"Katniss Everdeen has survived games again, although nothing remains of their home. Gale has escaped. His family is safe. The Capitol has captured Peeta. District 13 is real. There are rebels. There are new leaders. Are in full revolution. The rescue plan to remove the sand Katniss cruel and disturbing allegiance of Twenty-five was not accidental, nor was time to take part of the revolution without knowing it.District 13 has emerged from the shadows and wants to end the Capitol. It seems everyone has had something to do with the meticulous plan ... all but Katniss."
Summary
After her rescue by the rebels of District 13, Katniss is convinced to become "the Mockingjay": a symbol of the rebellion against the ruling Capitol. As part of a deal, she demands that the leader of District 13, President Coin, grant immunity to all of the victors of the Hunger Games. She also demands the right to kill President Snow, the leader of the Capitol, herself. Finally, the leaders of Thirteen decide to go rescue Peeta, after realizing the guilt Katniss feels is impeding her role in becoming "the Mockingjay." After the rescue it is discovered that Peeta has been brainwashed into believing Katniss is the enemy and tries to strangle her upon their reunion in District 13.
The rebels, including Katniss, take control of the districts and finally begin an assault on the Capitol itself. However, an assault on a "safe" Capitol neighborhood goes wrong, and Katniss and her team flee further into the Capitol. Everything will come out as expected?
Genre
Teen fiction.
Inspiration and Development
Collins has said that the main inspiration for the series came from the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. As a punishment for past problems, Athens was forced to sacrifice seven youths and seven maidens to Crete, who were then put in the Labyrinth and were killed by the Minotaur. After a while, Theseus, the son of the Athenian king, decided to put an end to the Minotaur and Minos' terror, so he volunteered to go. Collins has said that there are also many Roman references in the fictional nation of Panem. She describes the Hunger Games as "an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment". Collins also explains that the name Panem came from the Roman saying "Panem et Circenses" which means "Bread and Circuses" and refers to the strategy of Roman emperors for appeasing the masses by providing them with food and entertainment. Another inspiration for the series came from a time when Collins was channel-surfing on her television. One channel depicted young people in a reality competition, while another showed young people fighting in an actual war; Collins recalls that the two "[blurred] in a very unsettling way".
As with the previous books in the trilogy, Mockingjay contains 27 chapters, with nine chapters in each of the three parts. This structure, which Collins had previously used in her series The Underland Chronicles, came from Collins' playwriting background. This "three-act" structure is also apparent in the trilogy as a whole; Collins "knew from the beginning" that she was going to write a trilogy.
The cover and title information was revealed by Scholastic on February 11, 2010. The cover continues the previous books' ornithological theme. The novel's title, Mockingjay, comes from the hybrid birds that feature in the novels' storyline. Publishers Weekly describes the bird as "the hybrid birds that are an important symbol—of hope and rebellion—throughout the books". Collins likens Katniss to a Mockingjay because both "should never have existed".
Review
"I thought that after The Hunger Games and In Flames, Mockingjay not be more painful. I could not be more wrong.The Hunger Games - The first of the series
How I can describe Mockingjay? It rocked! This book is the definitive test of this trilogy is much more complex than it seems. Mockingjay is quite different from the above, there is no love story games or so, but finally gives us the society that places the story. They have replaced most other romantic scenes full of action and, in most of the book, the love stories of the characters are tinged with a darker, even painful.
Here we will not see as Katniss manages to survive, or we will see that Katniss as independent and strong as before. Now, adults send and Katniss and other characters become a sort of puppet of the resistance leaders, who only care about as useful.
Thus, we are introduced to good sometimes not so good, some bad and sometimes not so bad. They are realistic characters, regardless of which side they are, will be able to do anything to achieve their goals. That was one of the things that caught my attention in this book.
This book is so realistic that scary, its complex and human characters, any society that seems perfect but the bottom line is frightening, the way it seems inevitable act differently on whichever side you are ...
The finish is incredible, do not say you agree, but is consistent with the development of the plot. It could have been otherwise, but then failed to respect the essence of the book as well as it has done to this end.
In short: Mockingjay is the perfect ending for this trilogy. It is unlike the previous ones and has a lot more action than these, but it is much darker. Reflects quite well the complexity of history and has an end consistent with the development of the book.
I loved, but I have to admit I did suffer a lot"
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