Memories of the Mockingjay

Cinder Mellark didn't know what happened to her mother. She heard whispers as she walked by, talks of birds and whispers of revolution. Everyone seemed to know her name and stared at her wherever she went. Cinder didn't know what happened to her mother, all she knew was that she was gone, and her and her brother Rye were oblivious as to what happened to her.
This is Cinder's reality:
Her father cries most nights, and spends most days in the empty house next door to theirs.
When the world is too much, she writes letters to her mother, in the hope that when she comes back, she can read them and catch up.
They trudge to the main square each year, for the reaping.
The poor mine coal and starve to death without the bat of an eyelid from the Capitol.
There is rubble that surrounds the streets and she doesn't know why.
Her father loves her and Rye but she can see he's hurting.
He whispers things under his breath.
Whispers words like 'Revolution.'