Wednesday, April 11, 2012

My Hunger Games Fever

 The coolest title animation I've ever seen A hybrid of mockingbirds and jabberjays, the birds were created by mistake. The jabberjays – all male – were initially created to eavesdrop on the rebels in the Dark Days, memorizing entire conversations and repeating them back at the Capitol. Once they were discovered, the rebels fed endless lies to the birds, and sent them back loaded with false information. After the lies were discovered, the Capitol closed the laboratories and they were left to die off. They did, eventually, but not before they passed on their genetic code to female mockingbirds. This was unforseen, because no one expected them to have the brains to reproduce. The offspring were called mockingjays, and, while they had lost the ability to memorize words, they could mimic any sounds from a child’s high-pitched warble to a man’s deep tones, and even songs with multiple verses, if you had the patience to sing to them. Katniss’ father was one of those people, and Peeta claims that when he first heard Katniss sing, all of the birds, including mockingjays, fell silent, the sign that they liked the song or notes that were made.

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