Spoiler for The Hunger Games : Mockingjay.
What do you think about Coin proposed a final hunger games with Capitol children?
When do you think Coin had this idea, since beginning or later?
Do you think it undermined the whole purpose of the rebellion?
Do you have hope that Paylor would be a good leader?
What do you think about Coin proposed a final hunger games with Capitol children?
It's an eye for an eye. Revenge in a never-ending circle. Katniss, of course, was right to put an end to it, because nothing will be resolved if we continue to hold the enemy's past up while doing exactly what the enemy did to us.
The question for revenge always feels like a moment anchored in our own history, and specifically to the question what to do with Nazi Germany after its defeat in 1945. In contrast to pure revenge, the USA aided Germany financially and politically, and I think it aided in breaking a devil's circle (Versailles as a predecessor).
It's also ironic, because it's not Coin's revenge to take. What does she need revenge for? Her and her people were in District 13, they never suffered from the Games and there was never a good explanation as to why they stayed in their bunker other than convenience both for 13 and the rebellion.
Coin had no moral authority to even propose the idea, and yet she did so anyway. It's switching one colonial power for another.
When do you think Coin had this idea, since beginning or later?
I think 13's idea of revenge, however misguided and however unwarranted, had been to see the Capitol punished and punished hard. They never cared for peace (which is why that attitude was fostered in Gale).
I wouldn't be surprised if that plan had been there a long while ago; Coin has had ambitions for leadership ever since the start of Mockingjay just based on her dislike for Katniss and Boggs' later explanation as to the leadership question. Hard to imagine she didn't have any policy in mind.
Do you think it undermined the whole purpose of the rebellion?
No, because "the rebellion" is not a united movement. The rebels in the Districts have had little to do with 13's reasoning for rebellion. Plutarch himself seemingly switches sides at the end of Mockingjay. Different kinds of people had gathered under a similar name without any strong ties to a singular goal other than a revolution.
All the Capitol Games do is undermine the idea of a subsequent leadership of a party that was largely uninvolved in the suffering of the past 75 years.
Do you have hope that Paylor would be a good leader?
Realistically, we do not know enough about her to truly know, but I like to think so. Panem seems somewhat at peace afterward; there is a proper election as opposed to someone declaring their presidency, and the Games are in the past.
That is not to say that new democracies don't struggle. Democracy is a habit and a practice, and people are entirely newly introduced to it. There are no countries that they can look up to whose practices are seen and learned. Only history books can truly teach about what people used to do and what different modes of democracy exist.
Corruption will be a problem regardless of who is president. Old habits die hard, and the old elite will continue to try and spread their influence. Conflicts between Capitol and Districts might still exist. Workplaces might still exploit their workers. Remembrance might be difficult to accept at first.
However, from what we know about Paylor and knowing people like Plutarch stand behind her--Plutarch who, to all his credit, was a devoted democrat--I am positive that this is the best shot Panem has.
