Catching Fire ReRead - 1/?
If it were up to me, I would try to forget the Hunger Games entirely. Never speak of them. Pretend they were nothing but a bad dream. But the Victory Tour makes that impossible. Strategically placed almost midway between the annual Games, it is the Capitol’s way of keeping the horror fresh and immediate. Not only are the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the Capitol’s power each year, but we are forced to celebrate it. -- pg. 4
This observation on her part is really a smart bit of foreshadowing. When the Games (with the Capitol’s children) are mentioned Katniss is acutely aware that, “Nothing has changed. Nothing will ever change now.” This Seventy-Sixth Hunger Games would be used for the exact same reason, but instead of it being used to keep the districts at bay, it would be used to give that power to the Rebels, the “new Panem.” It would be a celebration at the cost of children. The war being won was the cost of children and Katniss knew that, she wasn’t going to be a part of another mass genocide and her actions killing Coin support that. “Wasteful,” Snow had said, and on that point, he and Katniss could agree.
