I spent about 30 seconds going "wtf Katniss?" and then moved on to "okay, this had better be because she's about to kill Coin," and waited for it to happen.
It did seem clear to me that she agreed to the games so that Coin wouldn't know that she'd basically pushed Katniss firmly into the Not On Her Side Camp until she could get in that shot. It's only in talking to other readers that I've realized maybe it wasn't. Am still thinking about that.
What I wanted was a thought or two from her after the deed was done--not so much for clarification (though that would only have taken a sentence and wouldn't have hurt and for many readers might have helped) as thoughts and emotions around what she'd just done.
I would have saved any thoughts and explanations for afterwards, though, to avoid making it too clear and so spoiling the scene beforehand.
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:31 am (UTC)It did seem clear to me that she agreed to the games so that Coin wouldn't know that she'd basically pushed Katniss firmly into the Not On Her Side Camp until she could get in that shot. It's only in talking to other readers that I've realized maybe it wasn't. Am still thinking about that.
What I wanted was a thought or two from her after the deed was done--not so much for clarification (though that would only have taken a sentence and wouldn't have hurt and for many readers might have helped) as thoughts and emotions around what she'd just done.
I would have saved any thoughts and explanations for afterwards, though, to avoid making it too clear and so spoiling the scene beforehand.