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A place to share everything that it’s in my 🫀 mostly thg stuff ;) Updates & News of “Sunrise on the reaping” 📰

[everlarksupremacy]

Just a reminder that Gale’s good looks have to be pointed out to Katniss or are conveyed as a report about what others says about him, but Peeta’s good looks are noticed by her unprompted.

[dandelionsunset1210]

She has KEPT TRACK of the boy with the bread

[everlarksupremacy]

I think one of my favorite things about the SOTR epilogue is that the ONE new piece of Peeta lore we got is he knows how to build shit 🛠️

[katnissmellarkkk]

our one piece of new lore is peeta is the one who fixes things that break around the house, not katniss 😭

[electrictouchfob]

"Peeta!"

"Yes, love?"

"I broke the chair leg again."

"Be right there..."

[dandelionsunset1210]

There’s constantly a tab open in my brain that’s thinking about “but Peeta wanted them so badly.” But today it hit me, what if we read it differently?

Often it gets lumped into a cause and effect with the sentence before it. It took me five, ten, fifteen years to agree, but Peeta wanted them so badly. We read it as if she’s saying that Peeta wanting them was the reason she agreed.

Except that’s not how it’s written. It’s It took me five, ten, fifteen years to agree. Full stop. New thought. But Peeta wanted them so badly.

She’s presenting two separate perspectives on having children. Two potentially contrasting perspectives. It’s not I needed convincing, but Peeta wore me down. It’s I was hesitant, Peeta was certain. She’s showing the difference in the way they each see the world. Where she saw everything that could go wrong, Peeta saw the good. And where else do we see this?

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.”

It’s just a page before the epilogue for us as the readers but for her it’s almost 20 years later, yet the sentiment still remains. So what if “but Peeta wanted them so badly” isn’t just “he convinced me”? At least not in the negative way it’s sometimes taken.

It’s an “I told you so”. She’s checking in decades later to let us know that her thesis was correct. That Peeta is still her bright spot on dark days. Where she felt terror and doubt, Peeta wanted. That he fulfilled his promise that life can go on, quite literally by creating new life with her.

[electrictouchfob]

Sunrise on the Reaping in a nutshell.

[alythh]

¡ PASSED ON !

oh Maysilee….you won’t be forgotten as the ont who gave the pin a chance

[kito-oh-kito]

I was doing an art study but accidentally drew Katniss

[itskeisy]

[sungodjasmine]

Everlark collage with all the drawings!

[cow-in-the-sunset]

I have seen one too many posts calling Katniss an unreliable narrator so I think we need to re-learn what an unreliable narrator is in storytelling.

So what is the definition of an unreliable narrator?

That is a narrator that actively lies to the audience, or, whose credibility has been compromised. That usually means twisting the truth so it fits their narrative via exaggeration, omission, insanity and more.

This narrative style while mainly used in first-person storytelling has been debated to exist in second and third person too.

Some examples: Lolita, American Psycho, Penance, Gone Girl, Bunny

Is Katniss an unreliable narrator?

The short answer is no. Not really. Her narration style isn't to actively hide things from the reader. She doesn't lie, she doesn't exaggerate and she doesn't omit the truth from us.

Katniss tells us what happens around her when it happens around her. In fact, we are in her head constantly.

What Katniss is, is a biased narrator.

What is a biased narrator?

A biased narrator is one whose personal feelings, emotions, beliefs or limited perspective affects their account of the events.

Every. single. narrator is a biased one.

In literature, an unbiased narrator is SO extremely rare that people still debate if that even exists. Every story is funneled through from someone's perspective, someone's specific experience.

Would The Hunger Games be the same from Effie's POV? Would it be the same from Finnick's? Plutarch's? Gale's?

No! Of course not. All these people viewed events differently, experienced things differently and experienced different things.

But Katniss doesn't tell us everything!

Katniss tells us everything she experiences through the lens in which she experiences it. Katniss is a traumatized character that people omit things from all the time.

She is not told about Peeta's plan to confess his feelings. She is not told about the plan in the Quell. She is not told about almost every single aspect of the rebellion plan. AND SO MUCH MORE.

Katniss is lied to, and used all the time. And that's what we get too - we are experiencing it with her. We are not being actively lied to by her.

Narration doesn't come to you served in a platter all ready and prepared for you to consume. You can't read Lolita and tell me how Humber Humber was the good guy, but he actively tries to get you to believe him he is. Just because Katniss is a complex character and not the know-it-all hero of the story, that does not make her unreliable. You can and should rely on her perspective. There is a reason it's limited.

What does this say about the story?

[little-lynx]

Katniss

Happy belated birthday to Katniss Everdeen — the girl who keeps reminding me not to lose hope (which is not an easy task).

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

[mage-chocolate]

The thing about Peeta and Katniss’s dynamic shifting in the third book in a way that makes it a reversal of the first book is that, while Peeta always knew Katniss cared about him—and by Catching Fire, even knew she loved him—he finally took a walk in her shoes to the point where he really understands just how deeply someone has to love you to break through the belief that you’re trying to kill them and instead protect your life as fiercely as their own. How much Katniss loved him all along.

[jazetallo-art]

Happy Sunrise of the Reaping day to those who celebrate! Here's my take in Haymitch ✨

[masha-russia]

Hunger Games + Book moments

There’s a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn’t apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed.

[itskeisy]

Sunrise on the reaping official trailer 🎬

[itskeisy]

NEW POSTER FOR ‘SUNRISE ON THE REAPING’🐍🐦‍⬛

🚨 New trailer releases tomorrow 🚨

[shesasurvivor]

The way Katniss comes back to life as soon as Peeta returns to her at the end of Mockingjay is so beautiful. He really is a symbol of hope and rebirth to her, isn’t he?

[itskeisy]

75th Hunger Games | 50th Hunger Games

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