Avoxes are tongueless servants who work in the Capitol.
Avox Quotes in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes quotes below are all either spoken by Avox or refer to Avox. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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Another student, or even the Coriolanus of a couple of weeks ago, would have protested this situation. Insisted on calling a parent or guardian. Pleaded. But after the snake attack on Clemensia, the aftermath of the bombing, and Marcus’s torture, he knew it would be pointless. If Dr. Gaul decided he was to go into the Capitol Arena, that’s where he would go, even if his prize was not at stake. He was just like the subjects of her other experiments, students or tributes, of no more consequence than the Avoxes in the cages. Powerless to object.
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Avox Term Timeline in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The timeline below shows where the term Avox appears in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...for his soup and discovers a pot of terrible-looking shredded potatoes. Sighing, Coriolanus remembers how Avoxes, tongueless workers, used to collect trash—before people stopped throwing things away out of necessity. These...
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Chapter 8
...Gaul sends him away. As he hurries through the lab, he finds cages filled with Avoxes with grafted animal parts. Finally, a woman in pink glasses ushers Coriolanus to the elevators.
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Chapter 15
...they must go to the arena, so they run down to her car and the Avox drives quickly to the arena. Ma shares that her family arrived in the Capitol at...
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Chapter 16
...laws or government? She sends him away and he leaves the Citadel. Outside, the Plinths’ Avox is there to take Coriolanus home. The Avox leaves Coriolanus at his apartment with food.
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Chapter 19
An Avox maid signals to Ma that Strabo would like to see Coriolanus, so Coriolanus follows the...
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