Imagery Quotes In The Hunger Games

Imagery is used as a key device to show how birth order influences the personality traits of siblings. In the case of The Hunger Games and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe imagery is used to reinforce Katniss’s role as Prim’s guardian figure. This is evident when Katniss wakes up one day to find out Prim is gone, “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother(Collins 3)”.The imagery in this quotes serves two purposes. The first is to show that it is ingrained in Katniss’s personality to protect her sister Prim. The second is to show that Prim is just an innocent child that …show more content…
There are several examples of imagery being used as a tool to show that birth order influences personality traits of siblings. This is evident when Bruno found out they were leaving for Out-With “Bruno though about this and frowned. He wasn’t particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him. But it seemed a little unfair that they had to go with her”(Boyne). The imagery used here shows how Bruno views his sister as a ‘Hopeless Case’ and doesn’t have the same feelings of gratitude and love towards Gretel his older sibling like Prim and Lucy evidently do. In addition, during the process of Bruno’s families move out of Germany to Out-With, Bruno has more thoughts about how evil his sister is, “Bruno was sure that it would have made a lot more sense if they had left Gretel behind in Berlin to look after the house because she was nothing but trouble. In fact he had heard her described on any number of occasions as being Trouble From Day One”(Boyne 15). The purpose of this quote is to use imagery to display how not only Bruno sees his sister as being trouble but others see her in the same way. This means that she does not have the same kind loving traits Katniss and Peter constantly display as older siblings, which is why Bruno dislikes her so much. This dislike towards his sister is the result of her negative behaviour towards him, and is why he acts the way that he does. This reinforces how Gretel and Bruno’s birth order is an example of a negative relationship that is formed. Over time, sibling relationships have the ability to either change or stay the same and is influenced by the order in which siblings are