It's Katniss's turn to perform for the gamemakers, and she feels they're ignoring her. Then she shoots the apple. Consider Suzanne Collins's insertion of an apple here as symbolic. Discuss the difference of this apple compared to the provided targets. Detail famous stories about apples you know of. Discuss how it would have been different without an apple and she'd shot the pig. Conjecture what this apple might symbolize.
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