For everyone’s safety, the crew sets up an around-the-clock guard on Peeta. For now, that might mean turning Katniss into a martyr. Coin wants to remain in power after the revolution, and if Katniss isn’t going to support Coin’s leadership, then Coin will use her in whatever way she can to give the rebellion momentum. Boggs, the unit leader, promises to keep Peeta contained but does confide in Katniss that Coin probably does see Katniss as a threat. He would not just be like "idc about the kids, just gonna vote like Katniss cause yeah".Katniss believes that Coin must really want her dead. Besides, the fact that Haymitch voted accordingly (note the scene with Katniss running to his rooms earlier to tell him something important), could only mean that he knew something changed and she had a plan. She had to prove her only purpose now was to kill Snow, thus she would have her bow and arrow during the execution and in the presence of Coin, who had to believe Katniss was on her side. In the chapters leading to the execution, Katniss was worried that she would not be allowed to do it. She only voted "yes" because she figured out Coin's plan and because she knew that those Games would never happen. This, I think, was a purely calculated move: even enraged and vengeful Katniss would never really consent to sending kids like Prim and Rue to the Games. Apart from this, if Katniss were sure Snow was behind the killing of the children and the medics, with Prim among them, she would pay much less attention to Coin's persona and all the rest of the candidates on the position of the president (according to Boggs, Coin was afraid Katniss' word in favor of another candidate could endanger her securing her presidency).Ībout why Katniss said "yes" while voting. Perhaps, the "last Hunger Games" plan was formed a long while ago and Coin knew Katniss to be much more of an emotional/impulsive person than a calculated one so killing Prim was a way to ensure Katniss' "revenge" vote on the "last Games". Also, partly this could be a form of punishment for Katniss' disobeying Coin's orders (to die, essentially). I think after Coin's plan of killing off Katniss by sending Peeta to join her crew failed, Coin desperately needed Katniss to be on her side and she needed her to be enraged. I think the intricate details in these series were simply perfect. Katniss needed Peeta, who is quite possibly the strongest character in the whole book as he never lost his gentleness in the face of all he went through. Gale could have never been emotionally available enough to bring her back to life, especially considering the fact that it was his strategy that was used and he was suffering as well. He almost needed a female version of Peeta to soften his edges a bit and Katniss could never be that for him after all that she had been through. Personally, I feel like Gale was consumed with guilt for the death of Prim, for one, and for two, was incredibly traumatized himself. And since I'm this far along, maybe somebody else will be reading these books in 2018 and will wonder about how Katniss and Gale ended up. ![]() Prim represented the ultimate good, her death being a part of that. Finnick and the others would have died for no reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katniss would have never known that Coin was responsible for those heinous acts if Prim were still alive. Suzanne Collins knew what she was doing there - Snow was about to be replaced with a woman who had no problem bombing innocent children when the war was clearly over at that point. Coin could have risen to great power and wrought havoc on Panem. If she wasn't on the front lines that day, Katniss might not have killed Coin instead of Snow. If it helps, Primrose didn't die in vain. Paylor was the right one for the job all along. Coin never intended for Katniss to hear the truth from Snow, she meant for the whole thing to look like Snow arranged for.Īlso, I think a detail people overlook is that it was Paylor who gave permission for Katniss to encounter Snow - perhaps Paylor knew what Coin had done and wanted Katniss to hear the truth about Coin. Coin did that because she knew that Katniss wouldn't tolerate her presidency, as she was essentially another version of Snow. I feel like Coin put Primrose in that situation on purpose, knowing full-well that she was going to use one of Gale's strategy that bombs the first crowd, then bombs the first responders "drawing on human compassion" I believe it was referred to as in the book.
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