What I need is the dandelion in the spring.

[ibelonginnarnia]

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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Yeah the more I think about it the more I'm not sure. Like you said Collins made everything painfully realistic and didn't pull any punches which makes it seem very possible that Katniss was so broken and angry that she would want to punish anyone responsible for the loss of Prim. And she often comes to major realizations and makes decisions in a single moment and acts on them right away so I could totally believe that she felt justified voting yes.

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.

[ibelonginnarnia]

Oh, don't apologize for making super long comments, I'm famous for them as you might already guess, haha!

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.