What is mockingjay about

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She delivers a fiery message to Snow, all of it captured by her fearless camera crew. Back in 13, Katniss and Finnick watch another interview with Peeta, but this time she can see that he has been tortured and is hurt. Katniss eventually gets Gale to confess, but she feels betrayed. Gale and Katniss, growing farther and farther apart, return to District 12 to film more propos.

Katniss remembers how she used to be happy there and wonders what her life might have been like had she run away with Gale. During another live Capitol programming, in which Snow and a very battered and fragile-looking Peeta appear together, Beetee is able to break through the Capitol feed to broadcast clips of the rebel propos.

While Command rejoices, Katniss knows that their success means more pain and suffering for Peeta. The feed cuts out just as Peeta is hit to the floor, his blood splattering the tile.

Previous Mockingjay at a Glance. By the time Peeta is rescued from the Capitol, his memory of her has been twisted so violently that he is a threat to her life. Katniss fears that the love he had for her is gone forever.

Katniss finds purpose in her role as the Mockingjay, but she chafes under the scrutiny and control of rebellion leader Coin, former gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee, and her mentor Haymitch Abernathy. Katniss seeks comfort with her friend, Gale. Unable to choose, she asks to be sent into action, and hopes that she can be useful to the rebels as more than just a symbol. Katniss returns to District 13 to recover, and she develops a surprising bond with her former adversary, District 8 victor Johanna Mason.

The two train together, readying themselves again for combat. Katniss is assigned to an assault squad, along with Gale, Finnick, and several others. Under the command of Boggs, the squad will not see much action in the Capitol, now rigged with deadly booby traps called pods. Boggs and Katniss both recognize this as a threat to her life, and Boggs warns Katniss not to trust the power-hungry Coin, as she is willing to do anything—including killing Katniss—to get what she wants.

The squad moves forward. How many soldiers do you know who came out of a war unscathed or empowered by the atrocities they have witnessed? How many children? This is why this book has such a great effect on me. It takes a very difficult but honest route, portraying the infinitely damaging consequences of war regardless of the righteousness of its cause and Katniss's journey to stay true to herself and do the best she can. And the love triangle resolution. Truly, it couldn't have ended any other way.

Is Mockingjay a perfectly written book? Absolutely not, it's not nearly as perfectly constructed or clear as The Hunger Games , but just like another imperfectly perfect successful series finale - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - it brings its message across in the most honest and powerful way possible.

Suzanne Collins is a genius, she is fearless and I have a great respect for the gutsiness of hers that didn't allow her to settle for an ending all wrapped up in pink paper with a perfect little bow. I am sure she knew that the faint of heart would be enraged. But she stuck to her guns and stayed true to her message and to her characters. It will probably take me months and a score of Georgia Nicolson diaries to get over it.

But I love this book anyway, in spite and because of all the pain it has caused me. It's good, and yet not good. Katniss is a different person from the first two books. I found her softer, more thoughtful, and also more open granted, she's still kind of a brat sometimes. But don't we all have our moments? This book is filled with more emotion, and I liked her best in this book, even though it's a tragedy of sorts.

Something so painful. It was a fantastic novel. I don't think I can come up with any better way for a trilogy of this kind to come to a close. The perfect note of sadness and sweetness, pain and healing all mixed up in a jumble. This book was far more severe than the first two.

Much harder to read, and with more emotional depth, I think. Sometimes I just had to close the book for a while and breathe because I needed to stop for a bit, to regroup myself so I could get through a certain part. Collins wove in a few questions to ponder. Where do you draw the line? Do you give just what you got? Is it right to kill innocent people just because the leaders on their side of the line killed innocent people on your side? Contrary to what some believe, this is not an anti-war book.

Actually, I think Collins is trying to get us to ask ourselves questions about what justifies war, and where the line should be drawn between justice and vengeance. Not that we shouldn't fight, but that we know what's worth fighting for.

Several notable characters die. The last three pages make all the heavy, intense, painfulness of the rest of the book almost worth it, in a strange way.

Bittersweet is the perfect word. Sometimes we need a little help to pick ourselves off the floor and start again. It left me feeling emotionally drained and like I'd lost something. I'm not sure if I'm shell-shocked or simply worn out by the intensity of it all. I'm glad, in a way, that it ended like it did. I'm also sad, and a little confused. Not because I didn't like the ending, but because I simply feel emptied out for the time being. I just wish I wish that there could have been more happiness for these characters that I love so much.

I think that unfulfilled wish is, at the end of the day, why I'm feeling this way right now. In time the feeling will pass, I know, but at the moment I'm sorry for it. No matter how I enjoyed this book and I did, I really did , I'm in a sort of grieving state.

Happiness was there in the end, but it just wasn't enough to compensate for all the sadness. Then again, I think that was the point. I finished Catching Fire and wanted this in my hands immediately. Not like uber-happy, of course, I'm not unrealistic I don't care! I'm not making any predictions because it feels like either my wishful thinking or my most dreaded outcome.

I can't find a balance in between. Call me weird. All I can say without bias is that the ending will not be all walkin' in a field of flowers and happiness. Khanh, first of her name, mother of bunnies. Ok, short summary. This is day 3 of my Hunger Games binge after I watched the last movie last Saturday without knowing anything about the books and not having watched any of the movies. First book.

Second book. Third book. And now that we've gotten that over with What the fuck happened to Katniss?! How did she end up being so admirable and awesome in the first two books and turned into such a sniveling, squishy mess in this one? The answer: Peeta. What the fuck happened to Peeta? Ok, fine, we know what happened to Peeta, but that doesn't make it any better because he's collateral damage.

And Katniss is the one who gets hurt with her stupid obsession of him. In this book, Gale was my favorite. He's the voice of reason. It's war, people have to die in order for there to be peace.

Because I love d? Fuck your single-mindedness, Katniss. And that ending. That stupid ending. I'm sorry, I know that life doesn't always turn out well, but dammit, Suzanne Collins, you put us through the wringer with the last two books.

I'm not sure how to react to Mockingjay. I didn't love it and I'm not sure it satisfied me, but it was a disturbing read that will stick with me. Not that the series isn't good, but I'm not longer sure it's for the masses of YA readers.

Like Catching Fire , Mockingjay took awhile for me to get into. When the pages turned into the triple digits and I wasn't hooked, I got worried it wouldn't be epic. Like Catching Fire , the stakes are upped, the gruesomeness of war more real, and the intensity more fierce.

And in the end, that was my biggest problem. In my opinion, this crossed the line with violence into shock value for the sake of shock value. Yes, it's meant to be thought-provoking and show the price of war to humanity, but at the peak of all this violence, I pulled out of the story.

I could see the questions running through her head: "What is the worst thing I could do to Katniss? What will break her the most? The death that should have hurt most hardly fazed me Primrose ; at that point, I had already shut down in a story that was working too hard to manipulate my emotions. It was Finnick's death killed me no pun intended , and it disappeared like a whisper.

It seemed like Collins picked the only character she made us care about in this book on purpose. It should have felt natural to the progression of the story, but it didn't. Primrose's death upset me because it made the whole series seem pointless, which I'm sure is the frustration Collins was going for--the futility of war, the aftereffect, the scarring, the psychological burden--but it's so under described and anticlimactic that it fell short for me. Plus, the desensitization was, in my opinion, too much.

There is a lot of bleakness in the other books in the series, but it is balanced with a humanity and hope that I think is crucial in YA fiction.

My review of Hunger Games states that Collins took an unbelievable story and made it believable. Here, she took the believable violence and cruelty of war and made it a little unbelievable for me. I struggled to find motivation from President Snow targeting children, to understand why the citizens of the capital continued to believe him, to accept that these villains could be this sadistically evil, to believe that this much could go wrong for one person, to champion Collin's bleak take on humanity.

Not that this story is any more unbelievable than The Hunger Games , but Collins delivered this one with such a numb, detached string of events that relied on violence instead of characters to deliver her message. Even more important than hope in YA is a strong character you would follow anywhere. I didn't want to follow Katniss in this story. She shut down in the end, but really she'd been shutting down the entire book. After the fiery character of the first two books, it was hard to get nothing from her especially as a first-person POV and still feel vested in the outcome of her story.

Her cold, detached comments to Peeta in particular bothered me, especially after everything he sacrificed for her. I had to keep reminding myself of all the horror she'd been through because although her detachment realistic, it bothered me. I couldn't remember why anyone wanted a self-absorbed teenager as the Mockingjay.

Without any character development from any of the characters , the story relied too heavily on action without connecting the pieces, developing those story lines, or making me care about the characters involved. I would have almost rather heard the story from a third party watching a broken Mockingjay than the emptiness with which Katniss tells her story. What I really wanted is Katniss back. I know I can't have her, but if I had to lose her, I wanted to feel heartbreak instead of nothing.

About the love triangle You need only look at the comment section to this review to know I'm a Gale fan--was a Gale fan. But I was happy with the resolution for these reasons: 1. Gale never showed up in this book, not the intense Gale hiding a painful love for Katniss that I loved.