![]() But to his surprise, 16-year-old Lucy Gray Baird proves a hit. Coriolanus is disappointed upon being paired with the girl from District 12-as readers of The Hunger Games may note, the district from which protagonist Katniss Everdeen hails-considered the last and “most backward” of the 12. For this year’s Games, the Capitol tasks its students with mentoring the tributes in an attempt to boost viewership and reinforce their power. ![]() Part 1, “The Mentor,” opens with Coriolanus Snow preparing for a reaping, the day in which Capitol representatives select the Hunger Games’ 24 tributes. Coriolanus and his cousin Tigris live with their grandmother whom the latter calls “Grandma’am.” While the novel can be read as a coming-of-age story, it also serves as an origin story, recounting a seemingly ordinary individual’s transition to villainy. The Snows, once wealthy and powerful, are practically no more after the deaths of Coriolanus’s mother and military father, the latter killed during the districts’ failed rebellion. ![]() ![]() The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes details the Tenth Annual Hunger Games as Coriolanus Snow turns 18 and worries about his future. ![]()
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