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What bothers me is all the people who latch onto her as some kind of childfree icon because she said she didn't want kids and ignore the fact that the whole reason she didn't want kids was that she didn't want to risk them having to take part in the Hunger Games. Take that away, and who knows what she would want. Apparently she changed her mind. I realize that it's annoying as a trend that all female characters have to grow up and get married and have kids, but you don't have to take that out on every individual character.

But then I'm not one of those people who has turned the fact that I don't want kids into part of my identity.

Yes, I was just thinking this exact thing the other day. It's like people have no sense of context whatsoever. Wow no, folks, Katniss isn't "childfree" for the same reasons that you (presumably) cite for yourself. And I too refuse to make not wanting kids a part of my identity. It's just a choice that I've made, sure it'll set my life apart from others but I'd really prefer to be defined by more substantial qualities.

I saw the end of the last book as a birth / death juxtaposition thing. By that time, we'd slogged through death, death and more death in the trilogy, and finally, the death of the old system of the Capitol and the Districts happens. If I recall correctly, Katniss' children are playing in fields that she and Peeta haven't yet told them are essentially graveyards / over ashes and bones. I saw it as a need for the new (children who knew nothing of the Hunger Games) to create a new and possibly more hopeful world.

I don't know... I just saw it as far less as "The badass female must marry and become a mother to find happiness" (she's still messed up) and more of a death --> birth symbolism for that world.

OMG yes. Personally I loved the epilogue (and Peeta and Katniss/Peeta) and don't care about people who hate all of that. (I mean, Mockingjay itself was pretty badly written, but the way the whole series ended was overall as "happy" as it could be for me.) But anyway, before I stopped listening to the haters, that was the main complaint I saw and it just struck me as a complete lack of reading comprehension and projection of their own issues. It's in fact the exact opposite of anti-feminist, seeing as how feminism should be about ensuring women the safety and freedom to make individual choices about what's best for their lives and families.

It's awful quick to expect the world to be better after a revolution, though. It generally sucks as infrastructures are rebuilt, normally shoddily, rebuilt again and so on. The Hunger Games being gone does not grant her children automatically better lives.

That said: I do think it's possible that she changed her mind, I just think it's unlikely it's because the Hunger Games are over. Possibly Peeta made a home situation and stuck alongside her long enough that she could start to see it's possible.