Well, her backstory trauma is her dad dies and her mom goes catatonic so they almost starve to death. With that in mind you can see how she'd have some sort of issues with people helping her and she certainly places incredible importance on what she thought was the one time someone helped her for no reason.
Now, as to the televised part, they're clearly being played up as "strong man and helpless little girl" for the audience. I don't think Peeta's the pedo here, but I'm guessing plenty of the people watching probably are. That there is what we call audience appeal - like the see-through number on that girl in the introductions prior to the Games.
The problem is she's saying it shows her "true stature", ie, she actually looks like a little girl, and given her district is impoverished and everyone's stunted and she'd be using that as her baseline, thats probably bumping it down to pre-puberty body types - I really don't think the author thought nearly that much about it, but it's there.
And the strong man/helpless girl is just...if you're not making a point about sexism, including it is often less a criticism and more an acceptance of it.
There's justification for her looking pathetic and childish here in that they're trying to sell her as harmless, but in that case Peeta should be similarly dressed because he did take part and they can't be happy with him either. Two stupid lovestruck kids, not lovestruck girl with adult boy capable of knowing what he was doing.
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Date: 2012-03-25 05:42 pm (UTC)Now, as to the televised part, they're clearly being played up as "strong man and helpless little girl" for the audience. I don't think Peeta's the pedo here, but I'm guessing plenty of the people watching probably are. That there is what we call audience appeal - like the see-through number on that girl in the introductions prior to the Games.
The problem is she's saying it shows her "true stature", ie, she actually looks like a little girl, and given her district is impoverished and everyone's stunted and she'd be using that as her baseline, thats probably bumping it down to pre-puberty body types - I really don't think the author thought nearly that much about it, but it's there.
And the strong man/helpless girl is just...if you're not making a point about sexism, including it is often less a criticism and more an acceptance of it.
There's justification for her looking pathetic and childish here in that they're trying to sell her as harmless, but in that case Peeta should be similarly dressed because he did take part and they can't be happy with him either. Two stupid lovestruck kids, not lovestruck girl with adult boy capable of knowing what he was doing.