Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Chapter 3- Understanding

Retell how and why jabberjays were created. Give your opinion on whether or not the Capitol was right or wrong in leaving them in the wild. Explain.
-Owen
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5 comments:

  1. CarolineMarch 2, 2010 at 6:02 PM

    Jabberjays were created as a weapon for the Capitol during the rebellion. They were genetically altered birds who could hear and repeat the conversations of the enemy. The jabberjays ended up being a waste of time for the Capitol after the districts figured it out and said lies to the birds. The Capitol then abandoned the jabberjays in the wild.
    I don't think the Capitol was right to leave the birds in the wild because they were unnatural. To mess with the balance of nature by bringing in a animal that could tip it severely is a bad idea. In the book, the jabberjays really didn't effect the balance very much. However, it could have had much worse consequences.

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  2. ChloeMarch 3, 2010 at 3:49 AM

    The Capitol created jabberjays from genetically morhped birds and sent them out into the districts as a weapon during district thirteen's rebellion. The birds were to listen to conversations in the midst of the rebellion and then repeat those conversations to the Capitol. Jabberjays were at first inconspicuous spies. District thirteen quickly caught on to the odd behavior and began to confuse the Capitol by lying to the birds. As the rebellion ceased, the jabberjays became futile weapons and were left in the wild by the Capitol. I believe that the Capitol was wrong in leaving the altered birds in the wild. As Caroline said, bringing in a creature that nature has not seen before can lead to a disruption in the entire ecosystem. The Capitol did not plan this well, in my opinion. However, the jabberjays met mockingbirds and soon, there were mockingjays, which seem to be pleasant little things. They listen and repeat tunes, not words, and I think they helped Katniss remember herself and her family during the Hunger Games.

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  3. CarolineMarch 3, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    I wonder why the jabberjays only mated with mocking birds. Nature would be different if jabberjays mated with many different birds. Then birds from Canadian geese to chiickadees would be behaving like mockingjays. Can you imagine an entire forest full birds repeating a tune you made up?

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  4. LivvieMarch 3, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    Jabberjays were created as a weapon against everyone except the Capitol.
    They were made to transport the words/conversations of surrounding districts during the war and are now left to the wild to die out.
    I think it was a mistake to leave them in the wild. They did not die out and now they can give messages from the capitol to others or vise-versa and no one wants their private conversations spread across Panem. The longer the birds are out there, the population would grow so nothing could be kept a secret.

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  5. OwenMarch 15, 2010 at 4:25 PM

    Jabberjays were created as spies for the Capitol during the resistance. They would collect conversations from the rebels and repeat them to Capitol officials. The plan backfired when the rebels discovered the trick and fed the jays false information. The people in the Capitol in charge of the jabberjays did not reclaim the jays in the wild. They left them to die out. But the Jabberjays continued to survive. They eventually crossbred with mockingbirds and created a whole new species.
    The Capitol was not wrong to leave the jabberjays in the wild. I am not saying this was the right course of action. The Capitol was not correct, not right to leave the jays to die. It did not have a negative effect on the environment but it didn't have a positive effect either.

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