"Staying alive is the main goal, and in this place with the constant surveillance if you try to get people together to fight back it's pointless. The Capitol makes it clear that if you go against them they will kill you, or make you into an example." It's a grim topic and likely one that he shouldn't be telling someone who is new to the place. But she needs to be prepared even if it a brutal truth.

"Problem is, even if none of us fight, they'll find ways to instigate a fight, or just have one of their manufactured catastrophes kill a bunch of tributes. Plus there's the fear tactics, not everyone is as strong as others, scare a teenager too much, starve them, torture them, have them slowly dying of infection and hallucinating, perfect combination for a killing spree."