couldn't get children who at least had the same hair color as them to shoot for a day? They don't even explain why Katniss is starving very well.

And look I don't expect to be spoonfed these things, but they could have included the scenes with reading out the previous victors so they had an explanation for Haymitch and why he is drunk all the time.

Or the remaking center! That's not explained at all, and Katniss says that most people are congratulating her, but the only one who congratulates her is Effie. So it's just weird dialogue.

The shakey cam is going to give me a headache.

Again, I don't expect to be spoonfed all the information, but excluding scenes like explaining better who Haymitch is and leaving out Madge and other little details leaves the movie hard to follow if you've never read the books.

Another example is one that Jennifer Lawrence gets criticized the most for but Katniss inability to emote or at least show her emotions. In the book it's explained that she hired her emotions because she doesn't want people to take advantage of her or to realize that things aren't great at home and take her and Prim to the orphanage.

I get that they didn't have a lot of money for the first movie. So I can't blame them for leaving some things out. I just wonder if they did shoot scenes explaining Haymitch and they were cut? Because if you didn't read the books you might think that he's a Capitol Citizen or some bureaucrat assigned to District 12. And then wonder why they get stuck with a drunk who doesn't seem to care at all. In the books you understand that he does care but he is also forced to mentor kids to their deaths.

Also the Career Tributes train in a "special academy" until they're 18? Did they even actually read the book before writing the script? Why are there so many inaccuracies?

ich wär für ein Buch über Finnik aber nicht nur über die Spiele sondern auch über die Zeit danach