what she says: i’m fine.
what she means: In the first book of The Hunger Games trilogy, we are made aware that Katniss Everdeen is 16 at the start of the book. We are also told, during Peeta’s confession in the cave, that the first time he saw her was on their collective first day of school at the age of five, meaning that both Peeta and Katniss are the same age. If this is true, why, then, would Peeta be living alone in the Victor’s Village after his first Games? Katniss has moved her mother and Prim into the house with her, and Peeta’s mother, father, and two older brothers are still alive at this point, so why would he not have brought them with him? He still is a minor, after all. Also, why doesn’t Peeta work at the bakery from this point onwards? Was his relationship with his family that damaged after they told him they expected him to die in the Games? Even with his brothers, who are hardly ever mentioned? If this is the case, why, then, is be so broken up about their deaths later in the series? Did he really fight other kids to the death to make his way back home and then find that his family had preemptively cut him out of their life? That’s so sad