“Fire is catching, and if we burn, you burn with us”. That was one of the lines that Katniss Everdeen said in both the movie, and the book, Mockingjay. They were recording her to make a video to hack into the capitol’s television system. This was a straight verbal attack to President Snow just after he bombed the hospital that Katniss was visiting in District 8, and behind her were the flames, and remaining burning buildings. With certain conditions, Katniss had chosen to be the Mockingjay; the face of the rebellion, and making this, and many other videos would help the rebels as they try to bring down the capitol. If you want to know how this all went down, you should both read the book, and see the movie, and you should definitely watch the movie before you read the book.
Although reading a book can give you lots of detail, it will alway be as many people say, a picture is worth a thousand words. As you probably know, the movie is split into two different parts. Which for me, is a negative, because you?ve got to wait another whole year in order to see the second part. It?s different in this case, because since the movie is already out, you can watch the movie to get a picture of what the characters and the setting look like, and then you can read the book for cut out scenes, and most importantly the second part.
There were times in the book that what I thought a character, or setting was like was different from some of their actions or what they actually looked like. Especially since, personally, it's hard for me to imagine random things. It made me a little confused, but seeing the movie first would have probably eliminated some of the uncertainty. For example, Cressida. From the book I thought she was more like a t.v. director, high maintenance, dainty, girly, kind of girl, but how she looked in the movie made me think otherwise. Another example would be the scene where Katniss sang the hanging tree song. When they described it in the book I imagined it as a forest and they were all sitting on the grass while they were eating, and though my guess was not completely off, it wasn't that close.
The movie ended when they had rescued Peeta and two of the other victors that had been captured by the Capitol, but when they got back to thirteen, they discovered that something was very wrong with him. Peeta was what they called “hijacked”. The Capitol had done something to change his feelings for Katniss. Somehow they had him convinced that Katniss was the one that bombed his home, District 12. The closing scene was of Peeta strapped on to a hospital bed, in an isolated room, struggling to get free. The room had a one way, tint, glass window, on one of the walls, and on the outside, it showed Katniss miserably watching him.
My personal opinion of the third part of the Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay was that it was a very interesting scenario that would have almost everyone on their toes most of the time you watched or even read it. I really liked it, but out of all three of the books I would have to say that my all time favorite was for sure Catching Fire, thesecond book. I love the whole series, so that does not say much I do not advise you to read or watch it at all if you have not read or seen the first two parts to this trilogy, but if you have, you need to finish what you have started in 2012, and continue on with Katniss’s journey. My advice was to watch the movie, and then read the book shortly after, but that was just for better understanding, and to satisfy your feelings of curiosity from being left with a cliffhanger from the end of the Mockingjay part one movie. Its really up to you, but to get the full and intense effect of the story you should, as I said it before, without a doubt, watch the movie, and then read the book.