Significance...

New York: Scholastic Press. 2009. Print.

       The dress Katniss wore during her interview furthers our understanding of relationship between characters, creates the atmosphere of a place, contributes meaningfully to the plot and creates a complication for the main character.Katniss and her stylist Cinna become very close during her journey to and back from the Hunger Games. He transforms the wedding dress into something very rebellions and it clearly represents how attached to Katniss he is, and how he will stand up for her even if it means torture and death. Therefore, the situation creates a very chaotic atmosphere as the new outfit symbolizes the uprisings in the districts."What will be seen as a flashy costume in the Capitol is resonating in an entirely different way throughout the districts."(253) It also contributes to the plot and creates complications for Katniss because she started to stand up for her beliefs in the arena and everyone slowly followed her example. Her mockingjay pin became a sign of the uprisings and when she "became a mockingjay", it might have been the spark for something deadly. "When I Hear the screams of the crowd, I think it's because I must look stunning.....I lift my long,flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen....Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay."(252)
        Katniss' pregnancy is also very important to the story as it maintains the atmosphere of the place, contributes meaningfully to the plot and creates conflicts and complications.  After Katniss' interview, there was already a tense atmosphere and when Peeta said she was pregnant, it completely changed everything. The audience was shocked. "It has to strike them and sink in and be confirmed by other voices before they begin to sounds like a herd of wounded animals, moaning, shrieking, calling for help."(257) This also contributes to the plot and creates conflicts and complications because after Peeta has announced Katniss' condition right before she was about to enter the Games, all the contestants joined together in a powerful line to show the Capitol the power all the districts have. "And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands...By the  time the anthem play its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days."(258)