All Just a Morphling Dream?

Hi. This is my first post here. A friend of mine loaned me these books. I can't believe how hooked I became. I found them both engrossing yet infuriating at times. However, the one theme I noticed with Collin's writing is that she tends to plants clues for things to come later on.

One factor of this really struck me in this last book, where Peeta mentions to Katniss of his need to distinguish between 'real world' and drug induced perception of what was happening around him.

Could this be an out for the author to return to the stories? I guess the light bulb that went off in my head was that maybe once Katniss was stung by the jackets in the first book, everything after that was just a 'dream'.

Or if not the first book perhaps this last book when Katniss really got her fair dosage of morphling after one of the annoyingly many hospital stays?

Are these stories all just a dream in Katniss' head? Let's face it, things do end up rather outlandish. And the question of what's reality and what's not, is a question that's put out there over and over again. Also Katniss tends to awake from her hospital stays in that glowing confusion that corroborate Peeta's experience with that very uncertainty.

I can see at what you're getting at and often, that's how I felt while reading the books because it seemed as though Katniss always woke up in the hospital, but I don't think that's what Suzanne Collins intended with the books.

I don't know, but I thought the epilog in Mockingjay pretty much wrapped things up (did Katniss really wait 15 years to have kids?) All I know is that the series ending ranks as one of the most powerful I've read in a long long time. Oh! just as a tease, I mentioned in another post that I've read a re-written version of this series, it ends pretty much the same except Gayle and Johanna hook up and get married heh! heh!

kidfromsix wrote:

I don't know, but I thought the epilog in Mockingjay pretty much wrapped things up (did Katniss really wait 15 years to have kids?) All I know is that the series ending ranks as one of the most powerful I've read in a long long time. Oh! just as a tease, I mentioned in another post that I've read a re-written version of this series, it ends pretty much the same except Gayle and Johanna hook up and get married heh! heh!

Actually, I don't think the end of "Mockingjay" is necessarily the end of books about Katniss, just the end of her chronological story. There is scope for other books - maybe a prequel about her life before the 74th games, or a story set in the time just after the games before President Snow's visit... and I'm sure there will be pressure on Suzanne Collins to write more, since there's obviously a market. (and I'm sure the movie industry wouldn't object either!)

And if there's no more "official" stories to come, I can guarantee they'll be plenty of fanfics on HG sites all over the world. The odds are forever in favor of that!