Katniss Struggles
Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games tells the story of Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old girl forced to spend all of her time hunting in order to feed herself and her family. Born into extreme poverty, Katniss is no stranger to hardship when she becomes a contestant in The Hunger Games, an annual televised event in which twenty-four children are forced to fight to the death until only one of them is left alive. Throughout the entirety of the novel, Katniss is forced to do whatever it takes in order to live another day. Whether she is struggling to find her family’s next meal in the woods or resorting to violence to save herself in the Games, all of Katniss’s actions are motivated by her struggles to help herself and her loved ones survive.
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Presenting herself as likeable to the viewers proves to be a struggle for her, but those who are trying to help her shows her that this is more important than she initially realized. Her mentor Haymitch explains “it’s all about how you’re perceived” (Collins 135). He emphasizes the importance of likeability in explaining that making people like her can help her get sponsors, who can send her items in the Games that will help her to survive. “Katniss is acutely aware that she is under scrutiny both by the Capitol and the districts and is careful to moderate her actions and appearance to aid her chances of survival” (The Hunger Games As Dystopian Fiction). Katniss has always known that she has to be careful when it comes to the Capitol, having grown up knowing the brutality of the Capitol and its determination to execute anyone who displayed any hint of rebellious …show more content…
While the circumstances of The Hunger Games novel are viewed as extreme, many have noted that the novels are more similar to “the real world” than we would like to think. While today’s generation is not forced to fight to the death, many can relate to the theme of survival. “The hunger and starvation experienced by the districts can relate to issues in the United States by comparing the Capitol’s wastefulness to that of the U.S. population” (Simmons). Despite being a work of dystopian fiction, the issues of class inequality and the struggle to survive are extremely relevant to today’s society, and the parallels between such a harsh world of fiction and the one that we live in today has contributed to the mass popularity of the
Presenting herself as likeable to the viewers proves to be a struggle for her, but those who are trying to help her shows her that this is more important than she initially realized. Her mentor Haymitch explains “it’s all about how you’re perceived” (Collins 135). He emphasizes the importance of likeability in explaining that making people like her can help her get sponsors, who can send her items in the Games that will help her to survive. “Katniss is acutely aware that she is under scrutiny both by the Capitol and the districts and is careful to moderate her actions and appearance to aid her chances of survival” (The Hunger Games As Dystopian Fiction). Katniss has always known that she has to be careful when it comes to the Capitol, having grown up knowing the brutality of the Capitol and its determination to execute anyone who displayed any hint of rebellious …show more content…
While the circumstances of The Hunger Games novel are viewed as extreme, many have noted that the novels are more similar to “the real world” than we would like to think. While today’s generation is not forced to fight to the death, many can relate to the theme of survival. “The hunger and starvation experienced by the districts can relate to issues in the United States by comparing the Capitol’s wastefulness to that of the U.S. population” (Simmons). Despite being a work of dystopian fiction, the issues of class inequality and the struggle to survive are extremely relevant to today’s society, and the parallels between such a harsh world of fiction and the one that we live in today has contributed to the mass popularity of the