The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes IS WOKE
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12. The Hunger Games follows young Coriolanus Snow mentors charismatic District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird in the tenth Hunger Games, gambling his future on her survival to restore his ruined Capitol family. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows Coriolanus Snow, a proud but impoverished Capitol Academy student desperate to reclaim his family's lost prestige after the war. Assigned as mentor to Lucy Gray Baird, the singing tribute from District 12, he quickly realizes her showmanship and grit could win him the prize that secures his future. As the redesigned tenth Games introduce new cruelties under the watch of Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Snow coaches Lucy Gray through the arena's dangers while n