Item from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A small gold pin depicting a mockingjay in flight — an accidental symbol that became the emblem of a revolution, worn by a girl who didn't know she was starting a war.
The mockingjay itself is a living rebuke to the Capitol: a hybrid of the engineered jabberjay spy birds and wild mockingbirds, existing only because the Capitol's creations escaped control and bred with nature. The pin was Madge Undersee's — the mayor's daughter gave it to Katniss before the Reaping, a quiet act of solidarity from the merchant class to the Seam. In the arena, the pin was Katniss's district token. After the Games, it became the symbol of everything the Capitol feared: defiance that spreads, that sings, that cannot be controlled. Plutarch Heavensbee flashed a mockingjay on his watch. The rebels stamped it on everything. By the end, the pin's meaning had outgrown the girl who wore it.
A circular gold pin, about an inch in diameter. A mockingjay bird in mid-flight, wings spread, an arrow clutched in its talons, encircled by a ring of gold. The metal is warm and old — this pin has history.
Also known as: the Mockingjay Pin, Katniss's pin, the pin