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-Lily who writes immaculate notes and only ever writes on her books in pencil vs James whose notes are a mess of thoughts and who takes said notes directly on his books in the most obnoxious one color of ink

-James who hangs or folds his clothes the second he takes them off (his mother taught him put it away not down and it stuck) vs Lily who has half her outfits laying on a chair

-Lily who's concept of house pride can be summed up with gold eyeliner and crimson red lipstick or a griffendor scarf if she is really feeling it vs James who is a walking house banner on any given day

-James who leans on people and gives out hugs like candy to basically anyone vs Lily who treats physical touch like it is sacred

- James who believes in creating an army of friends & leading them upto no good 🤣

Katniss DOES convince most everyone in the districts. The only district people to question the love story are the other victors, because they alone understand how the Capitol's propaganda works, how stories are controlled and victors are forced to play their part.

But when Katniss visits District 8, everyone seems fully convinced. People assure Katniss that they know Peeta was just speaking under duress. They're so upset about Katniss "losing the baby" that one woman actually weeps over it. The everyday District citizens buy into it fully.

The issue is that Snow doesn't understand how powerful love is. Katniss and Peeta's act fuels the rebellion instead of tamping it because choosing love over violence is rebellious. Like when Katniss and Peeta hold hands and Haymitch calls it the perfect touch of rebellion, or when Katniss covers Rue with flowers, or when all the victors hold hands on interview night. Compassion, love, friendship between competitors, it's all in defiance to the Capitol's agenda.

Snow thought that the districts would hear, "I'm just a silly little harmless teenage girl doing impulsive things because I'm in love! How nice of the Capitol to let me keep my boyfriend!" Instead they heard, "My love gave me the courage to defy the Capitol." They heard, "My love held firm in the face of all the Capitol's power and cruelty. I refuse to kill him or even passively let him die." They heard, "The Capitol is not strong enough to corrupt a steadfast heart." And if the Capitol can't even overcome two teenagers' puppy love, it certainly can't overcome thousands of adults' love for their neighbors, children, and homes, or a unified people's passion for freedom and justice.

darth vader tortured leia and stood by while alderaan was destroyed, he shot luke's friends over the death star, he used han, leia, and chewie as bait for luke to try to kidnap him, he cut off luke's hand, ect. luke spent several years fighting for the rebellion, so he's heard all the horror stories about darth vader, about all the people he killed or who the empire caused incredible pain to

luke is not an idiot and he is not ignorant. he knows about all the bad things his father did, and he wants to help him anyway. because he can feel him in the force and knows that there is good left in anakin, because he feels the desperation and fear with which his father tries to reach him in the force, because luke understands who vader is to the emperor and why he unquestioningly follows all his orders — luke's mentors told him that his hero's journey wouldn't be complete until he slew the dragon, but luke saw that the dragon was a pathetic, broken, chained man with goodness still alive in him, so he decided to save the dragon instead

the light and dark sides of the force exist in-universe as real concepts with their own rules, but they're also just allegories for the vague concepts of good and evil in your beliefs, words and actions. remember that star wars doesn't tell a story about good people and evil people, it tells a story about people who can choose good or evil. if you think about it, both the jedi and the sith didn't believe in the possibility of returning from the dark side, essentially denying the very concept of redemption, and both were proven wrong

anakin is the perfect character to be redeemed in this specific story because once he was a genuinely good person, who started out on the path of evil for reasons that would be understandable to any human being in this world (fear of loss/change), and stayed there because of the very false belief that the jedi and sith convinced him in, and which this story criticizes ('it's too late for me, son') — luke skywalker knows all of his father's sins, but loves and believes in him despite them, and the narrative rewards him for it

the reason why the narrative rewards luke skywalker for his faith in his father is because george lucas is trying to convey to the audience the idea that it is never too late to choose good, that redemption is unconditional and available to anyone at any time, that redemption is rewarding — darth vader fits this story perfectly because he is so 'twisted and evil', not in spite of it. at no point does this story turn away from the evil darth vader committed, but it says that he still can change for the better, and so he does