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Andrea,
I read that scene as Katniss giving the appearance of going along with the Hunger Games, having already decided to kill Snow, and wanting to deflect attention. Of course, before I got to the ending, I was angry at what I thought her decision was, and saddened that all the suffering had "turned" her. Again, it took the second reading for me to make up my mind about it.

Coin...I meant Coin not Snow ---gah!

totally agree that she did not really go along with another Hunger Games. She just did that to deflect attention so she could stop the new regime that was just as bad as the old.

Hmm, I will definitely have to re-read the end of the book! That's just how I interpreted it, but if I ever can bring myself to read it again I'll have to see. But then again, didn't she kill Coin immediately after the vote for the final Hunger Games? I don't think the games were even announced before she was supposed to execute Snow, so I'm not sure how this was deflecting attention? Even if she had a strategy in voting yes, I still feel no matter what the Katniss from the 1st book would have said no on principle. I'll give it a go again someday!

I really couldn't tell at all whether Katniss said 'yes' to another Hunger Games as a ploy to buy more time to figure out her decision about Coin or whether she meant it. Although I would think it unlikely that Katniss would want to subject any more children to the arena, at the same time grief can do funny things to people and it is plausible that she may have meant it at that moment. Then again I think Collins may have left it ambiguous so that as a reader we would see that Coin definitely needed to go, but it didn't ruin the suspense of wondering what Katniss would do, right up until she left the arrow fly.

Yes, the whole reason she voted with Coin for the new Hunger Games was to win her trust so that it would be easier to kill her. I believe that Snow had already told her about it being Coin who had sent in the bomb that killed Prim and Coin wanting to kill the Capitol's children convinced Katniss that Snow was telling the truth.

well said Traci.

I agree with Traci's post on this. Although I have to say, Mockinjay ended a little too weak for me. It was my least favorite book. I felt the other books built up so much for me then the 3rd book comes out and I felt like it was such a let down.

I completely agree that Mockingjay was a terrible end to an otherwise amazing series. Katniss was so obnoxiously angsty and whiny throughout almost the entire book, it ruined her as a character for me. This seems to be a theme in young adult novels- I think authors think angst makes their characters more relatable to a younger audience but in truth it's just annoying to read.

I don't agree with the decision, but if I was in Katnis's shoes, I think I would go along with having the HG.

I think Katniss's decision to have one more HG made her more human. It showed that just because she'd done these amazing things and helped bring the HGs to an end she still wanted revenge for everyone that had died and everything the Capitol had put her through.

I don't think Katniss wanted revenge on the innocent children of her enemies--which is who would have been punished in another game. She never really escaped from the hunger games arena--mentally or emotionally--and would never have inflicted such a damaging experience on anyone else. There is no doubt in my mind that she voted with Coin to appear as if she were on the same side, not in genuine agreement. I think that the moment Coin suggested continuing the hunger games is the moment Katniss decided she had to kill her.

Everyone is ignoring that the alternative to the new hunger games was killing everyone with Capitol citizenship. She was postponing their death sentence.