Katniss Everdeen's Panem: The Girl On Fire

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Panem is a nation divided into twelve districts run in a totalitarian dictatorship led by President Snow. Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen-year-old-girl who lives in District 12, a coal-mining region in Panem. Each year, an event known as The Hunger Games is hosted by the Capitol wherein twenty-four youths fight to their deaths until one remains and is crowned a victor. The games serve as both a reminder of the rebellion and a punishment to those who might inspire an uprising. The Games are also an indication of how powerless the districts are against The Capitol and that their lives are controlled by the rules and laws brought out by President Snow. Katniss is not the type of person to worry about people liking her but now that she is in The …show more content…

Caesar asks, “So, Peeta, tell me, is there a special girl back home?’ Peeta chuckles and says that there is no one. Caesar doesn’t buy it and tells Peeta that a handsome person like him might have someone special back home. Peeta finally realizes that he has to admit it and said that there’s one girl that he had a crush on for a long time. To give Peeta the hope of winning, Caesar tells him that if he wins, this girl would have to go out with him. But then Peeta proceeds to give Caesar, and people of The Capitol a bigger revelation and stated, “I don’t think winning’s going to help. Before she came here with me.” As Peeta says the last sentence, he gives the crowd a look of lost hope, as if a realization that the only way he could go out with Katniss is they were not in the games. And given the fact that it never happened before, what are the chances that it will happen at all. Unbeknown to Katniss, Peeta’s declaration was not for the pity of the people or for the possibility of gaining sponsors for him. Peeta was helping Katniss create an image, that she is incapable of building for herself, which will save her …show more content…

To something as simple as pretending to be someone you’re not to please people to the point of forgetting who you were and totally changing tells us how terrifying it is that people could actually be easily swayed with something so trivial such as looks and fashion. The Capitol and its continue to live in the problems of the past and as a result fail to live in forgiveness and harmony. This symbolizes today’s reality, that the concern of society is more on the failures of yesteryears rather than the solutions of

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