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Katniss returns to her room, puts the rose in water, and tries to take in everything that Snow has told her. She tries to figure out if Snow is still trying to mess with her head or if District Thirteen indeed did target the children purposely. She knows that Snow would have escaped if he could, she knows that District Thirteen had the same bombs that were used in the parachutes, and she knows that Coin did indeed sacrifice the other districts’ safety for her own hope of becoming president.
Katniss then realizes that Prim was too young to have been on the battlefield helping others. Somebody, like Coin, must have allowed her to be there. Perhaps, Coin used Prim as bait to get Katniss out. Perhaps, Coin really did want Katniss dead so that she didn’t have to worry about Katniss promoting somebody else for president when elections came about.
Katniss turns to Haymitch for help in sorting all of her thoughts out. She finds him drunk, as usual. Katniss is not in the right mind-set to deal with a drunken Haymitch, so she leaves him and she tries to comfort herself with a morphling pill instead. She slumbers to sleep in a wardrobe.
When she’s found, Haymitch has her take a bath. While bathing, Flavius, Venia, and Octavia pay her a visit to dress her up. She realizes that the time has probably come for her to make as an appearance as the Mockingjay. The time has probably come for her to kill Snow.
Before long, Katniss has to get ready to transform into the Mockingjay for the crowds. She is surprised to encounter the remaining members of her old prep team who have come to help her get ready. Her biggest surprise, though, is a visit from Effie. Effie had been locked up too. Now, she appears before Katniss ready to give her scheduling orders again.
Effie exits to make sure everything is running smoothly and the prep team gets Katniss ready.
After a little bit, Gale comes along to pay Katniss a visit. He brings a sheath that holds one arrow. It’s to be the arrow that kills Snow.
One burning question has been driving Katniss insane. She wonders if a type of bomb that Gale and Beetee created was used in the parachutes that killed Primrose. She asks Gale about it and he admits that he doesn’t know if it was their bomb that killed little Prim.
Katniss, eventually, finds herself in a room with all of the remaining victors from the Games. None of them know what is going on. Coin enters and describes how all the living victors are free thanks to a deal Katniss made: her support in exchange for their well-being.
Coin goes onto describe why they are all there. They are there to vote on a potential new Hunger Games in which the descendants of those who lived in the Capitol become the tributes. This way, the Capitol’s citizens can be punished and lives can be spared. Instead of killing all of the Capitol’s citizens for their crimes, their children would bear the burden of their parents’ misdeeds. The new Hunger Games will only occur with the approval of all of the surviving victors.
The vote begins. Johanna and Enoria are quick to vote yes. Beetee and Peeta are just as quick to vote no. Katniss thinks of all the lives lost and she votes yes. Haymitch agrees with Katniss with a yes vote.
Next, Katniss is whisked away outside where Snow has been hauled out. She is to use her arrow to pierce Snow through his heart. The white rose that Katniss picked earlier is now pinned on Snow’s jacket right at his heart.
Katniss looks at Snow as she readies her bow. His facial expression looks the same as it always has. It is then that Katniss realizes that Snow was not lying about the parachute attack. It indeed must have been orchestrated by Coin. With this thought in mind, Katniss uses the arrow to shoot Coin.
MOCKINGJAY -- CHAPTER 26
BROWSE CONTENTS
by Suzanne Collins
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