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Contains spoilers
Summary
- Coriolanus received a reprimand from Dean Highbottom for insubordination.
- He left the Academy agitated yet received attention and support from people around him, calming his distress.
- Coriolanus visited the zoo to check on his tribute, Lucy Gray, and suggested she sing to gain more attention from the cameras.
- He felt nostalgic yet saddened by how the war-ravaged zoo had changed from his childhood memories.
- Observing the depleted state of the zoo's animal population, he considered the war's effects on wildlife.
- Approaching the tributes' enclosure, he saw a crowd gathered.
- Coriolanus noticed Sejanus, another student, offering sandwiches to the tributes and felt competitively challenged.
- Sejanus couldn't get the tributes to trust him, and a girl made a derogatory comment about the district tributes.
- Sejanus offered a backpack full of food and Coriolanus, assessing his situation, chose to give some to Lucy Gray.
- Lucy Gray and Coriolanus shared a moment over food, with Lucy Gray accepting sandwiches and a plum.
- Lucy Gray encouraged the other tributes to accept food from Sejanus, and they did so hungrily.
- Marcus, Sejanus's own tribute, refused food offered by Sejanus, indicating personal animosity.
- Lucy Gray sang a song that resonated with Coriolanus, reminding him of his deceased mother, deepening his emotional connection to her.
- Sejanus approached Coriolanus, expressing the mental burden of feeling like one of the tributes, and his discontent with his own privilege.
- A confrontation occurred in the monkey house among the tributes.
- Sejanus offered to swap tributes with Coriolanus, wanting to take Lucy Gray and give up the more likely winner, Marcus.
- Coriolanus contemplated the offer but decided to continue mentoring Lucy Gray, valuing their connection and the challenge of helping an underdog.
- He recognized the value in denying Sejanus's request, as Sejanus wanted something deeply from Coriolanus.
- Coriolanus politely rejected Sejanus's offer to trade tributes, cementing his bond with Lucy Gray.