So now I have read Catching Fire and Mockingjay, the last two books of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
After the first book, I wondered where the moral outrage against the leaders in the Capitol was. Well, it shows up in the second book. Unrest in a few of the districts is heard as rumor. Security is tightened in District 12, Katniss’s home. And a new hunger game is begun. This time the players are chosen from among the previous Hunger Game winners. So Katniss is back in the thick of things again, forming alliances with the other players and vowing to keep her friends from being killed.
And then fighting against the Capitol takes over in all the districts and Katniss reluctantly becomes the symbol of rebellion, the mockingjay, a bird that’s a cross between a mocking bird and a jay which can repeat the songs of humans.
Is Katniss in favor of the rebellion? Does she see it as a way to punish the Capitol leaders? Is she defending her friends and family? Is she guilty of the deaths of innocent people? Would she fight for survival if it meant killing her friends? Or is she being manipulated by the leaders of the rebellion who would repeat the crimes of the leaders of the Capitol?
In the end, all of what she was initially fighting for is lost, but for one steadfast relationship that leads her to a peaceful new life. Phew. At last.
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