Mockingjay Characters: Full List & Analysis

Who drives the story

Main characters

Katniss Everdeen

The Mockingjay — a survivor conscripted into being a symbol, who wants Snow dead and her people safe. She loses her sister, her faith in the rebellion, and nearly herself, before choosing her own target.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Girl in the Gray Uniform; Part 2: The Boy Who Was Rewritten; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target
Themes:: Propaganda and the manufactured symbol; The dirty hands of just war; Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'; The cost of being a symbol; Grief and the slow work of living

Peeta Mellark

Captured and hijacked by the Capitol, conditioned to see Katniss as a monster. His slow, painful return — one 'real or not real' at a time — becomes the book's quiet love story.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Girl in the Gray Uniform; Part 2: The Boy Who Was Rewritten; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target
Themes:: Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'

President Coin

District 13's cold, calculating leader who wants Katniss as a prop and possibly dead. She wins the war and loses everything to one arrow.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Girl in the Gray Uniform; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target
Themes:: Propaganda and the manufactured symbol; The dirty hands of just war; Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'; The cost of being a symbol

President Snow

The deposed tyrant in his rose greenhouse, who poisons Katniss against Coin with a truth she cannot unhear. He dies in the chaos of her rebellion against the rebellion.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Girl in the Gray Uniform; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target
Themes:: Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'; The cost of being a symbol

Finnick Odair

Charming victor fighting for his rescued lover Annie. He survives capture and propaganda duty only to be devoured by mutts in the Capitol's sewers.

Appears in:: Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target

Gale Hawthorne

Katniss's oldest friend and the rebellion's weapons designer, whose bomb trap may have killed Prim. The war takes him somewhere Katniss cannot follow.

Appears in:: Part 2: The Boy Who Was Rewritten; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target
Themes:: The dirty hands of just war; Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'

Boggs

The steady squad leader who sees Coin clearly, warns Katniss not to trust her, and hands her the Holo and command with his dying breath.

Appears in:: Part 2: The Boy Who Was Rewritten; Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb
Themes:: Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real'

Haymitch Abernathy

Katniss's mentor, drunk and sharp, who votes yes on the final Games 'for Prim' and ends up the only company she has back in District 12.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Girl in the Gray Uniform; Part 2: The Boy Who Was Rewritten; Part 4: The Arrow That Chose a Target

Also in the story

Supporting characters

Primrose Everdeen

The sister Katniss volunteered to save years ago, now a young rebel medic. She dies in the second wave of bombs at the City Circle — the war's cruelest arithmetic.

Appears in:: Part 3: The Squad and the Bomb

How they are connected

Key relationships

Katniss Everdeen President Snow
The Mockingjay — a survivor conscripted into being a symbol, who wants Snow dead and her people safe.
Peeta Mellark Katniss Everdeen
Captured and hijacked by the Capitol, conditioned to see Katniss as a monster.
President Coin Katniss Everdeen
District 13's cold, calculating leader who wants Katniss as a prop and possibly dead.
President Snow President Coin
The deposed tyrant in his rose greenhouse, who poisons Katniss against Coin with a truth she cannot unhear.
Gale Hawthorne Katniss Everdeen
Katniss's oldest friend and the rebellion's weapons designer, whose bomb trap may have killed Prim.
Boggs Katniss Everdeen
The steady squad leader who sees Coin clearly, warns Katniss not to trust her, and hands her the Holo and command with his dying breath.
Boggs President Coin
The steady squad leader who sees Coin clearly, warns Katniss not to trust her, and hands her the Holo and command with his dying breath.
Primrose Everdeen Katniss Everdeen
The sister Katniss volunteered to save years ago, now a young rebel medic.
Haymitch Abernathy Katniss Everdeen
Katniss's mentor, drunk and sharp, who votes yes on the final Games 'for Prim' and ends up the only company she has back in District 12.

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Mockingjay themes & symbols

Propaganda and the manufactured symbol · The dirty hands of just war · Trust, betrayal, and 'real or not real' · The cost of being a symbol

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