"'Wait, let me get Johanna up,' says Finnick. 'She'll be rabid if she thinks she missed something this important.'"
Finnick Odair, Catching Fire 358
I feel like even without the foreshadowing of the next line in Katniss' thoughts about how she'd be rabid too if she was excluded from a plan (because it seems obvious to me that would be her reaction) this is meant to parallel Katniss + Johanna. I forgot to mention it in my post about Johanna yesterday. There are lots of clues in these chapters about these two. Maybe Johanna is meant to show us what Katniss would have been without Peeta.
Something else that's noteworthy, jumping back a few chapters, even though Johanna slapped Katniss, Katniss still shows concern and respect for her. When she warns her not to go in the jabberjay section and by not trying to exclude her from being part of the discussion. Iconic Katniss strikes again, cause let me tell you the last person to slap me like that as a teenager did not fare well. Katniss is a better person than I. I'm wondering where that restraint is coming from. There's always a lot of discussion about how the events of THG didn't change Gale, it just exposed who he was inside. Whereas with Katniss we see her intellectual struggle, mainly in the first book. So was this restraint always there? Did the events shape this in her? Is this a post Games development? I'm curious if under different circumstances, say in D12, would Katniss have reacted to someone slapping her this way? Or would she still hold back?
