Lucy Gray wrote the song after witnessing an innocent man hung after he was wrongfully blamed for killing three men. However, the lyrics of "The Hanging Tree" can also represent Coriolanus and Lucy Gray's love story since they meet at the tree before running away together.
In the prequel book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it's revealed that Lucy Gray Baird wrote the song after witnessing the murder of a man named Arlo Chance, who is hanged at a tree where executions take place.
No, Lucy Gray has no relation to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. When the original novel for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes first came out, some fans suspected that Lucy might actually be Katniss' grandmother.
The bottom line is that we do not know exactly what happened to Lucy Gray Baird. The movie leaves her fate ambiguous, matching the ending of her fate in the book.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place more than 60 years before Katniss Everdeen enters the competition, but the movie still finds a way to give her a mention. (Spoilers ahead!) No, Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have a cameo appearance.
Rachel Zegler – The Hanging Tree (from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
Is Lucy Gray mentioned in The Hunger Games trilogy?
Either way, no one seems to know what became of the 10th Hunger Games victor. She's never mentioned again in any of the franchise's movies. Keep reading to see how the book handles Lucy Gray's disappearance, theories on what happened to the singer, and whether or not we could ever see more of her story.
All the times Katniss reminded snow of Lucy Grey. In Hunger Games, Katniss sing the Hanging Tree Song. which became the anthem of the rebellion. they say who murdered three, which is written by Lucy and is about snow.
Fan theories posit that Lucy Gray Baird may be a relative of Katniss Everdeen or President Coin. Director Francis Lawrence told us Baird likely isn't Coin, but could have ties to the character.
Snow realized this, and once he discovered the peacekeepers rifle he used to kill Mayfair in the cabin by the lake, he decided against running off with Lucy. He knew he would never cope with a life in the wilderness, and since he was accepted into officer's school, he saw that as his way to future power.
The correct answer is she had no friends, no companion. The poet suggests that she was a solitary child because she did not have any friend or companion.
Throughout the years, Tigris started to get surgical enhancements, specifically to alter her looks to look somewhat like a tiger getting face and arm tattoos, flattening her nose and getting some of the largest whiskers Katniss had ever seen from a Capitol citizen.
He married Julia Pompey but their marriage was loveless. It was suggested by many that he poisoned his wife because she tried to kill him and take their sons place.
How did Katniss's father know The Hanging Tree song?
Since the Covey were banned from ever performing again following the events of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it is theorized that Katniss's father's parents or grandparents passed Lucy's songs down to him, which he then taught his daughter.
Since some of the Covey's songs survived into the trilogy through Katniss Everdeen, who learned them from her father, it's been theorized that they are descendants of the Covey— probably through Maude Ivory, who shared Katniss's ability to memorize music after a listen or two.
In the movie, Snow and Baird develop a friendship as mentor and tribute after Lucy Gray saves Snow's life during an attack on Panem. After being sent to District 12 as a Peacekeeper in the aftermath of the 10th Hunger Games, Snow starts to deepen his relationship with Lucy Gray, which develops in a more romantic light.
Ultimately, Dr. Gaul considered these games a disaster, presenting the Capitol as far too vulnerable. She erased all recordings of the games, keeping only a master copy in her own personal vault for her own purposes.
Coriolanus mentions that “[m]y mother always smelled of roses” (89) and gives Lucy Gray her compact, its rose-scented powder later replaced with rat poison.
For one thing, Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before Katniss volunteers as tribute. That means there's probably a generation or two between Lucy Gray and Katniss if they are related. Fans also know who Katniss' mother is, so that rules out Lucy Gray being her mom.
He grows up in D12 with the Covey, and eventually at the age of 24 in what would be year 36 he gets married and has a baby boy born in year 37. That baby turns out to be Katniss's father. He gets married in year 57 and Katniss is born in year 58. So Snow could be Katniss's great grandfather.
In The Hunger Games series, Katniss killing President Coin instead of President Snow surprised many. Still, it was because Coin was revealed to be a ruthless leader with her own political interests.
Years later, Katniss will recognize Tigris in Mockingjay – Part 2 (now played by Eugenie Bondurant) as a longtime stylist for the Games. Snow and Tigris have long since fallen out, it seems—we catch glimpses of her disappointment in his ruthless path to power in Songbirds and Snakes.
Here, Katniss says she remembers seeing Tigris in earlier Hunger Games, to which she confirms that Snow had her fired due to her looks. In the film, Tigris feeds them and goes around the Capitol to collect intel to help them assassinate President Snow.
She says that the Capitol can't use threats on Peeta against her anymore; that the Capitol is in great danger. Then, Plutarch and Haymitch encourage Finnick to give a revealing speech too. Finnick tells the scary truth that President Snow prostituted him, under pain of death.
