Categories | Growing Up & Facts of Life |
Author | Suzanne Collins |
Publisher | Scholastic Press; First Edition (February 25, 2014) |
Language | English |
Paperback | 400 pages |
Item Weight | 12 ounces |
Dimensions |
5.26 x 0.79 x 9.1 inches |
I. Book introduction
Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series, following 2008’s The Hunger Games and 2009’s Catching Fire. The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to unify the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.
The hardcover and audiobook editions of Mockingjay were published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010, six days after the ebook edition went on sale. The book sold 450,000 copies in the first week of release, exceeding the publisher’s expectations. It received critical acclaim. The book has been adapted into a two-part movie, with the first part released on November 21, 2014, and the second part released on November 20, 2015.
Plot
Following Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen, her mother, her sister Primrose Everdeen, mentor Haymitch Abernathy, and her friends Finnick Odair, Beetee and Gale Hawthorne, along with the survivors from District 12, adjust to life underground in District 13, headquarters of the rebellion in Panem. Katniss reluctantly agrees to be the “Mockingjay” – the symbol of the rebellion – for rebel propaganda, on the condition that District 13’s President Alma Coin grants immunity to all surviving Hunger Games tributes, including Katniss’s friend Peeta Mellark and Finnick’s lover Annie Cresta, and agrees that Katniss will have the right to personally execute Panem President Coriolanus Snow. Katniss is sent to a hospital in District 8 to film the destruction that the Capitol has inflicted, and while Haymitch orders her to retreat as soon as a raid begins, she stays behind and fights before giving a speech that is broadcast in all twelve districts. The Capitol tortures Peeta to demoralize Katniss. A rescue team extracts Peeta along with the other captured victors, Johanna and Enobaria, but discovers that he has been brainwashed. He attempts to kill Katniss before being restrained while medics seek a cure. Finnick and Annie marry.
Katniss and Gale are sent to persuade District 2 to join the rebellion. Gale’s strategy results in a decisive victory over District 2, enabling a final assault against the Capitol itself. Katniss is assigned to a squad and sent with a film crew to shoot propaganda in the Capitol. President Coin also sends Peeta, still dangerous and unpredictable; Katniss suspects Coin wants her dead for her lack of support and growing influence. While filming in a supposedly safe Capitol neighborhood, the team’s commander Boggs is fatally wounded; before dying, he gives Katniss the team’s command. She decides to infiltrate the Capitol and kill Snow, telling her team that this was Coin’s secret plan; she later reveals the lie, but the team sticks with her. In the ensuing urban warfare, many of Katniss’s comrades are killed, including Finnick who is devoured by genetically-modified reptiles. As the last of her squad reaches Snow’s mansion, a hovercraft bearing the Capitol seal drops bombs among a group of children being used as human shields. Rebel medics, including Prim, rush in to help the injured children, and the remaining bombs detonate. Prim is killed, and Katniss sustains severe burns.
As she recuperates, Katniss, profoundly depressed over her sister’s death, learns the rebels have taken over the Capitol and Snow is to be publicly executed. She confronts Snow, who claims that Coin orchestrated the bombing to turn Snow’s remaining supporters against him, reminding Katniss of how District 13 benefited from the revolution and of their promise never to lie to each other. Horrified, Katniss realizes Gale had earlier proposed a similar tactic. She becomes convinced that, rather than establishing a democracy, Coin intends to take Snow’s place and maintain the status quo. Coin hosts a referendum for the remaining Victors on whether to host another Hunger Games for the Capitol children. Although three, including Peeta, are against the plan, Katniss, Haymitch, Johanna, and Enobaria outvote them. Katniss votes yes in order to get Coin to think that she was on her side, for Katniss realized that Prim’s death was caused by Coin (Coin sent Prim to her death knowing that the bombs would kill her in the battle in an effort to gain Katniss’s support, for Katniss had a strong influence over the citizens of Panem).
At Snow’s execution, Katniss is supposed to carry out the death sentence, but goes rogue and shoots Coin instead. She immediately attempts suicide, but Peeta stops her, and she is arrested in the ensuing riot. Snow is later found dead, and rebel Commander Paylor of District 8 takes over as president. Katniss is acquitted of murder by reason of insanity and sent home to District 12, while her mother leaves for District 4 and Gale for District 2. Other District 12 natives later return, including Peeta, who has recovered his memories and his love for Katniss. She embraces him, recognizing her need for his hope and strength. Together, they write a book to preserve the memory of those who died. Though still suffering nightmares from the entire ordeal, they comfort each other.
Twenty years later, Katniss and Peeta are married and have two children. Under Paylor’s administration, the Hunger Games are abolished with the arenas replaced by memorials. Katniss is happy with her new life and her family, but still carries mental and emotional scars, and dreads the day her children learn about their parents’ involvement in the war and the Games. She tells her young daughter that when she feels distressed, she plays a comforting, repetitive game: reminding herself of every good thing she has ever seen someone do. The series ends with Katniss’s reflection that there are much worse games to play.
About the Author (Suzanne Collins)
Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is best known as the author of the young adult dystopian book series The Hunger Games. She is also the author of the children’s fantasy series The Underland Chronicles.
Suzanne Collins graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham in 1980 as a Theater Arts major. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1985 with a double major in theater and telecommunications. In 1989, Collins earned her Master of Fine Arts in dramatic writing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Suzanne Collins began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television shows. She worked on several shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, Oswald and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!. She was also the head writer for the PBS spin-off Clifford’s Puppy Days. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed 2001 Christmas special, Santa, Baby! After meeting children’s author James Proimos while working on the Kids’ WB show Generation O!, Collins felt inspired to write children’s books herself.
Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester.
II. Reviewer: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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1. TATIANA reviews Mockingjay
I keep switching the rating of this book from 5 to 4 to 5 again, changing my opinion with each reread. On the one hand, it has so many wise things to say about war, propaganda, grief, trauma and healing. It touches and breaks my heart every time, like very few books do. But, on the other hand, there is a large chunk of this novel (in part 3 mainly), that objectively makes almost no logical sense. I wish Collins took more time to work it to perfection, like she did with the first two.
Going back to 5 again. For that epilogue. And cat.
P.S. This reread just makes me even more skeptical about what a story about Snow has to offer, in comparison to this one.
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Update 11/28/14. So, of course I had to read it again after getting only half of the story from the Mockingjay movie. Unsurprisingly, cried and cried again. My feelings basically remain the same about this installment. Structurally, the novel is quite messy. There is such a big game going on and Katniss’ motivations and actions don’t always make sense to me. But the ending is brilliant, especially the final chapters.
I need something to cheer me up ASAP.
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Let’s face it, a series is only as good as its last book. Is a kitchen towel drenched in my tears a good indicator of the quality of Mockingjay? I think it is, considering that I am not a crying-over-books type. I think this book is a FANTASTIC ending of a FANTASTIC series.
The book is lying next to me now, so deceitful in appearance, with its innocent, bright, cheerful cover. Who knew there would be so much darkness hidden between its pages, so much heartache? Mockingjay is indeed a DARK, DARK book full of deaths, sacrifices, torture, betrayal and despair, a book which takes you to a very disturbing but very real place.
I have no doubt the novel will have thousands of readers livid, especially the crowd of readers who mistakenly think The Hunger Games trilogy is mostly dedicated to Team Gale/Team Peeta dilemma with some revolt thrown in as a picturesque backdrop. These books are about love indeed, but they are also about survival, freedom, and peace.
I find it amazing that people are disappointed that Katniss doesn’t take a Katniss-becomes-a-superwoman-and-takes-over-the-world-while-deciding-on-which-boy-to-pick route. How realistic is it to expect a child damaged by hunger, oppression, and violence she had to witness and take a part in, and thrown into the midst of all kinds of political intrigue, to achieve that? 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.
The question now is how will I recover from PTSD of my own caused by Mockingjay? 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.
Real.
2. HANNAH AZERANG reviews Mockingjay
rereading this all these years later (and for the first time as an adult) has given me a newfound understanding for just how profound this series is. i’ve always loved these books, and they’ve always been deeply impactful, but i feel like i’m seeing them for the first time through new eyes.
i’ll talk about the series in depth eventually, but for now, i just need to cry.
3. KAT reviews Mockingjay
anyone who said this books didn’t do THAT is incorrect (i respect ur opinion but also im trying to type this while crying so let me be aggressive) did she drag in the middle? maybe. do i refuse to acknowledge the epilogue? yes. but chapter 27 is where it’s at and i will not hear any disagreements thank u and goodnight.
4. KAELA reviews Mockingjay
Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games Trilogy. For a year, I had been anxiously waiting to read the about the adventures of the rebels, the hopefully happy ending. How wrong was I. There is an ending – but it is not as happy as most expected it to be. The rebels fought, they won. But in a sense, Collin’s shows us that when violence is used to such extremes, no one wins; yes, a winner is declared – but the sadness and loss of both sides proves that no one really wins in war. While reading this book, I felt almost as depressed as a sober Haymitch.
There is a lot of death throughout the book (I sobbed at Finnick’s). However, even though there is so much death in this book, most of it comes to new characters; the leader of district 13, Coin; Bogg, one of Katniss’s bodyguards; mostly new or unknown characters that pass on. But alot of the death-related sadness in the book comes not from individual characters, but more from Katniss’s vivid description of the mass homicide that they are left with at the end of the war. The group of children murdered on President Snow’s doorstep – Prim included. The workers trapped in the Nut, a mountain in district two. The hospital burned down in district eight. That, more than anything, sets such a depressing tone.
In my opinion, however, it wasn’t death that made such a sad air around the book. Some of the tortures make it worse. Peeta’s hijacking, Finnick’s molestation, Johanna’s physical pain. And to top the list, Katniss – expected to be the rock strong Mockingjay when all of this happens around her. All this pain that she goes though, and so much more, should make her deserve a happy life afterwards. However, instead of in the company of her surviving friends and family, she finds herself alone, in a burned-down district, sitting by the fire in her Victor’s house. That, more that anything, saddens the reader. When Katniss deserves someone with her, to make her feel less alone, the only person to console her is herself. Yes, in the end she and Peeta end up together. But during the book, she is always alone.
Even though this book is a far departure from the first two books, I believe that Suzanne saved her own series. She, like Cinna, made sure that no one would forget the ‘girl on fire’. When so many books have slightly bittersweet endings, this book is much heavier on the bitter, distinguishing itself from so many others. There is no Disney ending to the Hunger Games, and I believe that if there was one than it would ruin the message of the series.
Suzanne Collins created her third bittersweet masterpiece, completeing one of the most different and best trilogies in YA Fiction today.
**note** its beautiful writing, too. suzanne collins has a gorgeous voice.
5. VIKRAM RATHOD reviews Mockingjay
My first triology book series in life.
I am 23 years old, before hunger games I was not into reading novels, or any kind of books other than academic reading.
Earlier I was thinking that reading novels is waste you get nothing out of it, but hunger games showed me reality.
After first movie of hunger games, I thought let’s try book.
Next day I purchased book and in a week i completed all three books it was soo good story for me, I cried when “Finnic” died.
All books were over and I felt same vibration in my body as I was child and playing cricket in field and my summer vacation was near end,
A feeling that after two days there will be schools and I won’t be able to play in field anymore.
When I read THE END, i felt that from tomorrow there will be no more of Katniss, there will be no more to read about HUNGER GAMES.
And in real life after that feeling, my family moved from village to city and I was not able to feel that vibration again until I read HUNGER GAMES.
Thanks Suzanne for bringing HUNGER GAMES in my l
6. SAMANTHA reviews Mockingjay
Love this one
Now, I had re-read this back in 2018 and then re-read it again in 2022. I had already written my review for it in 2018 in my journal, so I have to go by memory now on what happened when I read it 2 years ago.
So emotional. Both the book and the movie. I’m really amazed at how much of the book they kept in the movie. I feel like this is my favorite book out of all of them. Even then parts where they were just talking or planning, I was hooked.
The pacing was perfect, the emotions were tugging at my heart strings, I grew more attached to the characters, and I was devastated when bad things happened. This whole series is fantastic and I’m so glad that it was turned into movies.
There’s not much left to be said without spoiling anything and while it’s hard to think that there are people who haven’t read these books or seen the movies, just know that when I got to the end, I wanted to throw the book.
Near the ending, I wanted to throw the book, but I couldn’t because I was using my kindle. So, if you’re thinking about reading this series, just know that this book is just begging to hit the wall.
Thank you for reading my review!
7. LYNNS77 reviews Mockingjay
The Real Enemy
After the Quarter Quell Katniss Everdeen has become the symbol of the rebellion and was rescued from the arena. She learned that Plutarch Heavensbee and Haymitch had planned with other former Victors to keep Peeta and Katniss alive as to be the future faces of the rebellion, but Peeta and Katniss weren’t in on the plot. Peeta was lost to the Capitol in the process, and District 12 was destroyed. Fortunately for the gaining the cooperation of the future Mockingjay, Gale had managed to rescue Prim and Katniss’ mother before the bombing of their district.
Katniss was not fond of President Coin, the leader of the rebellion, but she agreed to cooperate with the stipulations that the victors that were taken into custody by the Capitol be pardoned when the war was over and that Katniss be the one to kill President Snow.
Katniss, Gale, Finnick and and Johanna were trained as soldiers and to use new and exciting weapons, and Katniss still had part of her prep team from the game left to help her prepare for promotion shots. She had everyone except Peeta and then she sees him on television and realizes he has been tortured by the people at the Capitol. It hurts Katniss so badly that she is unable to be the face of the rebellion, so a rescue mission is staged to save Peeta.
When Peeta returns they realize he has been made into a weapon to be used against Katniss, but Primrose believes that he can be saved and turned back into the old Peeta.
When Katniss, Gale, Finnick and other soldiers go into the Capitol originally for the purpose of doing promos, they get caught in an ambush and Katniss’ beloved guard is killed. Commander Boggs transfers control to Katniss before he dies and tells her that he knows she is there to kill Snow and gives her his approval.
The last dangerous game the Victors will ever need to play will be in the streets of the Capitol and Peeta may be one of their greatest risks. Katniss is willing to take that risk and will not leave him behind to be captured again by the Capitol.
This last dramatic and soul searing book is a fitting end to this exciting, young adult series. Katniss Everdeen the girl on fire who had all of Panem entranced, started a rebellion and held the hearts of two young men was a fresh and powerful leading lady worthy of anyone admiration. Bravo Suzanne Collins.
8. BREANNE reviews Mockingjay
Peeta, Johanna, Enobria, and Annie are captured by the Capitol. Katniss, Finnick, and Beetee are in District 13, a district they once thought was long gone. President Coin, the leader of the rebellion, is unsure of Plutarch’s decision that Katniss is the Mockingjay. She believes they should have saved Peeta. District 12 was destroyed, but Katniss’s family made it out alive thanks to Gale. Katniss must prove to Coin that she is worthy to be the Mockinjay, but with the terrors that haunt her, it almost seems impossible. Are they able to save Peeta and the others? Does Katniss prove she is worthy to be the Mockinjay? Can the rebellion succeed? Find out in The Mockingjay.
I loved this book like the others. You can envision the scenes that the characters are in and the character’s feelings are realistic. Many are lost by the end of the book. Some of the losses upset me. Overall, it’s a good end to the series.
9. KHURRAM reviews Mockingjay
This book is a page turner; the revolution is in full swing. Katniss must accept the responsibility of becoming the Mockingjay, the symbol of the revelation. The main problem I have with this book is similar to the first book. Many of the battle scenes do not make sense to me. They are as confused as Katniss’ mental state. As interesting as the book was to read, I just could not give it 5 stars simply for the confusion of so many of the scenes. Other thing that do not make sense is the rebels are using machine guns on the hover crafts but it is not till Gale and Katness with bow and arrows (exploding arrows) start shooting the things down that they start to do any damage. How do you miss with a machine gun? Apart from this moment, Katniss is pretty inept in most of the battles, a bit disappointing. There are many twists and turns, and everyone has their agenda. These keep things interesting. The thing the author got right is Katniss herself. She is forced to grow up and harden herself to the world, but her emotions have not quite caught up. The good thing about this is that there is a definitive ending.
10. MAUREEN reviews Mockingjay
This series will never get old for me – it’s fantastic.
I like the ending a lot better after rereading it I have to say!
reread for podcast – still just as amazing. still holds up!!
III. Mockingjay Quotes by Suzanne Collins
The best book quotes from Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
“He understands I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.”
““Fire is catching!” I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. “And if we burn, you burn with us!””
“And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.”
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
“Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
“You’re still trying to protect me. Real or not real,” he whispers.
“Real,” I answer. “Because that’s what you and I do, protect each other.”“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
“Finnick?” I say, “Maybe some pants?”
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. “Why? Do you find this” — he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose — “distracting?”
I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”“You’re a painter. You’re a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
“I must have loved you a lot.”
“Some walks you have to take alone.”
“There are much worse games to play.”
“I clench his hands to the point of pain. “Stay with me.”
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. “Always,” he murmurs.”“Ally.” Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. “Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I’ll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.”
“Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
“Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here.
No stranger would let it be if we met up
At midnight in the hanging tree.”“Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.”
“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.”
“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
“That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.”
“Closing my eyes doesn’t help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
“They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
“At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. “Your favorite colour . . . it’s green?”
“That’s right.” Then I think of something to add. “And yours is orange.”
“Orange?” He seems unconvinced.
“Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset,” I say. “At least, that’s what you told me once.”
“Oh.” He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. “Thank you.”
But more words tumble out. “You’re a painter. You’re a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”“I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta’s eyes, only now they hold my gaze. Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock.
“Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.
“I can’t,” he says.”“She’s not here,” I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. “She’s not here. You can hiss all you like. You won’t find Prim.” At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. “Get out!” He dodges the pillow I throw at him. “Go away! There’s nothing left for you here!” I start to shake, furious with him. “She’s not coming back! She’s never ever coming back here again!” I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. “She’s dead, you stupid cat. She’s dead.”
“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
“I knew you’d kiss me.”
“How?” I say. Because I didn’t know myself.
“Because I am in pain,” He say’s. “That’s the only way I get your attention.”“There’s a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don’t give up on him.”
“What about Gale?”
“He’s not a bad kisser either,” I say shortly.
“And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?” He asks.
“No. It wasn’t okay with either of you. But I wasn’t asking your permission,” I tell him.
Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. “Well, you’re a piece of work, aren’t you?”“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”
“Finnick!” Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman–dark tangled hair, sea green eyes–runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. “Finnick!” And suddenly, it’s as if there’s no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.
A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.”“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can’t grow wings,” he say’s. “Real or not real?”
“Real,” I say. “But people don’t need wings to survive.”
“Mockingjays do.”“I roll my eyes. “So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?”
“No, about six months before that. Right after New Year’s. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae’s. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized…I minded.”“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”
“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.”
“Is that why you hate me?” I ask.
“Partly,” She admits. “Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you’re a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn’t an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.”
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