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Exactly. And it's part of the whole socio-political-economic description of Panem; she and Thresh are from what's now the South, and it's been returned to black people working the fields.
But apparently many readers pictured her as JonBenet, and "her death didn't mean as much" if she's black. [link]
I just read the Jezebel piece, too. I want to be sick. I didn't think I could be more appalled at Twitter than after the Grammys with the Rihanna/Chris Brown stuff, but I was wrong.
(I mention the "from the point of view of someone with olive skin" part because I remember the character of Shirley in the last few Anne of Green Gables books, who is consistently described as "the little brown boy" and having "brown skin," but since this is within the context of a family where half the people have red hair and freckles and most of the rest are described as having black hair and ivory skin, I figure that, in that context, "brown skin" just means a darkish white kid who tans rather than burns in the sun. But when Katniss is describing herself as having olive skin, and Rue and Thresh are definitely described as darker than her, that doesn't leave much room for Rue and Thresh to just be darkish white people.)
Personally, I completely missed that Rue and Thresh were black in the book, but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
That Jezebel article makes me sick.
>but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
Hee!
It took me a chapter to pick up that Buck in The Call of the Wild was a dog because I misread something.
I don't usually pick up on physical descriptions in books either, but the second I saw Rue on screen I was even sadder for her death. She is one of the cutest kids ever.
She is one of the cutest kids ever.
Yeah.
(Am sad now.)
Every time she was peeking out from behind something! So adorable.
Wow. I am disgusted by those twitterers.