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⌈ Secret Post #2524 ⌋

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Comments

[silverau]

This!

Katniss spends the entire series wishing the violence would end and wishing she could just have a peaceful life with her family. When she DOES choose to fight at the end of Mockingjay, it's not because she enjoys fighting but because she's overwhelmed with anger and vengeance, and also partially because she doesn't want to be a symbol of something without actually doing any work. Not to mention the fact that the war is over by the end of the book, anyway. There's no NEED to fight, and while Panem probably still has some kind of a military, Katniss would have no reason to still be involved with it. Like, neither she nor the military would allow that. She had just assassinated the President; the only reason she wasn't executed was because she was mentally unstable - there's no way they'd let her in the military after that. And even if they would, Katniss would hate that. From the very beginning of the story, she's hated being subject to authority. This along with the fact that she probably still has a grudge against the military for its role in Primrose's death.

So, yeah. I get not wanting to contribute to sexist trends in media, but at some point you have to look at what's best for the individual story. No matter what Katniss's gender was, having her continue to be a fighter would make absolutely zero sense. The only complaint I understand about the ending (from a feminist perspective) is that Katniss was childfree but Peeta persuades her into having kids. But even then, the only reason she gives for not wanting kids is that any kids she would have would end up in the Hunger Games, and by the end of the book that doesn't apply anymore. So that doesn't really bother me either.

[(Anonymous)]

It says something that when looking for "a peaceful, normal life" everyone always jumps to Somewhere That's Green.

There could have been dozens of happy endings that could have been used to represent normal, from a storytelling perspective. She could have been a hap-hap-happy pig farmer with tons of close loving friends.

The choices aren't firing a canon or becoming a baby canon (pew pew pew! Fire out those 2.5 normal tokens) there are plenty of options other than that. To me, automatically associating "I want to be normal" with "I want to be married" is limiting and sad. There's nothing wrong with being married! But it's just one of many normal options, not the only option. So why should it be the only option for fictional ladies?