Themes Motifs Symbols. Important Quotes Explained. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Literary Devices Symbols. Previous section Motifs. Popular pages: The Hunger Games. Take a Study Break. It's not that Peeta's soft exactly, and he's proved he's not a coward.
But there are things you don't question too much, I guess, when your home always smells like baking bread, whereas Gale questions everything. Peeta has, perhaps, a different view of political matters than Katniss and Gale. What else might he see differently because of his class privilege?
While Peeta's relationship to Katniss is very important for the novel, his character is also significant in that he is one of the tributes who considers what his identity means in the scope of the Hunger Games.
As he tells Katniss as the Games approach, he doesn't just want to be a pawn in the Capitol's game. He wants to "die as himself" For Peeta, it is important that the Capitol knows that they don't own him. We should also remember, though, that much of Peeta's reflection on himself has to do with the fact that, unlike Katniss, he is not of the survivalist mindset. Instead, Peeta contemplates the Big Questions. This all makes Katniss feel kind of small:. While I've been ruminating on the availability of trees, Peeta has been struggling with how to maintain his identity.
His purity of self. Katniss may feel guilty about her focus on survival strategies for the big day, but we could also always argue that, since Peeta has no duties or obligations to his self-sufficient family the survival of others doesn't depend on his own , he has the time and resources for self-reflection. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Suzanne Collins. Previous Next. Peeta Mellark When Peeta Mellark is selected as the tribute for District 12, all we really know about him is that he's a baker's son, a little bit emotional 3.
Let's explore them: Peeta and Love Peeta's been in love with Katniss ever since he first saw her back in grade school and heard her singing that catchy valley song.
Pond lily roots are enormous, spongy, and sold in many street markets think of the lotus root, which the Chinese call a "cooling" food, thought to restore balance in the body. With little else to eat, Katniss turns to a pine tree.
Its soft inner bark can be a good meal and its needles are a good source of Vitamin C. Native Americans often chewed on pine tree bark during the winter months to conserve food reserves. Dandelions "I had just turned away from Peeta Mellark's bruised face when I saw the dandelion and I knew hope wasn't lost.
I plucked it carefully and hurried home. I grabbed a bucket and Prim's hand and headed to the Meadow and yes, it was dotted with the golden-headed weeds. After we'd harvested those, we scrounged along inside the fence for probably a mile until we filled the bucket with the dandelion greens, stems and flowers. In the story, the dandelion becomes a symbol of hope for Katniss, and evidence of her resourcefulness and expert foraging. When she sees the field of dandelions, she gains confidence in her ability to feed her family.
Dandelions are entirely edible—to a forager, a dandelion field means something entirely different than what it means to the gardener. Dandelion leaves have more beta carotene than carrots and more iron than spinach.
The root can be applied as an herbal remedy for a number of ailments and the milky sap can soothe bee stings and blisters. European Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum. Honeysuckle When Katniss emerges from the tracker jacker engineered wasp hallucinations, she reaches for a honeysuckle to soothe her spirits and sweeten her tongue.
The edible nectar can be eaten directly from the flower—remove the stamen from the bottom of the flower, and suck the nectar droplet. Nightlock Nightlock, the poison of the forest, doesn't actually exist, but its name is most likely derived from two living plants with similar toxicity: deadly nightshade Atropa belladonna , and poison hemlock Conium maculatum. Ancient Romans used the nighshade's berries and leaves as a poison, and hemlock was famously used in the death of Socrates.
A competitor who doesn't share Katniss's plant identification acumen later eats the nightlock's berries, with fatal consequences. Unidentified Collins writes about one plant whose identity eludes us. The leaves of an unnamed plant are used several times to heal various wounds and ailments: in one instance, Rue chews the leaves, then applies the pulpy salve to Katniss's tracker jacker wounds; in another, Katniss's mother boils the leaves to make a medicinal elixir; finally, Katniss uses the leaves to treat Peeta's leg wound.
It's possible that the plant is Calendula officinalis , which herbalists often laud for its beneficial tinctures, tea, and oil. Calendula leaves and petals have been applied to reduce inflammation and as an antiseptic against infection. Calendula is a good candidate for this unnamed plant, but it's hard to be sure. Hunger Games fans, what do you think it could be?
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