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You really can’t appreciate The Hunger Games when you read it at a young age. Like yes I was obsessed with these books when I was younger but, when I first read them, I was younger than Prim. These characters felt like adults to me. But now, re-reading the book when I’m not only older than Prim but older than the reaping age…it puts the series into a perspective that you never see when your younger.
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moonsbypadfoot · 3 months
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'If we burn, you burn with us'
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thatrandomblogsays · 3 months
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First few pages of Hunger Games be like
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(fanart by @little-lynx )
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heavensbeehall · 3 months
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"I’ve ridden the elevator a couple of times in the Justice Building back in District 12. Once to receive the medal for my father’s death and then yesterday to say my final goodbyes to my friends and family. But that’s a dark and creaky thing that moves like a snail and smells of sour milk. The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It’s exhilarating and I’m tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish." -- Chapter 6, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
I like this bit because it reminds you that all the tributes ARE children. It also is so adorable that Katniss wants to ride it again and I wish she was able to ride all the elevators she wants. She's supposed to be childish. She's a child.
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flying-ham · 5 months
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what are gender roles like in the districts in thg? Bc katniss’ mom had to leave the town and her parents’ apothecary business for the Seam when she married mr everdeen, which would imply a patriarchal system BUT there doesn’t seem to be a division of labor between men and women. Lots of women like ripper were confirmed to work in the mines, and in other districts like 7 and 11 children of both genders work in their trade.
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monsieurenjlolras · 1 year
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gale reads theory but peeta does the dishes
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loveliesttime · 4 months
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god i forgot how much the victors bonded before the 75th games i want to fucking cry!!!
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leiaorganicsolocup · 3 months
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currently wondering if Snow wrote a book called “How to Humanize Your Tributes in Three Easy Staps” bc Effie is absolutely following his strategies
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georgiaatwarr · 11 months
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Hi, I am rereading the hungergames (4 chapters per week). Which is a good excuse to give you random quotes that I think (vaguely) support my interpretation/ headcanon of Katniss being aroace-spec. I will probably not provide explanations or context at this point, nor will the arguments necessarily be good. As this is a work in progress. (And my initial theories all stem from the movies and that one time I read the books as a 12-year-old.)
The general idea is to view the games as an analogy for heteronormativity (forcing Katniss to pretend to love a boy in order to survive).
This is not a question for counter arguments or for you to argue your ship. It’s cool if you do ship things, this is just my take on it.
Also, I still am spiritually a boomer (while physically a 21-year-old), who has no idea how this app works. So I have no idea if this will work (structurally). Excuse the chaos. (Help!)
Page numbers are from the hardcover edition.
“Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.” (Page 4.) it’s just to the cat but still.
“I watch Gale as (…) He could be my brother. (…) But we’re not related, at least not closely.” (Page 8.) this is the first description of Gale we get. Are you telling me we are supposed to ship them?
“There’s never been anything romantic between Gale and me. (…) He’s good looking, (…). You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.” (Page 18.)
“Medium height, sticky build, ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead.” (Page 25). This is the first description of Peeta we get. And I just find it to be very factual. She has no feelings or opinions about his looks. She just observes them.
“…Peeta and me to shake hands.His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it’s just a nervous spasm.” (Page 33.) Lol to this quote specifically. We learn about Peeta and Katniss’s previous interaction in childhood and Katniss talks about how she frequently caught him staring at her. She does not acknowledge this as him being interested in her, she only mentions that she feels like she owes him something.
“Finally, Gale is here and maybe there is nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don’t hesitate to go into them.” (Page 38.)
Okay those are just some quotes from the first four chapters. Idk if anyone finds this interesting. Let me know please. Should I continue posting as I read??
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meggettes · 1 year
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ok im rereading Hunger Games and Peeta is an absolute
King
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septemberkisses · 3 months
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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.
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rosegardeninwinter · 4 months
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we have reason to believe that Snow never hears Katniss sing The Hanging Tree (it airing at all is a movie invention—in the book they never use Katniss’s singing of it for a propo; I checked—and it’s not even confirmed in the movies that he’s hearing it), but those are not the only songs Lucy Gray sings … and can you imagine the slow creeping paranoia beginning to crawl back up his spine when Katniss honors Rue in much the way Sejanus honored Marcus … when she then begins to sing Deep in the Meadow, Maude Ivory’s song … when Peeta tells the story of how he fell for his girl, when she was singing, of all things, the Valley Song … not to mention all the references to mockingjays throughout the first arena (whose idea was that?) … oh, it’s delicious … the first similarity Snow could dismiss as mere coincidence (it’s not uncommon, we know, for tributes to stay with a dying peer), the second, as a product of an insular backwoods culture (right? RIGHT?) but by the third … he must have felt a ghost-chill on the back of his neck … and I LOVE it … Snow lands on top, but as soon as that burning chariot burst out of the night, he should have known … his time was up
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thatrandomblogsays · 3 months
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How the reaping went:
Effie: now for the boy tribute….
Katniss: please don’t be Gale, please don’t be Gale, please don’t be Gale, there’s only one boy I can’t handle killing and it’s—
Effie: Peeta Mellark
Katniss: … there are two boys I can’t handle killing
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heavensbeehall · 4 months
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"Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. We might do a tad better elsewhere, but we make an effort to keep on good terms with Greasy Sae. She’s the only one who can consistently be counted on to buy wild dog. We don’t hunt them on purpose, but if you’re attacked and you take out a dog or two, well, meat is meat. “Once it’s in the soup, I’ll call it beef,” Greasy Sae says with a wink." -- "The Hunger Games," Chapter 1 by Suzanne Collins
Does anyone subscribe to the Greasy Sae = Lucy Gray theory? Why or why not?
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meme-sauce · 1 year
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Look if media companies want to milk as much money out of us as possible, they need to start doing two parters instead of half assed sequels. Like have an overarching plan - if the cliff hanger or set up isn’t enough to entice us, welp it’s a flop and try again. Better than everything being a fucking remake or sequel or prequel. Not that I don’t love those but they aren’t the only structures in story telling you know
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monsieurenjlolras · 1 year
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I forgot how autistic katniss is in the books. God I love her
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