My Problem with the Mockingjay Deal.
(Spoilers for Mockingjay I guess)
Smt I always wonder about during mockingjay is, was the whole Katniss is the Mockingjay thing ever formalized in a written contract, or was it purely verbal. It is such an important thing for the rebellion after all.
(Basing the following off of what I know abt German law, dont take any off this as 100% correct or actual facts. I will check when I get the motivation)
If it was purely verbal it would count if it would fall under Employment Law. Because from what I know, verbal contracts already count under german Employment Law.
Maybe Alma announcing it in front of 13 was the manifestation of this verbal contract, in hopes that she cant change it later, but as we see, verbal contracts a very easy to be changed as Alma added the "if Katniss doesnt fullfill her duties" part during the announcement, sith it changing the wording of the agreement and Katniss has no written proof to argue.
And that is why I think a written contract would have made so much more sense. I mean, they could have worked out proper reassurements and properly phrased clauses and expectations for both parties. That could have been agreed upon by both parties signing it, and if both 13 and Katniss would have had a signed copy, changing the wording would've been a lot harder to impossible if it even would have been necessary since talking about conditions,... before could have ruled it out.
And I mean Alma could still have announced it in front of the population as another layer of security next to the written thing.
But either way, verbal or not, would a contract even have had legal because Katniss isn't 18 and with this still a minor! And except for some exceptions, minors cant sign contracts and those would have to have been singed by the parents. There are exceptions like with parental agreement or if they are enabled to do so by a court.
I don't think Asterid has been consulted for agreement a lot and so the parental consent thing is kinda ruled out.
So maybe Katniss could have been enabled by a court but we dont know enough about how 13 works for that. Or maybe 13 has a different age for stuff like this.
Its just pissing me off that they didn't come up with the idea of a written contract. It surely would have saved both Alma (and all of 13) as well as Katniss a lot of headaches.
What do you think? Is this valid?