All 50 Uses of
capitol
in
The Hunger Games
- When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol.†
p. 6.4capitol = the main building (or buildings) of government
- Suddenly he falls into a Capitol accent as he mimics Effie Trinket, the maniacally upbeat woman who arrives once a year to read out the names at the leaping.†
p. 7.9 *
- Besides, the Capitol accent is so affected, almost anything sounds funny in it.†
p. 8.2
- Well, if I end up going to the Capitol, I want to look nice, don't I?†
p. 12.6
- You won't be going to the Capitol," says Gale coolly.†
p. 12.7
- And even though the rules were set up by the Capitol, not the districts, certainly not Madge's family, it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.†
p. 13.9
- "It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves," he might say if there were no ears to hear but mine.†
p. 14.2
- But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods?†
p. 14.5
- The reaping is a good opportunity for the Capitol to keep tabs on the population as well.†
p. 16.8
- Two of the three chairs fill with Madge's father, Mayor Undersee, who's a tall, balding man, and Effie Trinket, District 12's escort, fresh from the Capitol with her scary white grin, pinkish hair, and spring green suit.†
p. 17.9
- The result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens.†
p. 18.4
- Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol.†
p. 18.5
- Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch — this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.†
p. 18.9
- To make it humiliating as well as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games as a festivity, a sporting event pitting every district against the others.†
p. 19.2
- All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.†
p. 19.3
- Is he addressing the audience or is he so drunk he might actually be taunting the Capitol?†
p. 24.9
- It was considered very anti-climactic in the Capitol, all those quiet, bloodless deaths.†
p. 39.9
- It's one of the high-speed Capitol models that average 250 miles per hour.†
p. 41.7
- Our journey to the Capitol will take less than a day.†
p. 41.8
- In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies.†
p. 41.8
- It's mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol.†
p. 42.1
- They're funny birds and something of a slap in the face to the Capitol.†
p. 42.9
- During the rebellion, the Capitol bred a series of genetically altered animals as weapons.†
p. 42.9
- They were homing birds, exclusively male, that were released into regions where the Capitol's enemies were known to be hiding.†
p. 43.1
- Then, of course, the rebels fed the Capitol endless lies, and the joke was on it.†
p. 43.3
- They try to stagger them throughout the day so a person could conceivably watch the whole thing live, but only people in the Capitol could really do that, since none of them have to attend reapings themselves.†
p. 45.5
- I can send one of the Capitol people to help you.†
p. 49.0
- I can't stand the sight of the Capitol people myself.†
p. 49.2
- We can't be far from the Capitol now.†
p. 55.1
- He'll be incoherent by the time we reach the Capitol.†
p. 56.4
- I realize we must be in the tunnel that runs up through the mountains into the Capitol.†
p. 59.0
- The mountains form a natural barrier between the Capitol and the eastern districts.†
p. 59.1
- Since the rebels had to scale the mountains, they were easy targets for the Capitol's air forces.†
p. 59.2
- Both Peeta and I run to the window to see what we've only seen on television, the Capitol, the ruling city of Panem.†
p. 59.6
- "Sorry!" she pipes in her silly Capitol accent.†
p. 61.2
- And, despite my disgust with the Capitol and their hideous fashions, I can't help thinking how attractive it looks.†
p. 63.9
- I'm Cinna, your stylist," he says in a quiet voice somewhat lacking in the Capitol's affectations.†
p. 63.9
- Days of hunting and gathering for this one meal and even then it would be a poor substitution for the Capitol version.†
p. 65.6
- What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?†
p. 65.8
- It's easy to hear, blasted around the Capitol.†
p. 68.9
- District 1 makes luxury items for the Capitol.†
p. 69.2
- The people of the Capitol are going nuts, showering us with flowers, shouting our names, our first names, which they have bothered to find on the program.†
p. 70.6
- On the buildings that surround the Circle, every window is packed with the most prestigious citizens of the Capitol.†
p. 71.6
- And, to hear her tell it, Effie knows everyone who's anyone in the Capitol and has been talking us up all day, trying to win us sponsors.†
p. 74.1
- Peeta, Cinna, and Portia are standing out on a balcony that overlooks the Capitol when we enter the dining room.†
p. 75.9
- The Capitol twinkles like a vast field of fireflies.†
p. 80.8
- They'd had that Capitol look about them.†
p. 83.4
- It could only be the Capitol.†
p. 83.8
- If that's all you'd heard it would just sound like the words of a scared tribute, not someone contemplating the unquestionable goodness of the Capitol.†
p. 84.1
- That I let the Capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.†
p. 85.6