Catching Fire Chapter 27 Quotes
Catching Fire Chapter 27 Quotes
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Quote 1
There was a plan to break us out of the arena from the moment the Quell was announced. The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it. Plutarch Heavensbee has been, for several years, part of an undercover group aiming to overthrow the Capitol. (27.28)
The whole book rests on levels and layers of manipulation – nearly all the characters associated with the Games are working some kind of strategy. But this one is deeper than most, revealing a massive, long-standing plot that turns the Capitol's Games on itself and changes the entire country of Panem.
Quote 2
It's an awful lot to take in, this elaborate plan in which I was a piece, just as I was meant to be a piece in the Hunger Games. Used without consent, without knowledge. At least in the Hunger Games, I knew I was being played with. (27.30)
It's never good to feel like you're being played, and Katniss has certainly had her share of that feeling in the Games. Now she finds out that she's been used as a pawn in two different games at the same time: the Quarter Quell and the rebels' plan to overthrow the Capitol.
Quote 3
"We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives."
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion. (27.41-42)
Katniss is the embodiment of the revolution, which needs her in order to "live." Even though she doesn't strategize with them or even realize what the revolutionaries are capable of, she's more valuable to their movement than anyone else. She provides the focal point around which the rebels can gather and grow stronger.