Theres A Distinct Difference Between Katniss’s And Haymitch’s Narration Style That I Think A Lot

theres a distinct difference between Katniss’s and Haymitch’s narration style that i think a lot of other people are noticing and it is that haymitch seems to know a lot more about District 12 and Panem than Katniss seemed to. and SotR might seem like lore dropping or name dropping but like. i think it says a lot about them as people.

I think the lack of context we get from Katniss isnt just due to propaganda, but largely due to the fact that she’s so deeply rooted in poverty and survival mode that she simply doesn’t have the mental capacity for anything else. When traumatized, our brains automatically retain less information than they ordinarily would and we see that with Katniss. Not for friends, or school, nor propagandized television lore. Notice how we get descriptions of most tributes before she remembers their names, if she ever does, while Haymitch actually remembers a lot of their names right off the bat. When you’re fighting for your life every day, it really doesn’t leave much energy for anything else. She’s used to saving all of her energy for providing for her family.

But Haymitch isn’t providing for his family. He has several friends, a healthy romantic relationship, and retains information about society because hes not neglected.

It’s just so interesting that Katniss is the luckier of the pair because in their childhood parallels, she drew the short stick compared to him. She’s only luckier cuz she had him.

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chaoticarchivist

1 month ago

watching people get into *reading* the hunger games for the first time after the release of Sunrise On The Reaping and seeing them read the og trilogy is just. so funny.

the movies are good, or good enough, but they don't really portray just how much of an unreliable narrator Katniss truly is.

like- Haymitch described so much and gave so much insight into the world, probably because he was shown to be decently content with it pre-games, and then was determined to remember the Capitol's cruelty post-games, all things considered.

and Snow was just a narcissistic perfectionist who had to have everything, *everything*, around him shown through his lens.

but Katniss was like, "Yeah, peeta has brothers, maybe. their names? that's not relevant to the plot. peeta said we're secret star-crossed lovers? surely, this can only be a ploy to make me look weak and nothing else. Did Prim die? I'm sure you can connect the dots, idiot."

like, homegirl is so one track minded that she will just *not* mention shit😭.

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chaoticarchivist

2 months ago