The Complexity Of Finnick Odair

Are we seriously almost to a 300 posts? You cannot be serious, it brings me back to when we first started and then I get weirdly nostalgic and whatever. We will get all deep when we get to a year of blogging which is in October if anyone is wondering. Anyway I stayed after school on Friday to take a test for English that I missed and my friend said that she would drive me home and she had to tests to take. Mrs. Matheny and I talked about bookstores and how we love books more than people and it was great. I know I get frustrated with her a lot but seriously it is so amazing to have a teacher that is also a nerdfighter. Anyway my friend and I decided to stay for a while and we ate cupcakes and played candy land, then we took Mrs. Matheny’s chair with wheels and I got pushed down the hallway and we read the bible. (she has a copy of it in her classroom and I was really proud of that. Even though it was the King James Version which is impossible to understand.) Somehow we got on the topic of the Hunger Games and my friend said that she didn’t like Finnick Odair and wished that he had died in the Quarter Quell. It is no secret that I am in love with Finnick. I will admit when I first read him in Catching Fire I wasn’t exactly in love with him. He was so cocky and I hate cocky guys. Then you realize what the heck that he has been through. It’s funny because we all have this desire to be ‘beautiful’ and ‘pretty’ and Finnick hated it. We all can agree that President Snow is a jerk and we just want him to die. He took Finnick’s beauty and charm and used it for his own personal gain. Finnick knows that if he doesn’t listen to Snow basically everyone he loves could die. Especially the love of his life, Annie. When Haymitch told Finnick about the plan to start the rebellion the reason that Finnick asks Katniss Everdeen if she wants a sugar cube and begins to flirt with her is because he wants to see if Katniss is really serious and if she is easily persuaded like all of the other women who thinks that he is hopelessly in love with him. After that I believe that Finnick begins to trust her. One of the parts that I love in Catching Fire is when after the jabberjays attack Finnick and Katniss. Finnick just sits in the ocean, thinking. I believe that the reason he did that was because it was familiar to what he knew. That was some of his greatest memories with Annie and how they made their lively hood. His life before the chaos and as Haymitch described it a never ending train ride. The sad thing about Finnick is that he never got true happiness. I mean he married Annie and then she got pregnant and everything but he never got to enjoy his life and that’s what pisses me off. Seriously Suzanne Collins? You couldn’t have let him be happy for like a year at least? So if you hate Finnick just because he’s beautiful and charming you clearly don’t look deeper into characters. To me Finnick is one of the bravest characters in the story he had to juggle a lot that he didn’t really want to deal with.

I just hope that Annie and their son are alright.

DFTBA

-AB