Originally posted by: _Akanksha_
im not surprised. 😆 i always end up liking the character that's not supposed to be liked. all the careers were supposed to be that way, weren't they? they were born and bred for the hunger games so i wasn't really surprised. the mutts had their eyes..and like, they looked like them. ofcourse they weren't really tributes, but like katniss i also wondered if they'd, like, altered their memories in a way that all they know is revenge? 😳 it was actually quite terrifying. getting the second book tomorrow 😃
Yes, all the careers are trained since an early age and prepared for The Hunger Games, which is why I didn't really like any of them because they are all one-dimensional, just wanting to kill others and win the games. There's no inner conflict, nothing to really make them interesting.. as opposed to Katniss or Peeta or Rue who have a million things going on in their minds throughout the entire games (even though we really only get to really know about Katniss' because of first person narrative).
I don't want to reveal too much about the mutts but they are mentioned again in the second book and the concept gets clearer. All I can say for now is that they are kind of robots, programmed to behave in a certain way and do certain things. They really have nothing to do with the Tributes except that the Capitol created them keeping the tributes in mind because of their sadistic ways, they thought they'd enjoy it more butting the survivors against 'the dead' again.
Have fun reading the second one! I sometimes have a hard time picking my favorite from the trilogy.. it's like the story moves forward with the other two. I liked the second one because something totally unexpected happens. That's rare as mostly writers don't really take me by surprise, but Collins is one amazing writer.
Shiv Shakti
