#district 11

Louella, a little brown Seam girl from District 12, is replaced with a tortured nameless little Brown girl from District 11.

To the Capitol, one Brown girl is the same as any other.

To white media, one brown person being included is a success, is the same as any other

To their families, their communities, the people who know them— the difference is obvious and immediate.

We are not replaceable.

Here, you have a District that is stricter than 12. While the peacekeepers in 12 shop at the Hob and turn a blind eye to Katniss's hunting, they shoot kids in District 11 for eating the food they harvest.

You have a District that has already given to much to Katniss, in spite of the Capital. They have given their children, they have given their bread. And now, they give their respect.

As promised here is my list of Covey-inspired names.

I tried to follow the typical naming convention of the first part of the name being a traditional folk poem or ballad, but I did add some names that differed from the typical names, and still fit the covey vibes. Suggestions appreciated :)

I also posted a list of shades of colors in case some people needed it!

https://www.tumblr.com/starstrucktoby/795797713663000576/color-shades

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Aldingar (Sir Aldingar) Alice (Lady Alice) Allegra (Children's Hour) Allison (Allison Gross) Amarantha (Song to Amarantha) Amoret (The Faerie Queene) Andrew (Death of Young Andrew) Angelina (Farewell Angelina) Annabel (Annabel Lee) Annachie (Annachie Gordon) Annet (Lord Thomas and Fair Annet) Annie (For Annie or Gentle Annie) April (April Come She Will) Ariel (Ariel by Sylvia Plath) Arthur (King Arthur) Augustine (The Ladder of St. Augustine)

Barbra (Barbra Allen) Benjie (Young Benjie) Bess (The Highway Man) Bill (Railroad Bill) Billy (Billy Boy) Bonny/Bonnie (‘Bonny Barbra Allen’ or ‘The Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie’) Bridget (The Banks of Newfoundland)

Carolina (Carolina in my Mind) Caroline (Sweet Caroline) Catherine (Catherine Howard’s Fate) Catskin (The Wandering Young Gentlewoman or Catskin) Cawline (Sir Cawline) Cecilia (Cecilia- Simon & Garfunkel) Celia (To Celia) Charlie (Mr Charlie) Christabel (Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Christopher (Christopher White) Clara (The Song of Maria Clara) Claribel (Claribel by Ralph Vaughn Williams) Clarinda (To the Van Morte Clarinda) Claude (Claude Allen) Clementine (Oh My Darling, Clementine) Clerk (‘Clerk Saunders’ or ‘Clerk Colvill’) Cole (Cole Younger) Corey (Darling Corey) Corinna (Corinna’s Gone A’Maying) Curtis (Ballad of Curtis Loew)

Daisy (Lady Diamond) Danny (Danny Boy) Davy (The Ballad of Davy Crockett) Delaware (Lord Delaware) Delia (Delia by Samuel Daniel) Delilah (Hey There Delilah) Delta (Delta Dawn) Donald (Ballad of Donald White) Donnie (Ballad of Donnie Gene)

Earl (‘Earl Brand’ or ‘The Earl of Westmoreland’) Edith (Children’s Hour) Edmund (The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald) Edward (Edward) Elanor (Queen Elanor’s Confession) Elise (The Famous Flower of Serving Men) Eliza (Eliza Jane) Ellen (Poor Ellen Smith) Emmeline (The Sparrows Nest-Wordsworth) Enoch (Enoch by Lord Tennyson) Erlinton (Erlinton) Estmere (King Estmere) Eulalie (Eulalie by Edgar Allen Poe) Evangeline (Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Frankie (Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest)

Gawain (The Marriage of Sir Gawain) Gil (Gil Brenton) Gloriana (The Faerie Queene) Godiva (Godiva by Alfred Tennyson) Grace (Amazing Grace)

Harry (Harry's Courtship) Hazel (Hazel- Bob Dylan) Henry (King Henry) Hollis (Ballad of Hollis Brown) 

Ira (Ballad of Ira Hayes) Irene (Goodnight Irene) Isabel (‘Adventures of Isabel’ or ‘Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight’)

Jack (Jack Orion) Jackie (Jackie Boy) James (St James Infirmary Blues) Jane (‘For Jane’ by Charles Bukowski, or ‘Death of Queen Jane’) Janet (‘Janet Waking’, ‘Fair Janet’, Or ‘Tam Lin’) Jeannie (Annachie Gordon) Jellon (Jellon Grame) Jenny (‘The Ballad of Jenny Rae’ or ‘Ballad of Jenny Ledge’) Jim (Jim Bowie) Joan (The Clowns Courtship) Johanna (Visions of Johanna) John/Johnny (‘Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier’, ‘Young Johnny’, or ‘John Henry’) Johnnie (Johnnie Armstrong) Johnstone (Young Johnstone) Joshua (Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho) Jubilee (Jubilee) Judas (Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest) Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Lamia (Lamia by John Keats) Lamkin (Lamkin) Lance (Poor Old Lance) Lenore (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe) Lillian (Red Dirt Girl) Lillie (Jellon Grame) Lizie/Lizzie (Lizie Wan) Lorelei (Lorelei by Heinrich Heine) Louise (Visions of Johanna) Lovel (Lord Lovel) Lucy Gray (Lucy Gray by William Wordsworth) Lyonell (Sir Lyonell)

Mack (Spancil Hill) Maggie (Little Maggie) Maisry (Lady Maisry) Maple (Maple-Edgar Allen Poe) Margaret (‘Spring and Fall’, ‘Proud Lady Margaret’, or ‘Hind Etin’) Maria (The Song of Maria Clara) Marian (Robin Hood and Maid Marian) Mariana (Mariana by Alfred Tennyson) Marina (Marina by T.S Elliot) Marjorie (Young Benjie) Martha (The Bowes Tragedy) Mary (‘Miss Mary Mack’ or ‘Fields of Athenry’) Matty (Matty Groves) Maude (Maude Clare) Maurice (Child Maurice) Meg (Spancil Hill) Michael (‘Michael Finnigan’ or ‘Fields of Athenry’) Minnie (Ballad of Minnie Dean) Moll (The Ballad of Moll Mcgee) Molly (‘Molly Malone’ or ‘I Never Will Marry’)

Nancy (Nancy by William Cowper) Naomi (Naomi Wise) Nell (Spancil Hill) Nellie (Nellie Clark)

Oliver (Sweet Polly Oliver) Ophelia (Ophelia by Arthur Rimbaud) Orfeo (King Orfeo) Orion (Jack Orion) Owen/Owyne (‘The Lament for Owen Roe’ or ‘Kemp Owyne’) Owlet (Child Owlet)

Pat (Pat Works on the Railway) Patrick (Sir Patrick Spens) Peggy (Young Peggy) Persephone (Double Persephone by Margret Atwood) Phoebe (O Sister Phoebe) Polly (‘Pretty Polly’ or ‘Polly Vaughn’)

Randall (Lord Randall) Robyn/Robin (Robin Hood's Death, A Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood, there are lots of Robin Hood poems) Roger (The Bowes Tragedy) Rosaleen (My Dark Rosaleen) Rosalind (Rosalind by Lord Tennyson) Rosemary (Balled of Rosemary Lane) Rosie (Star of the County Down) Ruby (Ruby-Are You Mad at Your Man) Ruth (Ruth by Wordsworth, or The Beautiful Lady of Kent) Ryalas (The Jovial Hunter of Broomsgrove)

Sadie (Little Sadie) Sally (‘Aweigh, Santy Ano’ or ‘The Rich Irish Lady/Pretty Sally’) Sam (The cremation of Sam McGee) Saro (Pretty Saro) Shady (Shady Grove) Simon (‘Simple Simon’ or ‘Simon Lee’) Sovay (Sovay) Susan (Reverie of Poor Susan) Susanna (The Journals of Susanna Moodie) Suzanne (Suzanne-Leonard Cohen) 

Tam (‘Tam Glen’, ‘Tam o' Shanter’ both by Robert Burns, or ‘Tam Lin’) Tamerlane (Tamerlane by Edgar Allen Poe) Thomas (Thomas the Rhymer) Tobias (Where are the Days of Tobias) Tom (Tom Dooley)

Una (The Faerie Queene)

Vincent (Vincent-Don McLean)

Waterlily (Water Lily by Ralph Stanley) William (‘Sweet William’s Ghost’ or ‘I Never Will Marry’) Willie (‘Willie’s Lady’, ‘Willies Lyke-Wake’, or ‘Erlinton’) Willow (Down in the Willow Garden)

I found out recently that some people don't like Thresh and this upset me. Because I think he's great. I consider him the Patron Saint of "Talk Shit, Get Hit."

Futher, I think there are a couple times in the text when Collins intentionally links Thresh and Katniss.

"If only I was his size, I could get away with sullen and hostile and it would be just fine!" - THG

Basically, he is who Katniss wants to be. And from what little we know of his home life, that is not dissimilar from hers either. The family that represents him in CF is a younger sister and a grandmother. A little sis and a sickly parent figure. Same as Katniss.

Also in THG, Katniss apologizes to Lavinia saying she wished she intervened when she was being hurt. "It was wrong," she says, very clearly, to sit and watch while someone is hurt. And Thresh is someone who does intervene when he sees something he doesn't approve of happening. He rescues Katniss.

Thresh must have been hidden, as Katniss and Gale were under their rock, but he chose to come out and face the danger.

“You said her name. I heard you. You kill her?” Another thought brings a fresh wave of rage to his features. “You cut her up like you were going to cut up this girl here?”

And while it is the mention of Rue that spurs him to action via anger, not Katniss's plight necessarily, he does disapprove of Clove's actions. And I don't think anyone would blame him if he killed Katniss and didn't ask her this,

“What’d she mean? About Rue being your ally?”

He's curious about what happened to Rue. I always assumed this was because he felt guilty he couldn't help her. (Katniss goes on about how Gale, Cato and heavy people can't climb trees. Thresh is the biggest. There's real reasons he can't be with Rue besides the fact that a 12yo has never won and she has to die for him to go back to his family.) So when Katniss speaks of singing her to sleep, he feels he is the one failed to help someone.

Conflicting emotions cross Thresh’s face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?”

And obviously, the most obvious reference to Thresh being similar to Katniss is both of them being concerned about "owing."

“I think we would like Thresh. I think he’d be our friend back in District Twelve,” I say.