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hello beloveds ☺️

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Suzanne Collins is one of the few contemporary writers who realizes the importance of names in her stories and the significance they bear. They add so many layers to the story, additional meanings that otherwise would not have existed.

The original trilogy:

Katniss: named after a plant of which you can eat the roots. Her father taught her where to find it and told her that “as long as you can find yourself, you’ll survive” (quote may be a little bit off, but it’s from one of the early chapters in THG). Additionally, the leaves are in the shape of an arrowhead, referencing her skills with the bow which her father also taught her how to use.

Peeta: literally bread lmao. But bread is one of the basic nutritions humans need, a little bit goes a long way to keep you alive. Peeta’s presence in Katniss’s life also kept her alive, literally and figuratively—the burned bread he threw her in the flashback and their complicated relationship.

Primrose: a plant with medicinal purposes, even more significant in light of her work as a medic in Mockingjay.

Gale: literally means “strong wind” and considering that in every encounter with Katniss he’s caused some reaction, he pulls her into directions she maybe initially doesn’t want to go in. Additionally, his name also represents his determination and steadfastness in his beliefs.

TBOSAS

Lucy Gray: named after William Wordsworth’s poem “Lucy Gray” which is about the titular character of the poem who got lost during a blizzard. She literally got lost in snow. Rachel Zegler sang this poem in two parts on the original soundtrack of the movie. When Snow asked who the girl in the song is, Lucy answers that she’s a mystery, just like her.

Snow: aside from the obvious snow references, I think his name is most significant in relation to Lucy and the poem. The only one who knows what caused her disappearance is Snow. He is the reason that Lucy is gone. But her traces in the snow are still visible. He will always remember her because the memory of Lucy has manifested itself in every part of his life.

Coriolanus: named after the Roman general (and also the titular character of Shakespeare’s play), Coriolanus wanted to attack Rome and become its ruler. He was scorned and celebrated by the people, only to be later exiled from the city by them. In TBOSAS, Coriolanus is the star pupil at the Capitol’s academy but sent into exile to the districts after he won the Games with Lucy through cheating.

Volumnia: Coriolanus mother who played a part in his ascent to power. In TBOSAS, she almost serves like a mentor to Coriolanus, teaching him how to think in terms of power.

(Edit) Sejanus: a roman soldier who was betrayed by the roman emperor Tiberius, just like the future president betrayed him.

(Edit) Plinth: got this info from here, but it was too good not to include here. A plinth is a base for a statue or vase to stand on. After Sejanus’s death, all of the Plinth fortune was given to Snow for being such a good to friend him. It was this money that skyrocketed the Snow family from poverty to filthy rich. The Plinth money was the foundation upon which Snow built his power.

There are so many other names that have historical (mostly Roman and Greek) connotations—Plutarch, Seneca, Cinna—but also regular names like Trinket and Beetee bear meanings that represent the character beautifully.

Names are important. For any lover of literature or (aspiring) writers, please look closely at them. They can shape your story into something unique.

Feel free to correct me if I’ve said something wrong. I know there are many names missing, but I can only add so many examples ✊🏻😔

#names #thg #I never thought about it like that thsnks for the analysis op :)

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I have no words.

Scope, a charity for disabled people, have created a petition. sign it here:

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Really fucking curious how much will be on these vouchers that Rishi Sunak think can replace actual cash for anyone on disability benefits, let alone if they'll be limited to certain places or to certain items, since we all know he wants it fucking clear how much he hates disabled people.

#anti rishi sunak #uk politics #Like how is that gonna work? #Is my landlord going to accept vouchers? Is my carer? #Like PIP is spent to help people into work #Getting adaptions and for many the bare essentials to survive #All these options are treating us like children like we don't deserve financial stability #Like if you want disabled ppl dead just do it already! Its more didnified than leaving us homeless and starving #Like how he says disabled ppl get a job then cuts access to work

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Dean Pelton when someone asks if he's gay

#community #dean pelton

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Doctor & Donna + platonic tropes

#doctor who #donna noble #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

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society is actually wrong. u can like poem and talk about it to ur friends

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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DWP disability benefit cuts will impact 450,000 people – but very few will actually find paid work https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefit-cuts-work-capability-assessment/

Why don't you just start euthanising us and be done with it 🤬 be better than starving people death or driving them to suicide...

Bastard.

#anti rishi sunak #disabilities #chronic illness #disability benefits #disability rights #atp death would genuinely be the easier and less cruel answer than the pip and sick note reforms. #fuck the tories #british politics #anti DWP #If they genuinely wanted to help stop making the right results at a tribunal #Or stop making people that are never going to get better have a light touch review #But no tories need to be cruel and infantilising instead!

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AI defenders will make it seem as if art is this gatekept pastime that only the most elite can partake in and they’re making it possible for the “normies” to create meanwhile one of the most memorable pieces of recent art I’ve ever seen is “My son’s drawing of safe”

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Read your instrument, Lyra. Ask it whether you should go to the land of the dead.

HIS DARK MATERIALS 3.03 | The Intention Craft

#hdm #lyra silvertongue #iorek byrnison #will parry #the alethiometer

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Watched too many sad finnick/odesta edits on TikTok might kms

but before I do that I was compelled to make a playlist bc of course I was

#odesta #thg #playlist

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I love how everyone in thg fandom just unanimously decided that Finnick is alive and happy with Annie and their boy. Like someone really went "Umm actually Finnick lives?" and the universal response was "Soooo true bestie you're soooo right it's actually canon!" and that's why we love it here 😌💙

#finnick odair #annie cresta #odesta #thg

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it really is insane to me how in the mid 2010s netflix had a reputation of making cool, inclusive series as well as saving tv shows after their networks cancelled them, and now here we are today with every halfway decent netflix original show getting cancelled after 1-2 seasons and a bajillion episodes of bigmouth