Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes: What Hunger Games' Prequel Title Means
Warning: Spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follow.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has a title that might be confusing to anyone who hasn't read the book. Set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, the prequel follows an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow through education, power grabs, love, and loss. Riddled throughout his story are references to songbirds and snakes — and what each means to Snow individually and to the world at large.
The Battle of Songbirds and Snakes is a Hunger Games prequel that tells a story from the youth of President Snow, the villain of the original trilogy. It shows his humble beginnings, struggle to rise in class, and his love for a young woman named Lucy Gray Baird, a traveling performer who has a lovely voice and has been chosen as District 12's tribute for the 10th Hunger Games. During the course of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Snow has to make tough decisions that inform the character he will eventually become in The Hunger Games trilogy.
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Both songbirds and snakes permeate the Hunger Games prequel. Snow reflects on his hatred of the Mockingjay, it being a symbol in his mind for a lack of order and discipline — traits he despises in spite of his affection for Lucy, who embodies them as a traveling performer. Lucy Gray is thematically a songbird who has a noted affinity for snakes, which is probably a good thing given her obvious affection for Coriolanus Snow and his more snakish tendencies.
Songbirds embody beauty, freedom, and innocence. They fly on the wind, untethered from the earth and its concerns. They can see the larger picture. Snakes stand —
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