Hunger Games is written as a first person narrative, making the entire piece has a position. By placing the story through Katniss’s eyes, each thought of hers causes the reader to learn about her surroundings through her opinions.

Katniss positions the people from the capital, but pointing out every pointing out every moment of “fakeness” and “unnatural” behavior performed by the capitol. This can be observed in beginning of chapter five on page 61, when Venia is preparing Katniss for the Hunger Games. Katniss takes a moment to critique Venia’s speech patterns. Pointing out the inflections and how she says the words.

The way that Katniss describes the capitol people and almost mimics or rather mocks not only their speech patterns but also their appearance causes the readers to think of the capitol people in a negative light. Katniss seems to almost sub-humanize the people of the capitol by judging them so harshly, and pointing out the differences between her and the people of the capitol.

This is what Venia looks like. Notice how her features are different from Katniss’s. The exaggeration of her makeup and the bright colors.

Compared to the way Katniss looks, with plain with no makeup. This drastic change in their looks separates the two them almost creating two separate types of humans or animals.