The endless dance with hunger had defined his life. Not the very early years, before the war, but every day since had been a battle, a negotiation, a game.
-- Narrator (2 )

Importance: Coriolanus is describing the hunger that plagued the people of the Capitol during the wars. That situation did not really change for some people after the end of the war, and Coriolanus often describes the lack of food in his home. The Capitol has retaliated by implementing the Hunger Games that require two children from each district fight to the death in the arena in the Capitol.

The more he treated her as something special, the more she'd become human.”
-- Narrator (5 )

Importance: Coriolanus beginning to figure out this relationship with Lucy Gray. He had expected to see her as similar to his dog in a dog race but has come to see her as far more human than that.

It was like the...
-- Narrator (8 )