Life is full of challenges how we get through them is what is most important. If it’s by force or persuasion or just taking advantage of people, we usually seem to overcome these obstacles one way. Whether or not the way we get past these problems is good or bad is different. Usually we only worry about ourselves and not about the person we use. In the book/movie The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss (the main character) is faced with a life threating challenge she has to compete in the hunger games. Katniss uses Petea to stay alive on one hand it was survival on the other its selfish.
Katniss uses petea in a selfish way to stay alive. She was just putting on a show to get sponsors. The crowd loved it though, they were playing the crowd. Katniss was only worried about her needs in the book she just wanted to make it back and Petea was her ticket to win. In the movie it made it seem as if katniss was actually falling for petea and not just using him to return to her family. She used him in both its just that in the movie it’s not explained. That could give people different impressions on katniss’s character. In the books perspective she is just trying to survive and make it back but in the movie she has real feelings for him. That could make the difference between people liking katniss’s character to them disliking her. Overall though she still did use him in one way or another.
Katniss had to use petea though if she didn’t she would have died. If katniss was alone I don’t think she would have made it because she wouldn’t have had sponsors she wouldn’t have had a crowd. With no crowd she would have had no sponsors and without sponsors she wouldn’t of had been able to heal her leg with that medicine she got. Katniss didn’t do it for her selfish reasons though because there alliance benifited both of them in the long run. In the end of the book her and petea didn’t talk he was mad at her because he felt used but in the end they were both alive he should be happy. IN the movie they were still together and happy he didn’t fell used he felt accomplished.
Katniss used and didn’t use Petea it’s all opinionative. When you look at it you could say that katniss has no morals and all she did was use Petea as a publicity stunt for sponsors. Or you could look at it as they worked together and conquered the hunger games as a team. It’s all on the perspective of the reader or movie watcher. When you compare the book and the movie they’re kind of different in the end of the book petea and katniss’s relationship changes in the movie they’re still acting like they’re in love.
Katniss and Petea have been through so much with the hunger games. They both helped each other and might have taken advantage of one another at one point but that’s just human nature. That happens all the time people want to help themselves before anyone else. We forget how other people feel but also that’s good because you don’t want to be taken advantage of.