Repeat 'The Hanging Tree' (Hunger Games / Mockingjay Original Arrangement) (Adriana Figueroa). Jennifer Lawrence’s soft tones can be heard on the latest recording released as the. The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games song) This is the. Mockingjay Discussion 1. The Hanging Tree. I’ll argue tomorrow that Katniss’ . It is the heart of the finale and a key to its most profound and challenging meaning. Let’s look at the song, where it shows up, and what it means to Katniss before beginning that discussion. The rhyme scheme is a- b- b, c- b- b. The stanzas are identical except for the third line which changes in each. Are you, are you. Coming to the tree. Where they strung up a man they say murdered three. Strange things did happen here. Various songs appear and are mentioned in The Hunger Games trilogy. Various songs appear and are mentioned in The Hunger Games trilogy. If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Are you, Are you Coming. We hope you enjoy our Hunger Games fan film. Hanging Tree melody by adrisaurus http:// The Hanging Tree - Hunger Games - Peter Hollens - Duration. Hunger Games - The Hanging Tree - Peter Hollens. Search for your favorite video or enter the YouTube URL (or Video ID) of the video you wish to loop. Hunger Games: The Hanging Tree. Added: February 9, 2013. Hanging Tree melody by adrisaurus http:// Special thanks to David Adamic for the use of his camera. Bud Lott for the use of his property. No stranger would it be. If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Are you, are you. Coming to the tree. Where the dead man called out for his love to flee. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would it be. If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Are you, are you. Coming to the tree. Where I told you to run so we’d both be free. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would it be. If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Are you, are you. Coming to the tree. Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would it be. If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree. Katniss sings the song to Pollux the Avox on the trip she takes with Gale and a film crew to District 1. The physical location of her singing is by the lake beyond the fence where Katniss and Gale had fought after Katniss’ return from the first Games about whether to run or stay and fight (Fire, chapter 7). The pair are angry with each other here, as well; Katniss is furious that Gale had not told her about the Peeta propo aired the previous night and he is upset that she cannot understand why he decided not to say anything. Haymitch tells her that the rescued but hijacked Peeta recognized the song when his restoration team showed him the propo made with Katniss singing it. He remembered her father singing it in the bakery when he was a small boy. We hear the last verse of . Peeta has just insisted their best next move is to kill him lest he kill another member of the squad because of his re- programming. He argues that leaving him behind isn’t an option either, if they care for him, because the Capitol will capture and torture him. Katniss thinks (chapter 2. Tortured and tormented until no bits of his former self will ever emerge again. For some reason, the last stanza to “The Hanging Tree” starts running through my head. The one where the man wants his lover dead rather than have her face the evil that awaits her in the world. Peeta insists on receiving a Nightlock pill, named for the berries he and Katniss used in their first Games. Katniss refuses. The last time we hear the song is in Tigris’ sub- basement the night before the surviving five members of the Star Squad head out for the final push on the President’s mansion. Because Peeta is still “unpredictable,” Gale and Katniss urge him to stay behind and wait for the end of the battle in hiding. He agrees that he’s to much of a risk to stay with the group but decides “he’s going out on his own,” that he “might still be useful” by “causing a diversion” (chapter 2. Gale is worried about Peeta’s being captured and gives him his nightlock tablet. He has to assure Peeta that, if he is captured, he is capable of killing himself or that Katniss will kill him if he can’t manage it. The thought of Peacekeepers dragging Gale away starts the tune playing in my head again. I reach out and close his fingers over the pill. What does the song mean to Katniss? It’s important to her for a variety of reasons. First, I think, and always is the song’s association with her father. He taught it to her on one of their days in the woods and she sings it “softly, sweetly, as my father did” (p. She claims that the reason the song is “irrevocably branded into my brain” is because her father said mother “just wanted me to forget it” (p. Something about her young daughter making nooses out of rope scraps bothered mom. Dad liked the song, though, and before mom yelled at him to stop, he used to sing the song in shops. Or maybe just in certain shops, like the bakery. Mother Everdeen had another reason not to like . Katniss clues us in to this when she says she hasn’t sung it “out loud for ten years, because it’s forbidden, but I remember every word.” It’s against the law to sing the song so of course mom doesn’t want her husband or her daughters singing it in public. She gets enough healer business from the whipping post without having to treat her own husband’s back- become- mincemeat. Given Katniss’ contrarian Mockingjay Abernathey- esque spirit, I’m guessing that the reason the song is illegal is probably why she has it written on her heart. We are not told in the narrative line why the song is forbidden though Katniss explains a good deal of it, most notably how the song’s four changing lines clarify in each stanza who is talking and to whom he is talking. Here’s my guess based on two popular songs from the 5. You can’t talk about a . Collins’ reference, though, is the country- western song, . Here are those lyrics: :I came to town to search for gold. And I brought with me a memory. And I seem to hear the night wind cry,“Go hang your dreams on the hangin’ tree. Your dreams of love that could never be. Hang your faded dreams on the hangin’ tree!”I searched tor gold and I found my gold. And I found a girl who loved just me. And I wished that I could love her too. But I’d left my heart on the hangin’ tree. I’d left my heart with a memory. And a faded dream on the hangin’ tree. Now there were men who craved my gold. And meant to take my gold from me. When a man is gone he needs no gold. So they carried me to the hangin’ tree. To join my dreams and a memory. Yes they carried me to the hangin’ tree. To really live you must almost die. And it happened just that way with me. They took the gold and set me free. And I walked away from the hangin’ tree. I walked away from the hangin’ tree. And my own true love, she walked with me! That’s when I knew that the hangin’ tree. Was a tree of life, new life for me. A tree of hope, new hope for me. A tree of love, new love tor me. The hangin’ tree, the hangin’ tree, the hangin’ tree! This song is sung by a man who has at least been to a gallows of the make- shift, arboreal kind and is about true love and the re- union of the almost hanged man and his “own true love.” If you could graft in the message or spirit of Strange Fruit to this country- western setting, I think you’d have the heart of Ms. Though the photograph which is supposed to have inspired it was taken at a hanging of two black men in Indiana, the song is aimed about the practice as it existed in southern states. A Holliday signature, it became a Civil Rights movement anthem in the late 5. I suggest . His murders were not homicides committed in passion, then, but the shooting of Capitol Peacemakers or Mining Company thugs. His public execution was punishment, but, as important, an effective way to deter anyone thinking of joining the freedom fighter/terrorist’s cause. Capital punishment, the death penalty, here is Capitol punishment, a means to make the districts fear the consequences of resistance more than they hate their masters. In essence, . It is an invitation to revolution, i. Everdeen isn’t singing it because it’s a simple catchy tune; he’s expressing his revolutionary beliefs as openly as he dares and asking others to join him. Everdeen, it turns out, was right to be terrified by her husband’s boldness. It’s probably safe to assume that he and Gale’s dad died in a mine explosion that was set by the Capitol to kill men known to be plotting against the regime. I’m confident this is what Ms. Collins’ version of “Hanging Tree’ means because it is such a match for Katniss, the Mockingjay. She becomes the lightning rod for resistance to the Capitol when she sacrifices herself to save Prim at the Reaping and by her actions in the arena, most notably, her love for Rue and Peeta and her defiant willingness to die for her friend rather than conform to the Hunger Games’ rules. The first time, when Peeta asks for a poison pill, appropriately named . The second time, he asks permission to “create a diversion” for the four of them going to the President’s mansion to kill Snow; she insists here that he take a Nightlock tablet. What’s going on? In the first instance, Peeta is offering to kill himself rather than be a risk or a burden to the surviving Star Squad. He wants the pill because he is afraid of being re- captured and tortured. It is not a hero’s death he is asking for but a coward’s suicide. This is not the message of the Mockingjay anthem, . He has no thought of the consequences of his actions in terms of the risks he is running for death or capture and torture. Though she does not mention the song, perhaps it is Peeta who hears it after Katniss assassinates President Coin; he prevents her then from taking the nightlock tablet in her Cinna Mockingjay battle- suit for much the same reason that she would not give him the pill in his fear. The Mockingjay cannot die that way. Why not? For that you have to go to the symbolism of the Mockingjay as the Phoenix and resolution of contraries.(1) When a writer puts a symbol or a poem or story into the narrative line, it is a very good bet that understanding this image, poem, play, or prose piece is a key that unlocks the story- line. Think of Nabokov’s Pale Fire for an over the top example of imbedded poetry or of the . Rowling is explaining via her characters’ attempts to understand the Hallows symbol and Brothers tale how to interpret the most important artistry and meaning of her book.(2) Oddly enough, the meaning of that Hallows symbol — the bisected triangle enclosing a circle — was most profoundly explained in text not by Xenophilius Lovegood, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger (no relation), or even Albus Dumbledore. Harry shows us what it means when he buries Mad- Eye Moody’s magical eye in the shadow of the oldest oak tree he can find and carves a cross on the tree trunk (again, see Lectures).
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