Epiloge

[booklover]

So what did you guys think of the epiloge (spelling fail...) ? I thought it was kinda nice how it told that Katniss stayed with Peeta and they had a kid. But my friends thought it was kinda creepy for some reason

[GirlOnFire]

I thought it was good. I kind of wish Suzanne Collins hadn't put it there, so it would be open for further sequels. Too many loose ends unfulfilled.

[booklover]

what do you mean?

[drasticbarbie]

Much like the epi in Harry Potter, I could have done without this one. Partly because I didn't care for Peeta, and didn't want the series to end that way, and partly because I like fanfic. I like loose ends tied up, but also like some openings so that fanfic doesn't have to go against canon because a writer saw it ending a different way.

[RickJM]

It reeked of the publisher interference. Actually, I think the whole last chapter reeked of publisher interference (but that's another post).

[brunax5]

I loved it, and that's comming from someone who was left traumatized by Harry Potter's epilogue. I thought it was extremelly necessary because it ended the book that was so raw and violent on a hopeful note.

[Shadow2012]

I didn't like it at all. I agree, sounded like publisher interference. I get that by having Katniss give in to children was kind of a hope for the future, and giving up of fear, thing. But I felt like it was another sign of weakness in Katniss, and deviated from the thing that Plutarch alluded to that life is cyclic, and people have a thing for destroying themselves - - basically that one day, there will be death and war again. I think Katniss would have seemed stronger in the end if she held on to her one conviction from the very start of the story, that she'd never have children. She had this conviction long before all her trauma.

[Avox]

I don't have a great love for epilogues. I don't think that I've ever read one that I liked.
The Hunger Games' one was actually terrible. I don't understand how it was realistic. If some one could please enlighten me to how it was, I'd love to hear it.
I don't understand why Katniss was allowed to be happy.

[Peeta Mellark]

Why do you say Katniss should never be happy again?


And it's not as if it was all flowers and happiness after the epilogue. The nightmares stayed. She has to explain to her kids she killed people and that she overthrew a system and caused thousands of deaths. She has to deal with the loss of Prim. It's not all happiness.

[Avox]

I'll re-phrase it. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh.
She had a positive ending.

And I don't think that she deserved what she got. She definitely didn't deserve Peeta. I think that she should have ended up like Haymitch. Personally, I would find that to be much more realistic.