Among them is her friend Madge Undersee, who convinces Katniss to take her mockingjay pin as her tribute token – an object a tribute is allowed to carry to the games to boost morale.

The mockingjay featured on the cover of The Hunger Games holds an arrow in its beak, and it is attached to the ring by its wingtips and tail feathers. The classic mockingjay pin is represented by a bird carrying an arrow suspended in the center of a circle.To ensure that all gray areas on the sticky, reverse side of your circle are covered, you may want to extend your gold tape beyond the edges of the circle. Before the final version was adopted, he had submitted a design for an arrow and an alternate version of the logo that had the mockingjay's right wing pierced with a chain. Cut a square of your wax paper so that it is big enough to overlap the image of the mockingjay you will be tracing. In a deleted scene from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, President Snow explained to Plutarch Heavensbee that mockingjays were something that should never have existed, and he applied the same principle to Katniss and Peeta's joint victory. Katniss wore the pin as her token in both the 74th [1] and 75th Hunger Games [10], to represent District 12 and remind her of home.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.When Katniss first saw Madge wearing the pin, she thought that it could keep a family fed with bread for months, since it was made of finely crafted gold. After the 75th Hunger Games, wearing a mockingjay symbol in any form is considered a sign of rebellion by the Capitol — whether or not the wearer intended any harm. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. to really share who they are, what their experiences are, how they’ve changed because of certain experiences,” he says, “I want to listen.