All 50 Uses of
capitol
in
Hunger Games Book #3 (Mockingjay)
- A month ago, the Capitol's firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam, the shops in the town, even the Justice Building.†
Chpt 1capitol = the main building (or buildings) of government
- Perhaps so anyone forced to come here on Capitol business would have somewhere decent to stay.†
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- Finally, Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamemaker who had organized the rebels in the Capitol, threw up his hands.†
Chpt 1
- The Capitol hates me.†
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- But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it.†
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- Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn't know.†
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- Were they evacuated to the Capitol because of her father's position, or left to the flames?†
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- It isn't enough, what I've done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point.†
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- The person who the districts—most of which are now openly at war with the Capitol—can count on to blaze the path to victory.†
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- I know that Finnick can't focus on anything in 13 because he's trying so hard to see what's happening in the Capitol to Annie, the mad girl from his district who's the only person on earth he loves.†
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- Of course, I hate the Capitol, but I have no confidence that my being the Mockingjay will benefit those who are trying to bring it down.
Chpt 1 *capitol = main buildings of governmenteditor's notes: Suzanne Collins uses capitol in a non-standard manner in this story. She always capitalizes the word and In addition to referring to the buildings, she uses it to refer to the government, and sometimes to the entire central district where the government is located. Normally, capital ("al" instead of "ol") refers to the main city of government.
- Are there Capitol hoverplanes speeding in to blow us out of the sky?†
Chpt 2capitol = the main building (or buildings) of government
- The rubble isn't smoking, the way the Capitol shows it on television, but there's next to no life aboveground.†
Chpt 2
- In the seventy-five years since the Dark Days—when 13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts—almost all new construction has been beneath the earth's surface.†
Chpt 2
- Most important for the people of 13, it was the center of the Capitol's nuclear weapons development program.†
Chpt 2
- During the Dark Days, the rebels in 13 wrested control from the government forces, trained their nuclear missiles on the Capitol, and then struck a bargain: They would play dead in exchange for being left alone.†
Chpt 2
- The Capitol had another nuclear arsenal out west, but it couldn't attack 13 without certain retaliation.†
Chpt 2
- The Capitol demolished the visible remains of the district and cut off all access from the outside.†
Chpt 2
- Perhaps the Capitol's leaders thought that, without help, 13 would die off on its own.†
Chpt 2
- It almost did a few times, but it always managed to pull through due to strict sharing of resources, strenuous discipline, and constant vigilance against any further attacks from the Capitol.†
Chpt 2
- One of my few pleasures in 13 is watching the handful of pampered Capitol "rebels" squirming as they try to fit in.†
Chpt 2
- No one notices me, though, because they're all gathered at a television screen at the far end of the room that airs the Capitol broadcast around the clock.†
Chpt 2
- But the Capitol has not killed or even punished him.†
Chpt 2
- I hope he's watching the Capitol broadcast now, so he can see that Peeta has cast him off as well.†
Chpt 2
- I want everyone watching--whether you're on the Capitol or the rebel side--to stop for just a moment and think about what this war could mean.
Chpt 2
- ...there's a woman reading a list of expected shortages in the Capitol--fresh fruit, solar batteries, soap.
Chpt 2
- But there's no way I can process it all so quickly—the joy of seeing Peeta alive and unharmed, his defense of my innocence in collaborating with the rebels, and his undeniable complicity with the Capitol now that he's called for a cease-fire.†
Chpt 2
- With the pressure of the Capitol's arranged marriage between Peeta and me gone, we've managed to regain our friendship.†
Chpt 2
- Either I've been too sick, or he's willing to give me space, or he knows it's just too cruel with Peeta in the hands of the Capitol.†
Chpt 2
- And willing to take on the Capitol.†
Chpt 2
- They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts," he says.†
Chpt 2
- If the Capitol wins, who knows?†
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- If I could hit a button and kill every living soul working for the Capitol, I would do it.†
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- In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.†
Chpt 3
- The Capitol hates me.†
Chpt 3
- The Capitol rebels see this as a nonissue—of course, I can keep my pet—while those from 13 spell out what extreme difficulties this presents.†
Chpt 3
- Who knows what the Capitol's doing to them?†
Chpt 3
- The Capitol has sole control of the broadcasts," says Gale.†
Chpt 3
- "Welcome to the Capitol," I mouth back.†
Chpt 3
- From the Capitol," she says hoarsely.†
Chpt 4
- Apparently, a Capitol pedigree is no protection here.†
Chpt 4
- They can at least hope to one day return to the Capitol.†
Chpt 4
- They were particularly ill prepared, coming from their life in the Capitol.†
Chpt 4
- Was that a big secret in the Capitol?†
Chpt 4
- She was arrested and taken to the Capitol when the arena blew up.†
Chpt 4
- I suppose Cinna gave the same instructions the first day I arrived as a tribute in the Capitol.†
Chpt 5
- She is so altered from the woman I knew in the Capitol, stripped of the gaudy clothing, the heavy makeup, the dyes and jewelry and knickknacks she adorned her hair with.†
Chpt 5
- It's no simple job getting me back to Beauty Base Zero, even with the elaborate arsenal of products, tools, and gadgets Plutarch had the foresight to bring from the Capitol.†
Chpt 5
- I've played with a lot of the Capitol's weapons in training, but none designed for military combat.†
Chpt 5
- I can't imagine actually saying it in real life—unless I was using a Capitol accent and making fun of it.†
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