Her sacrifice takes her life, saving her innocence from a world unfit for her. The whole time probably. As the tributes negotiate their survival, others watch from their television broadcast positions.
As the career pack watches Katniss, she watches them. Above the gaze of it all is Rue, undetected and waiting to see. Rue represents the innocence and the value of all the children within The Hunger Games.
Her appearance and characteristics magnify the meaning behind the children and their role in the society of the story. Katniss personifies the adult — providing food for her family, attempts to create some function in her mother, the protection of her younger sister. The journey of the children in the districts is not about a coming of age, but rather, growing up comes with great possibility of fear, death and suffering.
The Games turns children into assets, into commodities. Adults are forced to offer their children as sacrifice to the Capitol, to the Games, in payment for an uprising that they will continue to be oppressed, and starved and suffered for. The system in which the districts exist is corrupted, perverse and repeated each year at The Reaping.
Survival and death are linked Ming Tan. Katniss — clear, in focus, a disconnect from any identity she may have had, she is now female tribute for District Children cannot be seen as adored or cherished in the districts as they are tools used for the survival of the family. Katniss sees this shift in her own district during the Reaping:. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim…So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest part of dissent they can manage.
Which says they do not agree. We do not condone. It is in this moment that the adults are shocked, in this moment they are aware of the complacent manner they have been watching their children as they are chosen to die.
Then something unexpected happens. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. After her volunteering, Katniss belongs to the people.
She belongs to her district now, as their female representative in the Games. They are an extension of the district, their chance of luck of survival, their chance for a victor. As she prepares for the Games, she is presented as a commodity — one that gains the attention and curiosity of the people of the Capitol — those who objectify and see her as a means to their entertainment.
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins. Character List and Analysis Rue. When Rue told Katniss about the mockingjays in her district, Katniss offered her the gold mockingjay pin that Madge had given her, but Rue told her to keep it because it was how she knew that she could trust Katniss. Answers 1. The flower represents innocence. Rue is a child and both Rue and the flowers remind Katniss of childhood, innocence and beauty.
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