I am a Mockingjay stan tbh. I can actually see why a lot of people don't like it, but I thought it was extremely refreshing that it ended like most war stories should end. It didn't romanticize anything that had happened during the trilogy. And I'm glad that she ended up with Peeta, even if I would have been happy if she would have ended up alone, mostly because nowhere in the epilogue did it portray her as fully healed or that she had changed to be something else only for someone else.
I think the biggest criticism people have is Mockingjay didn't feel like Katniss, but I disagree. Everything before Mockingjay is Katniss in a different part of her life where the Hunger Games exist and she has to be in them. In Mockingjay there's no District 12, no Hunger Games, and then there's the realization that she has no freedom in District 13 either. I don't see how that couldn't change someone.
And I don't think it was out of character like a lot do that they got married and had kids, because it took them so long to get to that place. Katniss never wanted to bring children into the Hunger Games world, but in the epilogue it's no longer that world. Plus, I think a lot of people forget how young she was in the books. It's not out of character at all for a lot of people, including someone like me, to feel really isolated from everything at 16 and then years later to feel differently. I really hate that people think she gave in and had kids, because I took it to mean that she was now in a place where she felt safe enough to love other people again, and to me that's the greatest thing the epilogue could have told us.
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Date: 2012-03-20 02:20 pm (UTC)I think the biggest criticism people have is Mockingjay didn't feel like Katniss, but I disagree. Everything before Mockingjay is Katniss in a different part of her life where the Hunger Games exist and she has to be in them. In Mockingjay there's no District 12, no Hunger Games, and then there's the realization that she has no freedom in District 13 either. I don't see how that couldn't change someone.
And I don't think it was out of character like a lot do that they got married and had kids, because it took them so long to get to that place. Katniss never wanted to bring children into the Hunger Games world, but in the epilogue it's no longer that world. Plus, I think a lot of people forget how young she was in the books. It's not out of character at all for a lot of people, including someone like me, to feel really isolated from everything at 16 and then years later to feel differently. I really hate that people think she gave in and had kids, because I took it to mean that she was now in a place where she felt safe enough to love other people again, and to me that's the greatest thing the epilogue could have told us.