What I need is the dandelion in the spring.
I'm not even going to bother locking this post. Such flailing cannot be restricted to merely my flist. But I will probably be rambling so much that hardly anyone will read it because I can promise there will be a lot of text in this post.
MOCKINGJAY
The book that stole my heart.
And mind. And broke them both a little.
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I should go back and reread the end, too, but then I'd want to reread the whole thing and I'm really not ready to do that just yet. Still a touch overwhelmed, haha.
Ok, so here comes a long-winded answer because I'm really really horrible at talking without using a ton of words...
I considered that option. I commented somewhere that there were two things occuring to me to justify Katniss' vote:
(1) Katniss couldn't be expected to act sensibly; she just lost Prim, the pure innocent beautiful thing that Katniss fought so hard for above everything else, and still so much is being thrown at her and expected of her. Wanting revenge is not hard to believe. Collins maintained a writing throughout that called for realistic actions/reactions from all her characters, so this option would be appropriate.
(2) Katniss already knew she was going to kill Coin. Why not get on her side, seal the deal, and give Katniss a chance to think it over and make her final decision on whether or not to kill Coin, and if she decided to kill her, Katniss would have the opportunity to execute it and take Coin completely by surprise.
The first seemed, to me, more logical. That and I've been so hung up on sharing with whoever I can that while some parts of this book weren't perfect and didn't scream for a happy ending, I loved it because it felt more real.
That said, you make a good point. Katniss has always been trying to change things and end cruelty, and from the moment she met up with Snow when she went to get a white rose, she was plotting. She already disliked Coin, and after exchanging a few words with Snow, it was clear that Snow and Coin aren't so unlike one another. As soon as Coin suggested another Hunger Games, it might be apparent to Katniss that Coin wouldn't make anything better. And despite everything that Haymitch kept from her, he is like her and through everything they have similar thoughts, they can follow each other. So... I guess I have this to think over. Because your interpretation is starting to make a ton of sense to me.
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Then I think about it some more and know that everything in Katniss was against the Hunger Games. Especially after losing Prim, I could see how she would do anything in her power to break the cycle. But in the end I think it will be one of those things like Lost where I have to come back to book in a few months and read it more for the nuance than the plot. Maybe then I'll really be able to pinpoint how I feel lol.
I get why Collins killed Prim, but every time I think about it it just . . . I don't know. Going into this book I knew probably everybody was going to die, I even figured Katniss would in the end, but some part of me always thought Prim was sort of sacred. I admire her for doing it though and making it realistic because so much stuff out there goes for the cliche or wraps everything up in a pretty bow and it's all happy, and she made this series really refreshing in that regard.
Sorry if this was super long. Everything kind of just flew out lol.
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I'm honestly going to have to sleep on it and then go back and read just this part to find the answer I want to stick with. They both make sense of me but they can't both be true.
I swear to God, Collins cannot fathom how this is making my mind explode. >_<
I am with you there. I could have seen Katniss dying. Gale, or Peeta, or Haymitch, etc. Finnick struck me the hardest, but Prim seemed the most... I can't even describe it properly. Finnick's death was heartbreaking, where Prim's was more heart-numbing. But yes, I agree with you, so much.
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