#everdeen

OMG I just finished reading SOTR and it was so gooooood!!

*spoilers below the cut *

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Primrose Everdeen

( The Hunger Games )

Brightness Everdeen

Trust? Lips twitched up into a grin when she mentioned trust. “Trust isn’t given blindly, I guess.” Though it was given more than it should have been, especially to her but it made things easier and she wasn’t going to complain about that. “Who knows who’s secretly a wolf in sheep’s clothing?” 

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Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.

I understand a little bit how Jennifer Lawrence or whoever didn't want to present yet another very skinny main female character. They didn't want to ~promote~ anything. They wanted their main girl to be a healthy-looking skinny. However, I think they missed an opportunity.

Katniss as a character is starving to death. She is struggling to survive. In the books, her drive to feed herself and her family is an important part of her character, and it's important that she isn't skinny because she wants to be; she's skinny because she literally cannot get herself to a healthy weight. The Capitol designers wanted to give her a boob job after the Games to make her look better. Seeing a healthy-slim Jennifer Lawrence represent this felt dishonest. It does her character a disservice to ignore that reality. And frankly, it felt like it had the opposite effect of its goal, because it sent the message that this is what people who are starving to death look like. That starving to death produces a hot skinny.

What if they'd given us a scary skinny Katniss? What if they'd started the movie with her starving to death, showed her struggling with energy and strength, showed her eating a lot during training to try to bulk up? The movie could have used this opportunity to focus on the detrimental effects of low body condition and malnourishment. We could've had an obviously healthier weight Katniss in Catching Fire and Mockingjay and seen her enjoying no longer starving to death. We could've seen her training for the Quell, putting on muscle like she's never been able to before. They could've left in the Capitol party vomit scene, too, and not shied away from the subject matter.