Mockingjay question

I personally loved the way it ended, she suffered SO much at the hands of the capital. She was seriously damaged both mentally and physically. The fact that she was able to love at the end of it all is miraculous in and of itself. The person she picked was the perfect choice for her. You need to remember what Gale told Peeta, that she would pick the person that she couldn't survive without. I honestly believe at the end that's all she was doing. Surviving. It wasn't really a match of overboard and unending passion like in a romance novel. It was real, and as the narrator Katniss kept that to herself. I love the way that Ms Collins finished it and wouldn't change it.

DOES ANYONE ELSE WISH THAT ROSA FIXED HER CAPSLOCK KEY?!!

I thought the ending felt very realistic actually. There's no way all the characters aren't forever scarred by what they went through and saw. It couldn't really have been a traditional, fairy-tale happy ending. The events of the series are too extreme and brutal for it to happen. I feel like this is a happy ending that is coloured by what has happened. In that way, I'm okay with how it ended.

The ending of the trilogy is part of what I liked about the books. It is not sugar coated, it is not a happy fairytale, and there is room for interpetation. I feel like Katniss did what she always did....she survived in difficult times. The author did well to not elaborate on the "good times." It would have changed the entire story for me.

I completely agree, but sometimes we have to trust the judgement of the author. I really wish we had heard more about marriage/kids/life in general but would it have ruined it? There is no way of knowing! But I do agree with you: GREAT TRILOGY BUT WISH THE ENDING HAD BEEN MORE DEVELOPED.

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It seems like Collins rushed the ending part like to meet a deadline or something. She could have done better than that..

what the heck!!!! it almost sounds like she ran out of pages

I think just the choice between Gale and Peeta would've sufficed. I honestly don't think she had a choice! The only one left was Peeta. I think the thing with Gale ended too conveniently and he didn't try to mend the loose ends. I'm not pleased.

I'm Team Peeta.

i thought the ending was perfect... a warm/fuzzy feeling just wouldn't work with these books.

I liked the ending, but I wish they told more of what happened between peeta and katniss instead of going right to happily ever after.

I don't think there was a "happily ever after" to go into detail about. While it's true, a part of me wanted to see a happy movie type ending, but that wouldn't be realistic. The truth is war and its aftermath is a nightmare that you never wake up from. They learned to survive and find moments of peace where they could. Both of them were broken, never to be the people they were in their youth, but still managed to eek out a life together because in the end they understood each others past horrors.
A fitting end to a series that caused me to shutter for days thinking about my 4 kids and what it would be like for them in a world like that.

I do!! Yes, the ending wasn't so bad but I hoped for a more detailed ever after between Katniss and Peeta. That'll be so great :)

i tought t was kinda sad, i cried when i read the prolouge out of hapiness

I think it was the best thing that could happen after all that katniss had been through.

Well, she didn't get to pick the guy, she stayed because he was the only one left.

the ending was quite abrupt I'd say. I wanted to have at last two chapters about how they lived, how they get trough the suffering. I wanted to see Katniss be happy with Peeta...they didn't really got any chance in the books. But I'm satisfied...at alst it's not tragedy <3

definately! i was sort of disappointed with the ending!

no. all i need to know is that they married and had kids.

I was pretty disappointed with the ending. I wish there had maybe been just one more book. I want to know what happened with reconstruction of the country and integration of the people from the Capitol and the people from the Districts (if they even became one united country). There is just so much that could have happened between the end of the war and the years that passed until they had kids. I liked the book. A lot. But I just feel like it wasn't finished. It just ended abruptly.

Ya, the ending just felt so disconnected, like it had no emotion at all =/

It wasn't really a happily ever after. :v Katniss obviously still struggled.

I only wish for her kid's names, that's it. c: I liked the ending.

Yes..How exactly do they grow back together? Come on, Peeta was ready to kill Katniss a few months before he got to District 12? And I don't think it was a "happily ever after".

Yes, I wish more details were provided about Katnis & Peeta's ever after. I agree it wasn't a happy ending. I was disappointed having been so hyped in all 3 books over who Katnis was going to chose. The ending was kind of a let down for me. I also thought the third book was way too violent for me and I felt dispair reading it however well it was written. Personally, I needed more convincing that Peeta was mentally well and wouldn't have a flash back meltdown and try to straggle Katnis again in the future. A side note, I didn't like Katnis killing an innocent woman eating the sausage. I really preferred the first two books.

Honestly, if Collins had given them a happily ever after, where they would have magically overcome everything and true love triumphed over it all without struggles, I would have been really disappointed, and this series would have been permanently shelved, never-again-to-read for me.

The series was so great because Katniss was constantly having to choose between survival and happiness, which is really what life boils down to, save that her case was much more extreme. Even the small elaboration at the end didn't say that she was happy; it said that she struggled, and still wasn't completely happy all the time, but she was getting through, and it was getting better.

Which is how REAL marriages and relationships work with REAL individuals. People aren't happy in them all the time, and they don't stay passionately in love with them for the rest of their lives. They become intimate friends and partners, and they survive because they have a dependence and can work through tougher times, not because they're gloriously exuberant with love all the time. That isn't how reality works. Katniss chose Peeta because he was dependable, and she could survive with him, and he with her, not because she felt like she needed an amazingly romantic end to her life.

The fact that Collins kept their reality and didn't veer off into unrealistic romantic expectations was extremely important, and I totally appreciated her ending.

It wasn't a 'Happily Ever After'. I don't think you can have a happily ever after in a world like that.

I think it should have been WAY more of a happy ending!

YES! I was so peeved!

i actually wished Suzanne Collins made the ending a little less descriptive and also i wish Suzanne Collins left the ending to the reader's imagination

I really didn't like how the hunger games trilogy ended... SUZANNE COLLINS should have elaborated more on the end features of the plot.
SHE killed it eith acid and i felt angry afterwards when she fast-forwarded to the future with kids.

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i wish they had added a little more detail... i was left with a lot of questions.

Gracie Friend ME!!!

I think her point was that they survived and managed to live on. Getting too much into detail about day to day stuff and the marriage would have trivialized the whole message about surviving. Which was more or less the overall theme of the story.

Yes! I was so curious. There were no names mentioned for their children or where they were living(i'm pretty sure that wasn't included).