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say if they have 3 or more, they get a house with an upstairs or something. I assume couples keep the house and it's common for their children to live with them until they marry off or else inherit the house from their parents. we don't hear of another way for people to get assigned houses - this could be an incentive for people to marry and have children. maybe childless adults can be assigned houses but have to pay rent*

But are we entirely sure Katniss is that good of a singer? Yes yes the mockingjays fall silent to listen but we don’t know they might be listening to how terrible it is.

☀️ “As I wait to be sure the coast is clear, I soak up the loveliness of Lenore Dove. She spins around, head back, arms lifted to the sky. It must have been hell for her being locked up. She can‘t stand for anything to be confined. Especially wild things, which, of course, she is.”

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the 1QQ arena is a turning point in design and layout. it's all a big maze, and it has a bull muttation - a Minotaur.

sweetheart in the trilogy is not meant to be a term of endearment.

Sweetheart is a sarcastic, condescending, and mocking word used to undermine and tease Katniss. It is not a word of endearment:

By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice.

"I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them." (THG)

And if that’s not enough, what about arguably the meanest scene in the whole trilogy:

Haymitch belches, filling the air with white liquor fumes. "What is it, sweetheart? More boy trouble?" I don't know why, but this hurts me in a way Haymitch rarely can. It must show on my face, because even in his drunken state, he tries to take it back. "Okay, not funny." (Mockingjay)

sotr is supposed to be an allusion to Plutarch’s (the philosopher’s) Parallel Lives. Instead of grasping the concept that the parallel lives Plutarch detailed are not 1:1 reflections, nor are they even always all that similar, sotr removes all agency from both katniss and haymitch as protagonists by making them immediate reflections of one another, giving the plot, and their lives, no chance to breathe. The books open the same: search for smaller sibling, go to work (hunting, hauling grain) , go out to the woods to meet a loved one (gale, LD), talk about the reaping, end up reaped non-traditionally, go into the games with outlier scores, pick up a young ally that reminds them of their sibling back home, spend a few days in and out of it, wake up to effie, etc.

As a result, Haymitch is unable to become the protagonist of his own life. Rather than revealing his character through distinct choices, the narrative repeatedly steers him back onto Katniss's trajectory. He feels less like a protagonist shaping the story than he does a participant moving through a predetermined sequence of echoes.

The ghosts that “haunt the narrative” trample it from a sprawling, dynamic arc into flattened parallel lines, reducing both narratives into much lamer variations of the same story.

Plutarch's paired biographies invite comparison between similar figures whose different circumstances and choices reveal their character. They aren't meant to collapse into one another.

and just as it happens, it is katniss and finnick who are trapped in district thirteen. completely helpless as snow dangles their lovers just out of reach. letting katniss see peeta deteriorate in real time.

do I think suzanne collins is karl marx? no. but first off, karl marx wasn't all that much of a genius either. his brilliance lay in the fact that he took political and economic abstractions and solidified them in ways people could understand. that is literally all that 'das kapital' is - a concrete translation.

much like marx, suzanne collins is also a translator, only her audience is young adults and teenagers.

most people aren't as dialed in as the internet would like to believe, and they need these things explained to them in a way even a fucking child can understand.

she knows how to make the most nebulous, heavy and convoluted political concepts feel accessible due to her background as a tv and children's writer, and she does it well. more people know edward burke, john locke and david hume's theories than they would otherwise, and they understand them at their most fundamental levels thanks to her writing.

that is where her brilliance lies, and just because she writes a series that has generated immense profit does not discount the very real political impact her work has had.

Snow:

Been rewatching THG movies with my mum🌼