Det kom från hennes moster som dog i Hunger Games.
Mockingjay-pinens betydelse utvidgas mycket mer i den andra boken. Först, som Katniss och Madge blir närmaste vänner lär vi oss att stiftet kom från Madge's moster:
My fingers touched the mockingjay. "Even my pin now. Mockingjays are all the rage in the Capitol, thanks to you. Are you sure you don't want it back?" I asked.
"Don't be silly, it was a gift," said Madge. She tied back her hair in a festive gold ribbon.
"Where did you get it, anyway?" I asked.
"It was my aunt's," she said. "But I think it's been in the family a long time."
Senare, när Katniss och Peeta tittar på fotografier av andra kvartalet Quell - Haymitchs Games - lär de sig att denna moster var en hyllning i spelen:
As Maysilee Donner bravely disengages herself and heads for the stage, I catch a glimpse of my mother at my age, and no one has exaggerated her beauty. Holding her hand and weeping is another girl who looks just like Maysilee. But a lot like someone else I know, too.
"Madge," I say.
"That's her mother. She and Maysilee were twins or something," Peeta says. "My dad mentioned it once."
I think of Madge's mother. Mayor Undersee's wife. Who spends half her life in bed immobilized with terrible pain, shutting out the world. I think of how I never realized that she and my mother shared this connection. Of Madge showing up in that snowstorm to bring the painkiller for Gale. Of my mockingjay pin and how it means something completely different now that I know that its former owner was Madge's aunt, Maysilee Donner, a tribute who was murdered in the arena.
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Tidigare och igen i denna passage hörde vi också om Maysilee som en vän till Katniss mor:
That was the year Haymitch won...
"I had a friend who went that year," says my mother quietly. "Maysilee Donner. Her parents owned the sweetshop. They gave me her songbird after. A canary."
[...]
"Ladies first!" She calls out the name of a girl who's from the Seam, you can tell by the look of her, and then I hear the name "Maysilee Donner."
"Oh!" I say. "She was my mother's friend." The camera finds her in the crowd, clinging to two other girls. All blond. All definitely merchants' kids.
"I think that's your mother hugging her," says Peeta quietly. And he's right.
Maysilee Donner var tvillingasyster till Madges mor, vän till Katniss mor, allierad med Haymitch i spelen. Allt kommer samman: kopplingen mellan spelen, Katniss och hennes familj, Madge, och mockingjay pin. Det var inte en symbol på upproret vid den tiden - det blev en enda på grund av sin anslutning till Katniss i hennes första spel - men det är kanske passande att det borde ha gjort det.