The Hunger Games Appearance Analysis

In “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, appearances are held to the utmost importance by the people of the Capitol (2008). The people of the Capitol value the way they look and will go to almost any measure to build their self-esteem by changing their appearance. They dye their hair all sorts of odd colors, change their skin color to colors such as green, blue, pink, orange, or other uncommon colors, paint their nails, wear clothes that are peculiar to the other districts, and practice bulimia by eating tons of food only to throw it up.

When Katniss describes her team of stylists from the Capitol, she describes one by saying, “I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of fabric from my leg, tearing out the hair beneath it. “Sorry!” she pipes in her silly Capitol accent. “You’re just so hairy!”” (Collins 61). In Deirdre Byrne article entitled “Dressed for the Part: An Analysis Of Clothing In Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games Trilogy,” she describes Katniss’s prep team. Byrne says, “Venia is a woman with “aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows” (Collins 2008: 74); Flavius has “orange corkscrew locks” and “purple lipstick” (Collins 2008: 75) and Octavia’s “entire body has been dyed a pale shade of pea green” (Collins 2008: 75)” (50). When the

In an article on The Huffington Post called “How Your Appearance Is Affecting Your Behavior” by Margaret Neale, she explains that people care about their image because it is connected with their perceptions of social class (2014). We often think that those that look more attractive are in a higher social class, and then those who are less attractive are in a lower social class. personal wealth indicates that one has successfully channeled one’s talents and resources into the creation of services and goods that consumers