IMPORTANT SCENES in The Hunger Games

What does Prim's selection demonstrate?

The Capitol's power, fear, vulnerability, and the cruelty of the Games.

What does Katniss volunteering demonstrate?

Love, courage, sacrifice, and defiance.

What does the contrast between District 12 and the Capitol demonstrate?

Social inequality and class division.

What does Katniss's fire costume demonstrate?

Image, propaganda, transformation, and symbolism.

What does Katniss shooting the apple demonstrate?

Skill, confidence, independence, and defiance.

What do the interviews demonstrate?

The importance of performance, media manipulation, popularity, and public perception.

What does the beginning of the Games demonstrate?

Brutality, survival, fear, and the dehumanising nature of the system.

What does Katniss's alliance with Rue demonstrate?

Compassion, trust, humanity, and resistance.

What does Rue's death demonstrate?

The cruelty of the Games and the importance of preserving humanity.

What does Katniss decorating Rue with flowers demonstrate?

Respect, compassion, mourning, and resistance to the Capitol's dehumanisation.

What does the three-finger salute after Rue's death demonstrate?

Unity, mourning, respect, and rebellion.

What does Katniss searching for Peeta demonstrate?

Loyalty, compassion, love, and cooperation.

What do Katniss and Peeta's romantic performances demonstrate?

The power of media, image, manipulation, and performance.

What do the nightlock berries demonstrate?

Defiance, courage, choice, and the limits of Capitol power.

What does the ending demonstrate?

Katniss has survived physically but has also become a symbol that threatens the Capitol.