Posted on 11/24/2013 6:08:45 PM PST by Bratch
And after two hunger games described, who is the one person who actually never kills anybody? It is Peta.Peta doesn't kill because Katniss kills for him.Catniss kills people; the book struggles to suggest that the people she kills were “worthy” of it, in one case they have already killed someone and she kills in response, but other times she kills kids who have never killed anybody simply because they are hanging with others who kill — remember every one of them but one will end up dead, after all).
Otherwise he'd be dead.
My teen daughter read the book “Divergent” when it first came out. Soon to be a movie. She just got the second book that just came out.
I read something about the author - IIRC her first book came about because of a pyschology class she was taking. She was supposed to do an essay about “who she is”, and she went much farther and kept a journal of her musings on it, and then started writing it into a “story”, but for her own use at first. Or something like that.
But, I imagine that is why the teen girls like it - here is young woman writing about trying to figure out “who she is”, and with a very personal story that is common to all.
He doesn’t ASK her to kill for him, He is what appears to be a pacifist. That becomes more clear in the 3rd book.
Yes, he would be dead, but he planned to be dead. Of course, he also planned to do so in a way that would help Catniss win. So I think it would be wrong to say he was truly opposed to the idea of people being killed, just that he could not bring himself to kill people — he doesn’t specifically tell Catniss NOT to kill anybody.
I say this all because, in the first book, he had a clear opportunity to kill the 4 people most likely to be the death of Catniss. But he refused to do so. Of course, had he done so, then other people we think of as the “good contestants” would have eventually had to kill somebody, and Catniss might have actually had to end up killing somebody that was seen as “not evil”.
Like I said, the author went through some considerable contortions to ensure that Catniss didn’t kill anybody that the average reader would feel was unworthy of death.
Have you seen this?
Incite Your Passion with the Instigator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC8PqBKHrXA
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