Varför gav Madge Katniss mockingjay pin?

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När Katniss frivilliggjorde i 74: e hungerspelet besökte hennes vän Madge, borgmästarens dotter, henne och gav henne en mockingjay-pin och var mycket insisterande på att Katniss skulle bära det i spelen:

Madge walks straight to me. She is not weepy or evasive, instead there’s an urgency about her tone that surprises me. “They let you wear one thing from your district in the arena. One thing to remind you of home. Will you wear this?” She holds out the circular gold pin that was on her dress earlier. I hadn’t paid much attention to it before, but now I see it’s a small bird in flight. “Your pin?” I say. Wearing a token from my district is about the last thing on my mind. “Here, I’ll put it on your dress, all right?” Madge doesn’t wait for an answer, she just leans in and fixes the bird to my dress. “Promise you’ll wear it into the arena, Katniss?” she asks. “Promise?” ~The Hunger Games, ch 3

Varför var det så viktigt att Madge? Visste hon att mockingjays var påminnelsen om Capitols fiasko att spionera motståndet och därmed en symbol för hoppet? De var trots allt resultatet av det misslyckade jabberjay-experimentet:

They’re funny birds and something of a slap in the face to the Capitol. During the rebellion, the Capitol bred a series of genetically altered animals as weapons. One was a special bird called a jabberjay that had the ability to memorize and repeat whole human conversations. They were homing birds, exclusively male, that were released into regions where the Capitol’s enemies were known to be hiding. After the birds gathered words, they’d fly back to centers to be recorded. It took people awhile to realize what was going on in the districts, how private conversations were being transmitted. Then, of course, the rebels fed the Capitol endless lies, and the joke was on it. So the centers were shut down and the birds were abandoned to die off in the wild. Only they didn’t die off. Instead, the jabberjays mated with female mockingbirds creating a whole new species. ~Ibid

Varför var det så viktigt att Katniss skulle bära den? Ansåg Madge att folk skulle känna igen symbolen (som Cinna och Rue gjorde) och hjälpa hennes vän?

    
uppsättning witchy 18.10.2017 17:49

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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.

(emphasis mine)

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.

    
svaret ges 18.10.2017 18:33