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Collins was interviewed recently at the offices of Scholastic Inc., her long, blond hair parted in the middle, wearing a pendant with the "Hunger Games" icon, a golden winged hybrid – a mockingjay – clutching an arrow in its beak.
How Has 'Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins' Life Changed? 2010
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Collins was interviewed recently at the offices of Scholastic Inc., her long, blond hair parted in the middle, wearing a pendant with the "Hunger Games" icon, a golden winged hybrid – a mockingjay – clutching an arrow in its beak.
How Has 'Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins' Life Changed? 2010
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Educating Alice describes what it was like when the envelope with the mockingjay on it arrived in the mail. jealous jealous jealous… ...
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So I came home earlier this week to a package with a mockingjay on the cover.
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So I came home earlier this week to a package with a mockingjay on the cover.
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So I came home earlier this week to a package with a mockingjay on the cover.
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Ms. Collins 'sacramental references, e.g., the wafer with mockingjay impression the refugees from District 8 show Katniss, her scriptural references, and her story transparencies from Christian history - most notably "the boy with the bread" and his serial sacrificial deaths and resurrections - all make me think we'll be seeing more of the same in
Hogwarts Professor 2010
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As both child of the Seam, the earth, and, simultaneously, queen of song and heavens as the mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen becomes the heroic hermaphrodite and joins center and periphery, Capitol and districts, into a harmonious unity as the surviving servant of
Hogwarts Professor 2010
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I suppose Maysilee Donner could be the mockingjay leader person - it's obvious Haymitch isn't.
Hogwarts Professor John 2010
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A heroine arises from these circumstances - an unintended but inevitable consequence of the Capitol's "system" just as the mockingjay was of their genetic engineering - who chooses against all odds and personal advantage to speak truth to power.
Hogwarts Professor 2010
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