Potentially A Hot Take But Something All The Theories About People Being Someone's Relative (eg, The

Potentially a hot take but something all the theories about people being someone's relative (eg, the man that started the riot in 11 after rue died being her dad) tells me about the hunger games fandom is that so many people believe it's literally not possible to care about someone that you don't know just because they're human and being treated unjustly

Weiner dog wearing armor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival (2002)

Reading Mockingjay as an adult is extra devastating because. Of course the plucky teenager and her ragtag friends aren't going to sneak into a government building to kill the president with a bow and arrow. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's the kind of thing that's only possible in the kind of propaganda that Coin developed. But she's so good at it that in some ways she tricks the reader into thinking that's the kind of story this is, too--even after 3 books reminding us that pretty much everything that Katniss does the second she volunteers is manipulated by adults pulling strings to make propaganda in some form or another.

Zendaya at the 2024 Met Gala

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