With this agreement set up, Katniss embarks on her duties as the Mockingjay. As another one of her conditions, Katniss ensures that Peeta will be issued a full pardon when the war is over. After watching this interview, many of the rebel leaders, including Coin, want Peeta to be tried for war crimes. In the interview, Peeta tells Caesar that he thinks the rebellion is suicidal, and that Katniss and all other rebels should throw down their weapons. One night, Katniss watches government television and sees an interview between Peeta and Caesar Flickerman, the official TV reporter of Panem. Katniss reluctantly agrees to be the Mockingjay, though she has a number of conditions-one of these conditions is that, after the rebels win the war, Katniss will be allowed to kill Coriolanus Snow herself.

With this in mind, Coin wants Katniss to be a “mascot” for the rebellion: to travel through Panem, playing the part of the “Mockingjay,” a symbol of the movement. Katniss, with her insubordination to the government, has inspired many of the districts of Panem to rebel. Katniss, Gale, and many of the former residents of District 12 now live in District 13, which is located almost entirely below the ground.ĭistrict 13 is led by President Alma Coin, a tough, often brutal leader. Gale led his people to District 13, a secret area that the government had falsely claimed to be uninhabited.

Luckily, Katniss’s lifelong friend, Gale, was able to lead many of the people of District 12 away from their home before the bombs dropped. In retaliation for Katniss’s escape, President Coriolanus Snow, the leader of the government of Panem, has bombed District 12.

Haymitch was unable to free Katniss’s friend, Peeta, another Hunger Games competitor from District 12, and as a result, Peeta is in government captivity, suspected of being a rebel. Katniss has escaped from the Hunger Games arena with the help of her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, a number of other Hunger Games competitors, and Plutarch Heavensbee, a double agent who pretended to be working for the government, but in actuality works for a secret rebel alliance dedicated to defeating the government. In the Hunger Games, competitors from each of the twelve districts of Panem compete with one another until only one person is alive. Katniss, a citizen of the futuristic country of Panem, has just escaped from a ceremony called the Hunger Games, which the government of Panem puts on every year. The novel opens with Katniss Everdeen, a young woman, standing in the ruins of her former home, known as District 12.

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