Em Jogos Vorazes, Katniss é atacada por Clove, mas salva no último momento quando Thresh mata Clove. Thresh está então em posição de matar Katniss também, mas diz (citando da memória):
Just this once, Twelve. For Rue.
Em seguida, volta para a floresta.
Como Thresh sabia que Katniss havia se tornado amiga de Rue?
Se bem me lembro, como Clove mandou prender Katniss e está prestes a matá-la, as duas mulheres compartilham algum diálogo sobre Rue. Thresh ouve isso e mata Clove.
Então, para reformular, Clove se regozijou com a morte de Rue e Thresh e a matou em sua raiva, mas também salvou Katniss por sua gratidão a ela por cuidar dela, já que ele e Rue são ambos do Distrito 11.
Além de ouvir a conversa entre Katniss e Clove na arena, Thresh deve ter notado que Rue estava "acompanhando" Katniss durante as sessões de treinamento. Isso pode dar alguma credibilidade à história de Katniss.
Além disso, se eu me lembro dos dois corretamente, acho que houve um pouco mais de diálogo no livro entre Thresh e Katniss durante a cena na arena. Ele pergunta a ela se o que ele escutou era verdade, quem matou Rue, se Katniss matou o outro tributo, etc.
A partir da transcrição:
Clove: Now, it's too bad you couldn't help your little friend. That little girl... what was her name again?
Clove: Rue?
Clove: Yeah. Well we killed her. And now... We're gonna kill you...
[Thresh pulls Clove off Katniss, pins her by the neck against the Cornucopia]
Thresh: You kill her?
Clove: No!
Thresh: I HEARD YOU!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: Shout her name!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: Say her name! [Slams Clove against wall until she dies]
Thresh [To Katniss]: Just this time twelve. For Rue!
A parte inteira do diálogo acontece dentro de 20 segundos. Thresh pegou Cravo dentro de 4 segundos depois que ela diz we killed her . O diálogo onde Thresh pergunta a Clove se ela o matou [retórica], é abafado por Clove gritando por Cato , então na primeira audição você pode sentir falta, mas está claramente lá. Veja o clipe abaixo.
Assim, entre as palavras de Clove e o conceito de alianças que os tributos são treinados para formar, Thresh claramente sabia o que tinha acontecido.
No livro, a cena é um pouco diferente . Ele questiona Katniss sobre o que Clove estava dizendo antes de decidir dar a ela um passe único:
“Forget it, District Twelve. We’re going to kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally . . . what was her name? The one who hopped around in the trees? Rue? Well, first Rue, then you, and then I think we’ll just let nature take care of Lover Boy. How does that sound?” Clove asks. “Now, where to start?”
[Clove plays with her prey, Thresh pulls her up]
When he shouts, I jump, never having heard him speak above a mutter. “What’d you do to that little girl? You kill her?” Clove is scrambling backward on all fours, like a frantic insect, too shocked to even call for Cato. “No! No, it wasn’t me!” “You said her name. I heard you. You kill her?” Another thought brings a fresh wave of rage to his features. “You cut her up like you were going to cut up this girl here?”
[Thresh Kills Clove]
When Thresh whirls around on me, the rock raised, I know it’s no good to run. And my bow is empty, the last loaded arrow having gone in Clove’s direction. I’m trapped in the glare of his strange golden brown eyes. “What’d she mean? About Rue being your ally?” “I — I — we teamed up. Blew up the supplies. I tried to save her, I did. But he got there first. District One,” I say. Maybe if he knows I helped Rue, he won’t choose some slow, sadistic end for me. “And you killed him?” he demands. “Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers,” I say. “And I sang her to sleep.” Tears spring in my eyes. The tension, the fight goes out of me at the memory. And I’m overwhelmed by Rue, and the pain in my head, and my fear of Thresh, and the moaning of the dying girl a few feet away. “To sleep?” Thresh says gruffly. “To death. I sang until she died,” I say. “Your district. . . they sent me bread.” My hand reaches up but not for an arrow that I know I’ll never reach. Just to wipe my nose. “Do it fast, okay, Thresh?” Conflicting emotions cross Thresh’s face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?”
Clove: Yeah. Well we killed her. And now... We're gonna kill you... [Thresh pulls Clove off Katniss, pins her by the neck against the Cornucopia]
Thresh: You kill her?
Clove: No!
Thresh: I HEARD YOU!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: Shout her name!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: Say her name! [Slams Clove against wall until she dies]
Thresh [To Katniss]: Just this time twelve. For Rue!
Isso é uma coisa pequena, mas eu sempre ouço o que Thresh diz para Clove de forma diferente. Eu sempre pensei que Thresh diz: "Você disse o nome dela!" enquanto Clove grita por Cato. Fazendo seu diálogo:
Thresh: You kill her?
Clove: No!
Thresh: I HEARD YOU!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: You said her name!
Clove: Cato!
Thresh: You said her name!
Eu estive errado todo esse tempo?
Independentemente disso, nos livros (IIRC) Katniss fala um pouco sobre "devido" e essa dinâmica é referenciado especificamente sobre a decisão de Thresh de sobra Katniss:
Conflicting emotions cross Thresh’s face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?” I nod because I do understand. About owing. About hating it. I understand that if Thresh wins, he’ll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. And I understand that, for the moment, Thresh is not going to smash in my skull.
Collins, Suzanne. Jogos Vorazes (Trilogia dos Jogos Vorazes, Livro 1) (p. 288). Scholastic Inc .. Kindle Edition.