[ SECRET POST #2547 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2547 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

but op said they did get why a child dying would be terrible

just that rue as a character didn't compel them

[likeadeuce]

Ok, you're right, it's probably a troll.

[(Anonymous)]

Because...the character didn't compel them?

Not liking a certain character is pretty low on the list of 'horrible unpopular opinions'

[likeadeuce]

Because they are pretending to be confused by people being compelled by the death of a character, as though they must be 'missing something.'

[(Anonymous)]

It's completely possible to 'miss something' about the death of a character in a fictional work, especially if they felt the character was a plot device or not developed well.

[likeadeuce]

Agree to disagree!

[(Anonymous)]

You're saying it's not possible to miss something?

Yeah, I'm not arguing with you anymore.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

More specifically, confused that people are so much more compelled by her death than anyone else's.


*spoilers for Mockingjay*




There are a fuckton of deaths in THG, and it seems like the only ones that upset anyone are Rue, Cinna, Prim and Finnick's. The latter three make sense because they are more main and their deaths were shocking. The fan reaction to Rue's death confuses me, (all the "I cried my eyes out every moment she was onscreen" type comments) because I haven't seen many people express even a tenth of the amount of sadness over the deaths of people like Foxface, Thresh, Madge, Darius, Wiress, Lavinia, Boggs, Portia etc who all had a similar amount of development and page or screen-time.

Maybe it is just the being younger thing. Which I just personally don't really respond to when it's fictional.

Re: OP

[likeadeuce]

I feel like you're inventing this competition about whose death is most important and it's not something that's actually being expressed by other people but whatever.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, yes I'll admit I don't exactly have a graph showing how every single fan responded to every single death, but the general trend I've witnessed seems to be that MOST people were more upset by Rue's death than anyone else's. Which is fine. It's just not my opinion, which is why I made a secret. It's not like I'm telling everyone "stop whining about Rue, her death wasn't sad!"

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Rue's death comes much earlier in the series, and is the first "heroic" character we see developed who dies on screen. Add in the fact that she's emotionally important to the narrator, adn her death is going to stick out more than others.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe because people liked those characters, we get to see quite a bit about these characters compared to others, they're popular characters and generally when people's favourites die they get sad.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

And yet I don't remember who half the people you listed in the last part of your spoiler paragraph are. If they're from Mockingjay, the quality of that whole book was worse than the first two, so I'm not surprised people found the characters less memorable than one who died in the first book.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

There's also the very human reaction that one death is a tragedy, and a thousand deaths are a statistic. It's the difference between a specific upset and a general upset.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

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Madge's death was terrible. :( I know that she expected to die in the Quarter Quell, but still. I really hoped that she would make it.

That said, the difference between Rue and the characters you listed at the end is also that we get Katniss' reaction to the death and her grief. The reader/viewer gets a front row seat to her mourning this little person that she loved even though she knew her only for a short time, while with the others it's a moment of shock but then she gets her act together.

[(Anonymous)]

Total mind reader, aren't you?