The Hunger Games

Katniss and Peeta, the female and male protagonists of The Hunger Games, reverse traditional masculine and feminine gender roles,

with her out in the woods as a hunter and him at home baking in the kitchen; likewise, Peeta later spends much of their time

together wounded and helpless in the cave while she protects and provides for him. To what extent does Peeta’s symbolic

emasculation work with or against the dystopic view Suzanne Collins presents? What do you make of the fact that Collins never once

mentions gender?