Katniss has often failed to see the “big picture”—in
Catching Fire, for instance, she failed to recognize the “real enemy” until the penultimate chapter of the book, when she fired her arrow at the Hunger Games force field. Here, Katniss finally sees the big picture of the war between the Capitol and District 13: Coin used Katniss to distract Snow, not just to inspire the rebels. This discovery is paired with a more intimate, horrifying realization: Katniss recognizes that Beetee and Gale designed the bombs that killed Prim.