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Did you cry when prim died?
who DIDN'T cry when rue died? in the movie they made katniss cry about rue. i didn't like that. katniss is supposed to be strong so people don't see her weakness. didn't she say that somewhere? but prim... why her? why did Suzanne take her? i cried. and was angry. yes. at the same time.
No. I felt it was so quick and rushed that I didn't have to time to feel a thing from her death. I don't know, I really didn't feel I got any true emotional attachment to Prim. Her being Katniss' sister wasn't enough for me.
I didn't cry. I didn't really feel anything major because Prim never really stood out to me as a character, except through her relationship with Katniss. She was barely in the third book. So basically I was like ok then. I felt sad for Katniss though.
I screamed at my wall when Prim died..... I cried when Rue died, though...
i almost but i didnt
Lisa wrote: "I didn't cry. I didn't really feel anything major because Prim never really stood out to me as a character, except through her relationship with Katniss. She was barely in the third book. So basically I was like ok then. I felt sad for Katniss though."That was the problem for me, too. There was almost no characterization of Prim.
No, because at that point, the book had devolved into such a soup of absurdities - teenagers leading special ops missions??? puh-leeze - as well as all the pent up teen angst absent from the first two books, I was ready for this one to end. Love the first two, severely disappointed with the third one.
i really didn't like this book soo many people died unnaccary i didn't cry but it made me really sad because the ending was so drepressing :(
Derek wrote: "No, because at that point, the book had devolved into such a soup of absurdities - teenagers leading special ops missions??? puh-leeze - as well as all the pent up teen angst absent from the first..."Why the attack on the Capitol? They could be starved out by a one-week siege. Same with "The Nut" in District Two.
No because my friend spoiled that part for me... still mad at her for doing that D:<
I did not cry but I was very sad. I have never cried for any character in any book.
I don't think I cried at all. I cried when rue died in the first book though. Strange. Honestly, I didn't really like the last book too much so I guess I was a bit emotionally distant.
Of course I cried! I was bawling when Rue died too!
I didn't cry, of course, but it was shocking, it was quite a shock indeed.
When I was on the first book I told one of my friends who had read the series and she said isn't it sad when prim dies. I would have strangled her if there weren't witnesses(jk) but I think prims death is a way Suzanne of saying that you can't cheat death Because prim was supposed to die in the hunger games but when katniss volunteers she just extends her life for a year or 2 and ends many others in the process.btw I HATE SPOILERS!
No I lost all feeling by then. When the numbness subsided I was simply annoyed.
No, because Katniss was so desensitized by the time Prim died that she didn't relate it with very much emotion. It just kind of passive.
It was so upsetting because the whole reason Katniss even went into the hunger games was to protect Prim and then after all that's happened, she just dies. Not only her though, but all those other little kids with her ): That part made me a little sick.
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No I thought I would but I didn't. i think it was because there was so much other stuff going on that it was just...bound to happen. I'm sorry to say that but if you think about all the other stuff that was happening during it, it was kinda bound to happen to someone.
yes. i did... i cry when finnick died, when prim dead and shock and LOL when coin fall...
I did cry when Prim died. It was so sad! And she was so young!!
Yes. I did choke up anyway. Though, I felt like the sentence was hurried and not really comprehensible, maybe as if Susan Collins didn't know that she had to kill off Prim.
I think adding this topic under the title 'Did you cry when Prim died' is a massive spoiler and the whole tread should be deleted!!!!!!
And to all of you who is mad about who dies - read again when you are older and more mature. This is not another lovestory thriller. This is a story about power, politic, and how life is not always is black and white.
And to all of you who is mad about who dies - read again when you are older and more mature. This is not another lovestory thriller. This is a story about power, politic, and how life is not always is black and white.
nope. I cried when Finnick died, and then I got angry. By the time Prim died I was like, YEP go ahead, go right along and kill everyone.
NO. I didn't even understand how she died... -.-
I was so sad but I didn't cry though. I don't even remember Finnick dying.
Line wrote: "I think adding this topic under the title 'Did you cry when Prim died' is a massive spoiler and the whole tread should be deleted!!!!!!And to all of you who is mad about who dies - read again whe..."
Uh, I am a bit older and mature, 49 to be exact. I see no problem with anyone of any age disagreeing with what happens in a book. That's what makes the discussions interesting. What you are suggesting is that people evidently shouldn't read until they are "older and mature." I am not even sure what that even means, maybe old, grey and crotchety. How old to be old enough and how mature to be mature enough. Heck the work we are discussion is meant for teen/young adults. Please try to be a little more constructive especially if you are older and mature.
Uh yeah! I actually screamed and cried when it happened, which now sound like over kill but my parents looked over at me and asked what was wrong. SCREW YOU SUZANNE COLLINS FOR MAKING SUCH AN EMOTIONAL TOUCHING SERIES! I am of course just joking but seriously, I have read the series 3 times and i cry every time. Prim wasnt even a big part of the book for me but you dont just kill a little girl like that WHILE SHE IS HELPING LITTLE KIDS. The capitol is sadistic. And i am getting to emotionally invested.
Gabrielle wrote: "The capitol is sadistic. ."Actually it was all Coin's plan.
YES! Prim appears to weak and innocent till her very end! The thing that really got the tears flowing was that she died while helping others just like the innocent character she is! Another thing is that the way she died! So violent and unnecessary!
Jonnathan wrote: "Gabrielle wrote: "The capitol is sadistic. ."Actually it was all Coin's plan."
The whole thing wouldn't have happened if the hunger games weren't developed by the Capitol though.
I found this piece completely bewildering and beyond upsetting for the reader. Don't get me wrong, this series is one of the greats, but this story is based on Katniss because her sister was selected for the Hunger Games. If Prim had never been selected, there would be no story for Katniss. So why, please someone explain WHY, would you kill off the whole reason for the main character's base actions!? Katniss was already at a breaking point, why add to her misery and make her completely lose it?!Again, I absolutely love this series, but WHY?!
OMG... why did prim have to die, i mean the unthinkable has happened!!! when i got to the part when she died, i started tearing up and made this really weird noise in my throat, and literally threw the book across my room. i mean yeah thats an intense reaction, but why? why prim, and i know many ppl did die in this novel and compared to the previous books, but why innocent little Prim who pays more attention to the needs of others then her own, who understands everyone better than they understand themselves, who always cleaned her fathers shaving mirror before school, loved her family to death, and used to weep and beg to see the cakes at the bakery!!! WHY? WHY? Why? anyways from the noise coming from my room after i teared up, my mom, from all the other days, actually decides to walk in my room and asks me if i was okay, and believe me, it was AWKWARD! and thats when my mom gave me a lecture on how reading depressing books can make me depressed too, and thats when i told her how great the book is, and went on and on until she left my room muttering something about book obsessions.-and well everyone that was my reacting to little Prims tragic death, and after reading mockingjay, i took forever to get over the deaths, and well the whole trilogy. BUT STILL I LUV SUZANNE COLLINS FOR MAKING ME SOO IN LUV WITH HER EMOTIONAL NOVELS-and will always love this heart touching, heartbreaking triology of THE HUMGER GAMES.
Lindsay wrote: "I found this piece completely bewildering and beyond upsetting for the reader. Don't get me wrong, this series is one of the greats, but this story is based on Katniss because her sister was select..."I feel the same way Lindsay. As I commented in my entry; Sophocles in his play "Oedipus Rex" achieved the same thing, in one small play. Prim's death in my opinion turns the whole series into a tragedy for the very reason you mention.
Kirk wrote: "Lindsay wrote: "I found this piece completely bewildering and beyond upsetting for the reader. Don't get me wrong, this series is one of the greats, but this story is based on Katniss because her s..."I can understand tragedies and their great place they are within literature, but maybe I am too much of a romantic since I believe that in the end, something good should be left in the main characters world. How can an author leave them with nothing? Hence the reason for my tears at Prim's death, at Romeo and Juliet's, Julius Caesar's, and other great main characters that have died in the name of tragedy.
I love the hunger games as a whole, I mean, the trilogy. and I did cry a little when Prim died, but by that point I was just upset. I hated mockingjay all the way and when finnick died I got really mad, killing prim just made it much worse. I mean, was collins on a killing spree or something?
I'm sorry but i didn't like mockingjay at all. and katniss seemed to act quite like a lunatic sometimes
I DID BYT FINNICK WAS WAY WORSE
Lindsay wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Lindsay wrote: "I found this piece completely bewildering and beyond upsetting for the reader. Don't get me wrong, this series is one of the greats, but this story is based on Katniss ..."I was so upset at the tragic element of Prim's death I couldn't even cry. The main character in the story was Katniss as you say but the story would not have happened but for Prim being called for the games. I did cry when reading the book though when Rue died. That was extremely sad. One of the few times that a scene in a book has made me cry. For tragedy though especially in the context of the Greeks it really was taken to the existential limit where one is left asking the question of why in the large sense, e.g. "why should I continue living?" "Why isn't it all just pointless?" "Does what we do really even matter?". I haven't researched it but I would like to know what the author thought she was gaining by adding in the death of Prim and to boot by a weapon that was created by Gale. Both Oedipus Rex and The Hunger Games Trilogy reach for the same existential plane by pointing out that despite our best efforts to avoid a specific outcome, we may sacrifice only to end up with the original unwanted result. I am surprised by how many people don't seem phased or miss grasping that point (whether intended or not by the author) of Prim's death. It's like the old saying/question "What price is victory worth?" For the last 70 plus years the answer to that question has been "mutual self-destruction" from nuclear weapons. And it will continue to be the answer until there is unilateral movement especially from the U.S. There might just be a tragic ending to that story too.
When she died, I kept reading, devouring the pages...knowing that maybe katniss was in some daydream. that she imagined everything... that the author will bring her to life. Knowing that maybe there was hope....and as I continued and finished the last sentence of the epilogue, I cried, because I knew Prim was not coming back. And I couldn't feel more hollow because I knew Katniss felt the same way. Her main goal from the beginning was to save her little sister's life. The book died for me once Prim was dead, honestly. It was prim for which the story began. I don't think it was well thought of the author. Prim meant hope, meant life, a chance, a doctor, a reminder that there's always life. but with her gone what am I suppose to think?
:'(
No, but I did cry when Rue died.
Yes, I cried. It was the first time I cried over a book and I'm so sad/mad that she's death. Why did she had to die??
Prim wasn't a well-developed character, to be frank. I was more upset when Finnick died, and still more so when Katniss didn't worry about it afterwards, even though she killed him in order to eliminate the rest of the lizard-men.
Carolina wrote: "When she died, I kept reading, devouring the pages...knowing that maybe katniss was in some daydream. that she imagined everything... that the author will bring her to life. Knowing that maybe ther..."Absolutely Carolina. Prim's death simply makes the whole trilogy an existential tragedy.
Okay, I'm going to be honest. When I read the end of the chapter where Prim died I got halfway through the next chapter until I knew she died.I flipped back a few pages thinking, "When did Prim die?" So it kind of ruined the first initial shock for me.
A bit bummed out, but heartbreaking nonetheless. I really enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy; very heart-wrenching story.
yes but more when Finnck died because that was sad I loved him, also Katniss was not letting Peeta slip away from her, at the same time...
I did not cry for Prim because i was still getting over the fact that Finnick died (I had to read that part 10 times over to understand what was happening). I ended up hating Katniss when the book finished because she ended up being a selfish patched up puppet of the games (the opposite of what she was 'supposed' to stand for). I also did not like how Finnick died to 'stupidly', it wasn't poetic or brave but some monster eating his head off! And when Prim died it was like another name onto the death list!
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I did cry however when Rue died.