Using knowledge from the movie and the books, let's break down how The Hunger Games ends. Coin killed Prim to destroy Katniss because, as Boggs (Mahershala Ali) explains before his death, Katniss is her biggest threat to maintaining her power over Panem because of the influence Katniss has over the people.
Katniss saw that Coin was already showing signs of being as ruthless as Snow, which could be dangerous for the future of Panem. Coin was willing to sacrifice children to turn the Capitol against Snow and make herself look like the hero who swooped in to save Panem.
Speaking as a writer, Prim's death also clears the way for Everlark to grow together without interference at the end of the book. Gale is taken out of the picture because of the implication that his bomb design was responsible for Prim's death, and Mrs.
As she gets closer to overthrowing Snow, the power gets to her head, and she becomes much more cold-blooded and less passionate about freeing Panem. Coin becomes extremely arrogant and overconfident to an extreme, conceitedly believing that things will go perfectly according to her preconceptions and predictions.
The revelation that the attacks were in fact orchestrated by President Coin doesn't make them any less inhumane. In fact, deliberately sending her own troops to die on a doomed rescue mission, including a thirteen-year-old girl, is a serious cause for concern about Coin's intentions.
Katniss kills Coin because she sees through her facade and realizes she would be another dangerous leader who perpetuates evil. Katniss allows Snow to live because she knows the revolution is beyond her and wants to show that others in power should also be worried.
It is likely that he is a relative of Hilarius Heavensbee. In the Mockingjay - Part 2, Plutarch appears to smile as he looks at Coin's dead body, suggesting that he approved of her death.
In the end, it is Gale's conviction in the necessity of sacrifice pitted against Katniss' moral incoherence that truly severs any relationship they had or could ever have. Primrose, Katniss' sister, is killed by a firebomb that may have been designed by Gale.
However, she was slower to realize that the woman that had taken up the District revolution was more dangerous than she seemed. When President Snow told Katniss that it had been Coin who dropped bombs on Capitol children (and Prim), she finally understood—but there had been clues before this.
Haymitch Abernathy, the mentor for Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games, won his own Hunger Games through smart tactics and outsmarting his opponents. Winning the Hunger Games came at a great cost for Haymitch, as President Snow ordered the death of his family and girlfriend as punishment for his rebellion.
Before Katniss can reach her and bring her to safety, the second wave of bombs explodes, killing Prim and other medics and badly burning Katniss. Prim's last words were, "Katniss." Katniss becomes so unhinged after Prim's death that she loses her voice for several days.
Coins plan was always for the bombs to go off and kill the capital children, Prim included. But Gale had no idea that Prim would fall victim. Katniss feels betrayed bc 1) Prim was killed as a direct result of the bombs he made. And 2) Gale demonstrated a blood lust that was just beyond the point of forgiveness.
She was only 13 years old when she was killed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, and her youth only makes the tragedy that much harder for Katniss to bear after everything else she had suffered. Prim's death is a truly heartbreaking moment.
Game(s) Johanna Mason was the axe wielding victor of the 71st Hunger Games from District 7. Snow would later orchestrate the slaughter of her entire family as punishment for her defiant nature.
Coin wants to remain in power after the revolution, and if Katniss isn't going to support Coin's leadership, then Coin will use her in whatever way she can to give the rebellion momentum. For now, that might mean turning Katniss into a martyr. For everyone's safety, the crew sets up an around-the-clock guard on Peeta.
Lucy Gray's fate is unfortunately unknown (even to Coriolanus). But katniss is associated with her last words to Snow, so Katniss Everdeen is undoubtedly a constant reminder of the girl he either killed or lost, which could be why he despises Katniss so much in the trilogy.
Despite being demented and megalomaniacal, Snow is also honest, and clings to his agreement with Katniss that they do not lie to one another, even if she doesn't. This also leads him to laugh mockingly when he is being executed, entertained by the sheer irony of the situation.
She might even be worse than Snow considering the fact that Snow has honor, care for others like his family, and genuinely believed that the Hunger Games were for the greater good, while Coin simply continued the games as an act of vengeance and cared about nobody.
Before the Capitol battle, Gale had explained to Katniss his series of bombs designed to feed off human compassion: a small bomb would go off, and then when medical aid rushed in, a second bomb would go off, killing those people as well. Incidentally, it's this exact type of bomb that took Prim's life.
Although Effie survived the rebellion, she is traumatized by what she has gone through, resulting in the character being given a melancholy ending. Whilst she and Haymitch shared some flirtatious interactions earlier in the books, there's no actual hint of romance between the pair in Mockingjay's book.
She is only told that Tigris used to be a stylist for the Hunger Games, like Cinna, and that Snow fired her himself. Over the years, possibly to deal with the pain caused by her cousin's sadistic rise to power, Tigris tattooed and surgically altered her appearance so much that she looked more feline than human.
Mockingjay. It isn't known where Effie was taken after she was kidnapped by the rebels. After President Snow is found guilty and is about to be executed, Effie is released from prison and goes back to Katniss to get her ready for Snow's trial. Katniss notes that Effie has a vacant look in her eyes.
Snow hates mockingjays because they're not supposed to exist, thriving in a place where the Capitol sent their jabberjays to die. This directly mirrors Katniss, who becomes the symbol of the rebellion and known as The Mockingjay to all of Panem despite being sent to her death in the arena.
