Katniss’ struggle to maintain her authentic self represents a strategy to navigate the problems of the world as she tries to feed her family, fight against her competitors to survive the Games as well as fighting against oppression in society. She assumes a public persona amidst maintaining an identity to win the audience’s favor to get help at key points. However, she is not charismatic and thus struggles with knowing the right things to do and say in addition to making decisions on how to go about such issues. Collins seems to assert that crafting a public persona is not dangerous as long as it plays out well as it happened to Katniss by, for instance, getting more sponsors (Collins, 10.24). However, the person assuming a public persona should learn the distinctions between what is real and is fiction. Such a persona works for Katniss as she saves her folks and as well as the whole nation from poverty and tyrannical oppression. …show more content…
Such identity is described in the scene where the Hunger games revoke their earlier decision to allow two contestants from the same district to survive as illustrated by: I drop my weapons and take a step back, my face burning in what can only be shame.” Further, Katniss’ identity is neatly subdued within the love story and seems to have given her something she could not afford on her own (Collins, 135)”. Katniss takes the identity of the girl on fire as stylized by Cinna, who creates the image of Katniss around the concept of fire using gowns that shimmer and elaborate capes set off in flames. Such identity is the scene where Collins talks about the deepening twilight; the firelight illuminates our faces