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(1) "A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist."
- Sometimes metaphors here are just too on the nose.
(2) Gale: "I love you."
Katniss: "I know."
- Ouch! He deserves it though, she's spoken for.
(3) "Gale, I can't think about anyone that way now!"
- Incorrect. She can freely and openly think of Peeta that way now.
— Nov 11, 2020 11:50PM
Notes:
(1) "A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the Capitol never intended to exist."
- Sometimes metaphors here are just too on the nose.
(2) Gale: "I love you."
Katniss: "I know."
- Ouch! He deserves it though, she's spoken for.
(3) "Gale, I can't think about anyone that way now!"
- Incorrect. She can freely and openly think of Peeta that way now.
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Jayson
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Notes:
(1) "Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning's climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters."
- "Last dozen"? How many dozens were there?
(2) "My shaking hands slide the wire from the hilt, wind it around the arrow just above the feathers, and secure it with a knot picked up in training."
- Know your knots, people!
— Dec 15, 2020 12:15AM
Notes:
(1) "Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning's climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters."
- "Last dozen"? How many dozens were there?
(2) "My shaking hands slide the wire from the hilt, wind it around the arrow just above the feathers, and secure it with a knot picked up in training."
- Know your knots, people!
Jayson
is 94% done
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(1) "Twenty-four rolls from District 3 ... No one says it, but eight will divide up perfectly after the next death."
- Katniss may stink at science, but she's mastered death math.
(2) "I wish Haymitch would stop sending us that District 3 bread and get us some more of that District 4 stuff."
- Katniss Everdeen, bread critic.
- Katniss proving beggars can be choosers.
— Dec 14, 2020 12:10AM
Notes:
(1) "Twenty-four rolls from District 3 ... No one says it, but eight will divide up perfectly after the next death."
- Katniss may stink at science, but she's mastered death math.
(2) "I wish Haymitch would stop sending us that District 3 bread and get us some more of that District 4 stuff."
- Katniss Everdeen, bread critic.
- Katniss proving beggars can be choosers.
Jayson
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(1) "It wasn't real, I tell myself. The same way the muttation wolves last year weren't really the dead tributes. It's just a sadistic trick of the Gamemakers."
- Finally! After nearly a whole book we get confirmation about it.
(2) "If only one of us can be a parent, anyone can see it should be Peeta."
- Well, obviously. Peeta's the better person for nearly anything.
— Dec 13, 2020 01:30AM
Notes:
(1) "It wasn't real, I tell myself. The same way the muttation wolves last year weren't really the dead tributes. It's just a sadistic trick of the Gamemakers."
- Finally! After nearly a whole book we get confirmation about it.
(2) "If only one of us can be a parent, anyone can see it should be Peeta."
- Well, obviously. Peeta's the better person for nearly anything.
Jayson
is 90% done
Notes:
(1) "Wiress ... starts quietly singing some funny little song, about a mouse running up a clock. It must be for children, but it seems to make her happy."
- I guess "Hickory Dickory Dock" isn't very popular in District 12.
(2) "I go back to imagining killing the president."
- Seems like killing the president is Katniss' happy place. Well, whatever keeps her centered.
— Dec 12, 2020 12:10AM
Notes:
(1) "Wiress ... starts quietly singing some funny little song, about a mouse running up a clock. It must be for children, but it seems to make her happy."
- I guess "Hickory Dickory Dock" isn't very popular in District 12.
(2) "I go back to imagining killing the president."
- Seems like killing the president is Katniss' happy place. Well, whatever keeps her centered.
Jayson
is 88% done
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(1) "The only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Not very pretty daydreams for a seventeen-year-old girl, I guess, but very satisfying."
- Katniss sounding like a serial killer. Well, if there was ever a time.
(2) Peeta: "Well, it must be monkey hour."
- Monkey Hour sounds fun! Wait... right, murder monkeys.
— Dec 11, 2020 12:10AM
Notes:
(1) "The only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Not very pretty daydreams for a seventeen-year-old girl, I guess, but very satisfying."
- Katniss sounding like a serial killer. Well, if there was ever a time.
(2) Peeta: "Well, it must be monkey hour."
- Monkey Hour sounds fun! Wait... right, murder monkeys.
Jayson
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Notes:
(1) "[Johanna] steps forward before I can react and slaps me so hard I see stars ... Finnick tosses her writhing body over his shoulder and carries her out into the water and repeatedly dunks her while she screams a lot of really insulting things at me."
- That's one way to cool her temper.
- Something tells me he wouldn't get away with this if he wasn't so handsome.
— Dec 10, 2020 12:05AM
Notes:
(1) "[Johanna] steps forward before I can react and slaps me so hard I see stars ... Finnick tosses her writhing body over his shoulder and carries her out into the water and repeatedly dunks her while she screams a lot of really insulting things at me."
- That's one way to cool her temper.
- Something tells me he wouldn't get away with this if he wasn't so handsome.
Jayson
is 84% done
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(1) "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?"
- Katniss, even in the midst of death and danger, remembers to stay sassy.
(2) "A parachute lands next to us with a fresh loaf of bread ... I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food."
- Katniss, slowly learning that there are tangible benefits to making friends.
— Dec 09, 2020 12:10AM
Notes:
(1) "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?"
- Katniss, even in the midst of death and danger, remembers to stay sassy.
(2) "A parachute lands next to us with a fresh loaf of bread ... I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food."
- Katniss, slowly learning that there are tangible benefits to making friends.
Jayson
is 82% done
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(1) "I take the monkeys for a good sign."
- Monkeys are never a good sign!
(2) "The monkeys explode into a shrieking mass of orange fur."
- The shrieking seems like the worst part.
(3) "I bring down monkey after monkey, targeting eyes and hearts and throats, so that each hit means a death."
- Human-like they may be, Katniss apparently has zero issues killing monkeys.
— Dec 08, 2020 12:40AM
Notes:
(1) "I take the monkeys for a good sign."
- Monkeys are never a good sign!
(2) "The monkeys explode into a shrieking mass of orange fur."
- The shrieking seems like the worst part.
(3) "I bring down monkey after monkey, targeting eyes and hearts and throats, so that each hit means a death."
- Human-like they may be, Katniss apparently has zero issues killing monkeys.
Jayson
is 80% done
Notes:
(1) "Our jumpsuits are no help at all. We may as well be dressed in tissue paper, for all the protection they give."
- Possibly that's the idea... to kill Tributes off quicker.
(2) "Now I'm so thankful I didn't kill Finnick, because how would I have gotten Peeta out of here alive? So thankful to have someone else on my side."
- Katniss learns the value of friendship.
— Dec 07, 2020 12:40AM
Notes:
(1) "Our jumpsuits are no help at all. We may as well be dressed in tissue paper, for all the protection they give."
- Possibly that's the idea... to kill Tributes off quicker.
(2) "Now I'm so thankful I didn't kill Finnick, because how would I have gotten Peeta out of here alive? So thankful to have someone else on my side."
- Katniss learns the value of friendship.
Jayson
is 78% done
Notes:
(1) "[Peeta] takes a cube of rodent meat, skewers it on the tip of a pointed stick, and lets it fall into the force field. There's a sharp sizzle and the stick flies back. The chunk of meat is blackened on the outside but well cooked inside. We give him a round of applause, then quickly stop, remembering where we are."
- The Hunger Games is not a cooking competition!
— Dec 06, 2020 12:10AM
Notes:
(1) "[Peeta] takes a cube of rodent meat, skewers it on the tip of a pointed stick, and lets it fall into the force field. There's a sharp sizzle and the stick flies back. The chunk of meat is blackened on the outside but well cooked inside. We give him a round of applause, then quickly stop, remembering where we are."
- The Hunger Games is not a cooking competition!
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God how selfish Gale is! I laughed out loud when i read Katniss's response when he said i love you😂
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Sakshi wrote: "God how selfish Gale is! I laughed out loud when i read Katniss's response when he said i love you😂"Yeah, literally no good comes from Gale confessing his love. (view spoiler)
Honestly, I loved how she told him that there was too much going on to think about romantic relationships with anyone! In so, SO many YA stories the romance becomes a priority although the plot demands it. Rebellions? Nah, make-out-sessions are way better. Talking about strategies? Oh no, I'd rather talk about those two boys who like me. You know what I mean? I REALLY love Katniss anyway, but in this moment I just adored her for telling the truth! 🥰
Sana wrote: "Honestly, I loved how she told him that there was too much going on to think about romantic relationships with anyone! In so, SO many YA stories the romance becomes a priority although the plot dem..."I can see that. The difficulty in her situation is that no matter how much she wants to distance herself from romance, it's inextricably part of her life at the moment. No less because she's in a very public and politically-charged engagement. So, it's sort of like running away from a tsunami, she can turn and sprint as fast as she can, but romance will inevitably catch up and pull her out to sea, so to speak :)
I honestly wish that Katniss had never ended up with anyone. She is a much stronger character by herself. Peeta was too kind for her and if she really needed someone to love it should have been someone much more strong willed than Peeta. And Katniss with Gale seemed more... achievable for me to understand, but I also understood why they didn't end up together. But in the end, I wish Katniss had stayed single; I think it would have been much more satisfying.
Hayden~I will never be satisfied~ wrote: "I honestly wish that Katniss had never ended up with anyone. She is a much stronger character by herself. Peeta was too kind for her and if she really needed someone to love it should have been som..."I can see that. Though it depends on each particular reader what they expect out of YA books. Some expect some sort of romantic subplot as an essential element of the genre. Some people may not see that as a component of YA novels at all, and are fine with its absence.
I know that you're speaking of a character ending a book single, which does not preclude romance up to that point, though usually that doesn't make for the happiest of endings. Having said that, this series doesn't exactly have the happiest of endings.
I don't remember Katniss pulling a Han Solo when he said "I love you."
The Batman wrote: "I don't remember Katniss pulling a Han Solo when he said "I love you.""You catch a lot of things on rereads :)
i wonder how different the story would have went if gale wasn't conveniently shoved out of the waiting room in book one before he confessed whatever weird feelings he had for katniss, or at least i'm assuming that's what he was trying to do. it would have made the star-crossed lovers thing a bit difficult, but then i don't know if that would have improved or made the love triangle worse.
I love love love that Katniss ended up with Peeta. I think it actually made a lot of sense for her character. Katniss is definitely strong and independent, but she lives her life for others. She is strong because people (mostly Prim) depend on her to be. So Peeta fills that role for her after.. uh, you know who.. dies. Also, fuuuuuck Gale. He is trash.
I don't know, I find Katniss rejecting Gale way too funny. 😂 I've never liked his desperation
xenization. wrote: "i wonder how different the story would have went if gale wasn't conveniently shoved out of the waiting room in book one before he confessed whatever weird feelings he had for katniss, or at least i..."Most likely would have made it worse. Katniss already had her suspicions about Gale, but that didn't stop her from insisting, even during the Games, that there was nothing romantic between them. She had a hard enough time warming up to the idea of kissing Peeta for sponsor love, that any more obstacles might have made it impossible.
Kirsty wrote: "I love love love that Katniss ended up with Peeta. I think it actually made a lot of sense for her character. Katniss is definitely strong and independent, but she lives her life for others. She is..."Yup, (view spoiler)
Layla wrote: "I don't know, I find Katniss rejecting Gale way too funny. 😂 I've never liked his desperation"Agreed :)
YEASS EVERLARK FOR LIFE!!! I LAUGHED SO HARD D WHEN KATNISS SAID I KNOW XD XD XD
LinleyLovesToph wrote: "YEASS EVERLARK FOR LIFE!!! I LAUGHED SO HARD D WHEN KATNISS SAID I KNOW XD XD XD"
Gale can go die. Im willing to trade a certian sugarcube for him with absolutely no remorse
LinleyLovesToph wrote: "Gale can go die. Im willing to trade a certian sugarcube for him with absolutely no remorse"
@Jayson Yes i said those things. XD
LinleyLovesToph wrote: "@Jayson Yes i said those things. XD"
Jayson wrote: "Sakshi wrote: "God how selfish Gale is! I laughed out loud when i read Katniss's response when he said i love you😂"Yeah, literally no good comes from Gale confessing his love. [spoilers removed]"
lmao if he got whipped for saying that then i'm glad 😂 though he didn't learn anything from it
Sakshi wrote: "lmao if he got whipped for saying that then i'm glad 😂 though he didn't learn anything from it"From what little I know of Gale, he might actually want to be seen as a martyr, or else think it proves how much he loves her.
Jayson wrote: "Sakshi wrote: "lmao if he got whipped for saying that then i'm glad 😂 though he didn't learn anything from it"From what little I know of Gale, he might actually want to be seen as a martyr, or el..."
it did work somehow or other though, Katniss didn't run away with her family
Sakshi wrote: "it did work somehow or other though, Katniss didn't run away with her family"Can't say corporal punishment isn't an effective deterrent.
Jayson wrote: "Sakshi wrote: "it did work somehow or other though, Katniss didn't run away with her family"Can't say corporal punishment isn't an effective deterrent."
right :)
Sakshi wrote: "Jayson wrote: "Sakshi wrote: "it did work somehow or other though, Katniss didn't run away with her family"Can't say corporal punishment isn't an effective deterrent."
right :)"
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