I think the "lack of agency" is definitely the author's fault, as she is the one writing the story and ultimately the one behind what happens.
Mm, I guess I disagree with you here because I thought this was a deliberate choice, not an authorial weakness.
I was a bit disappointed that she didn't have any big inner turmoil over killing perfectly innocent children who were just trying to survive, just like she was.
Huh, that's interesting, because it's one of the things that I personally don't have a problem with. I think in a lot of ways, Katniss is practical -- living in Twelve, starving, before learning how to feed her family would probably do that to you. Lol what's interesting to me is that I don't think any of the children in that games had to kill someone they liked. Cato-Clove and Rue-Thresh are the only non-Katniss-involved duos I remember that seemed to like each other, and they didn't have to kill each other either... in fact, they actually did go get revenge for the other dying. Or in Thresh's case, thought he was getting revenge for Rue's death.
As for killing Alma Coin, I would like to believe that it was Katniss's decision to do so, but in one review I read of Mockingjay, the author pointed out that maybe Katniss was manipulated by president Snow into killing Coin
I think, actually, that I do read it sort of that way too, but in a much more limited sense. I always thought that Katniss wouldn't have gone through with it, if it weren't for that meeting where Coin brought up reinstating the hunger games--she made her decision then and by herself, had time to reconsider, but ultimately didn't. I do think, though, that either way, this event contradicts the article author's claim that Katniss never kills deliberately, and never does anything irreversible.
Re: Spoilers for the whole series, so. Yeah.
Mm, I guess I disagree with you here because I thought this was a deliberate choice, not an authorial weakness.
I was a bit disappointed that she didn't have any big inner turmoil over killing perfectly innocent children who were just trying to survive, just like she was.
Huh, that's interesting, because it's one of the things that I personally don't have a problem with. I think in a lot of ways, Katniss is practical -- living in Twelve, starving, before learning how to feed her family would probably do that to you. Lol what's interesting to me is that I don't think any of the children in that games had to kill someone they liked. Cato-Clove and Rue-Thresh are the only non-Katniss-involved duos I remember that seemed to like each other, and they didn't have to kill each other either... in fact, they actually did go get revenge for the other dying. Or in Thresh's case, thought he was getting revenge for Rue's death.
As for killing Alma Coin, I would like to believe that it was Katniss's decision to do so, but in one review I read of Mockingjay, the author pointed out that maybe Katniss was manipulated by president Snow into killing Coin
I think, actually, that I do read it sort of that way too, but in a much more limited sense. I always thought that Katniss wouldn't have gone through with it, if it weren't for that meeting where Coin brought up reinstating the hunger games--she made her decision then and by herself, had time to reconsider, but ultimately didn't. I do think, though, that either way, this event contradicts the article author's claim that Katniss never kills deliberately, and never does anything irreversible.