Coin's using the same tactics the other side did. It sounds at first like she's turning the tables on the Capitol, but really she's just imitating them. Wasn't this war fought to bring about change? 

Coin's power is stronger than either truth Katniss is facing. No matter what chain of events unfolded, Coin is the one who benefited: the one who rose to the top. Coin is the only one who's come out ahead in this war. And whether the rebels or the Capitol masterminded this last unforgivable act, it still worked to Coin's advantage.

From Peeta, Katniss has learned a new way of being brave. It's brave to confront "reality." It's brave to want to "know the truth." The pain Katniss feels in her body mimics the pain she feels inside when she's trying to confront such ideas. It would be easier to disassociate from reality and not try to figure out the truth. But to do so, though, would not honor Prim.

Let's face it: Katniss's love for Prim supersedes her love for Gale. And the doubt she has about whether Gale contributed to Prim's death is enough to keep him away from her forever. Whatever they had before is lost, because Katniss can't separate him from her understanding of Prim's death and what/who might have caused it.

Katniss has lost almost every friend she's had through this war – mostly to death. But some, like Peeta and Gale, seem to be taken from her by the combat itself. The war has stripped Katniss of her friends, allies, and confidantes. The people who've made it through now seem almost alien to her. In a moment when she needs an friendly ear more than ever, it's nowhere to be found.

Cinna is dead but his work sure lives on. His designs have helped Katniss many times in <em>Mockingjay</em> even though he wasn't there to see it. He's helped protect her and hold her together. Similarly, the prep team pulls itself together to protect Katniss and keep her looking "normal," even if internally she feels like "a wasteland."

Sometimes being admired is a bad thing – it makes you recognizable and can even make you a target. That's what happens to the other victors, who were unlucky enough to be caught in between the rebels and the Capitol, and survived the Games and the Quell only to be crushed in the revolutionary war that followed.

Katniss is saddened, even furious, about the fact that "nothing has changed" and that "nothing will ever change now," based on the latest decision coming down from Coin. The rebels sacrificed so much in their fight against Capitol in the name of change. They were fighting against the Games. And now, here, they're being pushed to decide whether the Games should be reinstated.