the owl and the olive tree

(Also, on the theme of "realistic reactions," thumbie reminds me of something that drove me bananas: at the end, when the Districts have won their revolution, they discuss whether to have a regular Hunger Games in which children from the Capitol have to participate. And Katniss votes yes, in what seemed to me like a truly spectacular undermining of character, especially as Katniss has seen that people from the Captiol are/can be real people and not faceless monsters—she actually did like Cinna and her prep team, for instance. It was like they took the last thing I liked about Katniss—her most basic sense of compassion and fairness—and stomped all over it. By the end, the Katniss I had liked was utterly gone. And maybe that was the point, but hell, I don't have to like it.)