At first, I didn't like this book. However, after a few days of thinking, I realized how skillfully this book was written. I understand that people don't like how the book ended.
How they hated the fact that too many people had to die. But then if you think about it, war is always depressing. It's always a lose-lose situation even if one side overcomes the other. The deaths of these characters, though shocking actually works in reinforcing the fact that in a war, the chance of survival is very slim. And that deaths come quicker than you can imagine. That you can't prepare for it -- you can only hope to avoid it.
The fact that she had a hard time choosing between Peeta and Gale also worked for the book. Because looking closely, she wasn't really choosing between two men. She was choosing between two lives laid out ahead of her. If she chooses Gale, then she would never find peace because Gale has been very much consumed by the war. If she chose Peeta on the other hand, she will have a chance at a new life. Because that is what Peeta represents -- hope.
Gale on the other hand represents anger, or the fire that Katniss herself feels. I think prim's death wasn't given much justice.
Finnick's too. I honestly feel that their death deserves more credit than what was given to them. However, these negative points did not affect my judgement.
Mockingjay is really hard to appreciate. But if you are the type of person who likes to think about the book you just read, you will find yourself loving the very things you hated about this book.
Because I think this book was written that way. It's meant to hurt you and shake you and make you think. It was unnecessarily sad. The way that she builds up Gale's character in the beggining and then gives no closer on the subject. Peeta is just.. Katniss isn't her amazing powerful self.
All of the best people die. The ending is complete and utter shit. Nessie wrote: "At first, I didn't like this book. How they hated t I didn't like it because the writing was poor and unclear, the characters were lacking any kind of a personality, and the plot was poorly paced. I didn't loathe it, but I was left with a few too many unanswered questions, and I agree that the pacing felt wrong I liked the first two books because Katniss was a great character.
Even with all the Peeta, Gale stuff happening, she always seemed to care more about her mom and Prim and about an ultimate goal other than whom she should kiss next. In the third book, all she did was whine, hide in closets and make a nuisance of herself.
After Prim's death, the book just became a joke. The whole thing about when the bomb hit her and she start thinking she was a mockingjay, and it was downhill from there. The whole killing Coin thing because Snow said so? That was awful rubbish. In the end, she didn't really choose Peeta. He was just available. Feb 16, AM. Overall I think Katniss acted like an annoying teenager and I don't blame Gale fore not going back to In my mind I can see him telling Peeta, 'she is your problem now.
With Prim dying I didn't care. Collins never developed Prim into someone that mattered that much. Sure she was a nice sister and showed her mother's talent in caring for people, but that was about it. The writing felt rushed where the first two books the pace was fast and great. In this book I had no characters to care about and connect with. Feb 20, AM. It was easily the worst book I've ever read. It pretty much ruined the entire series for me.
I'd like to look back fondly on the first two, but I can't remove Mockingjay from them. I don't know if Collins was under some sort of serious time crunch from the publisher, if she wanted a fourth book but couldn't do it for some reason, or if she just gave up. The first two books being as great as they were, I simply can't imagine that she actually put her full effort into this.
Well, I liked it. I think is was great, in fact. Who Katniss ended up with wasn't the main idea. The Hunger Games Trilogy has a much bigger message in it, and it shone Mockingjay really well. I like all the books, but Mockingjay was my favorite.
It's all you Peeta fans, I swear. It was really good! I couldn't put it down. I think it was depressing and possibly not as good as the first too, but it was realistic also. Except that I think Gale kind of changed. I've gotten over that by now, though.
Good book! I hated but i liked it at the same time , if that makes sense. The ending was bad though. Feb 20, PM. Okay, I'm sorry, but I can't get a grip on all of the "it was good because the ending was realistic" talk. What could we possibly be using to gauge realism in a book that has almost indestructible albino lizard men that smell like roses, dire wolf style creatures with the features of recently dead children, yellow jackets that make you hallucinate for days, birds that can exactly replicate human sounds, and invisible cameras that can film everything at once?
How do we have any logical scale to gauge the "realism" of a dystopian sci-fi novel? So it's realistic that everyone dies because it's war, even though we're set in a society where it's basically the whole of America against Denver? It's realistic that not ONE of Snow's aids or a high ranking Capitol official put a bullet in his head to save the rest of the Capitol and surely earn themselves a pardon when all the districts fell? It's realistic that Gale, the only person to have saved Prim TWICE not even counting keeping her fed , will just give up on the woman he's loved for five years because a trap that he may have helped design may have killed Prim?
And we're supposed to believe that Katniss has because such a worthless, whiny, and selfish child that she someone can't forgive him for something he didn't actually have any hand in, although he constantly took better care of Prim than she did?
It's realistic that a character who's basically condemned herself to death twice in protection of those she loves will just give up and hide in closets when she's surrounded by those who can actually help her keep people safe? It's realistic that she's again ready to die in order to prevent the continued torture of Peta or just avenge his death , but as soon as he's back, she just gives up on him, and treats him like the bad guy? There is no realism, and that's totally okay.
Bad writing and a forced ending are not. I am amazed and daunted, and I might have tried reading one of them if the movie had suggested anything perverse or interesting. Even now, I can see that the plot motif, of teenagers in a contest where they must kill one another, might threaten sentimental ideas of what children are or ought to be.
The film places us in a post-apocalyptic world, though there is no sign of how the end came and no trace of a toxic aftermath. So the apocalypse is just a pretext for a peasant community lorded over by an eccentric super race and their police force. The rulers have whatever technologies the script needs; the ordinary people have very little, except bread, humble virtue as in silent cinema , and waiting for the lottery. Every year, the ruling class put on a show: Teenagers from the twelve districts are selected at random to engage in mortal combat.
Only one will survive. Katniss Everdeen the names do seem to have been affected by fall-out becomes one of the contestants when she volunteers to take the place of her younger sister in the Games. I gather that in the book Katniss is 16, but here she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who is What deep secrets or hidden traits does your character have that get revealed later on in the story?
Is your protagonist even aware of these hidden traits himself? The greatest heroes are not the ones that always win, but the ones that fall down and still manage to get up and persevere. A character that never fails is unrelatable and boring. When a character fails, it gives them room to grow, learn, and develop. Sometimes, we are too nice to our protagonists, but they must go through adversity, suffering, and hardships.
Katniss is no exception to this rule. She is struggling before the book even begins, and her troubles only multiply as the story continues. If Katniss were constantly winning, we would write her off as a Mary Sue a character so perfect and talented to the point of absurdity and the reader's interest would plummet. What are you protagonists weaknesses? How do they fail?
How do they manage to keep going despite their failure? How do their failures change them? To bring a character to life, you must give them a heart. How do you do that? Give them unshakable values. Without values, characters feel empty and lifeless. Characters need core values to drive them and give them life. Otherwise, they will be vague and one-dimensional. Katniss values family, justice, survival, and freedom. These values, in turn, fuel her motivation and goals.
They incite her decisions, give her purpose, and flesh out what kind of person she is. What does your character believe in? Why do they believe this? What will they fight for?
What drives them? What will they never do? Core values dive deep into a character, bring them to life, and make them unforgettable. When a character has no dreams outside of the main story goal, they only live within the pages of the book. But when they have dreams outside of the story goal, they seem so much more real and they continue to live on even when the story ends.
But deep down inside, she really just wanted to run away with Gale and never look back - a dream that she had to smother because of her current hopeless situation. We see glimpses of her talent for singing, but it goes unrealized because of the current state of things.
What life do they wish to live? What do they wish they had? Flaws are what make the characters unique, relatable, and compelling all at the same time. She struggles with anger and depression. And though she may act courageous, she struggles with fear, self-loathing, and hopelessness.
Even with her braid, bow, and desire for justice. What flaws does your main character have? What sin do they struggle with? Character flaws are a lot more interesting than character strengths.
Characters are the heart and soul of stories. No matter how epic your fight scenes are, or how shocking your twist villain is, if your protagonist fails to capture your reader's interest, the whole story will fall flat. Be sure to share your answer in the comments! She continues to write because when she was little she tried to enter Narnia multiple times, but they never let her in. Her only other alternative was to create worlds and characters of her own.
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