At the same time she is also the narrator of The Hunger Games story, which further emphasizes Collins's effort to put women at the forefront of the whole story. The book carries feminist elements right from the start. Katniss's gender is not fixed but changes throughout the story.
But the question is, what sex is Katniss actually representing? Because she illustrates mostly male attributes throughout the novel, she continues to be a figurehead for Third Wave Feminism because of her fluidity with gender. Even though she is female, she exhibits attributes that are very stereotypically male.
The society in which they live conducts an annual reaping, selecting twelve girls and twelve boys to compete against one another for survival, creating a world in which boys and girls have equal power and equal opportunity for survival.
Analysis of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy often recognizes the main characters' unusual gender roles, and therefore portrays the series' main character, Katniss Everdeen, as performing stereotypically masculine behaviors, in contrast with her male counterpart, Peeta Mellark, who performs feminine behaviors.
According to said American Library Association, the books have been banned or challenged “due to insensitivity, offensive language, violence, anti-family, anti-ethic, and occult/satanic” along with the 2014 addition of “inserted religious views.”
The book carries feminist elements right from the start. Katniss's gender is not fixed but changes throughout the story. The role of men and women seems to be balanced within society in The Hunger Games. Therefore, we cannot talk about gender inequality as both men and women take up the same roles.
Due to themes of death and the fact that the main characters are talking animals, a parent group in Kansas sought to ban the book from their students' school libraries.
Peeta Mellark as portrayed by Josh Hutcherson in the series The Hunger Games. Peeta is the male tribute representing District 12 in the 74th annual Hunger Games, alongside female tribute Katniss Everdeen (portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence).
In the epilogue, Katniss and Peeta are married and have a young daughter and a son. Katniss still suffers nightmares about the games and fears having to eventually relay the story to her children.
What is the political message of the Hunger Games?
Totalitarian governments, political repression, surveillance, social breakdown, violence, and poverty are all prevalent in both The Hunger Games Trilogy and today's world. These concerns are the foundations of oppressive regimes and totalitarian political systems.
This is very much present in The Hunger Games in which two opposite groups are created based on the same idea of presence and absence (of power) and the weaker group fears the stronger and ends up obeying whatever the dominant has to say.
Peeta Mellark, the male counterpart of Katniss, is a physically strong, emotionally expressive male who is a baker and cake decorator (Collins, 2008). Katniss and Peeta reject gender binaries. They cross over gender identities.
Gale is jealous of Peeta and the relationship he has with Katniss, and he wants Katniss to decide between them, though he doesn't press Katniss during her recovery in District 13. Gale is an excellent hunter and excels at setting snares and traps.
Katniss's focus on survival and her family's safety prevented her from fully considering romance, but her feelings for Peeta and Gale diverged in the end. Katniss ultimately chose Peeta because he understood her trauma and she didn't want to lose him, proving her love for him.
Peeta thanks Katniss for finding him and she says that he would have done the same. He talks about what Katniss should do if he doesn't make it back. She's worried that he might die, and to keep him from speaking of such things, she kisses him.
Peeta: "Nobody needs me." Katniss: "I do." Peeta grabs her face and gives her by far the most passionate kiss of the franchise, until Johanna interrupts.
From the start of the Hunger Games story, it was clear that Gale had feelings for his best friend, Katniss. However, Katniss was never able to explore the romantic side of her life as she was too busy providing for her family and then winning the 74th Hunger Games with Peeta.
The natural blonde had to wear a brunette wig in the final two installments of the franchise due to hair damage after dying her tresses for the first two films.
This is the list of the most banned books in the first part of the 2022-2023 school year, according to the PEN America Index of School Book Bans. Gender Queer: A Memoir remained at the top of the list, as it was in the 2021-2022 school year, joined this time by Flamer.
Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. Beginning in 1965, it was forbidden to read Green Eggs and Ham in Maoist China because of its “portrayal of early Marxism,” and the ban was not lifted until author Theodor Seuss Geisl's death in 1991.
The human bean is not a vegetable,” one giant says. Even though the plot of the book involves ridding the world of people-eating giants, The BFG frequently lands on banned lists for its depiction of cannibalism. In The BFG, the title character kidnaps Sophie and takes her to Giant Country, where kids are on the menu.
