Theme Of Metaphors In Mockingjay

In Suzanne Collins novel Mockingjay a young woman named Katniss Everdeen, who has recently came out of the Quarter Quell, or the 75th Hunger Games, is debating whether or not she should be with between Gale and Peeta. As the book goes by, the relationship between her and Gale changes drastically and so does the relationship between Peeta and Katniss. In Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins uses metaphors, dialogue, and 1st person narrator for a bunch of different reasons, such as to create a setting, to stir empathy, or to build a mood and to support the themes and problems.
As the story opens, the author says that Katniss mentions that Prim sounds “about 1,000 years old” when she says that Snow will try to use Peeta to break Katniss on page 151. This metaphor shows how Prim has grown from the first book to be a more mature person because if someone sounds about 1,000 years old, it may sound as if they are wise because of their age and the experiences they’ve had for those 1,000 years. The metaphor “builds a mood” by saying that Prim sounds 1,000 years old, it kind of makes the mood serious instead of jokingly. Katniss thinks of Prim as a wise person because she says it out of the random, in a serious tone, a sentence that …show more content…
For example, when Katniss is speaking with Peeta in the room, on page 190, Peeta yells that Katniss is a monster and a mutt. This “builds a mood” by changing how Katniss thought the conversation was going to go. At first it was going normal and then changed completely how the conversation was going. Another part was when Katniss and Johanna were talking at page 235. Katniss describes how she felt a slight shift in her and Johanna’s relationship. This “builds a mood” by suddenly adding a bit of happiness from the previous pages. Suzanne Collins uses dialogue to building a mood to show how she speaks or how others speak and it changes the mood in the chapter or