Katniss Dystopian Environment

Katniss was just an upshot of her dystopian environment. Though she is just a teenager she become the product of caretaker in her family and also takes up much responsibility for keeping them fed. She often gets food from forage and hunting because of this she never had qualms about killing animals. She seemed to be desensitized because of this constant exposure of death. This attitude is seen in her willingness to draw her sister’s cat Buttercup when it came to them for the first time. The appearances of it were made at the times whenever she talks about the human death and sufferings which she witnessed in her life as she sees the starvation of the people and also in the televised Hunger Games. While describing these scenes she seemed to be unemotional though she presents only the facts without elaborating it with her own feelings about them. She was horrible by all these things but at the same time it was not shocking. It seemed to be the part of her environment rather than abnormalities. The family relationship of Katniss was also very much obvious that she took all the responsibilities for keeping her family fed all the time. In order to feed her family, she used the skills of foraging and hunting which was taught by her father. Because of this position she was endued with the most valuable survival …show more content…
Just after the beginning of the games Katniss was seemed to have a sense of ease rather than having any terror or horror even after witnessing the death of several dead at the Cornucopia. It had neither seemed to startle her, or the death of the girl who started the fire near her on the very first night. Generally Katniss appeared to be desensitized to death. Though Katniss had been hunting for years, these sites were not totally alien to her, and also she regarded them with few