Comments | mesmerize77: Hunger Games

mesmerize77

Hunger Games

Apr 03, 2012 10:58

( Hunger Games thoughts. Cut because of spoilers. )

Comments 3

lauracroft April 5 2012, 14:33:14 UTC

I'm glad to find another deep-thinking book-buddy for this, lol. Yes, I agree agree agree! And the "happy ending" gets what we wanted, but with a depressing dose of realism. People who have gone through all that will be damaged, no matter how great their character. Just after reading this series, I read that Trauma and Recovery book and kept feeling struckby how realistic the portrayal of post-traumatic stress was in this book... making it all the more realistic to me. In spite of crazy plots and mutts, the book did not feel like fiction when I read the human aftermath of trauma ( ... )

mesmerize77 April 6 2012, 18:56:38 UTC

Yeah I think that’s what it is, that even though some of the stuff they go through is crazy, their reactions to it are very realistic. Painfully so. Oh yeah, Finnick dying was pretty sad, after him finally getting Annie, but yeah him dying and then Prim dying, I really wasn’t expecting that. Maybe her mom, but not Prim. Not since at the beginning her whole point was trying to protect Prim. I was surprised by Gale and Peeta still being alive too. At the beginning of the book though I was like OMG PEETA HAD BETTER STILL BE ALIVE AT THE END OF THIS BOOK. And yeah that’s true, if Gale and Peeta weren’t both alive, she might have glorified the other and never made a real choice? It seemed though that she was into Gale in the first book, felt guilty about playing stuff up with Peeta, then in the 2nd book things started to turn around, where she wasn’t sure. Then by the 3rd book she felt guilty doing things with Gale, because Peeta was who she wanted, even if she didn’t know it yet ( ... )

lauracroft April 7 2012, 10:27:12 UTC

Do not worry about babbling on this. You made me think of it on a deeper level, about the overall commentary on war. I was thinking on an individual level, probably b/c I next read that book Trauma and Recovery and paying all that attention to post-traumatic stress. Ending the books so realistically will deglamorize but will people say "wow the aftermath of war really isn't shiny and fun, it is awful" or will they complain that the book didn't make everything go just how they wanted it to, (because in life things should always go only the way we want it to ( ... )