The Hunger Games Chapter 18 Quotes

The Hunger Games Chapter 18 Quotes

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Quote 7

I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread. It's not the fine white Capitol stuff. It's made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent. Sprinkled with seeds. I flash back to Peeta's lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. This bread came from District 11. I cautiously lift the still warm loaf. What must it have cost the people of District 11 who can't even feed themselves? How many would've had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? (18.48)

District 11 acknowledges Katniss's gesture with a sacrifice of their own: a loaf of bread. What does the bread symbolize?