2. The Career Districts Don’t Exist Yet During The 10th Hunger Games
Later on, a few districts are always favored to win the Hunger Games.
A significant difference between the 10th and 74th Hunger Games is that the Career districts have not emerged yet in the former. As explained in The Hunger Games, Districts 1 and 2 (and 4 in the book) train their young people beforehand, who then volunteer for the Games. These tributes tend to ally together in the early stages of the Games, and there is an overwhelming number of victors from their districts.
This dynamic has not completely taken shape in Lucy Gray’s year. Districts 1, 2, and 4 might still have more resources than the others, but it is not suggested that their tributes have been previously trained. Coral (Mackenzie Lansing), the girl from District 4, becomes the leader of a prototype of the Career pack. Her allies include her district partner Mizzen (Cooper Dillon), Treech (Hiroki Berrecloth) from District 7, and Tanner from District 10 (Kjell Brutscheidt). In the book, the tributes from 1 and 2 besides Marcus are killed trying to escape when the arena is bombed.
1. Lucy Gray Is The Only Victor Of Her Hunger Games
Katniss defies the Capitol and forces them to let Peeta live as well.
” Lucy Gray being the single victor of the 10th Hunger Games is in keeping with what the Capitol intended the Games to be. However, her survival also connotes rebellion. “
The 74th Hunger Games is the year that sets the districts’ second rebellion in motion when Katniss and Peeta threaten to end their own lives by poisoning. Rather than robbing the Capitol citizens of a victor to fawn over, the Gamemakers let both District 12 tributes live. This marks the first time in the history of the Games where there were two victors.
Lucy Gray being the single victor of the 10th Hunger Games is in keeping with what the Capitol intended the Games to be. However, her survival also connotes rebellion. Snow smuggles Lucy Gray rat poison, which gives her an unfair advantage. Specifically in the movie, Lucy Gray’s victory is accompanied by a musical performance which gives her more power over the spectators than she was ever meant to have. Ironically, the drastically different finales of Katniss and Lucy Gray’s Games in The Hunger Games Saga show how their characters are fundamentally the same.
