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The use of tear gas is a violation of the Geneva convention. Your police have gassed every major city.

False surrender is a violation of the Geneva convention. Your police have kneeled to draw protesters within range of tear gas.

Destroying and contaminating water is a violation of the Geneva convention. Your police have been destroying stocks of water used for the protestors.

Destroying medical tents and supplies is a violation of the Geneva convention. Your police have destroyed medical tents and attacked medics in various cities.

Attacking journalists is a violation of the Geneva convention. Your police have targeted and attacked journalists both native and foreign in multiple cities.

Your police are worse than war criminals, this isn’t even a war and they’ve managed to violate major international codes. 

When people find out that I, an adult human woman, am afraid of men: Um, not *all* men, sweetie. You can’t go your whole life being afraid. Get over it.

When my dog was allowed to get a hysterectomy: She doesn’t need to have puppies to have a happy, healthy like with her adoptive family.

First of all, Collins knows how to write. Her style is comfortable and easy, yet interesting.

Then:

-it shows dystopia in very familiar way, and it makes it so relateable to most young people who live right now

-it gives hope. Hope that one spark can make a huge blaze and throw down toxic system

-it shows us how to be compassionate and to care

-it shows us that it's not easy to overthrow current system and slide into utopia right away. That is just not possible, and it's absolutely necessary to know that. Hope does not mean that it will be easy

-it shows us how propaganda works in very precise way

-it shows us why we don't rebel right away. In the first book, when Gale talks about uprising, Katniss says that she doesn't have time to worry about that cuz her first priority is to feed her family. That's exactly why a lot of people can only "fight" on internet cuz their first priority is to survive and don't have energy to do anything further

-it showed us mental health problems in very realistic way! I love Harry Potter and its often compared to hunger games but Harry after all the shit is all like "all was well" while on the other hand katniss, peta, haymitch...they all suffer through out their life and struggle to function. That means having some sort of PTSD, that means having a trauma and consequences from that trauma

-it shows us how sometimes fighting is not all about being physically aggressive. Fighting somethimes means sacrificing something we love

-it reminds us that we are living in Panem. We don't have districts and Hunger Games, but we do have people who are disgustingly rich and live of resources that produce people who cannot afford food, let alone anything else.

This book has some minor problems but it's one of the most relevant books in this century.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Here's some Peeta and Finnick tax.

No, it’s certainly not a perfect happy ending. Katniss lives every day with horrible memories and fears and scars from her early life no matter how much time goes on. It isn’t perfect. 

But she is happy. She is living her life, with a man she chose and who came back to her over and over again that she loves and wants to be with. She feels safe and positive about the future enough to bring children into the world and love them with all the fierceness we know she has in her heart. 

Mockingjay is not a fairy tail, for absolutely certain. It is certainly realistic. That doesn’t mean Katniss is unhappy, discontent, or even numb in her life after the rebellion. Cause goes what? Life is not ALWAY sadness, and hurt. Being happy and positive and thriving can be and is also realistic. It does not have to be one or the other. 

corpse bride.