Personal Synthesis and Feminist Analysis!

My response to The Hunger Games through a feminist looking glass is that it is very interesting. We have a strong female lead who portrays any number of masculine and feminine traits such as, providing for her family through illegal hunt and trade and living and breathing to take care of her sister Prim even it means self-sacrifice. It's a huge step forward for the feminist movement. Portraying a strong female who can do everything from feeding her family to going through one the most traumatic things anyone could imagine and survive. Although to survive she had to leave some of her masculine qualities behind such as being the hard-ass that just wants to get the things done. In order to survive she needs to embrace her feminism and cozy up to a man to get the materials she needs. In this aspect it kind of takes the movement back a step, I realize for the books case it's all about creating the love story but, as a feminist view it looks like she has to revert to old "women are just to stay home and take care of the family" ways to get what should have been just as equally available to her without a man having a role in it. But then I wonder if the books would be as successful if there were no love story.

I feel like I can relate Katniss to a single parent. Though she is not the bio-Mom of Prim she is left with no choice but to take care of her when their Mother decides to mentally check out, forcing Katniss to be both Mom and Dad as many single Mothers and Fathers are forced to. As a parent I give the single parents out there major props because I would have a hell of a time raising my kids by myself. So I think it's pretty obvious I am neither team Petta nor team Gale. I am team Katniss!