Hunger Games Synthesis

“The Girl Who Was On Fire” Throughout history, one of the most prominent issues in society is the way gender plays its role. Women have always been cast aside as being the weaker one, being too emotional, while men, on the other hand, are the strong ones, who need no help and can do everything by themselves. This is why, in The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is such a role model for women everywhere. She is the perfect mixture of a young woman who can act just like “the guys,” yet, at the same time, be undeniably feminine. A twenty-first century movie highlighting a female, such as Katniss, shows how society is slowly coming out of its conventional shell and how women are openly allowed to show what they can do, while at the same time, the viewing audience is beginning to accept it.
In the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen was the best fighter, the one everyone depended on. This is quite unusual because this casts her in what is normally a spotlight for the male lead. Katniss is shown to have great fighting skill with the bow and arrow from a very young age. This is because the District she lives in is very poor, and she was taught by her father to hunt in the woods to be able to provide food for her family. When her father passes away in a mining accident, Katniss is forced to become the family’s soul provider. Through this, Katniss becomes a very strong woman both emotionally and physically. As Sojourner Truth says “...I could work as much… as a man,” yet she is still a woman. Truth would be proud of the woman Katniss unveils herself to be throughout the movie. Like Sojourner Truth, Katniss would rather die than be thought of as weaker than a man. The writers try to portray her to be the helpless girl in love in the eyes of Panem. Katniss tries to throw that image away, until she realizes she must use her “girlish weakness” to be able to feed both herself and Peeta through her kisses. Yet, while the writers make her out to be a weak girl hopelessly in love, she